Issue Issue 291 - MOJO (2024)

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In This Issue2000 LIGHT YEARS FROM HOME UK ROCK TRIPS OUT 1967-1970HE IMPACT OF PSYCHEDELICS ON BRITISH POP AND rock wasn’t restricted to the inner circle of actual LSD initiates. Psych was a watershed that produced all kinds of responses, from the charmingly childlike to the genuinely bananas. Bands went psych, it was de rigueur, and whether they continued down the path to third-eye dilation, returned to their roots, or used psych as a bridge to somewhere else, the idea of pop music seeking types of transcendence was established and set the tone for much that was to come. 1967 to 1970: this collection’s timespan is deliberately broad. Like the Stones on Their Satanic Majesties Request, some of groups from ’67 and ’68 were catching up with the trailblazers – The Beatles mainly. After that, they were on their own –…6 min

REGULARSALL BACK TO MY PLACEShania Twain COUNTRY POP QUEEN What music are you currently grooving to? A variety of things – Twenty Øne Piløts, Meghan Trainor, Nick Jonas, Chris Stapleton. I’m a sucker for a great Top 40 song. And I love Glen Campbell and Emmylou Harris too. What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album? Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. I’m a big fan of groups, for the diversity it brings. And all the songs are incredible. When I was a kid listening to it, I was just in love with the music, it wasn’t until later that I realised all of the drama that had been going on. What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it? Gee, I think it was Knowing Me, Knowing You…5 min

REGULARSALL BACK TO MY PLACEShania TwainCOUNTRY POP QUEENWhat music are you currently grooving to?A variety of things – Twenty Øne Piløts, Meghan Trainor, Nick Jonas, Chris Stapleton. I’m a sucker for a great Top 40 song. And I love Glen Campbell and Emmylou Harris too.What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album? Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. I’m a big fan of groups, for the diversity it brings. And all the songs are incredible. When I was a kid listening to it, I was just in love with the music, it wasn’t until later that I realised all of the drama that had been going on.What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it? Gee, I think it was Knowing Me, Knowing You by Abba, from a little…5 min

REGULARSTHEORIES, RANTS, ETC.AT THE DAWN OF THE 1980s, MY FAMILY – EVER ON THE AUDIO CUTting edge – acquired a second-hand Stereo Radiogram: a vast timber coffin with a three-speed record deck, tuner, speakers and space for keeping your vinyl. Inside, once we’d heaved open the lid, we found a stack of vinyl 45s, including an original Purple Haze, a Paperback Writer, Happy Jack, Autumn Almanac, Mellow Yellow – as good an introduction to the thrills of 1966/1967 as an ignorant 12-year-old could wish for, and perhaps the first step on the path that led me here today. More beguiling still were a couple of flimsy, floppy flexi-discs – sleeveless, I later rued: The Beatles’ Christmas messages to their fan club, 1963 and 1964. Once I’d worked out how to play the…7 min

REGULARSTHEORIES, RANTS, ETC.AT THE DAWN OF THE 1980s, MY FAMILY – EVER ON THE AUDIO CUTting edge – acquired a second-hand Stereo Radiogram: a vast timber coffin with a three-speed record deck, tuner, speakers and space for keeping your vinyl. Inside, once we’d heaved open the lid, we found a stack of vinyl 45s, including an original Purple Haze, a Paperback Writer, Happy Jack, Autumn Almanac, Mellow Yellow – as good an introduction to the thrills of 1966/1967 as an ignorant 12-year-old could wish for, and perhaps the first step on the path that led me here today.More beguiling still were a couple of flimsy, floppy flexi-discs – sleeveless, I later rued: The Beatles’ Christmas messages to their fan club, 1963 and 1964. Once I’d worked out how to play the things,…7 min

Issue Issue 291 - MOJO (2024)

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