MOJO December 2020

Al Kooper A musician and songwriter, Al recalls his contributions to Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited on p66. Meanwhile, at age 77, he fights a never-ending battle to keep himself out of the Real Gone section of MOJO while preparing Unreleased - a 70-plus-track box set - for release on the Omnivore label. Niall Doherty Digging into the labyrinthine making of Radiohead’s Kid A (see p56) took Niall back to standing in the rain at the band’s huge homecoming show in 2001, mouthing the holy words… “They’re playing Creep!” A writer and former Deputy Editor of Q, he previously interviewed Radiohead in Paris in 2016. Alan Berry Rhys Alan is a graphics artist and illustrator from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Both in his personal work and work for brands, his love…

Al Kooper A musician and songwriter, Al recalls his contributions to Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited on p66. Meanwhile, at age 77, he fights a never-ending battle to keep himself out of the Real Gone section of MOJO while preparing Unreleased - a 70-plus-track box set - for release on the Omnivore label. Niall Doherty Digging into the labyrinthine making of Radiohead’s Kid A (see p56) took Niall back to standing in the rain at the band’s huge homecoming show in 2001, mouthing the holy words… “They’re playing Creep!” A writer and former Deputy Editor of Q, he previously interviewed Radiohead in Paris in 2016. Alan Berry Rhys Alan is a graphics artist and illustrator from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Both in his personal work and work for brands, his love of typography and letters, as…

TWO MONTHS AFTER KID A, THE FOURTH RADIOHEAD album, was released, Jonny Greenwood talked to an American magazine about the band’s radical reinvention. “The album as a whole is a distillation of our favourite records,” he said, with self-deprecating candour. “It’s basically a band copying styles of music they can’t really play.” Twenty years ago, Kid A sounded like a band on the run from stadium-sized expectations, from the oppression of rock orthodoxy. Now, it feels more the work of five men who were imbibing the best and most adventurous old music and surging towards something authentically new. As this month’s anniversary feature on the record makes clear, Radiohead listened intently to electronica, jazz, 20th century classical composition, avant-rock and much more, then collaged elements of them all into a forward-thinking…

TWO MONTHS AFTER KID A, THE FOURTH RADIOHEAD album, was released, Jonny Greenwood talked to an American magazine about the band’s radical reinvention. “The album as a whole is a distillation of our favourite records,” he said, with self-deprecating candour. “It’s basically a band copying styles of music they can’t really play.” Twenty years ago, Kid A sounded like a band on the run from stadium-sized expectations, from the oppression of rock orthodoxy. Now, it feels more the work of five men who were imbibing the best and most adventurous old music and surging towards something authentically new. As this month’s anniversary feature on the record makes clear, Radiohead listened intently to electronica, jazz, 20th century classical composition, avant-rock and much more, then collaged elements of them all into a…

Stevie Nicks GOLD DUST WOMAN What music are you currently grooving to? Since May, putting this film together [deep-cuts concert movie 24 Karat Gold], mostly my own. But if I was listening to music and dancing around the house, since this pandemic I started listening again to Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Joni Mitchell. Huge, huge influences for me. And I go back to Haim and Harry Styles. I’m very current! I love The 1975. What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album? I have different favourites - I listened to Harry’s Fine Line for three solid months, over and over. But if I go all the way back, Court And Spark, the first Crosby, Stills & Nash… What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it? My grandad,…

Stevie Nicks GOLD DUST WOMAN What music are you currently grooving to? Since May, putting this film together [deep-cuts concert movie 24 Karat Gold], mostly my own. But if I was listening to music and dancing around the house, since this pandemic I started listening again to Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Joni Mitchell. Huge, huge influences for me. And I go back to Haim and Harry Styles. I’m very current! I love The 1975. What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album? I have different favourites - I listened to Harry’s Fine Line for three solid months, over and over. But if I go all the way back, Court And Spark, the first Crosby, Stills & Nash… What was the first record you ever bought? And…