Photo: Ran Atzmon Radiohead were invited by Michael Stipe to support R.E.M. on the European leg of their Monster tour in July and August 1995. In this piece taken from MOJO’s new Radiohead special, a frequently overwhelmed Thom Yorke documented the experience in a special tour diary – cue tales of unreality, beautiful women, alienation, sunstroke and Michael Stipe’s organic pick-me-up… Milton Keynes First gig with R.E.M. – Mr Stipe comes in before the show to say hello. “Hi, I’m Michael. I’m really glad you could do this. I’m a very big fan.” Wonder how many times I will run this through my b ..read more

Released on this day in 1989, The Stone Roses’ self-titled debut album injected the free-spirited attitude of the previous year’s acid house movement into a set of chiming, 60’s influenced songs of freedom and optimism. Striking a chord with indie kids and terrace scallies alike, the album paved the way for Britpop acts to come the following decade, most notably Oasis, whose frontman Liam Gallaghercites seeing the group perform as the moment he realised he wanted to be in a band. Here, the album’s producer John Leckie speaks to MOJO about getting the call to record a group from Manchester who ..read more

He cut his teeth in honky tonks, usurped Elvis and inspired The Beatles. Following the sad passing of Duane Eddy aged 86, MOJO revisits our 2010 interview with The King Of Twang. “By golly, I did something good!” he tells Phil Alexander. IN AN UP-MARKET INDIAN RESTAURANT in London’s West End, few notice the bearded American gentleman with the cowboy hat who sits quietly with his wife enjoying a deliciously spicy vindaloo. The 72-year-old does little to draw attention to himself, washing down his curry with a cooling bottle of Cobra lager before repairing outside for a post-meal cigarette. The ..read more

Kamasi Washington Fearless Movement ★★★★ YOUNG KAMASI WASHINGTON’s album covers feel like feints, singular portraits of his imposing figure that give the onlooker the sense that his music is egocentric and self-interested. But since his toddling days in a casual family band that featured Ronald and Stephen ‘Thundercat’ Bruner, the second-generation Los Angeles saxophonist has depended upon the collaboration of community, of musicians chasing strains of transcendence together in a room. From his days as a “Young Jazz Giant” and his inaugural tour with Snoop Dogg to his sprawling two prior albu ..read more

Iggy Pop and Siouxsie Sioux have collaborated on a new version of Pop’s 1977 track The Passenger. The track appears in a new advert for Magnum ice cream. READ MORE: Siouxsie and The Banshees' Best Albums Ranked “Siouxsie can sing like a bird. I’ve always thought she was a great lady.” Pop says of the collaboration. “Her version of the song was already special, but what happened here, singing together, is really unique. Like Volare, the orchestral treatment and marriage of voices flies free, in a spirit of joy.”  “I love this song and I’ve always loved Iggy’s voice.” added Sioux ..read more

With Pink Floyd floating aimlessly in a post-Syd Barrett, cosmic hippie haze, in 1971 Roger Waters proposed a brand-new “philosophical and political” vision for the group. Within weeks, the peerless The Dark Side Of The Moon would start to take shape. MOJO's Stevie Chick charts the ascent of Floyd's masterpiece... The first sound any of us hears is our mother’s heartbeat, within the womb: a signal of the beginning of new life, the pulse that keeps blood pumping. A similar sound greeted attendees of Pink Floyd’s legendary four-night stand at London’s Rainbow Theatre in February 1972 ..read more

“I’VE BEEN CALLED a witch, a slut and a murderer,” wrote Anita Pallenberg in the memoir composed during the sober years before her death at 75 in 2017. Now, that unpublished script – titled, with typical defiance, Black Magic – forms the basis of a two-hour documentary, Catching Fire: The Story Of Anita Pallenberg. It hits British cinemas this month. Inevitably, as First Lady of The Rolling Stones, the documentary weaves the personal with the musical. There’s her testy 18-month relationship with her doppelganger Stone, Brian Jones. Then the union with Keith Richards from 1967 to 1980. Raw tes ..read more

Neil Young With Crazy Horse Fu##in’ Up ★★★★ REPRISE Those overwhelmed by Neil Young’s Archives onslaught lately may be considering sitting this one out: Fu##in’ Up presents latter-day Crazy Horse, with guitar foil Nils Lofgren, plus Promise Of The Real’s Micah Nelson (piano/guitar), performing 1990’s beloved Ragged Glory in sequence, bar closer Mother Earth (Natural Anthem), last November at Toronto’s 200-capacity Rivoli club. READ MORE: Neil Young And Crazy Horse Dume Review: Radical expansion of 1975’s Zuma, on vinyl at last. In a move that some may deem wilfull ..read more

Pet Shop Boys Nonetheless ★★★★ PARLOPHONE In 2020, Pet Shop Boys concluded their own Berlin trilogy with the downbeat Hotspot, companion to 2013’s Electricand 2016’s Super. While it’s improbable Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe will ever disown the club (proof: the submerged throb of Loneliness), the duo have stretched out with Nonetheless, luxuriating in imported storytelling (Dancing Star; Bullet For Narcissus) and high-thread-count drama (The Secret Of Happiness; Love Is The Law). READ MORE: Pet Shop Boys Interviewed: “We prefer not to be fake” While the disco end of the ..read more

Presenting MOJO’s finest writing on Radiohead in a single deluxe volume, MOJO The Collectors’ Series: Radiohead Fade Out 1985-2024 in on sale now. Order your copy HERE! It was 30 years ago that an unfashionable guitar group from Oxford suddenly found themselves international stars on the strength of an extraordinary song called Creep, which on its initial release in 1992 had been largely ignored in their native Britain. Touring relentlessly to promote the single, Radiohead feared they would become one-hit wonders; instead, Creep would kickstart a stellar career that would see them transform i ..read more