MOJO magazine - Robert Smith subscriber cover (March 2021 - Issue 328)

MOJO magazine - Robert Smith subscriber cover (March 2021 - Issue 328)
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Includes free 15-track CD

Magazine features:

DAVID BOWIE - This January 10 he was five years gone. How did the world mark it, and how will his mighty legacy be curated during 2021?
2 pages

HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF - Alynda Segarra gets out of New York to prepare for a new LP for an America in flux, with reggaeton, astrology and Lou Reed on her mind
¾ page

DANIEL LANOIS - He's aided and abetted Eno, U2, Dylan, Peter Gabriel and many others. Now the Quebecois production hand has his own music to make. In Confidential mode, he reveals what drives him
1 page

GANG OF FOUR - Andy Gill left us last February 1, an early victim of Covid. Now a star-packed tribute album honours his life's work, as his partner Catherine Mayer and devotee Gary Numan explain
½ page

DON BRYANT - After decades in the wilderness, Southern soul survivor Don Bryant gets his shot
1 page

HEARTY HAR - Fortunate sons! John Fogerty's boys escape the factory to form Hearty Har
1 page

ANGEL BAT DAWID - ½ page

BARRY GIBB - Their harmonies glowed golden over eclectic decades of pop pre-eminence. But for big brother 'Bazza', the Bee Gees' sad depletion has made fame less sweet and solo flight more daunting. "There's nothing more important than your family," says Barry Gibb
6 pages

BESSIE SMITH - The voice of Bessie Smith, carved in wax nearly a century ago, hits us today as raw and true as if it were captured yesterday. In a new book extracted here, Scottish poet Jackie Kay steps into the shoes of the phenomenon they called the Empress Of The Blues, reliving her triumphs, her trials, and the recordings that preserve her irrepressible life-force: "It is not in any way the voice of a victim"
6 pages

THE EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND - Scourge of demons, cops and Tony Blackburn, compadres of Hell's Angels and student firebrands, The Edgar Broughton Band said Up Yours to the '60s establishment with songs about psychos and kaftans made by their mum. As a career-spanning box set looms, Andrew Male finds them as fiery as ever: We always needed someone or something to kick up the ass"
6 pages

BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD - Guitar! Sax! Shouting! Black Country, New Road are the seven-piece "raging beast" who mash up rock's past while satirising our digital present, their slow-burning jams fuelled by a mercurial mix of self-laceration and "love for each other". "Like Fleetwood Mac, basically," they tell Victoria Segal
4 pages

COWBOY JUNKIES - With roots in post-punk and improv, this band of Toronto siblings were refining a hushed blues aesthetic on the independent margins. Then, on Friday, November 27, 1987, they entered their hometown's Church Of The Holy Trinity to record their second album. Sustaining dream-moods of country, the Velvets and Elvis, its hushed, mantric devotionals reverberated into the wider world. "A lot of things came together on that record," they say. "We had a taste of being big"
4 pages

CAROLE KING - Timeless, seemingly effortless, Carole King's Tapestry weaves its healing spell with songs that feel found, not written. Celebrating 50 years of its connection with millions, its cast of friends, lovers and true believers recount how the antidote to every '70s rock cliche required a shy-genius songsmith, a decade of confidence-building and exactly the right piano. "It was all about the craft," they tell Grayson Haver Currin
8 pages

THE CURE - The 30 Greatest Songs of Robert Smith's post-punk dream-weavers, the kings of quirk and charm through six decades. Plus: their early transformations, and why the "corduroys, Hush Puppies and grandpa jumper" just had to go
16 pages

HAROLD BUDD - Californian ambient pioneer Harold Budd passed away on December 8 after suffering Covid complications following a stroke
1 page

ROSE SIMPSON AND THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND - Rose Simpson remembers her time in The Incredible String Band: "It was complete freedom!"
1 page