MOJO magazine - Arctic Monkeys cover (December 2022 - Issue 349)

MOJO magazine - Arctic Monkeys cover (December 2022 - Issue 349)
Good condition - some light wear

Includes free 15-track CD

Magazine features:

BOB DYLAN - As Bob plays his first UK dates for five years, Mojo gets a preview of what we might expect at his European tour's opening night in Oslo. "The result: yet another new Dylan, when we had no right to expect one," says John Harris
4 pages

KING CRIMSON - Toby Amies' documentary portrait of Robert Fripp's supernatural prog entity is ready for viewing. Read on for what to expect, if you dare
¾ page

EDDIE CHACON - 2020's Pleasure, Joy And Happiness LP was an unexpected gem from the soul singer who'd been lost in the wilderness for decades. Now, Chacon and producer John Carroll Kirby tell us what's next
¾ page

PAULINE BLACK - She's been leading The Selecter since 1979, and, as the band prepare to revive '81's Celebrate The Bullet, she talks highs, regrets and carrying the 2 Tone torch
1 page

ZZ TOP - Who needs a drink to steady their nerves? Billy Gibbons and co might be able to oblige. Plus, streams of more celebrity booze, and an ex-Yardbird/ZZ Top team-up
½ page

CHARLES LLOYD - Metaphysical jazz elder Charles Lloyd plays on!
1 page

THE MARY WALLOPERS - It's the new boys from County Hell - Irish punk folk rabble-rousers The Mary Wallopers!
1 page

HERMANOS GUTIERREZ - ½ page

BILL CALLAHAN - He survived brushes with the French horn and Sham 69 to become one of America's most lauded songwriters. But is he really as aloof as they say, or as mysterious? "I'm a simple man who likes making records," insists Bill Callahan
6 pages

PAUL WELLER's new album is an A-Z of roads less travelled, from 2005 to now. An opportunity to explore some unfamiliar and unexpected flipsides of The Modfather - like, for instance, his tattoo? "I thought, f*ck it, I'll get one done," he tells Pat Gilbert
4 pages

BLOSSOM TOES - Blessed with all the talents and backed by an eccentric svengali, Blossom Toes were "a band on the up", albeit torn between the Sirens of pop fame and heavy cred. Then the singer discovered he didn't want to sing, and a car crash nearly ended them all. Resounding still: the eclectic power of their music. "Salvador Dali loved us," they tell Andrew Male
6 pages

JOAN ARMATRADING - As a new book of her lyrics bears out, Joan Armatrading is a one-off - for 50 years a writer of iron-clad songs, immune to fashion, admired by classic rock's great luminaries. Fame she can take or leave, but don't confuse her low profile for low self-esteem. "I was born to write songs," she tells John Aizlewood. "There's no other reason for any of this"
6 pages

ALABASTER DePLUME - Poet, saxophonist, stand-up, Alabaster DePlume is the London jazz scene's inspirational oddball - a Scots-Mancunian ex-care worker-turned-hub of freewheeling musical spontaneity. But more important than anything, he argues, is the pro-human message he brings. "This is real work," he tells Mat Snow, "the emancipation of people"
4 pages

TOM WAITS - Dumped by Island, pushing 50, Tom Waits responded with some of his greatest ever music. On Mule Variations, Alice and Blood Money, the stage and the studio, Weimar and the Old, Weird America intermingled in a soundworld that was uniquely Waits. "The last thing he wanted was anything normal," his confederates tell Sylvie Simmons
8 pages

STEVE HARLEY's group were enjoying pop hits before his mutinous band walked. Steeled by the betrayal, he recruited a new line-up and stormed to Number 1 with 1975's sublime revenge singalong Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me). But an innate inability to fit in or dilute his vision meant his chart career was fleeting. "Steve had star quality," recall the band. "We could have gone on to even bigger things"
4 pages

ARCTIC MONKEYS - With The Car, Arctic Monkeys are putting more miles between themselves and the chip shop verite of their breakthrough sides, with slinky soul and cinematic ennui replacing riffs and ramalam. Is it the perfect getaway from stadium-indie stasis, or are they flirting with the crash barrier? "We're still listening to the same instinct," they assure Keith Cameron
11 pages

PHAROAH SANDERS - Jazz saxophone titan Pharoah Sanders left us on September 24
1 page

CANDY DULFER AND PRINCE - He admired her pluck when they first met. But the end came when a joke turned sour. Candy Dulfer recalls the genius that was Prince
1 page