MOJO August 2021

Dr Jennifer Otter Bickerdike The author of Why Vinyl Matters, Jennifer’s Rock N Roll Confidential podcast starts in August, with guests including Johnny Marr, Blake Schwarzenbach and Will Sergeant. From California, she now lives in London with husband James and dog Alfie. Her new book about Nico is extracted from p52. Andy Fyfe The first time Kiwi native Fyfe interviewed Crowded House was for NME in 1994, just three weeks after Paul Hester had left the group. After moving to the UK in 1988, Andy worked on the staff at NME, Select and then Q, and has contributed to MOJO since 2005. In this issue, he reconnects with Neil Finn & Co from p32. Jim Herrington Jim has photographed the greats, near-misses and never-weres of the music/celebrity world for decades,…

Dr Jennifer Otter Bickerdike The author of Why Vinyl Matters, Jennifer’s Rock N Roll Confidential podcast starts in August, with guests including Johnny Marr, Blake Schwarzenbach and Will Sergeant. From California, she now lives in London with husband James and dog Alfie. Her new book about Nico is extracted from p52. Andy Fyfe The first time Kiwi native Fyfe interviewed Crowded House was for NME in 1994, just three weeks after Paul Hester had left the group. After moving to the UK in 1988, Andy worked on the staff at NME, Select and then Q, and has contributed to MOJO since 2005. In this issue, he reconnects with Neil Finn & Co from p32. Jim Herrington Jim has photographed the greats, near-misses and never-weres of the music/celebrity world for decades, the evidence soon to be…

MUSCLE SHOALS, ALABAMA, FIRST APPEARED ON THE musical map 99 years ago, with local eminence W.C. Handy recording his Muscle Shoals Blues in tribute. But its critical role really began in the late ‘50s, when Rick Hall and his associates launched their Fame Studios in the area. By 1961, they had their first hit record – Arthur Alexander’s You Better Move On – and, soon, the area had become a crucible of soul and southern rock, and of elite recording practices at both Fame and the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio just down the road. It was at the latter that The Rolling Stones recorded You Gotta Move, Brown Sugar and Wild Horses, and this month’s feature on Sticky Fingers provided the initial impetus for us to compile this MOJO CD of…

Joan Armatrading SHE, HERSELF AND HER What music are you currently grooving to? I’m busy rehearsing so I’m listening to my own stuff. If I’m sitting about relaxing with friends I’ll play something classical – Beethoven, Purcell, Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, you name ‘em, I’m gonna like ‘em. What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album? At the moment I’m really enjoying Kanye West’s Jesus Is King, in his religious phase. It’s a great album, but I wouldn’t say any album was my favourite of all time. What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it? I can’t remember the order, but I got a Free LP and the first Led Zeppelin album, I’d have been about 19. I loved Led Zeppelin, still do – great songs, fantastic playing, energy!…

MUSCLE SHOALS, ALABAMA, FIRST APPEARED ON THE musical map 99 years ago, with local eminence W.C. Handy recording his Muscle Shoals Blues in tribute. But its critical role really began in the late ‘50s, when Rick Hall and his associates launched their Fame Studios in the area. By 1961, they had their first hit record – Arthur Alexander’s You Better Move On – and, soon, the area had become a crucible of soul and southern rock, and of elite recording practices at both Fame and the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio just down the road. It was at the latter that The Rolling Stones recorded You Gotta Move, Brown Sugar and Wild Horses, and this month’s feature on Sticky Fingers provided the initial impetus for us to compile this MOJO CD…

Joan Armatrading SHE, HERSELF AND HER What music are you currently grooving to? I’m busy rehearsing so I’m listening to my own stuff. If I’m sitting about relaxing with friends I’ll play something classical – Beethoven, Purcell, Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, you name ‘em, I’m gonna like ‘em. What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album? At the moment I’m really enjoying Kanye West’s Jesus Is King, in his religious phase. It’s a great album, but I wouldn’t say any album was my favourite of all time. What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it? I can’t remember the order, but I got a Free LP and the first Led Zeppelin album, I’d have been about 19. I loved Led Zeppelin, still…