MOJO CLASSIC magazine - Debbie Harry cover (New Wave Special - 30th Anniversary)

MOJO CLASSIC magazine - Debbie Harry cover (New Wave Special 30th Anniversary)
Published 2008
140+ pages
Excellent unread condition

Foreword by Deborah Harry

ELVIS COSTELLO - Nobody did songs about revenge and guilt as well as Elvis Costello. As Peter Doggett reveals, punk gave the struggling songwriter the platform he needed and the balls to name himself after a rock icon. But not everything went to plan...
7 pages

STIFF RECORDS gave a home to ne'er-do-wells Ian Dury, Nick Lowe and a host of New Wave names. Will Birch salutes British rock's first great independent record label
3 pages

CHRIS DIFFORD - Squeeze's naughty boy on offering Simon Le Bon fashion tips, Eastbourne car parking and defacing John Cale's forehead
1 page

PAUL WELLER - 5 pages

TALKING HEADS - New York's Talking Heads were inspired by cybernetics, urban architecture and French-speaking serial killers. But the strangest thing of all was that they also made you want to dance
5 pages

THE ONLY ONES blazed a trail for New Wave, but the band's innovation was overshadowed by a self-destructive streak. Martin Aston hears a tale of near-death experiences and one of the greatest pop songs of all time
6 pages

JOE JACKSON - 1 page

DEVO - 5 pages

IAN DURY - Disabled after polio and already 35 when success came calling, Ian Dury not only wrote New Wave's funkiest anthem but also invented Johnny Rotten
6 pages

GENERATION X - Bob 'Derwood' Andrews was the teen guitarist of pretty-boy rockers Generation X. 30 years on, he recalls the weird reality of being a New Wave star
4 pages

TONY JAMES - The ex-Generation X bassist on the thrill of Springsteen, Top Of The Pops and eating posh nosh with Janet Street-Porter
1 page

BLONDIE came from the twilight world of New York's underground clubs to conquer the charts, a journey that encompassed Andy Warhol, punk, hip hop, pop and more. Kris Needs recalls six years in the eye of the Blondie hurricane...
15 pages

XTC- Much of XTC's skewed skewed, idiosyncratic music came from the fevered imagination of Andy Partridge, a man felled by prescription drug addiction long before he became a pop star. Johnny Black hears the story of a life lived backwards
6 pages

CINDY WILSON - The B-52's singer and pltinum blonde recalls taking Manhattan, losing a band member to AIDS and seeing the Pistols
1 page

THE CARS were 1978's oddest New Wave band: a melting pot of Old Wave craftsmanship and ultra-modern style. Don Waller hears a strange tale of folk rock, Iggy Pop, Andy Warhol and a NASA space console
6 pages

THE BOOMTOWN RATS - 4 pages

THE STRANGLERS were the "obnoxious, cynical" New Wave band everyone claimed to hate. As David Buckley discovers, 1980 was the year they fell prey to jail and alien visitations
6 pages

THE POLICE - 6 pages

THE SKIDS - Fired up by punk rock and John-Paul Sartre, The Skids made music that sounded like revolutionaries on the march. Pat Gilbert investigates the New Wave's greatest anthem band
5 pages

CHRISSIE HYNDE - 1 page

Plus lots more!