MOJO magazine - Joni Mitchell subscriber cover (July 2023 - Issue 356)

MOJO magazine - Joni Mitchell subscriber cover (July 2023 - Issue 356)
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MADE IN CHICAGO - There's a new Windy City Blues doc coming which traces how Muddy, Wolf and the rest were osmosed by Butterfield, Bloomfield and other white youths looking for kicks
2 pages

GANG OF FOUR - After Andy Gill's death in 2020, it seemed like the influential Leeds post-punkers were done. But now crucial ex-members Jon King and Hugo Burnham have reunited and tell us how it happened
¾ page

SPARKS - On the eve of new LP The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte, Ron and Russell talk about artistic endurance, the world turning their way again, and revenge as a dish best enjoyed cold
1 page

DAMIEN - Mimi Parker's passing last year marked the end of Low. Now her partner Alan Sparhawk has a new, different group. "I'm learning not to be surprised by anything," he says
½ page

JOE McALINDEN - He was the singer/songwriter in '90s Glasgow power-poppers Superstar. Now he's overcome some serious challenges to finally emerge under his own name - "clunky as it is," he quips
1 page

ANGELINE MORRISON - 1 page

COLIN BLUNSTONE - Fronting the 1960s' most anomalous band, he was a choirboy among "pirates and brigands". A Zombie and a gentleman in 2023, his remains a unique path through rock'n'roll. "The less I try, the more successful I am," reckons Colin Blunstone
6 pages

GENERATION SEX - Assembled for one last blag: Steve Jones, Paul Cook, Tony James and Billy Idol, punk survivors seeking fun, not redemption, as Generation Sex. Previously, heroin and heart attacks hindered their coming together. But, so far at least, it seems the stars have aligned. "It was effortless, really," they assure Pat Gilbert
6 pages

WITCH - Fifty years ago, the sound of liberation rang around southern Africa, as a generation of heavy, funky rock bands heralded a new political and musical era. At the forefront? Zambia's Witch, surviving turmoil and tragedy to become cratedigger superstars in the 21st century. "We want to keep the Zamrock fire burning," they promise
4 pages

NICK DRAKE - Far from the work of a cloistered savant, Nick Drake's subtle songs were shaped by myriad influences, from Bach to Bert Jansch, Mose Allison to Randy Newman. Mining his interviews fort a brand new authorised biography, Richard Morton Jack tracks Drake's listening from cradle to tragic early grave and its impact on his art: "Nick was very conscious of what was happening"
8 pages

THE TEARDROP EXPLODES - Careering out of Liverpool's post-punk scene, The Teardrop Explodes and Orphic pin-up Julian Cope looked set for hugeness when existential piledriver Reward stormed the Top 10 in March 1981. Yet their fame-year of escape, adventure and psychedelic colours nosedived when heroic second LP Wilder tanked. "It was mad fun, and everyone was involved," recall members and affiliates, of supporting Queen, playing Macca at pool and tripping on Top Of The Pops. And then? "Disaster"
4 pages

LOVE - Divine, deranged, divided: it's taken 50 years and change for Love's Johnny Echols to make peace with his doomed band's ageless legacy. In 2023, the Book of Love is reopening, but not before the guitarist confronts its more contentious passages. "I won't sugar-coat it," he tells Andrew Perry. "There's nothing to hide"
6 pages

WILLY DEVILLE - Pimp style, tough love, and the romance of New York, Paris and New Orleans infused the extraordinary rock, roots and soul of Willy DeVille. But as Sylvie Simmons discovers, bad luck, hard drugs, and tragic deaths cast long shadows across his life and music. "I constantly have this kind of hunger," he confessed, "an emptiness"
6 pages

JONI MITCHELL - As Joni Mitchell preps for her landmark June 10 show, Mojo explores another key watershed: Court And Spark. Crazy chords, unreliable beaus, jazz cats and a drunk Lennon litter the path to her second great masterpiece, an intimate self-portrait and dissection of the LA scene's Gatsby-ish bacchanal. "It's an almost perfect record," learns Tom Doyle
11 pages

HARRY BELAFONTE, who used the stage to help reshape his country, left us on April 25
1 page

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO - The revered electronic pop pioneer and much-garlanded film composer, left us on March 28
1 page

TIM STAFFELL AND SMILE - They formed at college and he left shortly before they became Queen. Tim Staffell remembers his time in Smile
1 page