MOJO December 2019

Laurie Anderson Anderson’s music, words and ideas have bewitched since 1981’s O Superman. Her moving essay on late husband Lou Reed’s lyrics – taken from I’ll Be Your Mirror (Faber) out in November – starts on p56. Songs From The Bardo, her LP with Tenzin Choegyal and Jesse Paris Smith, is out now. Ethan Russell The first band Russell photographed was Blue Cheer, but the California native was still a novice lensman when he arrived in the UK in 1968. Less than a year later, he had become court snapper to Britain’s rock aristocracy. His shots of The Rolling Stones – telling the story of their watershed Let It Bleed LP – are previewed from p44. Quinton Winter Quinton is an award-winning and New York Times best-selling illustrator. A proud…

Laurie Anderson Anderson’s music, words and ideas have bewitched since 1981’s O Superman. Her moving essay on late husband Lou Reed’s lyrics – taken from I’ll Be Your Mirror (Faber) out in November – starts on p56. Songs From The Bardo, her LP with Tenzin Choegyal and Jesse Paris Smith, is out now. Ethan Russell The first band Russell photographed was Blue Cheer, but the California native was still a novice lensman when he arrived in the UK in 1968. Less than a year later, he had become court snapper to Britain’s rock aristocracy. His shots of The Rolling Stones – telling the story of their watershed Let It Bleed LP – are previewed from p44. Quinton Winter Quinton is an award-winning and New York Times best-selling illustrator. A proud MOJO contributor since 1998, he’s…

HE JAM GOES ON FOREVER! THIS MONTH, TO COMMEMORATE the return of Neil Young and Crazy Horse, MOJO has rounded up 15 acts still dedicated to the transformational power of electric guitars. Here are the Children Of The Horse, unfettered by a need to keep their sound neat and tidy, dedicated to the most rugged and elemental of freak-outs. “Crazy Horse are willing to jump off a cliff with Neil,” their producer and engineer John Hanlon tells MOJO in our cover story. “It’s like improvisational jazz, but it’s not jazz.” So it is with these liberated players, all of whom have been inspired by the longform explorations of Crazy Horse, and those of other untrammelled free spirits like the Grateful Dead. “[Crazy Horse] should’ve been shot at birth,” David Crosby once…

HE JAM GOES ON FOREVER! THIS MONTH, TO COMMEMORATE the return of Neil Young and Crazy Horse, MOJO has rounded up 15 acts still dedicated to the transformational power of electric guitars. Here are the Children Of The Horse, unfettered by a need to keep their sound neat and tidy, dedicated to the most rugged and elemental of freak-outs. “Crazy Horse are willing to jump off a cliff with Neil,” their producer and engineer John Hanlon tells MOJO in our cover story. “It’s like improvisational jazz, but it’s not jazz.” So it is with these liberated players, all of whom have been inspired by the longform explorations of Crazy Horse, and those of other untrammelled free spirits like the Grateful Dead. “[Crazy Horse] should’ve been shot at birth,” David Crosby…

Stuart A. Staples VOICE OF TINDERSTICKS What music are you currently grooving to? Mac Miller’s Swimming. It’s a great piece of work, obviously tinged with sadness, but it doesn’t make it better because he died so young. The composition, the depth, the feeling – there’s a real joyousness in that creativity. I’m trying to extricate myself, but my wife likes it. What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album? Nina Simone’s Wild Is The Wind. She kept it so minimal, though she could do everything. What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it? Showaddywaddy’s Under The Moon Of Love, from a shop called Simons in Gedling in Nottingham. I don’t know if I was a fan, but I was glued to Top Of The Pops and I had…

Stuart A. Staples VOICE OF TINDERSTICKS What music are you currently grooving to? Mac Miller’s Swimming. It’s a great piece of work, obviously tinged with sadness, but it doesn’t make it better because he died so young. The composition, the depth, the feeling – there’s a real joyousness in that creativity. I’m trying to extricate myself, but my wife likes it. What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album? Nina Simone’s Wild Is The Wind. She kept it so minimal, though she could do everything. What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it? Showaddywaddy’s Under The Moon Of Love, from a shop called Simons in Gedling in Nottingham. I don’t know if I was a fan, but I was glued to…