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Launched in 1993, MOJO celebrates the stories of music's all-time greats. It does this through expertly written, insightful features and exclusive, in-depth interviews. MOJO also finds and recommends new music of quality and integrity, so if you want to read about the classics of now and tomorrow, it is definitely the music magazine for you. As founding editor Paul Du Noyer put it, MOJO has ""the sensibilities of a fanzine and the design values of Vogue."" It's lovingly put together every month by music fanatics with huge knowledge, who share your passion. And because they have unrivalled contacts in the music industry, they bring you the kind of access, news and expertise you won't find anywhere else.

THIS MONTH'S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE…

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE • THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING…

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Theories, rants, etc. • MOJO welcomes correspondence for publication.

The Black Messiah • Called “the last pure singer on Earth,” neo-soul genius D'Angelo left us on October 14, aged just 51.

VOODOO DOWN • Definitive D'Angelo, in five.

ROLLING! THE REEL-TO-REEL TAPE REVIVAL STARTS HERE

GIMME FIVE… PLACES TO EAT

Jake Burns • The Stiff Little Fingers frontman talks Belfast in '77, old comrades and Inflammable Material.

Robert Forster • Brisbane's best wonders at Creedence Clearwater Revival's Have You Ever Seen The Rain (Fantasy, 1971)

FIELD MUSIC CELEBRATE 20 YEARS! AND EXPLAIN THEIR DOORS TRIBUTE BAND…

THIS MONTH'S MANE ATTRACTION: POST-NOISE MINIMALISTS HORSEGIRL

TRANCE OUT WITH NEW INDIE-FOLK HIGH-FLYER, JACOB ALON

MOJO PLAYLIST • The month's best live communion, low-riding ska and rock gigantism.

WHAT'S THE COLOUR OF TIME? THE STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK KNOW

THE MOJO INTERVIEW • Juvenile delinquent-turned-rock'n'roll original, he navigated hard drugs, Buddy's plane crash and a crazed Phil Spector to enjoy multiple reinventions. The constant? “If I pick up a guitar and play, it's just Dion music,” says Dion.

A LIFE IN PICTURES • Wandering star: Dion down the ages.

BRONX CHEER! • Essential Dion on disc, by Bob Mehr.

CUTS AND BRUISES • THE ROLLING STONES were reeling. A guitarist down, beset by addiction and bereavement, out of time with label, management and the tax man. Somehow they came out of it with an album, Black And Blue, and a guitarist they've leant on for 50 years. How? “Everyone was winging it,” discovers MARK BLAKE.

“RIFFS WERE FLYING EVERYWHERE” • ROBERT A JOHNSON, with the inside track on the Black And Blue sessions, and a close encounter with a “gun-slinging” Jeff Beck…

MOJO PRESENTS • Approaching the last shows of his final tour, the 81-year-old MULATU ASTATKE could be forgiven for planning to put his feet up. But for the esteemed inventor of Ethio-jazz, the habit of innovation dies hard. “My greatest achievement is still coming up,” he tells DAVID HUTCHEON.

EASTERN PROMISE • Four jewels of Astatke's Ethio-jazz, by David Hutcheon.

BITTER SWEET SYMPHONY • The second-unlikeliest Creation band to re-form in 2025, SUGAR gave the perma-troubled BOB MOUND the success his songs had always deserved. But grunge-fatigue, post-Kurt syndrome and natural angst poured sand in their gears, and their dissolution drove a wedge between them. “None of that is on anybody else but me,” Mound tels KEITH CAMERON. Photograph by STEVE DOUBLE

“GRANT AND I WERE LIKE, LET'S MAKE A POP RECORD” • 1985: The Miracle Year commemorates HÜSKER DÜ at their peak power and melodic invention. “It was the best year of the band, by far,” its survivors tells Keith Cameron.

THE 75 BEST ALBUMS OF 2025

“Ultimately, It's About How I Dislike Myself” • The Jamie...