MOJO magazine - Bruce Springsteen subscriber cover (August 2023 - Issue 357)

MOJO magazine - Bruce Springsteen subscriber cover (August 2023 - Issue 357)
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JEFF BECK - The guitar legend left us in January, and last month friends and admirers paid tribute to him at the Royal Albert Hall
2 pages

URBAN PSYCHO - One of the KLF and one of The Pogues mixing the age-old hurdy-gurdy with drum'n'bass? "We want it to be Number 1 in Bavaria," they say
¾ page

MARSHALL CHESS - The Chicago blues label scion talks Howlin' Wolf, the Stones and trouble every day
1 page

LANDSCAPE - They were the jazzers-turned-synth-evangelist oddballs who hit big with Einstein A Go-Go in '81. Now a new career-wide box set tells their whole story
1 page

WEDNESDAY - ½ page

SHIRLEY COLLINS - Pugnacious pioneer of the folk revival 'til her voice faltered, she returned to carry its torch. But if her new LP is really her swan song, what wisdom does she pass on? "You just sing the song for its own sake," says Shirley Collins
6 pages

BLACK SABBATH - Of portentous lineage, Geezer Butler was Black Sabbath's secret weapon, an instinctive innovator and scribe of their seminal lyrics. But behind the doom and anguish of Sabbath's songs, and the slapstick comedy of their career, there brooded a man fighting for his sanity. "It was like this big black cloud came over me and I couldn't get away," he tells Mark Blake
6 pages

TINA TURNER - From a broken home, via enslavement to abusive bandleader husband Ike, to late-career vindication, Tina Turner was a fighter with a voice that throbbed with her life force, and carried the struggles and stories of us all. "Nobody was better in terms of interpreting a song," discovers Victoria Segal
6 pages

GRIAN CHATTEN - Touring the States with Fontaines D.C., singer Grian Chatten lost the plot. Finding it again involved writing an "angry, bitter" song cycle based in an Irish seaside town. But is his first solo album a good or bad omen for his bandmates? "Things got very intense," he tells Ted Kessler
4 pages

STAX - Who knew that in the mountain of songs Stax Records didn't put out were many as great as they did? Only their writers - until now. This month, a brand new seven-disc box set of unreleased demos and overlooked songs sheds extraordinary new light on Memphis's soul explosion, and its prime movers. "Everybody at Stax was there for one reason," they tell Bill DeMain: "to get a hit record!"
6 pages

VIVIAN STANSHALL - Songs and sketches newly emerged from the locked vault of Vivian Stanshall offer new reasons to join the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band one-off's silly cult. But, as friends and family reveal, behind the hilarity and eccentricity hid a conflicted man transfixed by "foul yellow fright" and addicted to self-sabotage. "He didn't know when he was brilliant and when he was terrible," they tell Mat Snow
6 pages

GLASTONBURY '97 - After a run of blazing summers, the West Country's mother-of-all-festivals Glastonbury returned in June '97 after a fallow year. And didn't it rain. And rain. And rain. But, besmirched in mud, the revellers stood firm. With inspirational encouragement from guru Joe Strummer, a feast of music followed, Saturday night headliners Radiohead defeating technical cock-ups to deliver a transcendent, career-landmark performance. "It was a shock to everybody," say organisers, performers and attendees. "It was one of the golden ones"
4 pages

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Sat in a house he hadn't entered for 40 years, pondering questions that cut to the very meaning of his art, conversations with the writer and musician Warren Zanes led Bruce Springsteen down perilous paths - back to his post-River crisis, his childhood, and beyond, and formed the core of Zanes' illuminating new book about Nebraska. As the singer explained, "I needed to know that I could go back and be nobody"
11 pages

ANDY ROURKE, bassist with The Smiths, left us on May 19
1 page

GORDON LIGHTFOOT - Canadian folk giant Gordon Lightfoot left us on May 1
1 page

BOBBY BALDERRAMA AND QUESTION MARK & THE MYSTERIANS - It came together when the instrumental group needed a singer, but the draft meant it couldn't go on. Bobby Balderrama remembers Question Mark & The Mysterians
1 page