As the kings of ’90s rock return, MOJO gets set for the summer’s shows by celebrating the 50 Greatest Songs of Oasis: from Cigarettes & Alcohol to Half The World Away, Wonderwall to The Shock Of The Lightning, hymned by the magazine’s best writers. Also in this issue: Grateful Dead at 60 – their psychedelic pinnacle by David Fricke; The Stranglers’ Jean-Jacques Burnel on ruck’n’roll; Tim Buckley’s astral journey; Rory Gallagher remembered. Plus: Clem Burke; MJ Lenderman; Gregory Isaacs; The Roches; Justin Hayward; Stereolab; Peggy Seeger; Pete Shelley; Bennie Maupin; The Lemonheads; Doc Pomus; The Searchers; Shudder To Think; and all back to John Lydon’s!
THIS MONTH’S COVERMOUNT CD is Dead Roots: The Grateful Dead Songbook. A selection of the blues, bluegrass, soul, country and rock’n’roll that inspired San Francisco’s psychedelic adventurers. Starring Jimmy Reed, Johnny Cash, Bobby Bland, Judy Collins, Elizabeth Cotton, Tampa Red and more!
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CONTENTS MOJO 380
OASIS Irresistible, thrilling, deceptive: the 50 Greatest Songs of the British band who waved a flag for rock’n’roll and return this summer to reclaim their crown. Presuming the wheels don’t come off… again.
GRATEFUL DEAD Sixty years since their inception, David Fricke revisits the label-dismaying madness of their peak-psych phase. Plus: the gospel according to Bobby Weir.
JEAN-JACQUES BURNEL The Last Of The OG Stranglers on a lifetime of defying the odds and those who’d pigeonhole him. “I can still kick arse,” he insists. “I’m not decrepit yet.”
TIM BUCKLEY Fifty years since his tragic early death, bandmates celebrate the ethereal singer-songwriter’s astral journey. Plus: “The Man Who Killed Tim Buckley”!
THE ROCHES The spellbinding music of three sisters who refused to play the game. “They were real, they were true, they were a force of nature,” says Robert Fripp.
RORY GALLAGHER The “tortured soul” who reached beyond the blues and inspired a nation passed 30 years ago, after leaving an indelible mark on all who saw, or played with him.
MJ LENDERMAN Blending Americana, indie rock and soulful songs, Jake Lenderman is on a roll. But when everyone wants a piece of you, how do you keep something for yourself?
REVIEWED Stereolab / Neil Young / Pulp / Little Simz / Pete Shelley / Ty Segall / The Cure / Sparks / caroline / Van Morrison / Nils Frahm / Sharon Jones / Marc Ribot / Robert Forster / King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard / Peggy Seeger / Matt Berninger / Earth / Tune-Yards / Nathan Salsburg / W.I.T.C.H. / Martin Carthy / The Doobie Brothers / Orbital
PLUS The Lemonheads! The album! The memoir! / How To Buy… Gregory Isaacs / Slade In Flame reignites / Justin Hayward spills the beans / Shudder To Think think again / Foxwarren and Abel Selaocoe are Rising / The Searchers find what they’re looking for / The Doc Pomus Demos / Farewell, Clem Burke, Michael Hurley, Amadou, David Thomas, Max Romeo… / Girl Group Apocalypse! / Peggy Seeger on Ewan MacColl / All back to John Lydon’s!