["Ballooney tunes: The FILTER REISSUES Flaming Lips present Yoshimi on-stage at Oakland\u2019s Paramount Theatre, 1992. Beat Happening The Flaming Lips ing a live performance of All Live concerts, ra- \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 We Have Is Now included dio performances, on this 20th anniversary box the Flight Test and Black Candy Yoshimi Battles set. But when else, before or Ego Tripping At The Pink Robots since, has death sounded so positive, The Gates Of Hell EPs, demos and DOMINO. LP so profoundly embraced and ac- alternative versions\u2026 the confi- WARNER BROS. CD\/DL\/LP cepted as just the inevitable result dence and creativity on display is so Twee US indie-popsters\u2019 of life? The original album itself still gloriously delirious that, even at 100 Six-disc 20th anniversary version of sounds incredible, but the five extra tracks and nearly 7.5 hours, it still extraordinary juxtaposition the Lips\u2019 2002 high-water mark. discs (a 5-LP vinyl version will follow feels shoehorned into this unwieldy, next year) reveal a band at the acme sprawling mine-sweep of a collection. of sweet and sinister. \u201cMAYBE ALL of our songs are about of their lightning-in-a-bottle career. death,\u201d acknowledges Flaming Lips Andy Fyfe By 1988-89, singer Wayne Coyne while introduc- this Olympia, Getty Washington literary and musical references Moore duking it out as the which effectively relocates Today defined by flange and trio\u2019s loser (quotes from Behan and Detroit Contemporary 4 in the original\u2019s tribal pulse dreamlike melodies. DIY cult was Vonnegut; covers of Can, Pere 1965, to the Bernie Maupin to Eraserhead\u2019s spectral already Ubu and Neil Young) like a Quartet\u2019s exquisite Water sound-world. Kaitlyn Aurelia Lois Wilson burgeoning: a prestigious pre-internet search engine. Torture 16 years later, Detroit Smith\u2019s re-imagining of The Rough Trade deal, coupled This definitive set (sleevenotes Artists Workshop freeze-dries Highest Tower, meanwhile, Robert Lester with misfit frontman Calvin by MOJO\u2019s John Harris) a moment of possibility that wraps her namesake\u2019s cool Folsom Johnson leading K Records\u2019 honours a great band whose knew no boundaries. incantations in contrastingly \u2605\u2605\u2605 putative International Pop leftfield pop throttle exited on mellifluous waves of Underground, had built their a high with 1993\u2019s Fireproof. Ben Thompson whooshing synth, conjuring Sunshine Only legend, wowing locals like Kurt a thing of dreamlike, Sometimes Cobain, and later Brit-indie Keith Cameron Soundwalk empyrean beauty. \u00a0\u00a0 kids like Belle & Sebastian. On Collective With ANTHOLOGY RECORDINGS. DL\/LP Beat Happening\u2019s basic-yet- Various Patti Smith David Sheppard brilliant third LP, however, \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 \u2605\u2605\u2605 Rural American Johnson\u2019s childhood fixations Ride transmissions of and social awkwardness in an Detroit Artists The Perfect Vision \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 psychedelia, 1972-75. unforgiving adult world boiled Workshop over into seething Crampsian BELLA UNION. LP 4 EPs A dozen years rock\u2019n\u2019roll, offsetting drummer STRUT. CD\/DL\/LP have passed Heather Lewis\u2019s riot NY sound-art duo\u2019s triptych WICHITA. LP since grrrl-foreshadowing tunes Fabulous collection of Smith-abetted LPs gets Anthology (Other Side, Knick Knack) uncovers the Motor City\u2019s the deluxe box set treatment. Oxford band\u2019s first four reintroduced with a darker purpose, jazzy undercarriage.\u00a0 EPs on vinyl: the shoegaze Robert Lester later airbrushed from the Inspired by Big Bang. Folsom through his lavish \u2018hairslide-indie\u2019 paradigm. In Strut Records\u2019 the spiritual weirdo ripper Music and particular, the pulsating title five-year wanderings In the space of Dreams, a 1976 castaway track (\u201csuck my blood\u2026 pull investigation of canonical 14 months, whose grand romantic ideas my hair, take me there!\u201d) into the French authors Ride issued and billowing pop production added a sexual energy, which capacious jazz Antonin four EPs and belied his small-town Georgia gives Black Candy a thrillingly archives of Artaud, Arthur Rimbaud and their debut LP, origins. In their ongoing unpredictable edge, even to poet, activist and MC5- Ren\u00e9 Daumal, 2019\u2019s The Nowhere. Those exhumation, Anthology contemporary ears. Newly motivator John Sinclair has Peyote Dance and Mummer EPs, Ride, Play, Fall and Today again surprises with the depth liberated from Domino\u2019s We brought forth a spectacular Love and 2020\u2019s Peradam Forever are collected here and and sophistication of what Are Beat Happening box set, it\u2019s booty. Subtitled \u201cCommunity, found Soundwalk\u2019s St\u00e9phan capture a band with their Folsom accomplished on his back on stand-alone vinyl, fit Jazz And Art In The Motor City Crasneanscki and Simone heads down, compulsively backwoods shoestring budget, to do battle for the era-classic 1965-1981\u201d, it kicks off with Merli enmeshing psycho- driven to marry clamour to \u201960s using a ragtag cast of locals status it richly deserves. Sinclair introducing the radio geographic field recordings pop \u2013 three of the four and a 2-track reel-to-reel. broadcast of a \u201978 home- with ethnic instruments from, members were art students Somewhere between Neil Andrew Perry coming concert by Detroit respectively, Mexico, Ethiopia and they drew as much on the Young and Chris Bell, Bobby local Donald Byrd, over a and India \u2013 locales in which ideas expressed by Rothko, Charles and even Daniel That Petrol backdrop of Yusef Lateef\u2019s the peripatetic \u00e9crivains had Pollock and De Kooning as My Johnston, Folsom\u2019s forlorn Emotion Happyology. Byrd\u2019s two sought visionary succour \u2013 Bloody Valentine and The songs about desiring, \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 contributions \u2013 a stately Cristo to frame Smith\u2019s poetic Stone Roses. Ego-less, they pursuing, landing and losing Redentor and an infernally solicitations to her literary started out raw and untutored, love are as honest as they are Every Beginning funky Black Jack \u2013 set an heroes. Worthy as the albums Mark Gardener\u2019s mumblings instantly charming. These rural Has A Future: An impossibly high standard are, the most compelling about being taken for a ride productions are rough, layers Anthology 1984-1994 which the rest of this superb music here is among the away from places he had speckled in static or slipping 11-track compilation more than remixes, not least Brian Eno\u2019s known on Chelsea Girl just out of time. But the songs EDSEL. CD maintains. Strata stalwart Ron recasting of Peradam as a obscured by the scuzzed-up crackle with feeling. And English\u2019s Bees somehow saturnine ambient fugue, mix. By Today Forever, they\u2019d there\u2019s even an incredible tune Irish quintet\u2019s five studio LPs manages to bridge the gap laced with ethereal fragments honed their aural identity; with about the inspiration that between Caravan and early of Smith\u2019s voice, and Jim more polished production, comes with showering. plus live album, singles and Kool & The Gang, and from Jarmusch\u2019s pulsating Eternity, Ride used texture to make their Grayson Haver Currin Stanley Cowell and Charles impact, tracks like Sennen and rarities, in a 7-CD box. Few groups were so simultaneously of their time and ahead of it. Raised in Derry, based in \u201980s south London squatland and with a singer from grunge-dawning Seattle, That Petrol Emotion absorbed influences heedless of tribalism \u2013 \u201960s garage rock, Beefheart gnarl, Bolan boogie, jazz, Television, hip-hop, and mucho Beatles \u2013 then baked the residue into gold-standard songcraft, initially by former Undertone Se\u00e1n \u00d3\u2019Ne\u00edll, exuberantly voiced throughout by Steve Mack. A supreme initial run of singles \u2013 Keen, V2, It\u2019s A Good Thing, how-wasn\u2019t-it-a-hit Big Decision, Genius Move \u2013 catchily trumpeted TPE\u2019s gift for insinuating the strange euphoria of living amid seemingly permanent political tension, while record sleeves and concerts dispensed MOJO 101","FILTER REISSUES REISSUES EXTRA Julie Tippetts Robert Fripp in the court of Marcia Aitken\/ Black Sabbath Hot Hot Heat \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 the Dalai Lama. But there is June Lodge \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 Sunset Glow jubilant rock\u2019n\u2019roll vengeance \u2605\u2605\u2605 too (this set\u2019s title track, taken Mob Rules Make Up The CHERRY RED. CD from 1994\u2019s The Fall Of Us All) Reggae Impact\/ Breakdown and a compelling lyricism in Someone Loves BMG. CD\/LP Tippetts\u2019 1975 jazz-rock the acoustic spells. Tibbetts You Honey SUB POP. CD\/DL\/LP pinnacle. Robert Wyatt credits Black Mountain Side From 1981, Ronnie James Dio\u2019s called it a companion piece to Led Zeppelin\u2019s Jimmy Page DOCTOR BIRD. CD second Sabbath album deserves Victoria BC quartet\u2019s 2002 debut to Rock Bottom. but illuminates it like an more kudos for its proto-grunge LP met The Strokes\u2019 NY cool evening prayer in Kashmir. Top value reggae twofer (both raw bludgeon, especially on head-on with West Coast Julie Tippetts (n\u00e9e Driscoll) If you are new to Tibbetts, Joe Gibbs productions) pairs hi-aggro standouts Turn Up The exuberance. Recorded with arrived fully primed to record Hellbound Train is an exciting expanded versions of Marcia Night and the title track. Now veracity by Jack Endino, theirs was her second solo album after a introduction \u2013 with an epic Aitken\u2019s 1981 LP with June \u2018JC\u2019 remastered with bonus live discs; a superior post-punk revisionism half decade of spontaneous journey on the other side of Lodge\u2019s 1980 LP, titled for her as is 1980\u2019s more celebrated of guitar hooks and, in yelping creativity with Centipede, the door. cover of Charley Pride\u2019s hit. JB Heaven And Hell, featuring the singer Steve Bays, a heartstring- Carla Bley and Robert Wyatt. peerless Neon Knights. KC tugging soulfulness. JB Written on guitar, then worked David Fricke\u00a0 up in Olympic Studios, the P.J. Harvey Krill Sidney Sager\/ results are spectacular. Over Trevor Beales \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 \u2605\u2605\u2605 The Ambrosian eight tracks, Tippetts \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 Singers combines naked lyricism with Fireside Stories B-Sides, Demos Alam No Hris \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 vocal improvisation and (Hebden Bridge & Rarities disquieting shifts in harmonic Circa 1971-1974) SIPSMAN. DL\/LP Children Of The deconstruction. On Oceans UMC\/ISLAND. CD\/DL\/LP Stones OST And Sky (And Questions Why?) BASIN ROCK. CD\/DL\/LP Ten-year-old LP from Boston MA she mourns the loss of a The finale to an exemplary act cult concern, Krill sounds more TRUNK. DL\/LP friend\u2019s baby, primal- Overlooked singer- of curation that\u2019s paired each of of a piece with its 40-year-old screaming over fitful horns songwriter\/guitar-picker\u2019s P.J.\u2019s studio LPs on vinyl with an post-punk antecedents Mission Thirty short cues of dissonant and chasmal drums; on Mind tales of Northern Britain. LP of demos, this set gathers a Of Burma or Pixies. Crashing groans and howls and other Of A Child, she laments lost further 59 tracks, 14 previously guitars, wobbly, acid-pop evocations of supernatural terror innocence as lambent piano, Even by the standards of unreleased; like Why D\u2019Ya Go To melodies and a pervasive lyrical from the cult 1977 HTV kids\u2019 series woozy horns and harmonium someone like Nick Drake, Cleveland, a prime off-cut from anxiety (see Self Hate Will Be The about megalithic time slips. IH give the song a whacked out Hebden Bridge folk Dance Hall At Louse Point. JB Death Of Youth Culture). Will be feel. 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DL\/LP and playing remote West Chichester duo\u2019s trajectory from Steve Tibbetts Yorkshire folk clubs and pubs. skilled, retro folk-blues stylists to Top quality vintage blues Timing their debut LP\u2019s 40th \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 Worldly lyrics \u2013 for someone distinctive songwriters tracked nuggets (from Ma Rainey and Ida anniversary with fellow Lypton Hellbound Train so young, at least \u2013 follow the via chronological singles. Jack Cox to Brother Fullbosom and Village-scenester Bono\u2019s memoir trad concerns of the day as White\u2019s eruption of guitar on Funny Paper Smith), from dealer offers valuable Dublin art-punk ECM. CD shipwrecks, the grimness of 2009 Third Man single River Song John Tefteller\u2019s beyond-rare context. As much influenced by city life, wary maidens and heightens the \u201cbleeding and stash. Accompanies a fabulous Brecht as Bowie\/Roxy, what was Forty years on two CDs: a frustrated farmers fuel his disturbance\u201d. A closing run of calendar of period ads. But look mistaken for goth posturing in guitar explorer\u2019s long ride narrative. But what\u2019s most four strong tracks from 2020 sharp, it\u2019s the last in the series! IH 1982 now sounds subversive. JB on an iconic jazz label. spectacular is Beales\u2019s guitar prove they\u2019re just warming up. JB picking, as expressive and Steve Tibbetts, an American sophisticated as masters of the guitarist and composer art like Michael Chapman or from the upper Midwest, Bert Jansch. It\u2019s unfathomable released two independent that such a talent could go LPs of progressive rock unearthed until now, but impressionism before making that colossal injustice is his debut for Manfred Eicher\u2019s finally corrected. imprint, 1982\u2019s Northern Song. Tibbetts has been an ECM Andy Fyfe artist ever since, pursuing a movable crossroads of modal COMING psychedelia, dreamscape NEXT MONTH... electronics and ceremonial rhythms across the eight John Cale, Meg Baird, Billy albums anthologised in this Nomates (pictured), Robert set. I\u2019ve previously likened Forster, Phil Thornalley, Belle & Tibbetts\u2019 Indo-riff ascension Sebastian, Kali Malone, Margo and locomotive drama to the Price, Iggy Pop and more. spiritual Carlos Santana and RATINGS & FORMATS Your guide to the month\u2019s best music is now even more definitive with our handy format guide. CD COMPACT DISC DL DOWNLOAD ST STREAMING LP VINYL MC CASSETTE DVD DIGITAL VIDEO DISC C IN CINEMAS BR BLU-RAY Eddie Whelan \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 \u2605\u2605\u2605 \u2605\u2605 \u2605 \u2729 MOJO CLASSIC EXCELLENT GOOD DISAPPOINTING BEST AVOIDED DEPLORABLE 102 MOJO","GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES AND MORE! MOJO\u2019S FINEST WRITING ON LED ZEPPELIN. AVAILABLE NOW! Buy online at greatmagazines.co.uk\/mojo-specials","BURIED TREASURE the moment of no-turning-back truth. Like Pink Floyd\u2019s Bike on a Norman Bates trip, the psychotic-thesp voice is one Elijah, AKA Jack Good, the CREDITS producer of Shindig! and the 33 1\/3 Tracks: The Rake\/ Revolutions Per Monkee TV special. Wild Times\/Don\u2019t \u201c[Arnold] wanted an instrumen- Think Twice\/Stone tal,\u201d says Kastner. \u201cBoil The Kettle, Mother And Steel\/Baby Eyes\/ was our break theme, us saying, \u2018We\u2019ll be Boil The Kettle, back 15 minutes,\u2019 for years and years [the Mother\/Butterfly Kiss\/Short Circuit\/ song can also be heard in instrumental Just Who\/Inner form on The Projection Company\u2019s 1967 Sounds Of The Id LP Give Me Some Lovin\u2019]. It was a surprise Personnel:\u00a0Jerry Cole (lead guitar, hearing a voice on there. I bet he got paid.\u201d dulcimer, vocals), The baroque gothic whimsy, chorales Glenn Kastner (as and tricky time signatures of side two con- Glenn Cass, bass, vocals), Don Dexter clude with the 10-minute title song, where (drums), Norm Cass dulcimer, a narration somewhere between (rhythm guitar), Rich Bobby \u2018Boris\u2019 Pickett and Apocalypse Cliburn (guitar) Psychoanalytic reaction: The Id Producer: Paul Now\u2019s Colonel Kurtz, and the tough, stage- (from left) Glenn Kastner, Don Arnold hardened band eventually go kundalini Dexter, Rich Cliburn, Jerry Cole crazy as they reprise opener The Rake. (front) and Norm Kastner go Released: January inward, 1967; (inset above) 1967 A page ad in Billboard in March producer Paul Arnold. promised \u201ca psyched-out sound that Recorded: Stereo Masters, Hollywood Current bends the mind\u201d. Signed by Jack Good, the availability: The sleevenotes declared, \u201cinstant Delirium!\u201d But the Apollonian lightning strikes went Punk Freud InnerSoundsOfThe awry when the band were unveiled to the Id\/The Alternate world and RCA Victor\u2019s management at Sounds Of The Id The Happy Medium club in Chicago. \u201cWe wanted to introduce the band in, (Sundazed) like, San Francisco,\u201d says Kastner. \u201cInstead we were dumped in what you might as well This month\u2019s aural obscurity: between gigging and recording, the group say was an old folks home. Each of us had a tough quasi-psych for the worked out the sometimes awkwardly timed lawless unconscious. pieces Arnold presented to them in Dexter\u2019s north Hollywood apartment, and started The Id recording at the Stereo Masters studio on big riser and there was a dancer on each side The Inner Sounds Of The Id Melrose Avenue in December 1966, complet- of the stage. When we started everything was ing tracks and vocals in three weeks. Kastner completely black, we started The Rake and stresses that the group\u2019s input was central to RCA VICTOR, 1967 a spotlight came on Jerry on the dulcimer, what came out: \u201cNone of us read music. We and Jack Good\u2019s voice on a tape came roaring A PPEARING ON such gnarly \u201960s through the room\u2026 it was pretty scary.\u201d psych comps as Mayhem & Psychosis, read chord charts, and the rest, we were on Turds On A Bum Ride and Mind Blowers They lasted a week until one of the band Volume 1, The Id\u2019s oedipal berserker Boil The our own. You cannot write what Jerry played asked Arnold for cigarette money and a fight Kettle, Mother has sat for decades next to the kicked off. They ended up at the airport at acid-garage likes of The Chob, The Jelly Bean on Appalachian dulcimer. All the patterns I 1am, waiting for a standby flight west. \u201cThe Bandits and The Lollipop Shoppe. played, they\u2019re all mine. Don figured out the thought [with The Id] was maybe we\u2019re gonna finally make some big money,\u201d says Kastner. However. \u201cWhen we started this project, beat after Arnold had given it to us.\u201d \u201cArnold got $25,000 up front, and we were there was no mention of \u2018psychedelic,\u2019\u201d says supposed to get some of that. When the no-nonsense bassist Glenn Kastner today. A legend of sorts has arisen that Arnold wheels came off we were just about broke. \u201cShit, we didn\u2019t even know what \u2018psychedelic\u2019 was. We weren\u2019t into drugs and all that kind wanted to make a concept album based on the I never heard from Arnold of crap\u2026 we didn\u2019t go in with the idea of again. Did he get his Stradi- recording a psychedelic album at all, we went psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud and varius? Not that I know of.\u201d in to record an album with a new beat!\u201d the primal forces of the unconscious, though Arnold was later paralysed again Kastner is sceptical. \u201cWe never discussed anything like that,\u201d he says, \u201cbut he was a pretty smart guy. Sometimes it was hard to communicate with him and a The key musicians in the group met in couple of times we argued, but in a car accident and died in we got along fine. The reason Green Bay, Wisconsin. Guitarist Jerry Cole, that he put this whole thing the early \u201990s. His nephew bassist Kastner and drummer Don Dexter David discovered lost Id together was he wanted to buy tapes which will be released played local club The Piccadilly as The Flam- a Stradivarius!\u201d ing Coals before moving to the West Coast in this month on vinyl and CD by the Sundazed label as The When it comes to buying 1962. They went on to record surf, country such an instrument, The Inner Alternate Sounds Of The Id, and rock LPs for labels including bargain Sound Of The Id was arguably accompanying a reissue of The something of a gamble. Open- \u201cWhen basement opportunity-takers Crown and Inner Sounds Of\u2026 Apart from Alshire. Cole also joined The Champs and led ing track The Rake leads off we started Cliburn and Kastner, The Id the house band on ABC\u2019s rock\u2019n\u2019roll show everything have all passed on. with tense, stuttering rocka- Shindig!. Then, in spring \u201966, one Paul Arnold billy with black mass voices: \u201cThe Id came and went contacted Cole with a proposition. The Paul Arnold Photo Archive Arnold, AKA Arnold Sukonick, was a then, with its talk of \u201cmaking was so fast,\u201d says Kastner, who a scene uptown\u201d and Cole\u2019s completely later went into maintenance violinist and composer who had yet to engage Appalachian dulcimer stand- for the Oregon Trail School with the rock\u2019n\u2019roll world. With the help ing in for sitar, Wild Times is black\u2026\u201d District. \u201cI\u2019m really happy of the players from Green Bay, this was to prime psych-ploitation. After that it\u2019s coming back. Now I GLENN KASTNER change. Following initial rehearsals, vocalist\/ Beatles-esque rocking, coun- might have a chance to make guitarist Rich Cliburn and Kastner\u2019s rhythm- try rock and Monkees-like a dollar!\u201d Ian Harrison playing brother Norm joined the band. In pop, Boil The Kettle, Mother is 104 MOJO","","Beyonc\u00e9 in 2016, shaping her musical world from the material around her. 10The Carters Everything Is Love PARKWOOD\/SONY, 2018 You say: \u201cA perfect musical marriage.\u201d Soulboysmitj, via e-mail CAST YOUR \u201cAlready know you know about us,\u201d sings Beyonc\u00e9 on Heard VOTES\u2026 About Us \u2013an understatement after Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s hell-hath-no- This month you fury marital expos\u00e9 Lemonade and Jay-Z\u2019s guilt-riddled chose your Top 10 response 4:44. The final session in their power-couples-therapy Beyonc\u00e9\/Destiny\u2019s trilogy flaunted their musical togetherness and dynastic Child LPs. Next might. (In a Medici-level move, they hired the Louvre month we want to make the video for the trap braggadocio of Apeshit.) Yet your Robyn it also highlighted Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s nonchalant versatility, display- Hitchcock Top 10. ing her gifts as rapper (\u201cMy great-great-great grandchil- Send selections via dren are already rich\/That\u2019s a lot of brown children on your Beyonc\u00e9 Tyme aged eight, failing to win TV Twitter, Facebook, Forbes list,\u201d spits Boss) as well talent show Star Search; by 1996, Instagram or as R&B beacon. No wonder From girl-group to global domination. they had mutated into Destiny\u2019s e-mail to mojo@ they use the title \u201cBeysus\u201d on By Victoria Segal. Child under the managerial eye of bauermedia.co.uk LoveHappy\u2019s all-conquering Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s father Mathew Knowles. with the subject happy-ever-after. A trio of Beyonc\u00e9, Kelly Rowland \u2018How To Buy Robyn and Michelle Williams in their final Hitchcock\u2019 and 4 Beyonc\u00e9 we\u2019ll print the best Beyonc\u00e9 comments. PARKWOOD\/COLUMBIA, 2013 T HE ARC of a pop career is rarely one of steady form, they profoundly influenced growth and healthy development \u2013 the fireworks the sound of millennial R&B \u2013 not least because of You say: \u201cYou totally believe tend to be front-loaded, the sparks slowly falling Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s distinctively staccato vocals. she woke up like this. Flawless.\u201d Charmaine away over time. Beyonc\u00e9 Knowles-Carter, however, has The girl-group bonds eventually frayed, however, and Gillespie-Davis, via been an exception to this dispiriting rule, a global pop by 2005, Beyonc\u00e9 was two albums into her solo career. Instagram star \u2013 approximately 200 million record sales behind Her relationship with Jay-Z \u2013 they married in 2008 and Talk of business models and her \u2013 whose vision has evolved with each album, whose have three children, 10-year-old Blue Ivy and 5-year-old commercial strategies is rarely cultural impact has intensified with each year. Her last twins Rumi and Sir \u2013 provided her with both a collabo- sexy, but Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s powerful two records, 2016\u2019s Lemonade and this year\u2019s Renais- rative partner (as on 2003\u2019s Crazy In Love) and carefully fifth solo record managed to sance, have dramatically driven her ongoing transforma- curated material for her more personal songs. combine industry-shocking tion, opening up her work in new and acutely resonant Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s vocal dazzle and superstar performance tactics \u2013 a visual album, ways by amplifying black music, history and woman- skills \u2013 her appearance at 2019\u2019s Coachella was talked an unannounced release straight on to iTunes \u2013 with hood, style and content syncing up to rare effect. about with the awe usually reserved for the appearance unblushing eroticism, two sides of Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s supreme Born in Houston in 1981, Beyonc\u00e9 started par- of stone tablets \u2013 are complemented by this creative abil- gift for control. Blow came out wrapped in Prince\u2019s silk sheets, ticipating in dancing and singing ity to shape her musical world from the while Timbaland\/Timberlake collaboration Partition uses competitions from the age of seven. \u201cBeyonc\u00e9 has material around her, expertly selecting \u201cMonica Lewinsky\u201d as a verb \u201cI was often the only black girl, and the right producers or co-writers, and lapses into French it\u2019s so wildly overcome by Southern it was then that I started to realise I become a pop drawing samples and sub-genres into hip-hop bass. There are also had to dance and sing twice as hard,\u201d star not just her orbit. \u201cShe takes ideas and puts strong indications of her she said in 2021. \u201cI had to have stage them with her own ideas, and makes future evolution, an excerpt this masterpiece,\u201d said producer Mike from Chimamanda Ngozi presence, wit, and charm if I wanted of the age, but Will, who worked with her on the Adichie\u2019s TED Talk heralding to win. I started taking voice lessons for the ages.\u201d paradigm-shifting Formation in 2016. Lemonade\u2019s raising-up of from an opera singer at nine. By 10, I black womanhood. Getty (2) had already recorded at least 50 or 60 Still not standing still, still slaying, songs in the recording studio.\u201d She Beyonc\u00e9 has become a pop star not started to sing with girl-group Girl\u2019s just of the age, but for the ages. 106 MOJO","HOW TO BUY 9 Beyonc\u00e9 8Destiny\u2019s Child 7 Beyonc\u00e9 6 Beyonc\u00e9 5 Beyonc\u00e9 Dangerously In Survivor B\u2019Day I Am\u2026 Sasha Homecoming: Love Fierce The Live Album COLUMBIA, 2001 COLUMBIA\/SONY URBAN MUSIC, COLUMBIA\/MUSIC WORLD COLUM- 2006 COLUMBIA, 2008 PARKWOOD\/COLUMBIA, 2019 BIA, 2003 You say: \u201cFor the barmy Independent Women Part II You say: \u201cThe perfect You say: \u201cAmazing You say: \u201cNot quite You say: \u201cShe had me at (International Edition), blend of genres for a showcase for all the sides enough to kill the FOMO, Crazy In Love. What a way where they sound like significant coming of age.\u201d of Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s musical but a phenomenal live to step out on your own.\u201d they\u2019re backed by a Tom & Alice Clark, via Facebook personality.\u201d Chipty, via document that also serves Colin Frapwell, via Jerry cartoon soundtrack.\u201d mojo4music.com as a dazzling greatest hits.\u201d mojo4music.com @kip_saunders, via Twitter Released on Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s 25th Chris Finegan, via e-mail birthday, this was technically Divided into two parts \u2013 I Am\u2026 \u201cThey told me I didn\u2019t have one Destiny Child\u2019s third LP the singer\u2019s second solo album, promising unadorned insights In April 2018, Beyonc\u00e9 became hit on my album,\u201d said Beyonc\u00e9, emerged from intense drama, but with Destiny\u2019s Child dis- into the \u201creal\u201d star, Sasha Fierce the first black woman to recalling her label\u2019s initial original members LeToya solved, she was properly out on the heavy-lashed work of her headline Coachella \u2013 a fact response to her solo debut. \u201cI Luckett and LaTavia Roberson her own. B\u2019Day\u2019s crowd-pleas- ballroom-style alter-ago \u2013 she pointed out while taking guess they were kinda right \u2013 I first edged out after they ing skills, then, are at irresistible Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s third solo album was full control of its stage. had five.\u201d While a final Destiny\u2019s questioned the management full-beam. Like its predecessor, unlikely to please all of the Accompanied by a vast Child album arrived in 2004, of Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s father Mathew it starts with an immense Jay-Z people all of the time. While marching band \u2013 her tribute to this record confirmed no group Knowles, then replaced by guest spot \u2013 the serpentine the first half requires a high Historically Black Colleges and could contain Beyonc\u00e9 forever. Michelle Williams and (briefly) Saul Bass pop of D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu \u2013 balladry tolerance, the Universities \u2013 as well as Jay-Z, Yes and Me, Myself And I\u2019s R&B Farrah Franklin. With Beyonc\u00e9 but Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s collaborative Umbrella-like first-dance Destiny\u2019s Child and Solange balladry was impeccable, but co-writing and co-producing instincts pushed her away from tear-jerker Halo and the Knowles, she is unmistakably at the wantonly dishevelled all 18 tracks, the mood is im- home, too, Rodney Jerkins, mournful If I Were A Boy the centre of her world, even as horns of Crazy In Love (a col- periously defiant, talk-to-the- Swizz Beats and The Neptunes show off her skills in heartfelt the cast of thousands gives laboration with Jay-Z) made hand flounces all over the title in her A-game production sincerity. Sasha Fierce Homecoming the feel of a Bootylicious look like a True track, the string-prickled Fancy, line-up. Sister Solange Knowles triumphs, however, by biblical epic, a sense deepened Love Waits tea dance, while or the Stevie Nicks-sampling co-wrote Get Me Bodied\u2019s containing the chaotic by the lighting-bolt the Donna Summer-sampling Bootylicious. The R&B moral sharking groove; Freakum maenad fury of Single Ladies righteousness of Formation or Naughty Girl and Sean Paul high ground peaks with Inde- Dress is unzipped funk, while (Put A Ring On It) or the glitchy Sorry. You can feel the energy dancehall romance Baby pendent Women Part 1 and Irreplaceable aces country-soul empowerment of Diva, around her, pop electricity and Boy emphasised how rapidly its more experimental Part II. heartbreak. She says it\u2019s her experimental enough to political meaning conducted she was hurtling towards \u201cBeyonc\u00e9, can you handle this?\u201d birthday \u2013 you\u2019re going to have neon-light the runway to her with Olympian poise. A cultural new horizons. Very much so, it seemed. a good time. newest album Renaissance. moment, preserved. NOW DIG THIS 3Destiny\u2019s Child 2 Beyonc\u00e9 For a smart distillation of The Writing\u2019s On Renaissance Destiny\u2019s Child\u2019s life and The Wall times, 2005\u2019s untruthfully COLUMBIA, 2022 titled hits collection #1\u2019s is a COLUMBIA, 1999 primer of their R&B pomp. You say: \u201cSharp social Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s more truthfully You say: \u201cLate-\u201990s R&B commentary while also titled 2011 fourth LP 4 artistry that leapt the giving the nod to the scene doesn\u2019t hold the attention millennium to influence that propelled her career in with the same force as her 2000s pop.\u201d Simon Watchtel, the first place.\u201d other solo records, but don\u2019t via Facebook @LippyKidMusic, via Twitter miss singles Run The World (Girls), a martial successor to Still a quartet \u2013 but not for \u201cDo not attempt to leave the 1Beyonc\u00e9 Independent Women Part I, long \u2013 the group confirmed dancefloor,\u201d comes the order Lemonade and the ecstatic hyper-hop they were anointed heirs to at the start of the disco fantasia of Countdown. 2019\u2019s Afro- R&B queens TLC and En Vogue Alien Superstar, but with PARKWOOD\/COLUMBIA, 2016 centric soundtrack to The with their second album. A Beyonc\u00e9 on this form, nobody Lion King and companion series of relationship com- would even try. Reaching for You say: \u201cLemonade is a perfect overview of 21st century piece Black Is King houses mandments, these songs dancefloor communion after pop.\u201d @Monobrow73, via Twitter Kendrick Lamar collaboration offered blueprints for both 21st globally enforced isolation, Nile and the Oumou San- century Independent Women Renaissance is a heat-seeking The headlines were all about the insight visual album Lemonade gar\u00e9-sampling Mood 4 Eva. and Y2K pop. Production jostle of club culture and black offered into The Carters\u2019 marriage, its foundations rocked by duo Kandi Burress and Kevin history, guests Nile Rodgers, the infidelity described on Sorry\u2019s virulent middle-finger fury or \u2018She\u2019kspere\u2019 Briggs brought Sheila E and Grace Jones thigh- shame-inducing takedown Hold Up. There was a bigger story their No Scrubs skills to help to-thigh with a sampled Donna behind her sixth album, however: Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s towering statement shape Bills, Bills, Bills; Rodney Summer, a trail of blissed-out on race, trauma and female anger, the work of a pop star who had \u2018Darkchild\u2019 Jerkins\u2019s hand is on sub-genres \u2013 bounce, Miami evolved into a next-level auteur. Gathering herself up to full height the UK garage-inspired Say My bass, Jersey club \u2013 left glazed emotionally and musically, her reach extends to the country stomp Name. Meanwhile, Missy Elliott and breathless at the bar. After of Daddy Lessons or Don\u2019t Hurt Yourself\u2019s raging blues. You only co-wrote and produced the Lemonade\u2019s tectonic shift, need look at the remarkable cast of collaborators \u2013 Jack White, Ken- skittish drama of Confessions, Renaissance shows Beyonc\u00e9 drick Lamar, The Weeknd \u2013 and writing credits \u2013 Yeah Yeah Yeahs, describing the track on Twitter finding new ways to smash to- Burt Bacharach, Led Zeppelin \u2013 to see the whole world in her hands, this year as being in her \u201cstory gether past, present and future ready to be re-shaped. As she raps on the invincible Formation: teller\u201d mode \u2013 fittingly for one in a thrilling non-stop erotic, \u201cI go hard\/Take what\u2019s mine\/I\u2019m a star.\u201d of \u201990s pop\u2019s greatest tales. political, spiritual cabaret. MOJO 107","WHAT WE\u2019VE LEARNT Boys own: (clockwise from below) \u25cf Bono had eight Bono fronts the band formerly hours of heart known as The Hype, now U2, surgery in New York 1978; young guns (from left) at Christmas 2016, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr, Bono, days before the Adam Clayton; the young Paul announcement of Hewson (front) with brother 2017\u2019s Joshua Tree Norman and dad Bob outside tour. They kept 10 Cedarwood Road, Dublin; that quiet. Bono and wifey Ali in New York. \u25cf Years before his \u201cparts\u201d were displayed on the sleeve of Achtung Baby, U2 bassist Adam Clayton was known for giving them \u201csome air\u201d. \u201cTalking to him with your girlfriend it would dawn on you that Adam was nonchalantly relieving himself on the grass.\u201d \u25cf Visiting the Pope in 1999 to solicit support for debt cancellation for the developing world, Bono was accompanied by Quincy Jones, who noticed JPII\u2019s Gucci shoes. \u201cThose are some pimp loafers,\u201d declared Cringe Benefits like his \u201980s mullet, it Jones in a stage could have done with a bit whisper. of a trim around the back. However, it\u2019s authentically \u25cf In 2000, Bono Bono, and honest, as far discovered his as it goes\u2026 because Bono Name-dropping, yarn-spinning, partner Paula Yates in their druggy decline. watchers will also note cousin Scott Rankin meditating, excruciating: U2\u2019s And despite U2\u2019s united front at the time, he\u2019s a characteristic coyness was in fact his singer\u2019s action-packed memoir. big enough to take full responsibility for the around certain topics. younger By Danny Eccleston. non-voluntary download to 700 million Apple References to \u201crock half-brother, sired iTunes accounts of 2014\u2019s Songs Of Innocence star excess\u201d and \u201canger by his father Bob Surrender LP. \u201cThe part of me that will always be punk with his wife\u2019s rock thought this was exactly what The Clash brother\u2019s wife. But when Bono\u2019s brother Norman called to tell him \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 would do,\u201d he writes. \u201cSubversive. But sub- management issues\u201d rarely the news, he\u2019d versive is hard to claim when you\u2019re working open up into specifics, already intuited it. Bono with a company that\u2019s about to be the biggest while a huge theme in \u201cWas this at the heart of my HUTCHINSON HEINEMANN . \u00a325 on earth.\u201d Bono\u2019s life, music and aggression with my Meanwhile, access to the inside of the U2 activism \u2013 his Christianity father?\u201d he T HE DAMP feeling between his legs \u2013 comes over ardently, yet wonders. woke Bono from his slumber, followed \u2018machine\u2019 reveals much of its precarious- quickly by a fast-dawning terror. Had ness and humanity. Shalom, the charismatic amorphously, as if he\u2019s being careful not to be Christian group to which Bono, Edge and pinned down on theology. he wet himself? Had he wet himself on Frank Larry Mullen once belonged, is explored in Sinatra\u2019s settee? Ultimately, the impression is of a brain detail, the moment Edge reveals he\u2019s quitting on fast-forward, greedily consuming experi- The moment encapsulates the charm of the band to follow a more outwardly religious ences, shaping them into tools of use to Bono, Surrender \u2013 the U2 singer\u2019s memoir resounds path vividly relived. Likewise, it\u2019s one thing his band, and \u2013 to the irritation of some and with the clang, bang, smash of VIP name- knowing Bono\u2019s on-stage introduction to Sun- the salvation of others \u2013 a wider world. What\u2019s dropping, but is undercut with constant day Bloody Sunday \u2013 \u201cThis song is not a rebel he running from, or towards, he wonders? Hewson Family Archive (3), Patrick Brocklebank admissions of the writer\u2019s uncoolness and song\u2026\u201d \u2013 dismayed Irish Republicans; it\u2019s His Protestant mother Iris, who died when capacity for cringe. In the end, Bono, smashed another to be pitched headlong he was 14? His hard-to-im- on Rat Pack-sized Scotches, had just spilt his into the jeopardy it actually drink, but still: Frank Sinatra\u2019s settee. entailed, in Dublin, in 1983. \u201cLike his press Catholic father, Bob? At over 550 pages long it is not a humble All of the above? thing, but Bono\u2019s book \u2013 part ballad of the band, part personal-growth handbook \u2013 is a Storytelling is intercut \u201980s mullet, Spending time with U2\u2019s with meditations on music it could have singer, wrote Dylan in Chroni- and musicians, culture and cles, is \u201clike eating dinner confession of sorts. He concedes the 1997 politics, faith and family, all in a PopMart tour\u2019s parody of consumerism was prose style Bono watchers will done with a on a train \u2013 feels like you\u2019re tin-eared; if only they\u2019d finished the album recognise from his interviews: bit of a trim moving, going somewhere\u201d. instead. There\u2019s remorse, too, about stepping florid and flighty, crashing into around the In Surrender you get all that away from his friend Michael Hutchence and punchy and pungent. Maybe, back.\u201d excitement, and occasionally the indigestion. 108 MOJO","FILTER BOOKS Buzzin\u2019: The Nine shared insight: music of all the minor ailments the group and his children. The Roshi asshole at the Village Voice?\u201d Lives Of A Happy places and ages is here and all suffered from at various sex scandal\u2019s here too \u2013 quipped Lou during a NYC gig) Monday now on demand. Veteran points. There are darker hints \u201cThe destruction\u201d, as his friend \u2013 is recalled, and the label\u2019s \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 MOJO scribe and Later \u2013 of amphetamine abuse, of Eric Lerner says, of Cohen\u2019s numerous failed signings are co-creator and showrunner bad behaviour, of Lennon\u2019s \u201cmeticulously fortified bunker given fresh examinations Bez Mark Cooper chronicles it all, barely controllable temper of privacy.\u201d As to Cohen\u2019s alongside the hits. Iggy Pop, zooming in on memorable \u2013 but the general tenor of death, \u201cquestions remain\u201d, Air Supply and Anthony WHITE RABBIT. \u00a320 performances and artists, the fan reminiscences is sweet the author says, as to possible Braxton as label-mates? pulling back to sage overviews and awestruck, reflecting the poison. Whatever, this book Why not? Second shake at an on grime, world music, the first-time innocence of British certainly leaves a taste. autobiography from very fabric, underpinnings and Beat. A good place holder until Jeff Tamarkin irrepressible Monday. penumbra of what we love. the third volume of Mark Sylvie Simmons And, rebutting the likes of Lewisohn\u2019s monumental Like A Rolling When asked at school what his Mark E Smith for whom a little history, which the author Looking For Stone dad\u2019s job was, Bez\u2019s son Arlo of Jools Holland\u2019s boogie- generously cites. The Magic \u2605\u2605 understandably struggled, woogie bonhomie went far \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 ultimately settling for \u201cvibe too far, Cooper cuts away to Jon Savage Mitchell Cohen Jann S. Wenner giver\u201d. It\u2019s a job description stars like Nick Cave and Ed confirmed by the entertaining Sheeran, who vouch for how Leonard Cohen TROUSER PRESS. \u00a315 LITTLE BROWN. \u00a330 rough-and-tumble of Buzzin\u2019, Holland puts artists at ease on Untold Stories: a second memoir from a level playing field, where That\u2019s How The An insider dishes on the Former Rolling Stone boss policeman\u2019s son and Happy even Kanye West has to prove Light Gets In Clive Davis-founded label has gossip and vendettas Monday Mark Berry after it to his onlooking peers. \u2605\u2605\u2605 that gave us Patti Smith, to burn. 1998\u2019s Freaky Dancing. Whitney Houston and more. Complete with fond Mat Snow Michael Posner On the surface, Arista Records Is it possible to interjections from Shaun made no sense. How could spend 554 pages Ryder, it\u2019s a cheery account The Beatles 1963 SIMON & SCHUSTER. \u00a325 \u00a0 the same record label that with someone\u2019s of an unpredictable life, \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 launched the careers of all-encompassing founded on a \u201cproblem Third and last part of the Whitney Houston and Barry memoir and then, childhood\u201d, a love of The Dafydd Rees Canadian author\u2019s expansive Manilow do the same for Patti at that end, still Velvet Underground and oral history of Cohen. Smith, while also reminding feel like you know Northern soul, and many OMNIBUS. \u00a320 record buyers of The Kinks, almost nothing real about drugs. \u201cFor umpteen reasons, \u201cI must thank Aretha, Lou Reed and the them? Jann Wenner\u2019s dutifully this book never should have A familiar format done well: the 560-plus Grateful Dead? Former Arista dubbed Like A Rolling Stone happened,\u201d Bez states \u2013 not a day-by-day account of people who\u2026 insider Cohen unravels it offers a resounding yes. Sure, least a kidnapping by violent The Beatles in their surrendered some all in this lively, detailed, Wenner doles out revelations criminals and a motorbike meteoric year. of their most behind-closed-doors account. about an imposing swathe of accident which left him precious Due credit is given to the famous friends, from Jackie near-death, hallucinating Billy Bolstered by memories,\u201d writes golden ears of founder Clive Onassis and Bono to Annie Connolly. Yet after winning oral history Posner. \u201cThey constitute the Davis, but it\u2019s the wacky Leibovitz and Mick Jagger. Celebrity Big Brother, his testimonies real, collective biographers. I anecdotes that keep the story Such titbits \u2013 Wenner\u2019s trip at middle age takes a surprising from fans, merely served as amanuensis.\u201d moving at a clip: Reed\u2019s caustic the first Dead show, hearing trajectory into the acquaintances, But it takes hard work to dig public takedown of critic Sympathy For The Devil at the Herefordshire countryside, showbiz onlookers up enough gossip on one Robert Christgau \u2013 who dared mixing board, sending Linda where he gardens, keeps bees like Lionel Blair artist to fill three volumes. not to give the artist\u2019s Street Eastman east to meet Macca and maintains a Joe Strummer and musical contemporaries A chronological series of Hassle LP a perfect review \u2013 make this slog worthwhile memorial wood. Especially like Rod Argent and Cliff anecdotes and opinions, score (\u201cCan you imagine for those invested in celebrity heart-warming is his own Bennett, this book makes it some insightful (largely from working for a fucking year intrigue. But Wenner avoids brand of eco-activism: \u201cShake clear just how much pressure musicians, close writer friends and you get a B-plus from an self-examination and even a your maracas if you\u2019re against The Beatles were under in and his rabbi) but more hint of vulnerability at almost the frackers.\u201d Vibes given. the year when they played negative, self-serving, or all costs, taking credit for so hundreds of shows all over the just plain tawdry. There are much and blame for so little Victoria Segal country, released over 30 new ex-lovers claiming they were that you almost pity him. recorded songs, and recorded the love of his life \u2013 including \u201cRolling Stone is not just about dozens of others for the BBC Kelley Lynch, Cohen\u2019s former the music, but also about the \u2013 18 during one day in early business manager, who was attitudes that the music September. The level of sentenced to 18 months for embraces,\u201d he writes, quoting research is very high, and the harassment \u2013 and countless his magazine\u2019s first editor's details illuminating: the sheer people, including letter. With Like A Rolling relentless travelling, the kind \u201cAnonymous\u201d, dishing the dirt Stone, that attitude is of meals they ate on the run \u2013 on Cohen, his former partners unshakable entitlement. lots of steak and chips \u2013 and Grayson Haver Currin Caught by the buzz: vibe-giver Bez raves on. Getty Later\u2026 With Jools Holland: 30 Years Of Music, Magic And Mayhem\u00a0 \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 Mark Cooper WILLIAM COLLINS. \u00a325 From BBC2 supplicant to international TV treasure. MOJO\u2019s slightly older sibling in a different medium has just turned 30. How the world plugs into music has been revolutionised since babyhood but we both thrive thanks to a foundational, future-proofing","FILTER BOOKS WHAT WE\u2019VE LEARNT \u25cf Neologisms Chuck Berry coined included \u201cmotorvatin\u2019\u201d (Maybellene) and \u201cbotheration\u201d (Too Much Monkey Business) but not You Never Can Tell\u2019s \u201cCoolerator\u201d, being a kitchen appliances manufacturer based in Bob Dylan\u2019s hometown of Duluth, Minnesota. \u25cf While serving time in Springfield, Missouri, he studied typing, business At the wheel: RJ Smith\u2019s management and Chuck Berry biography accountancy addresses head on the towards his high rock\u2019n\u2019roll innovator\u2019s school diploma, toxic aspects. and learned to play chess, which became a lifelong Motor Psycho he encountered came to passion alongside expect cold disengage- baseball and ment. Entwined with his poetry. \u25cf Berry A persuasive new biography who was also one of the greatest innovators lifelong appetite for what disapproved of explores musical innovation, he casually dismissed alcohol and drugs racism and toxic masculinity. and giants of the music we love. as \u201cpeccadillos\u201d, it was because they By Mat Snow. Unlike one of author RJ Smith\u2019s previ- women who really suf- created loss of fered, whether it was the control, but in 1980 Chuck Berry: ous subjects, James Brown, Charles Edward was happy to An American Life Anderson Berry didn\u2019t come from poverty. accept a fee for his \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 His family were upwardly mobile African Americans, but so segregated was St Louis 14-year-old Mexican Jan- name and likeness RJ Smith that you had to leave the neighbourhood ice Escalanti who he used to be used for even to see a white person, and it wasn\u2019t until sexually on the pretext Chuck Berry Beer. OMNIBUS. \u00a325 he was a youth that Charles, as he would he was rescuing her from remain when not in professional mode, \u25cf Chuck collected T HERE\u2019S A chilling incident detailed in encountered racism. Cadillacs, including this new Chuck Berry biography when the middle-aged rock\u2019n\u2019roll legend He would maintain that with talent and street prostitution, earn- in pink, but in later picks up three local girls \u2013 \u201csimple people, not application you could achieve the American ing him less than two years years took to worldly\u201d \u2013 near his native St Louis, Missouri dream of cars and freedom (the former ena- behind bars for violating driving around bling the latter), which for him additionally St Louis in a Toyota meant dissolving the barriers and hierarchy of black and white in a sea of dollar green, to be the Mann Act, or the string Avalon. \u201cIn a of \u201cwhite paramours\u201d Toyota, the cops don\u2019t stop you ruthlessly discarded when as much.\u201d the novelty wore off, or the victims secretly filmed by spy cameras hidden in his club\u2019s female restrooms. where the Midwest shades into the South. Abusive men are all around, of course, They go back to his place and an orgiastic paid in cash. but we concern ourselves with Chuck Berry Except it never turned out to be quite because of the magnitude of his talent and good time is had by all, but suddenly his mood that simple, and beneath his public-facing switches to angry and glassy, with the shocked, philosophy of life \u2013 always achievement, one which paradoxically, crying girls ordered to grab their things and perhaps cynically celebrated go: \u201cNow you know what it feels like to be thoughtfully reasoned if eccen- \u201cDissolving those same little people, his treated like a nigger.\u201d trically phrased, such was his target market. Yet Sweet Little profound sense of verbal style the barriers Sixteen, a tribute rather than Dezo Hoffman\/Shutterstock The great strength of this thought-provok- \u2013 simmered a justifiable rage. of black and a leer, never fails to lift the ing biography is not just that it\u2019s a thorough spirits, and what is Too Much It was mostly the little chronicle, nor even that it fascinatingly Monkey Business \u2013 a blueprint explores Berry\u2019s musical, cultural, social and people who bore the brunt. white in a for later Dylan and Stones political contexts, but that it addresses head- Friendships were rare, though sea of dollar classics \u2013 if not the ultimate included whites like Carl Per- on and builds into a persuasive psychological kins; in the male-dominated green.\u201d song for Everyman? As they thesis the troubling, toxic aspects of a man say, trust the art, not the artist. world of music most people 110 MOJO","Inspire everyone On your list FREE Choose from over \u00a310 50 retailers Retail eGift Holiday gifting made easy SPECIAL OFFER! Over 50 di\ufb00erent magazines Print issues include FREE UK to choose from delivery to their door Free eGift Voucher worth \u00a310 to use A personal gift that lasts much Premium memberships with at over 50 Retailers longer than a day exclusive rewards available on selected brands With Print + Digital Package Instant access to their gift via subscriptions* their smartphone or iPad Free eCard with gift orders +MANY MORE Order now in just a few minutes www.greatmagazines.co.uk\/presents OR call 01858 438884 and quote code HOL4 Print, digital & package T&Cs: We will email you your voucher instructions within 7 days. The \u00a310 Retailer eGift promotion is open to UK residents only, aged 18 and over. 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For full terms and conditions visit www.greatmagazines.co.uk\/terms","REAL GONE Honky tonk woman: Loretta Lynn performing at the Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, October 15, 1960; (opposite page) Lynn in 1973, telling it like it is.","The Coal Miner\u2019s Daughter 1980 with the release of the movie Coal Miner\u2019s Daughter, which shared the name of her 1971 hit album and her 1975 best-selling memoir. It starred Sissy Spacek as Lynn \u2013 Lynn said she chose Spacek herself Loretta Lynn, who redefined the ended abruptly in 1963 when THE LEGACY from a photo \u2013 and Levon Helm as place of women in country music, has left us at the age of 90. Cline was killed in a plane crash. The Album: her dad. A critical and commercial That same year Lynn released success, winning a Golden Globe T HERE\u2019S A story Loretta Lynn told about her debut album on Decca, Van Lear Rose and an Oscar, it made Lynn a Oliver Lynn, her husband and manager. Loretta Lynn Sings, which made household name. It was Nashville, 1960, at Tootsie\u2019s, the (Interscope, 2004) celebrated honky-tonk. Lynn was playing a The Sound: The show, and her husband was playing around. Rick Rubin\/Johnny Not unusual \u2013 Oliver was as fond of women as he was of drink. But, spotting him flirting with Number 2 on the country charts. Cash collaborations Having spent a huge chunk of her a woman by the door, Loretta stormed over The producer was Owen Bradley, come to mind, but life on the road, Lynn cut back on and gave them both a whipping. Lynn was as Cline\u2019s producer. Fourteen years the difference here touring in the \u201990s to stay at home at fearless and gutsy in life as in song, and later the two worked together was that Lynn was her ranch in Tennessee and take care during her six-decade career she broke just on Lynn\u2019s tribute album to Cline, already aware of of her sick husband, until his death in about all the rules of what a female country I Remember Patsy. Jack White (The 1996. Her variety show, Loretta Lynn & singer should be. White Stripes having Friends, kept her in the public eye, as Lynn and Cline both sang covered her song \u201cI wasn\u2019t the first woman in country Rated X) and the music,\u201d she said. \u201cI was just the first to stand up there and say what I thought, what life love-gone-wrong songs. But songs were originals. did her 1993 collaboration with Dolly was about. The rest were afraid to.\u201d where Cline\u2019s had an aching There was also more Parton and Tammy Wynette, Honky torch singer quality, Lynn\u2019s had a variety and colour, Tonk Angels. Her first album of the new The second of eight children, born on April tougher edge. She didn\u2019t have to from the sweet, millennium, Still Country (2000), made 14, 1932, in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky \u2013 a reminiscing title small community that grew up around the Van Lear mine \u2013 Loretta Webb sang in church look far for a muse; she was still track to death row it into the country Top 40, but it was and at family gatherings, with her dad on married to Doo, who was still lament Women\u2019s the 2004 follow-up that brought her banjo and mum on guitar (she had left home drinking and cheating, and it hurt. Prison and the biggest success. Van Lear Rose, an But the songs she wrote about it charged Lynn\/ unexpected collaboration with Jack White duet Portland were more butt-kicking than Oregon. White \u2013 he was 28, she was 72 \u2013 weeping: Fist City; Your Squaw Is debuted at Number 2 in the country On The Warpath; Don\u2019t Come Home charts, and crossed over into the Billboard A-Drinkin\u2019 (With Lovin\u2019 On Your Mind). 200 at Number 24. They were true to her life \u2013 as was her most There would be four more studio albums, controversial song, The Pill. Her 1975 paean among them Full Circle (2016) featuring to contraception, whose lyric ran, \u201cevery year Elvis Costello. President Obama awarded before her sister Brenda, AKA Crystal Gayle, that\u2019s gone by\/Another baby\u2019s come\/There\u2019s her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and a gonna be some changes made\u2026\/\u2019Cos now a statue of her was unveiled on the Ryman 19 years her junior, was born). At age 13 she married Oliver, seven years older, giving birth I\u2019ve got the pill,\u201d was banned by numerous Auditorium\u2019s Icon Walk. Her sixtieth album, to four of their six children while still in her country radio stations but was still a big hit. aptly titled Still Woman Enough (2021), would teens (the twin daughters who perform as So were the \u201970s records she made as a duo be her last. She passed away in her sleep at country duo The Lynns arrived in her early with Conway Twitty. home in Nashville on October 4. twenties). Besides child-rearing, Lynn She gained an even wider audience in Sylvie Simmons worked seven days a week as a cook and maid. Oliver, who refused to be a miner, appeared to do little more than make, and drink, moonshine. It earned him two nicknames, \u2018Mooney\u2019 and \u2018Doolittle\u2019, which Lynn shortened to \u2018Doo\u2019. But Doo was the man to thank for Lynn\u2019s music career. On their fifth anniversary he bought her a guitar. Coming home late to find her singing the babies to sleep, he said, \u201cLoretta, you\u2019re a better singer than all these girls out there making money. I\u2019m going to put you on the road\u2026 you can sing for two years and we\u2019ll buy us a home.\u201d Said Lynn, \u201cTwo years from that day we didn\u2019t have enough money to buy a hamburger.\u201d But Doolittle, her manager, booker, publicist and cheerleader, kept on driving Lynn to talent contests, which she invariably won. When Lynn released her first single in 1960 on Zero Records \u2013 I\u2019m A Honky Tonk Girl, which took her 20 \u201cI was just minutes to write \u2013 he\u2019d drive the first to her from one country radio station to the next. It made stand up Number 14 in the country there and charts, and Lynn was invited Getty, MPTV to appear on the Grand Ole say\u2026 what Opry. The family moved to life was Nashville, where Patsy Cline took Lynn under her wing. about.\u201d It was a close friendship that LORETTA LYNN MOJO 113","REAL GONE Robert Gordon: he did it all for the love of rock\u2019n\u2019roll. singer Wee Gee\u2019s Hold On (To Your Dreams), a minor R&B hit in 1980 which gained renown in the US as a graduation anthem. Charles Waring Robert Gordon when they won the Letterkenny Ivy Hunter, he joined Berry Gordy\u2019s Joyce Sims Folk Festival with Liza, a jazz- label in 1962 and saw several of his New Wave Rockabilly Cat inflected pop gem sung in Irish, songs recorded by Motown\u2019s Electro-soul voice earning a contract with Philips. top-tier acts, including The Four BORN 1947 Initially mixing Irish traditional Tops, The Temptations and The BORN 1959 music and the new sounds of Supremes. Between 1970 and 1971, IN JUNE 1976, New York proto- British folk rock, their sound would Hunter released several singles RAISED IN suburban Rochester, punk band Tuff Darts contributed evolve in the early \u201980s \u2013 when under the name Ivy Jo for New York, Joyce Sims sang in the three tracks to the double LP Live At future superstar and Brennan Motown\u2019s short-lived VIP church choir and started writing CBGB\u2019s \u2013 The Home Of Underground sibling Enya was a member \u2013 when subsidiary. But when his debut LP and playing her own songs in her Rock, but their frontman Robert they recorded the ethereal TV Ivy Jo Is In This Bag was cancelled teens. While she considered them Gordon soon left, reinventing theme to 1982 Troubles drama and Gordy moved the label to to be trad-structured R&B, she was himself as a rockabilly cat singing Harry\u2019s Game. It was a UK Top 5 hit California in 1972, he became also attuned to the electro currents vintage Warren Smith and Johnny (making them the first group to disillusioned and remained in and beats of the mid-\u201980s. Signed Burnette material, recording LPs for sing in Irish on Top Of The Pops) Detroit, releasing occasional to Sleeping Bag, the label founded Private Stock and RCA. In the UK his and other successes followed, independently produced singles. by Arthur Russell and Will Socolov, debut single even came out in a including the 1984 soundtrack to He also co-wrote ex-Dramatics she teamed up with producer 78rpm edition. Born in Bethesda, the Robin Of Sherwood TV series Kurtis Mantronik and reached the Maryland, Gordon had played in Legend, and 1986 Bono duet In A Joyce Sims: much- British Top 20 with (You Are My) All bands during the 1960s, served in Lifetime. With electronic and New admired R&B voice, And All in 1986; in early \u201988 she had the National Guard, then moved to Age influences, the group became writer and purveyor a UK Top 10 and a European hit with New York City. A fine expressive synonymous with a landscape- of \u201980s club classics. her signature song Come Into My singer, he worked with a succession evoking Celtic dream-time, and Life. After five UK Top 40 hits and of world-class guitarists: Link Wray, recorded regularly into the late \u201990s with 1987\u2019s Come Into My Life LP Chris Spedding and Danny Gatton. before going on hiatus. Noel and also reaching Number 5, she In 1981, he co-starred with Willem his brother (who died in 2016) withdrew from music after a Dafoe in the underappreciated recorded the 2005 LP Rubicon as less-successful second LP to raise a \u201950s-styled art-house biker The Duggans and worked with family. Recording sporadically over movie The Loveless, and in the Irish\/German group Norland Wind. the next two decades, in the last 10 following decades continued Having reunited in 2007, Clannad\u2019s years she played to her loyal UK touring the world, playing to the 2020 farewell tour was interrupted following and released 2015 LP rocking fraternity. by Covid. Noel passed away Love Song. Having played suddenly, and his bandmates sang full-voiced UK dates in August, Max D\u00e9charn\u00e9 at his funeral in St Mary\u2019s Church, she was planning a new album Derrybeg. and tour when she died. Noel Duggan Ian Harrison Ian Harrison Clannad Man \u00a0 Ivy Jo Hunter BORN 1949 Just as MOJO went to press, the death of Motown songwriter Jerry Lee Lewis was announced. A full IN 1970, WHEN appreciation will appear next month. Clannad were BORN 1940 Courtesy Soul Junction Music, Getty (2), Shutterstock forming in Gweedore, County SOMETIMES Donegal, the confused with nearest record blues pianist Ivory shop was hours Joe Hunter, Ivy Jo away. Making their Hunter was a own entertainment, Noel Duggan Detroit-born and his identical twin P\u00e1draig, with songwriter who\u2019s niece Moya Brennan and nephews best remembered Ciar\u00e1n and P\u00f3l, formed the band for co-writing Martha & The initially called Clann As Dobhar, or Vandellas\u2019 immortal Motown hit Family From Dore. With Noel on Dancing In The Street. Born George guitar, they shortened it to Clannad 114 MOJO","WACoNeorYnatWtoraHecaEtirRnrTaEthenetrgheeSrsootaeuudgvnihdienowMuvitainectgwhheaiinnpUegpKoiAfiaLnyLntomdqueuIwrnaetloli.atuynlddc.oliWlkleeec\u2019lttloiotrntaasvlkeolfwtvoiitnhyyoolunr.eecoofrdosuransdpeCcDiaslists Reading\u2019s Longest Established Independent Record Shop Specialists in buying and selling new and second-hand vinyl records and CDs across all genres. 24 Harris Arcade, Reading, [email protected] Berkshire RG1 1DN thesoundmachine.uk.com","REAL GONE Anita Kerr In perfect harmony: on Roy Orbison\u2019s Only The Lonely Brooks Arthur: Anita Kerr, architect of in 1960 \u2013 as well as such R&B hits as he knew the score. Nashville vocal group sweet country voices. Bobby Bland\u2019s Share Your Love With leader Me in 1963. Memphis-native Kerr followed. An aspiring crooner and the quartet called The Anita Kerr also recorded popular easy songwriter, Arthur got his foot in BORN 1927 Singers (they were rivalled for listening albums under her group\u2019s the door working in Decca\u2019s ubiquity only by The Jordanaires, name, winning three Grammys, but mailroom, but witnessing an Ella THOSE LUSH vocal \u201coohs\u201d and who sang with Elvis). Kerr and it was their Nashville country work Fitzgerald session steered him to \u201caahs\u201d behind Patsy Cline, Eddy company did session work for that helped develop a distinctive, the other side of the mixing desk, Arnold, Jim Reeves, Hank Snow, producers Chet Atkins and Owen and lucrative, musical genre. though he managed to release his Faron Young, Webb Pierce and Bradley in crafting \u2018countrypolitan\u2019 own singles as Artie Blaine and Art other Nashville Sound stars of the music, a commercially successful Michael Simmons Barrett and two jazzier Brooks 1950s and \u201960s often belonged to blending of rural country and more Arthur Ensemble albums for Verve. urbane pop. They also sang on Brooks Arthur He opened 914 Sound Studios in pop and rock \u2013 those are their 1970 and extended his client list; an unforgettable \u201cdooby-doo-wahs\u201d Producer, soundtrack man illustrious CV spans Janis Ian, Burt Bacharach, Dusty Springfield and BORN 1936 Robin Williams. \u201cThe greatest, kindest man,\u201d said film director BEFORE BROOKS Arthur crossed Judd Apatow. \u201cEndlessly talented.\u201d over to Hollywood, producing and supervising scores including The Martin Aston Karate Kid and numerous Adam Sandler vehicles, the man born Arnold Brodsky struck chart gold, engineering several pioneering girl-group classics, among them The Shangri-Las\u2019 Leader Of The Pack. Neil Diamond\u2019s Sweet Caroline, The Lovin\u2019 Spoonful\u2019s Darling Be Home Soon and Van Morrison\u2019s Brown Eyed Girl (and subsequently Astral Weeks) soon THEY ALSO SERVED Getty (4), Alamy COUNTRY SINGER JODY Beat by Sandy Nelson and Sisters and two solo LPs was also a member of the PIANIST\/ARRANGER MILLER (below, b.1941) Bongo Rock by Preston in the mid-\u201970s. Later her Mingus Big Band and the KENNY CLAYTON enjoyed US country hits in Epps on his Original Sound music for Broadway show Saturday Night Live Band. (b.1936) played with Alma the\u201960s and \u201970s, the biggest label (the loquacious Laboe The Secret Garden was Cogan and recorded solo being Queen Of The House received a co-writing credit nominated for a Tony Award, FOLK SINGER MARY before becoming Petula (an answer record to Roger on both) and coined the and she won two Grammys, McCASLIN (b.1946) Clark\u2019s musical director in Miller\u2019s King Of The with her husband David released her first album, 1962. Thereafter he worked Road) and Home phrase \u2018Oldies But Levine for collections of Goodnight Everybody, in 1969, with Shirley Bassey, Of The Brave, Goodies.\u2019 He children\u2019s music. and her last, Better Late Than Charles Aznavour, Matt both in 1965. recorded his last Never, in 2006. Mixing country Monro, Roger Whittaker, The same year show the day REO SPEEDWAGON bassist with singer-songwriter Robin Gibb, Sacha Distel she competed before his GREGG PHILBIN sophistication, she was and Anita Harris, before in the San death on (b.1947) joined the Illinois admired for her open-tuning rejoining Clark from 1979 to Remo song October 7. rockers in 1968 and, as guitar playing, shared stages 2009. His stage and screen festival, where vocalists came and went, with Bonnie Raitt and credits included the music for she sang Pino STAX RECORDS played on their first six studio Jackson Browne, and Morecambe & Wise\u2019s 1985 Donaggio\u2019s Io Che songwriter LPs. A progressive bassist played in a duo with her TV movie farewell Night Train Non Vivo (Senza Te); also BETTYE by instinct, the group\u2019s husband Jim Ringer. To Murder, an interpretation present, Dusty Springfield CRUTCHER evolution into the of Journey To The Centre Of covered it in English as her (b.1939) became a staff chart-oriented platinum- GUITARIST DAVID The Earth, and a stage version 1966 smash You Don\u2019t Have writer at the storied Memphis selling outfit of the \u201980s led to MALACHOWSKI of concert party comedy- To Say You Love Me. Miller soul label in 1967. Her most his departure in 1977. In 2018 (b.1955) played in groups drama Privates On Parade. later made Christian music. famous co-composition was he announced his memoir, including Reckless and the Johnnie Taylor\u2019s 1968 Roll With The Changes. Greg Austin Band before MOTOWN songwriter and DRUMMER PAUL smash Who\u2019s Making Love. becoming Shania Twain\u2019s publisher ROBERT DUFOUR (b.1947) was, in She also wrote for The BROOKLYN-BORN sax player bandleader from 1995-97. He GORDY (below, b.1931) his sixth decade, the original Staple Singers, Sam & RONNIE CUBER (b.1941) also played with Garth recorded solo singles until drummer with The Dave, Carla Thomas, worked with Maynard Hudson, Savoy Brown, Libertines. He left the band Albert King and William Ferguson and George Michelle Shocked, 1962, by which time he in 2001, but can be heard on Bell (Paul Weller covered Benson in the \u201960s. He went Commander was already working live recordings and demos, Bell\u2019s My Whole World Is on to record his own jazz LPs Cody And His for his younger and in 2014 played with Pete Falling Down, written by and play with eminent jazzers Lost Planet brother Berry\u2019s Doherty again on two dates Crutcher and Booker T including Jimmy McGriff, Airmen and Motown label, of a solo tour. Dufour also ran Jones; her other non-soul Idris Muhammad, Mark Pavlov\u2019s first as a a studio in east London, interpreters included Joe Murphy, Horace Silver, Dog, and recording backed Tommy Cooper in Cocker and Joan Baez), and Eddie Palmieri and Lee wrote music engineer and cabaret, and played with later, for Hi Records, Anne Konitz. His rock, blues and criticism. later running Venus Edge, Roger Moon Peebles, Otis Clay and soul credits included Aretha the imprint\u2019s and UK rapper Blade. others. In 1974 she released Franklin, Frank Zappa, COWBOY SINGER publishing arm her solo LP, Long As You Love Chaka Khan, Candi Staton, and musicologist Jobete Music. He DJ ART LABOE (b.1925) Me (I\u2019ll Be Alright). Yoko Ono, B.B. King, DON EDWARDS debuted playing jazz on San Steely Dan, Luther (b.1935) sang about the old continued to compose Francisco\u2019s airwaves during COMPOSER and singer West from 1961. In 1980 he \u2013 Marvin Gaye and The the Second World War, and LUCY SIMON Vandross, Dr. John, made The Happy Cowboy with Supremes recorded his never stopped broadcasting. (right, b.1940) Paul Simon, Gene Autry\u2019s band, and later co-writes \u2013 and also acted, He was a trailblazer in released three Gladys Knight, recorded albums including playing the character non-segregated rock\u2019n\u2019roll \u201960s LPs with Chic, Average Songs Of The Trail, West Of The Hawk in 1972 Diana programming, released the her sister White Band Yesterday and, with bluegrass Ross-starring Billie Holiday 1959 instrumental hits Teen Carly as and Eric luminary Peter Rowan, High bio-pic Lady Sings The Blues. The Simon Clapton. He Lonesome Cowboy. Ian Harrison 116 MOJO","Dig deeper with delivered to your door! PUNK ICONS PART TWO SEX PISTOLS Anarchy In The UK! The Finest Writers. The Full Story. Music\u2019s legends. MOJO\u2019s \ufb01nest writers. The full stories. 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For full terms and conditions please visit: http:\/\/www.greatmagazines.co.uk\/offer-terms-and-conditions","TIME MACHINE A night at the rock opera: (clockwise from below) Tommy being performed by (from left) Maggie Bell, Richie Havens (obscured), Rod Stewart, Merry Clayton, Peter Sellers, Sandy Denny, Graham Bell, Steve Winwood, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon at the Rainbow Theatre, London, December 9, 1972; Daltrey gives Moonie a lift; the London Symphony Orchestra version of Tommy; Townshend treads the boards. Faccus exceatu reperibusa qui cumquati nis reptias est que dolum faces iscipid quaes dellor minctiur amus, omniminci untectasint paruntis ut fugit mincil invel enest re dem exero cumquia esequiat. DECEMBER 1972 \u2026orchestral Tommy hits the stage! DECEMBER 9 \u201cIt started becoming a Entwistle was also getting tired of it, out,\u201d said Reizner \u2013 who also sang the bit of a bore,\u201d grumbled telling Canadian rock mag Beetle, \u201cI started to infamous Get A Bloomin\u2019 Move On! tune hate [Tommy]. In fact, I only played the record from The Italian Job film \u2013 to Record Mirror. Who drummer Keith Moon in the month\u2019s twice \u2013 ever. I don\u2019t think what Tommy was all \u201cIt\u2019s the first time in the history of the record about was on the record\u2026 the message is business that people have co-operated Rolling Stone. He was talking about Tommy, much stronger on-stage.\u201d like this.\u201d the spiritually searching double-LP rock And so, on this rainy December night at Sounds reviewer Penny Valentine noted, north London\u2019s Rainbow Theatre, The Who as showtime approached, that, \u201ceveryone is opera of \u201cthat deaf, dumb and blind kid\u201d were taking this new version of Tommy live. anticipating one of those rare mouth- Intended to raise funds for the Stars watering moments in rock music.\u201d Starting who \u201csure plays a mean pinball\u201d which was Organisation For Spastics charity, rehearsals at 9.30pm, the two-hour show involved had begun a week earlier, with the choir Townshend playing acoustically, a stage set released to huge success in 1969. \u201cWe played rehearsing in the tiled toilets for extra reverb. designed to look like a pinball machine, Peter Peter Sellers had stepped in for Richard Harris Sellers in a long wig, jackboots and German it 18 months non-stop.\u201d and Moonie deputised for his pal Ringo: helmet, and, observed Valentine, the odd bit otherwise, the cast was the same. \u201cIt took of set wobbling and bum mikes. Daltrey was Yet, earlier in the year, all the band except eight months in all to get the contracts sorted phlegmatic when talking about it in Sounds, saying, \u201cwhen it came to doing it again it Moon had teamed up with Chicago-born Rod \u201cSome people seemed to be the last sort of involvement thought it The Who would ever have in Tommy apart Stewart producer Lou Reizner to record a new looked just like from a film, and doing it this way it was more a pantomime.\u201d like vocal acting.\u201d version of Tommy with the London Symphony PETE TOWNSHEND The show was also staged in Australia in Orchestra and the English Chamber Choir. spring \u201973, then returned to the Rainbow that December with a different cast. Townshend Joining Pete Townshend and titular lead quickly cooled on this incarnation of Tommy, it seemed. \u201cI had nothing to do with it except Roger Daltrey was a plethora of guest stars: that I wrote it,\u201d he told Charles Shaar Murray in March \u201973, unhappy that production costs Sandy Denny sang It\u2019s A Boy, while 1921 saw Daltrey, Maggie Bell, Steve Winwood and Graham Bell do the honours. Otherwise, Richie Havens stepped in as The Hawker for a newly added version of Sonny Boy Williamson II\u2019s Eyesight To The Blind, Merry Clayton portrayed The Acid Queen, Who bassist John Entwistle revisited cruel Cousin Kevin, Ringo Getty (7), Alamy Starr sang Fiddle About as the depraved Uncle Ernie, and Rod Stewart took lead vocals on Pinball Wizard. Actor Richard Harris, meanwhile, played the doctor who advised Tommy to Go To The Mirror!. 118 MOJO","ALSO ON! TOP TEN had eaten up the charity funds. \u201cI feel I Season\u2019s greetings: John WHY, SLY? VIRGIN made a mistake doing the live gig\u2026 some & Yoko make a stand RECORDS\u2019 people liked it and some people thought it against the Vietnam war. 9It\u2019s reported that bassist TOP SELLERS looked just like a pantomime.\u201d Larry Graham has quit DECEMBER 9 War Is Over, Sly & The Family Stone. This The Who, of course, forged on. Speaking say John & Yoko month, Sly Stone\u2019s (above) Bel 1CARAVANSERAI the same month as the Tommy shows, Air mansion is raided by police SANTANA\u00a0CBS Daltrey talked about their future direction, DECEMBER 23 Standing against who wrongly suspect there\u2019s a saying, \u201cthat working-class feeling has got the war in Vietnam, dead body on the premises; he 2 TRANSFORMER to come back into our work\u2026 The Who also falls foul of the law after LOU REED\u00a0RCA thrive on fighting \u2013 we\u2019re a horrible bunch Happy Xmas (War Is Over) by John & Yoko\/ brandishing a cap pistol at a of people.\u201d Manhattan audio store. 3 EUROPE \u201972 The Plastic Ono Band with The Harlem GRATEFUL DEAD Their totemic Mod opera Quadrophenia OSMONDO BONGO followed in 1973. But Tommy wouldn\u2019t rest. Community Choir reaches Number 4 in the WARNER BROS Starring Tina Turner, Elton John and Eric 9It\u2019s reported that The Clapton, Ken Russell\u2019s film version and its UK. Earlier in the year Lennon reflected on Osmonds won\u2019t return 4 HOMECOMING own accompanying OST came in 1975. to Britain before November AMERICA\u00a0 Another musical version, by Townshend the need to \u201choney\u201d his songs to get the 1973. By Christmas Day the and director Des McAnuff, incorporated family band and their solo WARNER BROS new material and opened on Broadway message across to the public, saying, \u201cour members have three songs in 1993, winning five Tony awards. The Who in the UK Top 10, with Long 5 SEVENTH have revisited it on several occasions since, work is to tell them that there is still hope Haired Lover From Liverpool SOJOURN notably in 2017. On-stage at the Royal by Little Jimmy at Number 1. THE MOODY Albert Hall to raise funds for the Teenage and a lot to do.\u201d Recorded at the Record BLUES\u00a0THRESHOLD Cancer Trust on April 1 that year, HAWK TALK Townshend reflected on his signature Plant studio with Phil Spector, the single 6 CATCH BULL work and its place in his own life\u2019s journey. 22 Hawkwind play the AT FOUR \u201cYou know, I was abused when I was a was released in the US in December 1971, Liverpool Stadium; on CAT STEVENS\u00a0ISLAND child,\u201d he said, \u201c\u2026it fucked me up. Until December 30 they do a gig at I wrote Tommy. And when I wrote Tommy, though a publishing dispute between the Brixton Sundown. Both 7 FOCUS III I looked at it hard and I thought, Fuck, shows are recorded and are FOCUS\u00a0POLYDOR where did that come from? And I started Northern Songs and Lennon delayed its released in May \u201973 as the to remember. You know I\u2019m not going to monstrous Space Ritual Alive. 8 SPACE be playing Tommy very often. I find it much UK release for a year. The same week, ODDITY too hard.\u201d AH, MR BOND DAVID BOWIE\u00a0RCA Wings\u2019 double A-side Hi, Hi, Hi\/C Moon That said, Tommy tracks were in the 23 Graham Bond 9 THE MAN setlist when The Who played American is at UK Number 22. publishes a rambling WHO SOLD dates in October \u2013 backed by an orchestra, Yuletide message entitled THE WORLD naturally. Transcendental Musick in DAVID BOWIE\u00a0RCA Sounds. In it he wishes Dr John Ian Harrison a merry Christmas (twice), 10 ONE MAN talks about the different DOG JAMES Ringo Starr and Marc colours of musical notes, and TAYLOR\u00a0WARNER BROS Bolan get it on in Born states, \u201cMy Christmas message To Boogie, 1972. is this: cut out the downers and Lift off!: David speed and get conscious.\u201d Bowie, in at Number 8 and 9. THE ZIG TIME 24Bowie\u2019s Ziggy Stardust tour reaches the Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park. Bowie asks fans to bring toys which will be donated to Barnardo\u2019s for Christmas. AD ARCHIVE 1972 BOLAN BOOGIES ON T. Rex movie Born \u201cI was just gawking [at Wembley], \u2019cos I DECEMBER 14 To Boogie premieres loved him up there. He\u2019s exciting and just to see all those people dressed like him\u2026 at Soho\u2019s Oscar 1 cinema. It features concert it\u2019s getting back to showbiz.\u201d Earlier in the month T. Rex\u2019s single Solid Gold Easy material filmed at the Empire Pool in Action was released: it peaks at Number 2 on January 6. T. Rex play \u2018Rexmas\u2019 gigs at the Wembley intercut with scenes including Edmonton Sundown on December 22 and 23, Bolan\u2019s last UK gigs for a year. Marc Bolan jamming with Elton John and Ringo Starr, and having an outdoor tea party Out December 12, this capsized-liner disaster movie classic had it all: death, God, a dynamite soundtracked by an acoustic medley of hits. cast and Ernest Borgnine\u2019s suppositories. Says co-cinematographer Ringo in Disc, MOJO 119","A S K MOJO Who played songs live The live-only ones: (clockwise from above left) but didn\u2019t record them? Queen roped in Hangman for their \u201970s setlist; Getty (3) Let us answer the rock\u2019n\u2019roll MUSIC BIZ NAME- Prince cancelled The Black questions and puzzling enigmas CHECKS IN SONG Album in 1987 because which won\u2019t stop nagging. (REPRISE) he deemed it \u201cevil\u201d; does Led Zeppelin IV reference David Bowie apparently had two songs Re: Ask MOJO 348: The Kinks\u2019 The Cathy Come Home?; performed by his back-up band and sung by Moneygoround with its opening Enya goes with the Flow. Ava Cherry (Deep In My Heart?) and Anthony lines, \u201cRobert owes half to Grenville\/Who, in turn, Hinton (Baby Baby?) that were never formally gave half to Larry\u201d is directed at managers Robert so European versions exist. announced during the 1974 Young Americans (Wace), Grenville (Collins) and Larry (Page). Yet in 2016 former Warners tour, nor recorded by Bowie. What were the real boss and Prince A&R Mo Ostin told Billboard, \u201cWe titles of the songs, and is this common? Mick Scott, via e-mail had destroyed most of them but we kept some\u2026 it might have been a hundred, I have no idea.\u201d Norman E. Gaines Jr, Hartsdale, NY There\u2019s an arguably bigger hit in Enya\u2019s 1988 Prince tour manager Alan Leeds, meanwhile, Number 1 Orinoco Flow, \u201cWe can steer, we can has indicated that the artist gave copies to friends MOJO says: MOJO\u2019s Bowie scholar David Buckley near\/With Rob Dickins at the wheel\u201d (Dickins was and collaborators including Madonna, Miles Davis, says the songs were played by Bowie\u2019s backing chairman of Warner Music UK). Less fondly, John Kim Basinger and Sheena Easton. So there may be group whose set segued into the main event: the Fogerty alludes to Fantasy Records owner Saul more copies out there than believed, but odds are songs appear on bootlegs (the former entitled Zaentz on his 1985 track Vanz Kant Danz. no-one\u2019s selling. Deep In The Heart Of Me) but were never recorded. Many other big names have Billy, via e-mail HELP MOJO played finished, original songs live \u2013 rather than covers and jams \u2013 and MOJO says: Thanks also to readers Steve Is there any connection between the Led Zeppelin not taken them to the studio. Bob Pollack for ID\u2019ing a namecheck to IV hermit painting\/tower block cover and Ken Dylan\u2019s Tell Me, Momma was a lawyer Robert E Lee in Roxy Music\u2019s Loach\u2019s ground-breaking TV drama Cathy Come 1966-only live pick, Wings\u2019 1882 Virginia Plain, Ken Ward for noting Home? By my reckoning the Led Zep background was erroneously promised as that Jos\u00e9 Feliciano sings about photo across the derelict houses was taken from an upcoming LP track on 1972\u2019s Berry Gordy on The Drought Is the same Birmingham streets used as one of the Wings Over Europe tour, Over, and to Simon Runagall locations for the TV filming. In another coincidence, while Radiohead are multiple and Derek O\u2019Brien, who I\u2019m sure that same wallpaper features in both\u2026 offenders, with Cut A Hole both reminded us that B.A. played live in 2012 and another Robertson\u2019s 1979 hit Bang Rob Bishop, via e-mail six songs only ever aired at Bang included a shout-out to soundchecks. The list of bands and WEA UK head honcho Johnny MOJO says: Sounds convincing, Rob. The sleeve their live-only tracks also includes Fruin. Keep \u2019em coming! of Led Zeppelin IV features Salisbury Tower in Queen (Hangman), U2 (I Love You), Pink Ladywood, a short walk from the Hockley area Floyd (One In A Million), The Clash (Deadly Serious), PRINCE\u2019S where the Birmingham scenes of the 1966 BBC TV Nirvana (Talk To Me), The Fall (Crack House) and BLACK ALBUM play were filmed. We can\u2019t vouch for the wallpaper, Blur (Day Upon Day). We should also mention King but it does looks pretty similar to that in the house Crimson, who haven\u2019t released a new studio LP I remember being intrigued when Prince Cathy and Reg are cruelly evicted from. Were sleeve since 2003 but have released numerous new songs cancelled the release of 1987\u2019s The Black Album and film in any way connected? Well, director Loach on live albums, and The Sisters Of Mercy, whose on the eve of release. How many original copies did cast future Zep security man John Bindon in last record came out in 1990 but who continue to of it still exist? 1967\u2019s Poor Cow, and in 2018 Robert Plant joined perform new compositions in concert (the lyrics forces with Loach to defend the historic Phoenix to them are available on their website). Meanwhile, Tim Golding, via e-mail Cinema in Finchley, but the coincidences seem fans live in hope that Bruce Springsteen, who to end there. Or do they? Let us know! played his song Seeds for 30 years, will one day MOJO says: With 500,000 copies ready to go, arrive at an arrangement he\u2019s happy with. Who\u2019s Prince reputedly concluded The Black Album CONTAC TMOJO got any tasty suggestions? was evilly inspired by a demonic presence called Spooky Electric, and ordered all copies destroyed. Have you got a challenging musical question for the MOJO Some sources say only eight original North Brains Trust? E-mail [email protected] and American pressings survived, with one still-sealed example selling for $42,298 in February 2018. It\u2019s we\u2019ll help untangle your trickiest puzzles. also estimated that between 50 and a hundred or 120 MOJO","MOJO C OM PE T I T I O N ANSWERS ACROSS Hot Rotators! MOJO 348 1 see photoclue A (3,7) 6 See photoclue B (5) Win! The remastered exemplary sleevenotes. Little wonder Across: 1 Alan 9 British Sea Power\u2019s happy technology Revolver on Super Deluxe it\u2019s MOJO\u2019s Reissue Of The Year. Aldridge, 7 D.C., (11,2,3) CD box and vinyl. 8 The Fat Of The 10 Vehicle of late guitarist Benjamin Curtis Want one? We have a Super Deluxe CD Land, 9 The Atom (6,8) BEATLES REMASTERS have given fans box and two vinyl editions to give away this Age, 11 Ernie Watts, 13 Black Sabbath on bin day? (7) extraordinary archival treats over month. 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Please include your home Slash, 28 Rent, 30 Ice, 22 Martin Rushent\u2019s studio and label (7) material includes an empathetic Giles address, e-mail and phone number. 32 Dement, 33 Loon, 24 Schmidt, Czukay and the gang salute Martin remix, a tranche of in-studio Formats and winners will be selected at 34 Sunrise, 36 Tuum, Offenbach (3,3) rehearsals with chat and laughs, and random. The closing date for entries is 37 AWB, 38 Ace, 27 Legendary Aylesbury club (6) January 2. For the rules of the quiz, see 42 Tight, 43 Be, 44 28 Nigerian Chief Commander, Mr Obey www.mojo4music.com. Edward Barton, (8) 49 Cupid, 51 React, 30 Titter ye not, it\u2019s 10cc\u2019s Mr Cr\u00e8me (3) 54 Ironic, 55 E.G., 31 Nine-piece band (5) 6 Ratio, 57 A-ha, 33 Jason Ringenberg\u2019s hot combo? 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(6) Mirage, 31 Elbow, 53 Cosmic concept used by both Genesis 32 D.O.A, 35 Up, 39 and The Who (4) Maracas, 40 Charade, 55 German goths who gave us Vincent 41 Snug, 45 Alive, 46 Price\u2019s Favourite Torture Songs (4) Bingo, 47 Ocean, 48 56 Foo Fighter Nate (6) Rai, 50 Idea, 52 E.T., 58 Almanac, Leaves and Stone-applicable 53 Coil. (7) 59 Somewhat contrived \u201990s New Winners: Wesley Romantic revival (4) Weyers of 62 Reggae youth Billy Boyo advised Worcester and smoking one a day in \u201981 (6) Marek Jaskiewicz 63 Naughty By Nature were down with it of Solihull both win (3) a Focusrite Vocaster 64 Gary Usher\u2019s backing band (10) Two Studio Bundle. 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(7) 51 Billy Joel was this kind of man (5) 505 51 52 56 537 54 54 FM radio format for grown-ups (3) 56 Jerry ----, co-founder of A&M (4) C 58 59 64 6505 61 56 62 57 69 57 The river Augustus Pablo went East of (4) 58 66 63 59 60 64 60 Hold --- (Jackson Browne LP) (3) 61 Kanye West, tersely in 2018 (2) 65 61 626 Getty (3) 63 67 64 67 68 MOJO 121","HELLO GOODBYE Boom or bust: Spacemen 3 (from left) Pete \u2018Sonic Boom\u2019 Kember, Jonny Mattock, Mark Refoy and Jason \u2018J. Spaceman\u2019 Pierce grave on, Manchester, March 1989. Pete \u2018Sonic Boom\u2019 Kember and Spacemen 3 Jason\u2019s birthdays \u2013 it just had me on the front, which I don\u2019t think went down very well. It began at art college with a snort Spacemen 3 when Natty [Brooker], who There was a perception with some people became our drummer, did a poster which had that, \u2018it\u2019s Pete\u2019s band\u2019, which was never the of ether. And ended with toxic a massive number three on it. We liked it \u2013 case. Then [Pierce and management] wanted non-communication. with Spacemen 3 you stopped saying \u2018The\u2019. me to sign something to say that Jason owned the name Spacemen 3 equally with HELLO 1982 When we first saw Natty he was wearing me, like I was going to go and be Spacemen 3 \u201950s women\u2019s cat-eye sunglasses, a woman\u2019s without him. It just got like really toxic, and a little sad to see it all collapsing. Having to put I first met Jason [Pierce] at the art college in hat that looked like a fez with a crazy Egyptian our stuff on different sides of the last record [Recurring, 1991]? Really? Rugby. He was already in a band \u2013 \u2018gothic\u2019 cobra on the front of it, and some raggedy We did meet, at Jason\u2019s flat, I think. Jason might be a bit strong, but they were quite clothes. We were like, \u201cThis guy should be in didn\u2019t hardly say a word. Jonny Mattock [drums] and Mark Refoy [guitar] were like, Bauhaus-influenced, I would say. I could see our band!\u201d We were a bit like a home for waifs \u201cYou have too much say in this band, Pete.\u201d I was like, \u201cYou guys have been in the band Jason was an interesting character and we and strays. Good friends? Yeah, absolutely. for about eight months.\u201d I guess I knew when I walked out, that was the end [Pierce started hanging out. Feels like about a million years ago now. continued as Spiritualized; Kember as Spectrum]. It was severely disappointing. I don\u2019t really remember quite how we I think we kind of hated each other for a decided to form a band, but one day in \u201983 GOODBYE 1990 couple of years, because the UK press were the kings of shit-stirring, massively! It became we decided to have a jam, I guess you\u2019d call it, Even though the band was finally relatively like, \u2018the story is the split.\u2019 We fucked up, but most of the bands that we liked, the MC5, with a couple of our friends \u2013 Tim Morris Stooges, Velvet Underground, these are not functional people and they only made about [drums] and Pete Bain [bass], who I don\u2019t successful, there was an accumulation of bad the same amount of albums that we did. It was not a great way to close the chapter, but think had played before that. It was at Tim\u2019s decisions. I can happily point the finger at sometimes just closing the chapter, it\u2019s a good thing. parents\u2019 nice, big Victorian house in Kilsby myself for some things that were said or done As told to Ian Harrison outside Rugby. I\u2019m sure his dad was a little that I wouldn\u2019t say or do now. Reset by Panda Bear & Sonic Boom is out now wary at having devious-looking characters I guess Jason was severely distracted and on Domino. traipsing through the house, but we weren\u2019t I can\u2019t blame him for that [Pierce was in Getting high: Pierce (left) and Kember on the roof, too loud. Tim used to work a relationship with Kate 1982; (left) Pete today. in a dentist\u2019s and he used to Radley]. I guess what really get ether which has a very started the rift was that for similar narcotic buzz to [1989 LP] Playing With Fire, he chloroform, ha ha! That hadn\u2019t written any songs. If would be one of the I\u2019m trying to be generous to smells\u2026 and I guess myself, I\u2019d say I was trying to Moroccan, maybe Lebanese motivate him when I said, hash. We did, I suppose, a \u201cDude, we have this one-chord riff thing which agreement, we both eventually became OD contribute songs and we Thyra Dragseth, Getty, Courtesy Pete Kember Catastrophe, and these split the credit. But you\u2019re not weird sort of versions of Iggy contributing anything.\u201d Then pop songs, Jason knew the \u201cWe kind of he suddenly dug out some lyrics. It just went really well songs, some of the greatest \u2013 I think we were impressed. hated each he wrote, but then I think he We had a moment where other \u2013 the UK was like, \u201cOK, it\u2019s not \u2018us\u2019 any more, it\u2019s \u2018you\u2019 and \u2018me.\u2019\u201d we were called The X-Men, then we became The press were the Other things happened. Spacemen \u2013 we were a kings of shit We did a photo session for bunch of dysfunctional kids Melody Maker [November who felt that we didn\u2019t fit it in 19, 1988], our first UK cover, which came out on mine and stirring.\u201don this planet. We became SONIC BOOM 122 MOJO","Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Super Deluxe Edition) \u2018A model of box-set shock and awe. This reissue goes the extra, illuminating distance.\u2019 Mojo, Reissue of the Month \u2018America\u2019s greatest band. The previously album has always been a Wilco unreleased landmark. This new monolithic tracks reissue restates the case that it\u2019s still their most crucial record, opening Wilco\u2019s landmark 2002 album the way to everything they\u2019ve done since. A cast-iron rock classic.\u2019 Original album, remastered Uncut, 10\/10 11 LPs comprising alternates, outtakes & demos, drafts and instrumentals charting the making \u2018There\u2019s not enough space here to of a now-classic album list all of the moments that\u2019ll make Wilco fans\u2019 heads spin. 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