MOJO February 2021

Jon Savage A MOJO contributor since 1993, Jon is the author of This Searing Light: The Oral History Of Joy Division and the curator of Do You Have The Force? (Jon Savage’s Alternate History Of Electronica 1978-82), released by Caroline True Records on limited double vinyl. He revisits the golden age of synth music from page 46. John Harris John is a political(ish) columnist for The Guardian — but also a long-standing MOJO contributor and music writer, currently editing transcripts from The Beatles’ Let It Be sessions into the book that will accompany Peter Jackson’s Get Back movie. He writes about the aftermath of John Lennon’s murder from page 64. Sam Hadley Sam has worked with clients all over the world on a huge variety of projects, from illustrating and designing film posters and packaging,…

Jon Savage A MOJO contributor since 1993, Jon is the author of This Searing Light: The Oral History Of Joy Division and the curator of Do You Have The Force? (Jon Savage’s Alternate History Of Electronica 1978-82), released by Caroline True Records on limited double vinyl. He revisits the golden age of synth music from page 46. John Harris John is a political(ish) columnist for The Guardian — but also a long-standing MOJO contributor and music writer, currently editing transcripts from The Beatles’ Let It Be sessions into the book that will accompany Peter Jackson’s Get Back movie. He writes about the aftermath of John Lennon’s murder from page 64. Sam Hadley Sam has worked with clients all over the world on a huge variety of projects, from illustrating and…

WHEN LENNY KAYE COMPILED THE ORIGINAL NUGGETS album in 1972, much of the exhilarating music it contained was only five or so years old. Nevertheless, his tone in the sleevenotes was as nostalgic as it was exuberant. “Whether you want to use [Nuggets] to remember that bittersweet moment when you first decided to let your hair grow/ take up a picket sign/wonder what a deadly toke would feel like,” he wrote, “well, that’s ‘your trip’.” Some of the music on Psych Ops, the high-energy freakout CD that comes with this issue of MOJO, is a decade old, but still feels radically current. Some of it sounds like it could have been made by contemporaries of The Shadows Of Knight and The Pink Floyd, and captures that sense of rock’n'roll’s primal impulses…

WHEN LENNY KAYE COMPILED THE ORIGINAL NUGGETS album in 1972, much of the exhilarating music it contained was only five or so years old. Nevertheless, his tone in the sleevenotes was as nostalgic as it was exuberant. “Whether you want to use [Nuggets] to remember that bittersweet moment when you first decided to let your hair grow/ take up a picket sign/wonder what a deadly toke would feel like,” he wrote, “well, that’s ‘your trip’.” Some of the music on Psych Ops, the high-energy freakout CD that comes with this issue of MOJO, is a decade old, but still feels radically current. Some of it sounds like it could have been made by contemporaries of The Shadows Of Knight and The Pink Floyd, and captures that sense of rock’n'roll’s primal…

Tori Amos STILL EARTHQUAKING What music are you currently grooving to? I’m listening to the Beatles catalogue again. I found George Martin’s With A Little Help From My Friends: The Making Of Sgt. Pepper, which details how the songs were recorded. I’m on that part where they did two very different takes of Strawberry Fields, and how they were resolving it. What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album? I don’t know if there’s such a thing, but one I adore is Blue by Joni Mitchell. What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it? To tell you the truth I can’t remember. My mother, a minister’s wife, had an amazing record collection. When my father would go to church, she would take off her pinny and play Billie…

Tori Amos STILL EARTHQUAKING What music are you currently grooving to? I’m listening to the Beatles catalogue again. I found George Martin’s With A Little Help From My Friends: The Making Of Sgt. Pepper, which details how the songs were recorded. I’m on that part where they did two very different takes of Strawberry Fields, and how they were resolving it. What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album? I don’t know if there’s such a thing, but one I adore is Blue by Joni Mitchell. What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it? To tell you the truth I can’t remember. My mother, a minister’s wife, had an amazing record collection. When my father would go to church, she would…