MOJO Issue 213 / August 2011
FREE CD! THE ROOTS OF PAUL McCARTNEY: 15 Classic tracks by Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, Ray Charles, Larry Williams, Big Joe Turner, The Coasters & more! PAUL McCARTNEY: Back in 1980 McCartney II sounded like a man losing his marbles. Today it sounds like the future. The man behind the music explains the philosophy of “play” that drives his solo work. Plus Brian Wilson, Elvis Costello, Greil Marcus and more choose their 50 Macca moments.
IAN McLAGAN: The (Small) Faces’ Hammond hero holds forth to Mark Paytress on lost millions, Stones epiphanies, Howlin’ Wolf, Don Arden’s meal ticket and keeping a key under the mat for Rod.
WILD BEASTS: Ian Harrison hears how the earthy yet elevated Cumbrian four-piece overcame hunger and poverty to reclaim the ambient grandeur of ’80s dream pop.
DAVID BOWIE: It may be the Dame’s most important transformation, from bubble-haired pop also-ran to pre-Raphaelite songwriter of Changes, Kooks, Oh! You Pretty Things and Life On Mars? Bowie biographer Paul Trynka loses himself in Hunky Dory.
STEVE MILLER: Home-schooled by Les Paul, Jimmy Reed and T-Bone Walker, Chicago blues prodigy Steve Miller joined the psychedelic gold-rush in San Franciscio, then became the sound of US radio with The Joker and Fly Like An Eagle. Joel Selvin salutes an American hero.
TOOTS & THE MAYTALS: False imprisonment could have ended their career. Instead it revitalised them as the soul-influenced sound of ’70s reggae. David Katz talks to Toots Hibbert about the triumphs, defeats, rip-offs and returns of reggae’s funky kings.
33 PAGES OF REVIEWS! The Horrors / Little Dragon / Chip Taylor / Madeleine Peyroux / Buddy Holly tribute / Black America celebrates the Beatles / R.E.M. / Rufus Wainwright / Creed Taylor’s Impulse! / Phil Ochs / Patsy Cline / Foo Fighters / Elvis Costello and many more!
PLUS! Kasabian’s next / David Sylvian’s sound world / Vintage Trouble’s vintage blues / Terry Hall’s empty glass / Nils Lofgren’s High Pants Dance Class / The Kills’ hardcore medicine / Destroyer’s definition of pop / July return / the reinvention of Battles.
AND FINALLY... How To Buy Fleetwood Mac!