MOJO 245 / April 2014
PRINCE. The Genius. The Enigma. The Only Interview.
In the latest issue of MOJO magazine – on sale from Tuesday, February 25 – we're granted a world exclusive audience with a bona fide legend of our times. Prince, funk-soul master and reborn guitar hero, invites MOJO into his world.
PLUS! The Strictly limited Edition Poster Issue includes an A1-size (594mm x 841mm), two-sided deluxe poster featuring two brand-new Prince images exclusive to MOJO. The Strictly limited Edition Poster Issue is now sold out.
FREE CD! PURPLE SOUL: A compendium of futurist R&B starring Arthur Russell, Blood Orange, Darondo, Poliça, The Stepkids, Gayngs and many more. PRINCE: EXCLUSIVE! Will Hodgkinson is granted an audience with the reborn soul-funk genius. Plus! The Purple 1’s London love-in.
RONNIE LANE: Pat Gilbert speaks to friends and family about the glorious highs and tragic lows of the ex-Face’s peripatetic solo years.
MOJO 20: Boy George Mrs O’Dowd’s boy remembers London squats and Bow Wow Wow dust-ups en route to the birth of Culture Club.
PAUL STANLEY: Starchild discusses childhood trauma, Wicked Lester and the survival instinct of the four-headed rock monster that is Kiss.
NENEH CHERRY: The Buffalo Stance gal is back, talking New York jazz, punk, ska and hip hop, and looking forward to a bright new future.
OASIS: Looking back with Bonehead on the hangovers and punk attitude that shaped 1994’s Definitely Maybe.
AZTEC CAMERA: Roddy Frame assesses the wrong moves, drug dips and self-doubt between 1983’s High Land, Hard Rain and today.
143 REVIEWS: Elbow / War On Drugs / Real Estate / Future Islands / Kaiser Chiefs / Sun Kil Moon / Metronomy / Mike Oldfield / Brigitte Fontaine / Johnny Cash / Rufus Wainwright / Johnny Winer / The Blue Nile / John Lydon / John Cage / 20 Feet From Stardom / My Morning Jacket / Warpaint and more.
PLUS!: In the studio with Lee Scratch Perry / Introducing hip-hop one-off Danny Brown / Moby’s Self Portrait / Jean-Jacques Burnel faces the Rock’n’Roll Confidential / Captain Beefheart and the death of the Magic Band / Farewell, Pete Seeger…