“What a f***ing career” indeed!ĭION The Bronx-bred, angel-voiced tough guy of doo-wop survived heroin, heartbreak, Phil Spector and Buddy Holly’s plane. THE GO-GO’s From punk to pop via drug madness and cash conflict: how the fairytale of Beauty And The Beat turned dark before the healing began. STEVE CROPPER The rhythmic right hand of southern soul on building Stax (literally), stumbling on Otis, hate mail from Neil Young fans and estrangement from Booker T. But he wasn’t always thanked – least of all in his home town. LITTLE RICHARD No-one is owed more by the music we still call rock’n’roll.
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Plus – can it be true? – a Style Council revival?ĬOVERMOUNT CD: THE MOJO FESTIVAL 2020 Distraught at the cancellation of your favourite summer festival? Kill the pain with exclusive live tracks from Weller, Nick Cave, U2, R.E.M., The Black Keys, New Order, Foo Fighters, Michael Kiwanuka, Lucinda Williams and more.įRANK ZAPPA Under the off-colour ‘folklore’ and mindblowing polyrhythms, what made rock’s ultimate refusenik really tick? Mark Paytress asks family and bandmates. With MOJO he looks back over its precedents, past battles and future hopes. PAUL WELLER The former Jam man’s hot streak continues, with a new album – On Sunset – his most soulful in years. HAVE A COPY SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR HOME CONTENTS MOJO 321 Plus: The Go-Go’s, Fontaines DC, Dion, Cat Stevens, Shirley Collins, Robert Johnson, Pretenders, Blake Mills, Florian Schneider, Brian Wilson, Grateful Dead, the last interview with The Pretty Things’ Phil May, and… in lockdown with Glen Matlock and Earl Slick! Also in the issue: Bob Dylan’s all-new album Little Richard and the Big Bang of rock’n’roll Frank Zappa – the legend at 80 Steve Cropper’s soul odyssey. Meanwhile, summer festival vibes pour forth from MOJO’s amazing covermount CD, with exclusive live tracks from Weller, Nick Cave, U2, R.E.M., The Black Keys, New Order, Foo Fighters, Michael Kiwanuka, Lucinda Williams and more. Saturns Pattern is out on May 18 on Parlophone.PAUL WELLER TRACES the music and themes that have illuminated his career, from The Jam to now, while delving into his soulful new album, On Sunset. I've just got a sty on my eye." My faith in His Modjesty restored, we turn our attention to his selections.
"Oh and by the way, I'm not trying to be Mister Cool by wearing sunglasses or anything. But obviously if I chose my favourites again today or tomorrow it would be different every time." In the same interview, he launched a scathing personal attack on The Cure frontman Robert Smith, calling him a fucking fat cunt. "Most of my records are singles, so it would have been easier for me to pick 13 of them. "I found it difficult," he says, when asked about his selection process. A combination that the gentleman himself demonstrates as well (along with a gleefully sweary streak). well, not-so-surprises (you didn't expect him to pass on picking a Beatles record did you?), but it's a list united by the assembled records' heart, wit and warmth. Rather it's kaleidoscopic and fresh sounding, marked by clattering Fabs piano, riffing that could quite legitimately be described as 'raunchy' and sudden outbursts of wibbly electronic noise.įor his Baker's Dozen of favourite records Weller has assembled some surprises, and some. It doesn't sound like the work of the musty Lancelot that many still presume him to be. Weller, who used the lockdown to write and record in his studio (I stayed focused and I stayed fit), hopes we remember all the front line workers when this is all over. The occasion of this latest Baker's Dozen is the release of Weller's new album Saturns Pattern, which continues his recent run of records marked by stylistic hop-scotching, fizzy psychedelia and and an endearingly daffy sense of anything-goes sonic experimentation.
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Could it be that Paul Weller, my mod hero since I was 15 years old, is the sort of person who wears sunglasses indoors? The only slight bum note are the tortoise shell shades he's chosen to don for our interview. So, first things first, what's he wearing? Well, needless to say, when I shake his hand in the plush interview room of Warner's Kensington offices, Paul Weller is dressed immaculately: a green shirt and a black zip-up jacket complemented by nicely tailored tweed strides and a superbly sharp pair of basket weave shoes, all presided over by that immaculate hawk-like white barnet.
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