MOJO magazine - Amy Winehouse subscriber cover (August 2021 - Issue 333)

MOJO magazine - Amy Winehouse subscriber cover (August 2021 - Issue 333)
Good condition

Includes free 15-track CD

Magazine features:

THE STRANGLERS - Last year, we lost Stranglers keyboardist Dave Greenfield to Covid. Bassist JJ Burnel knew they had to finish the LP they'd started with him. "We've still got a lot to prove to ourselves," he reflects
¾ page

JACKSON BROWNE - With new LP Downhill From Everywhere, the veteran singer-songwriter gets in Confidential mood and reflects on feuds, excess and politics, admitting, "I basically know nothing"
1 page

ALICE COLTRANE - A new archival release finds the spiritual jazz icon in hymnal voice and organ form. Her son Ravi, who oversaw the record, says: "When I heard [the tapes], I was blown away"
½ page

ELLEN McILWAINE - Hendrix fave Ellen McIlwaine, still blazing up the bottleneck blues
1 page

SQUID - The un-linear Brighton post-punks talk Krautrock, JG Ballard and painful in-band democracy
1 page

AROOJ AFTAB's "love-oriented intoxication music" and the sweet smell of success...
½ page

BILLY F GIBBONS - Through 50 years of taboo-busting, hat revamps and beard-growth, the "Dali of the Delta" has kept faith with the blues. Has his mojo never flagged? "Plug in, turn it up - that's always been the reward," says Billy Gibbons
6 pages

CROWDED HOUSE - With their effortless songs and on-stage larks, Crowded House made a good show of flying above the fray. But splits and sackings, and their drummer's shocking suicide, told another story. As Neil Finn and Nick Seymour - the "angsty songwriter" and the "smart arse" - regroup and go again, they relive the blasphemy and meat raffles, the good times and bad, with Andy Fyfe
6 pages

YOLA - Sci-fi, soul and self-belief carried Yola through chaos at home in Portishead, to Nashville, where Dan Auerbach and Sister Rosetta Tharpe have helped her connect with the source, and where the future is finally within reach. "Just commit and that sh*t is yours," she tells Bill DeMain
4 pages

ROGER CHAPMAN - Tearaway Teddy Boy to prog-hating progger in rock's least predictable band: Family firebrand Roger Chapman does what he likes and damn the torpedoes. Not the safest career strategy, but one that means he rocks stoically on, 60-odd years since he started. "I can't switch my mind off from creating," he tells Jim Irvin
6 pages

VIOLENT FEMMES - Alive from 1981, Milwaukee's naive folk-punks exulted in Sun Ra-inspired theatrics while playing high school hotshot Gordon Gano's songs of sex and longing. After a happy busking encounter with the Pretenders, their 1983 debut album blew minds and found cult acclaim. But internal frictions, plus the influence of Jesus and murder ballads on rootsy second LP Hallowed Ground, were looming. "They had that free-jazz, wild energy," say the band and their intimates. "But selfishness was coming to a head"
4 pages

NICO - Pin-up, muse, lover, junkie, goddess - the legend of Nico has been defined by those who would deny her creative agency. In this extract from her new book, Jennifer Otter Bickerdike reveals Nico the artist, born of a bitter split from the Velvet Underground and a fateful fling with the Doors' Jim Morrison, and forged in the crucible of her extraordinary second album, The Marble Index
6 pages

THE ROLLING STONES - Songs from the South. Some others from East Woodhay, Hampshire. A sleeve that shocked in 1971. A smash hit single that shocks more today. Fifty years since the release of Sticky Fingers, Mojo's writers and friends - plus Marianne, and Bill - unzip The Rolling Stones' most iconic album and ask: Does it still taste so good?
8 pages

AMY WINEHOUSE - The loss of Amy Winehouse on July 23, 2011 deprived us of a unique, maverick talent. Ten years on, we delve into the music she made and the music she might have, all the better to understand an extraordinary young woman and her tragic course. "We lost someone who was able to flawlessly explain how they felt in a song," hears Tom Doyle. "And those things last"
11 pages

LLOYD PRICE, Lawdy Miss Clawdy and Stagger Lee R&B hitmaker, left us on May 3
¾ page

WENDY SMITH AND PREFAB SPROUT - Yes, it's her. Wendy Smith recalls time  in the magical shadow world of Prefab Sprout
1 page