Mojo - The Music Magazine

In 1975, Andy Warhol made a cassette recording of John Phillips' Man On The Moon musical. The Pop Art guru taped the off-Broadway show from the front row of the audience. It remains the only known recording of the fully orchestrated performance.

Now, the tapes are set to re-emerge after Grammy award- winning restoration engineers Steve Rosenthal and Warren Russell-Smith completed their work earlier this year. The new 38-track package, Andy Warhol Presents Man On The Moon: The John Phillips Space Musical, will include all the restored recordings as well as a batch of the musical's songs performed on acoustic guitar by The Mama's And The Papa's founder.

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The Clash's Mick Jones has unveiled his Rock 'n' Roll Public Library in London.

The archive, held under the Westway flyover, contains nearly 10,000 artefacts collected by Jones throughout his life. From Beatles memorabilia, to Pop Art rarities, early issues of '60s and '70s music magazines to Clash collectibles, it is a veritable treasure trove of rock goodies.

Entrance to the library is free.

For more information, click HERE.

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George Russell, the jazz composer and theorist, has died in Boston at the age of 86. It is understood he was suffering from Alzheimer's.

Born in Cincinnati in 1923, Russell began his musical career by playing drums in Benny Carter's band before composing the likes of Cubano Be/Cubano Bop for Dizzy Gillespie. The piece premiered at Carnegie Hall in 1947 and is credited as being the first meld of Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz. In 1953, he published The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization, which quickly influenced such jazz giants as Bill Evans and Miles Davis. It remains a key theory text to this day.

Russell is survived by his wife, son and three grandchildren.

MOJO's Andrew Male salutes Russell's New York, N.Y. HERE.

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Arctic Monkeys are to showcase material from new album Humbug via an exclusive gig, to be streamed via their official website tomorrow night (Thursday, July 29).

The show broadcast is set to be begin at 9pm GMT.

Check out all MOJO's online Arctic Monkeys fun HERE!

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Manic Street Preachers have announced their first US tour dates in a decade.

The tour will coincide with the Stateside release of the band's ninth studio album, Journal for Plague Lovers, on September 15.

The American dates currently look like this:

Seattle, WA Neumo's (September 21)
Vancouver, Canada The Commodore Ballroom (22)
San Francisco, CA The Fillmore (24)
Los Angeles, CA The Avalon (25)
Denver, CO The Bluebird Theatre (28)
Minneapolis, MN The Varsity Theatre (30)
Chicago, IL The Metro (October 1)
Detroit, MI The Majestic Theatre (2)
Toronto, Canada The Phoenix Concert Theatre (3)
Philadelphia, PA World Café Live (6)
New York City, NY Webster Hall (7)
Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club (8)

For ticket details, head over HERE.

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And finally...44 years ago today The Beatles' film Help! premiered at the London Pavilion. Here's a look back at the Fabs going mad in 1965: