ELVIS PRESLEY
Pow! Take that hillbillies! Whack! Look out racists! It's 1956 and the most exalted potentate
of rock is changing the face of music, nay America, nay the world! Robert Gordon charts the
progress of an unstoppable force.
100 MODERN CLASSICS What are the greatest albums in MOJO's lifetime? From October 1993 to now,
from Nirvana to the Arcade Fire, it's time to find out. Lambchop fans should look away now...
THE RACONTEURS Breakin' the rules! Jack White, Brendan Benson and The Greenhornes just don't
care now they've formed a powerhouse pop-rock supergroup. Keith Cameron feels the love in the
room.
CHRISSIE HYNDE The formidable Pretenders frontwoman, animal welfare militant and rock'n'roll
survivor talks sex, aongwriting and shyness... but not the Hell's Angels with James McNair.
CHRISTY MOORE The rattlin', roarin' champion of Irish song will not go gently into that good
night, discovers Colin Irwin.
THE MOJO FILTER:
ALBUMS
Jack White loosens up with The Raconteurs; Calexico ease up with album five; The Zutons
follow-up with album number two; Prince makes another one.
REISSUES
He recorded a lift. It's Mancunian producer genius Martin Hannett! Plus: Roy Wood, Big
Youth and more Lambchop albums than you could ever need.
BOOKS
Ronin Ro's "visceral" Run DMC biog, Steven Myatt's "nobbled" Jack Bruce tome and the
brilliant ones at the Brill.
DVDs
25 hot performances by Marvin Gaye, one rotten one by Blind Faith.
LIVES
Zanzibar's Sounds Of Wisdom Festival. Pure "bongo flava"! Oh, and Paul Weller.
HOW TO BUY
Time to reassess Dirty Work, kids... it's yer Rolling Stones!