MOJO magazine - David Bowie subscriber cover (September 2021 - Issue 334)

MOJO magazine - David Bowie subscriber cover (September 2021 - Issue 334)
Good condition

Includes free 15-track CD

Magazine features:

HENDRIX AND JONI - ON TAPE? - You know the story about Jimi Hendrix taping Joni Mitchell in '68? It's all true. Read on for how it happened and how the lost reel was rediscovered, and what Joni herself thought when she was presented with it
2 pages

ELVIS COSTELLO - DAP MacManus, OBE, has taken one of his classic albums and reframed it, with Spanish-speaking vocalists. "A really great opportunity to turn the songs on their head," he declares
¾ page

THE AMORPHOUS ANDROGYNOUS - Garry Cobain has got a new record brewing, with guests including players from The Verve, Happy Mondays, VdGG and more
¾ page

GARY KEMP - Spandau Ballet's hitman talks crises, Pink Floyd and going solo
1 page

DAVID WIFFEN - The Canadian singer-songwriter - and cognoscenti's choice - resurfaces to talk road travails, fate and cult fame
1 page

W.H. LUNG - Meet W.H. Lung, Manchester's new king monkeys
1 page

THE SHADRACKS - ½ page

NICKY WIRE - With four strings and a feather boa, the Manic Street Preachers' iconic Minister Of Aggravation carries on the Kulturkampf, while reflecting on loss and longevity. "You are allowed to build bands on hatred and delusion," insists Nicky Wire
6 pages

THE HOLLIES - With voices in heavenly sync, The Hollies made evergreen pop, until songwriting, drug differences and David Crosby sowed disharmony. Yet through splits and rifts, the group's prime movers are still with us and primed to reclaim their legacy. "We were always the underrated underdogs," they tell John Aizlewood
6 pages

FAYE WEBSTER - R&B for homebodies? Americana for hipsters? Atlanta's Obama-endorsed yo-yo pro Faye Webster doesn't mind what you call her as long as she's improving, and at 23, she's come a long way fast. Her philosophy? First thought, best thought. "It doesn't have to be perfect," she tells Alison Fensterstock, "and sometimes it's better when it's not"
4 pages

BILL EVANS was the most poetic and individual piano player in jazz, Miles's muse on Kind Of Blue, a sonic visionary. But his inner sadness seemed to invite personal catastrophe, and he was bewitched by the "dark romance" of drugs. As a previously unreleased live set from his latter years restates his genius, Mojo relates his rise and fall. "What happened to Bill Evans was a tragedy," discovers Andrew Male
6 pages

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - On-stage, for at least five decades, Bruce Springsteen has known few peers. And looking up at him since 1974 has been photographer Janet Macoska, tracing his transformatiion from grease monkey to megastar. "He's the preacher," she tells Danny Eccleston, "and there's always that revival energy"
4 pages

NIRVANA - In 1991, Nirvana changed popular music with an album that defined a generation and turned its creators into a "monstrous freakout". Thirty years on, Nevermind looms larger, and sounds more powerful than ever. "It's a great record and it connects with so many people," discovers Dorian Lynskey. "But it's bittersweet..."
8 pages

WAR OF THE WORLDS - In 1978 Jeff Wayne's musical version of H.G. Wells' sci-fi classic from 1898 was a surprise monster hit. Yet his enduring audio-dramatisation of Mars invading the Earth was arrived at via adverts for bacon and gin, calls to Richard Burton, 'orrible punk nicknames, some handy luck with the Musicians' Union and incomprehension from his record label. Forty-three years on, it refuses to go gently. "People were calling me bonkers," says Wayne, "but it was the only book that moved me enough"
4 pages

DAVID BOWIE - In 1971, David Bowie looked a spent force, reeling from another flop. Denizens of his inner circle, however, saw another side: an artist possessed by creativity and productivity on a whole new level, on the way to his first great masterpiece, Hunky Dory. "He was like a volcano about to erupt," they tell Tom Doyle
11 pages

JON HASSELL - Trumpeter, theorist and pioneering pan-global collagist, Jon Hassell left us on June 26
1 page

KIRK BRANDON AND THEATRE OF HATE - There were drugs, squats, 200 gigs and magical chemistry. Kirk Brandon remembers Theatre Of Hate
1 page