MOJO

Launched in 1993, MOJO celebrates the stories of music's all-time greats. It does this through expertly written, insightful features and exclusive, in-depth interviews. MOJO also finds and recommends new music of quality and integrity, so if you want to read about the classics of now and tomorrow, it is definitely the music magazine for you. As founding editor Paul Du Noyer put it, MOJO has ""the sensibilities of a fanzine and the design values of Vogue."" It's lovingly put together every month by music fanatics with huge knowledge, who share your passion. And because they have unrivalled contacts in the music industry, they bring you the kind of access, news and expertise you won't find anywhere else.

THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE…

Beat SURRENDER! • 15 Mod And Northern Soul Floorfillers

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE • THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING…

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Coup De Grace • An officially endorsed Jeff Buckley documentary is finally here. But how full is the picture?

WHAT NEXT FOR SOLO COLIN BLUNSTONE? PLUS, ARE THE ZOMBIES REALLY BURIED?

KING JAMMY • The reggae producer and dub master talks King Tubby, dancehall rivalry and the Sleng Teng rhythm.

LAST NIGHT A RECORD CHANGED MY LIFE

MACCA-OLOGISTS DELIVER SECOND THUMPING BIBLE – BUT WHAT’S THE SCOOP?

PSYCH BERSERKERS TRÄD, GRÄS OCH STENAR SPROUT ANEW, AS TRÄDEN

SWEDE LEAVES • Three tree, grass and stone gasses.

Red Dirt Boogie Brother • Unsung guitar hero Jesse Ed Davis is saluted in an exhibition and tribute show. But who was he? Famous friends tell all.

ALABAMA SHAKES AGAIN… TO THE UNDISTILLED BLUES OF EARLY JAMES

FIGHTER PLANES? PARASITES? JACK WHITE? MEET GOTH HIGH-FLIER HEARTWORMS

MOJO PLAYLIST • Listen up! For the month’s best soul, braindance and balladry.

JANUARY SALE 3 ISSUES FOR £3*

THE MOJO INTERVIEW • Indie pioneer with the effervescent Orange Juice, wrangler of words and caustic wit, he survived major-label meltdowns and near-fatal brain injury to rebuild himself as a songwriter. Amazingly, the fruits are still ripening. “The possibilities are endless!” insists Edwyn Collins.

A LIFE IN PICTURES • On the Ed: Collins down the years.

IN A NUTSHELL • A trio of Collins classics.

THE TRIPPING POINT • SIXTY YEARS AGO, A SONIC REVOLUTION WAS AFOOT, PALPABLE IN STRANGE NEW RECORDS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC, THE BEATLES AND THE WHO JOINED BY THE SYNDICATS AND THE SILKIE AS GUITAR FEEDBACK, DRUGGY FLOK AND SURGING SOUL BATTLED KEN DODD AND THE SEEKERS FOR CULTURAL ASCENDANCY. ENJOY IT ALL IN MOJO’S LIST OF 20 SUBVERSIVE SINGLES FROM 1965. "WELCOME TO THE YEAR POP WEIRD," SAYS JON SAVAGE.

MOJO PRESENTS • Who else sounds like a mash-up of Hüsker Dü and Richard Thompson, and writes about their mother’s death with unexpected and discomfiting candour? Only THE TUBS – Britain’s fast-rising alt-rock “primitives”. But what rewards can they dream of in music’s Age Of Austerity? “Twelve grand a year,” is all they ask of JIM WIRTH.

ORDER OF THE BATH • The Tubs’ four favourite records, as dictated to Jim Wirth.

NEVER TEAR US APART • From unlikely, far-flung beginnings, INXS rose to conquer the world, enamouring Springsteen, the Stones and Chrissie Hynde before singer Michael Hutchence’s tragic demise. A reissue of their watershed Listen Like Thieves reveals a Swiss Army band, joined at the hip, but MOJO finds some wounds still raw. “We floundered for years,” they tell JOHN AIZLEWOOD.

WHAT YOU NEED • INXS: between the hits, selected

STARR QUALITY • FOR SEVEN DECADES, THE WORDS HAS LOVED RINGO STARR, THE BEATLE WHO SEEMED REMUSED YET UNALTERED BY MINDBLOWING WITH THE...