MOJO magazine - The Monkees subscriber cover (March 2022 - Issue 340)

MOJO magazine - The Monkees subscriber cover (March 2022 - Issue 340)
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MAL EVANS - The Fabs' roadie, minder and confidante was tragically shot by LA police in 1976. But now his long-lost memoir and archive have been located. His biographer Ken Womack tells us what's brewing
2 pages

THE ELECTRIC CIRCUS - Punks dodged the feared Collyhurst Perrys to pogo at the grubby ground-zero of Manchester punk. But what happened to the tapes recorded at its two-day closing bash in '77, when Warsaw, The Fall and Buzzcocks played?
¾ page

INTERPOL - The Manhattan post-punks have been hunkered down preparing their seventh album in Edinburgh, upstate New York and Willesden. What's it all about? "I think we created an interesting alchemy," says mainman Paul Banks
¾ page

SOFT CELL - The original UK synth duo discuss comebacks, anxiety and angst, and how notoriety lasts
1 page

JANIS IAN - She's the veteran singer-songwriter whose At Seventeen and Society's Child belong in the songbook for the ages. But why is she saying it's now time to shut up shop?½ page

BORIS - Tokyo's purveyors of ear-rupturing doom and gossamer pop sit down and contemplate three decades of doing things their own way
1 page

ERIN RAE - Lighten up! Meet Erin Rae, easy-going modern woman of trippy Americana
1 page

LOS BITCHOS - Out of the London melting pot: the pan-global "zing-zang" twang of Los Bitchos!
½ page

EDDIE VEDDER - Transcending grunge, Pearl Jam's brooding baritone has fought his demons, the ticket agents, and his President. Today, he takes each day as a challenge to his devotion to "all that's sacred". "The bar keeps rising," insists Eddie Vedder
6 pages

AL GREEN - In January 1972 came the album that defined Al Green's unique mix of sex and spirituality, plus the sophisticated sound of producer Willie Mitchell and his Hi Rhythm Section band. But before Let's Stay Together could work its magic, writes Bob Mehr, its creators struck out on a voyage of discovery: "We had to find ourselves before we could really make that music"
8 pages

ANAIS MITCHELL - When her American musical, Hadestown, exploded on Broadway, songwriting took a back row seat. Now Anais Mitchell is re-finding her muse, her childhood self, and a bagful of tunes in backwoods Vermont. "It's not that cool," she tells Grayson Haver Currin, "but I don't have the energy to be cool any more"
4 pages

PINK FLOYD - When Pink Floyd perfected Echoes in late 1971, it was a transformational epiphany - an emerging vision of a successful future for the band. Fifty years and some serious woodshedding later, Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets are taking it on the road. Time for Mojo to dive into the elaborate creation, and re-creation, of a masterpiece. "It's f*cking long," discovers Tom Doyle. "It goes on forever, mate"
11 pages

MICK ROCK'S SHOTS - The snapper who mixed glam with the dark stuff sashayed off this mortal coil last November, but left us with hundreds of images that brought music and its makers to life. A new book collects some of Mick Rock's best and most surprising shots of Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Syd Barrett, David Bowie and more, and Mojo is proud to preview a stunning selection
6 pages

VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR - No-quarter prog heretics Van der Graaf Generator had nothing to lose when they made their third album in 1971, and divined new extremes of psychic trauma and existential crisis via hallucinogens, bloody-mindedness and ghostly visitations. Then they went to Italy, where they suffered huge rock stardom, riots, and terminal burn out. "We decided, f*ck it, f*ck everything," they recall. "It had got completely out of control..."
4 pages

THE MONKEES - In The Monkees, Michael Nesmith was the still, cool eye of the hurricane, holding a torch for real music amid the wacky fabrications. But as Micky Dolenz and others reveal to Mojo, he died understanding the joy the band gave to millions. "It was fantasy becoming reality, art becoming life," they tell David Fricke
10 pages

ROBBIE SHAKESPEARE - Jamaican bass supremo Robbie Shakespeare left us on December 8
1 page

MADDY PRIOR AND STEELEYE SPAN - They convened when Brit-folk went electric. Then too much work did for them. Maddy Prior on the first hello and goodbye with Steeleye Span
1 page