MOJO September 2021

John Aizlewood John has been writing for MOJO since 2018. Before that, he wrote for Q, Tracks, Melody Maker, Sounds and other publications no longer with us. He writes about sport too and so was delighted to talk Queens Park Rangers with Tony Hicks of The Hollies in his first major MOJO piece. Turn to page 32. Andrew Collins The Northampton-born art student designed pages for NME in 1988, moving diagonally via inkies and glossies, Radios 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6, Classic FM and Radio Times. Billy Bragg’s Boswell, he played drums for Cud at Brixton Academy and suggests how to buy fellow East Midlander Kevin Coyne on page 100. Danny Eccleston MOJO’s Senior Editor learned much of what he knows about music mags from the two gentlemen on…

John Aizlewood John has been writing for MOJO since 2018. Before that, he wrote for Q, Tracks, Melody Maker, Sounds and other publications no longer with us. He writes about sport too and so was delighted to talk Queens Park Rangers with Tony Hicks of The Hollies in his first major MOJO piece. Turn to page 32. Andrew Collins The Northampton-born art student designed pages for NME in 1988, moving diagonally via inkies and glossies, Radios 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6, Classic FM and Radio Times. Billy Bragg’s Boswell, he played drums for Cud at Brixton Academy and suggests how to buy fellow East Midlander Kevin Coyne on page 100. Danny Eccleston MOJO’s Senior Editor learned much of what he knows about music mags from the two gentlemen on the left. So blame them.…

IN THIS MONTH’S MOJO, DANA GILLESPIE TELLS US A GOOD story about David Bowie. He’s hanging out with her in the Gioconda cafe, Denmark Street, back in 1964, an aspiring denizen of Tin Pan Alley waiting to be famous. “The reason you sat there was to get in with the music publishers, to get one of your songs placed,” says Gillespie. “David always considered himself a songwriter first.” After the crunch of The Man Who Sold The World, and before the delirious glam of Ziggy Stardust, this is the persona Bowie fell back on for 1971’s Hunky Dory. He combined Broadway shtick with edgier styles learned from Reed, Dylan and Young. Tunes were often carried along by grand piano, dusted equally with grit and glitter. It was, in a way, a…

IN THIS MONTH’S MOJO, DANA GILLESPIE TELLS US A GOOD story about David Bowie. He’s hanging out with her in the Gioconda cafe, Denmark Street, back in 1964, an aspiring denizen of Tin Pan Alley waiting to be famous. “The reason you sat there was to get in with the music publishers, to get one of your songs placed,” says Gillespie. “David always considered himself a songwriter first.” After the crunch of The Man Who Sold The World, and before the delirious glam of Ziggy Stardust, this is the persona Bowie fell back on for 1971’s Hunky Dory. He combined Broadway shtick with edgier styles learned from Reed, Dylan and Young. Tunes were often carried along by grand piano, dusted equally with grit and glitter. It was, in a way,…

Jakob Dylan WALLFLOWER, BLUE-EYED SON What music are you currently grooving to? Joe Henry’s The Gospel According To Water. Joe’s as good a songwriter as I’m aware of. A really moving record – he had a lot of health issues and it’s a brutal look into a personal journey, and what the beyond looks like, I suppose. What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album? You might think I was on the payroll I speak about The Clash so much, but I don’t think there’s a better rock’n'roll record than London Calling. It’s still it. What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it? I had older brothers who’d started a pretty large record collection, and they had records I liked, 999, Stiff Little Fingers, a lot of the…

Jakob Dylan WALLFLOWER, BLUE-EYED SON What music are you currently grooving to? Joe Henry’s The Gospel According To Water. Joe’s as good a songwriter as I’m aware of. A really moving record – he had a lot of health issues and it’s a brutal look into a personal journey, and what the beyond looks like, I suppose. What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album? You might think I was on the payroll I speak about The Clash so much, but I don’t think there’s a better rock’n'roll record than London Calling. It’s still it. What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it? I had older brothers who’d started a pretty large record collection, and they had records I liked, 999,…