MOJO magazine - Patti Smith subscriber cover (August 2022 - Issue 345)

MOJO magazine - Patti Smith subscriber cover (August 2022 - Issue 345)
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EXILE ON MAIN ST. - Ace photographer Norman Seeff unearths images from his famed shoot of the Stones on the jetty, escaping the tax man, for their classic 1972 LP. "It couldn't just be a photoshoot," he remembers
2 pages

DAVID BOWIE - Wild new doc Moonage Daydream was pieced together from five million items in Bowie's personal archive by Montage of Heck filmmaker Brett Morgen. Mojo goes to the premiere in Cannes and asks him what it's really about
¾ page

ROBYN HITCHCOCK - The former Soft Boy and leader of The Egyptians has a new album to unveil, helped by Aztec gods, old bandmates, a former Smith, a Beatles scion, and his two cats. "Some of those songs ricocheted all the way around the world!" he says
¾ page

STEVE EARLE - The Hardcore Troubadour talks Jerry Jeff Walker, politics and staying sober
1 page

OREN AMBARCHI - Seeking the inspirational spot between mystification and understanding, the Sydney guitar voyager talks risk, the importance of space and blending the pop and the weird
1 page

KATY J PEARSON - From teen-pop baptism by fire, to summerisle rebirth, Katy J Pearson returns stronger
½ page

JIM KELTNER - The Master Drummer to Dylan, Lennon, Neil, Lana Del Rey and dozens more has come through overdoses and epiphanies to be the heartbeat of the greatest rock and pop. His secret? "It's allowing the music to blossom," says Jim Keltner
6 pages

SIMPLE MINDS - Forty years ago, a band of Glaswegian art-rock misfits located the formula for a spectacular transformation. From base metals, Simple Minds alchemized New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84), an album which would change their lives for ever. As they prepare to reconstruct the album live in Edinburgh, Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill and their former bandmates tell Keith Cameron the whole miraculous tale, from psychedelic experiences in the Scottish countryside, to redneck run-ins in Saskatoon... "Worldwide on the widest screen!"
6 pages

MANFRED MANN - Formed as the British Blues boomed in '62, the Anglo-South African R&B hit squad took the decade by the horns, wailing the theme to Ready Steady Go!, being the first British Invasion group to score a US Number 1 and forging ahead despite the '66 departure of vocalist Paul Jones. But as the '60s drew to a close, not even another tranche of Top 10 hits could stop the rot. "The biggest illusion in pop music is that all you have to do is succeed," recall the group. "You actually have to succeed over and over..."
4 pages

NEW YORK DOLLS - 1972, Lower Manhattan, a band before their time are establishing a toehold. Fifty years on, in conversation with Jon Savage, New York Dolls' sole surviving member recalls their early days on a scene where anything went: feather boas, "trisexuality", ridiculous theatre and more. "In the neighbourhood we were just free," says David Johansen
8 pages

WORKING MEN'S CLUB - Updating synth-pop and avant-dance moves for modern paranoiacs, Syd Minsky-Sargeant's Working Men's Club are poised to bring their stark yet luminous sounds to the mainstream. But how will popularity sit with this self-confessed "awkward outsider"? "If I could backtrack," he tells Ian Harrison, "I'd probably choose to be anonymous"
4 pages

THE BEACH BOYS - Sixty years since The Beach Boys signed to Capitol and released their first defining discs, Mojo celebrates the group's formative phase. From page 64, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston reflect on the road to Pet Sounds. But first, How 1962 Changed Everything - an extract from the upcoming new edition of David Leaf's legendary Brian Wilson blog, God Only Knows
10 pages

LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO are the South African vocal institution whose ravishing harmonies came to their founder, Joseph Shabalala, in a dream. Across their path: apartheid and murder. In their corner: Paul Simon and Nelson Mandela. And in 2022 the Shabalala bloodline forges on. "We are still living the cause," they tell David Hutcheon
4 pages

PATTI SMITH - Singer, poet, warrior... But also, detective, collecting the clues that built a picture of herself. As her rock'n'roll mission hits the road once more, she takes time to share some of her most meaningful possessions, prompting talk of desks and dancing, new songs and old, sadness and hope. "We're allowed to celebrate being alive," she tells Andrew Male
10 pages

JACK WHITE - Album review
1 page

NINA NASTASIA - Album review
1 page

VANGELIS - Electronic eminence grise and soundtrack icon Vangelis left us on May 17
1 page

STEVE HOWE AND YES - It started with fortuitous harmony. And ended when everyone else left. Steve Howe recalls the hi, the bye and the hi agains of Yes
1 page