From The Bluesbreakers to Cream, Derek And The Dominoes and his storied solo career, MOJO picks the best albums from the ...

In 1994 Suede were British pop saviours, poised for greatness. But sex, paranoia and an epic Orwellian concept album about drugs, porn and madness soon put paid to that. On the 30thanniversary of its ...

NEIL FINN WAS ONLY 19 when he joined older brother Tim’s band, acclaimed New Zealand new wavers Split Enz. Taking on the role of co-frontman alongside his brother, Neil would write many of the band’s ...

The heart of all this might be the night of April 27, 1966, when Van Morrison, then 22-year-old frontman of riotous Belfast R&B outfit Them, met a 19-year-old Bay Area model called Janet Rigsbee. The ...

In what would sadly prove to be one of Prince’s last ever interviews, MOJO was lured to a Caribbean island, and a secret Bond villain lair, by the promise of a resurgent Prince: musical magician, boss ...

In the late summer of 1975, Lou Reed was still coming to terms with the fall-out from his fifth studio LP, the four-sided assault of modulated feedback known as Metal Machine Music. Close to broke, ...

It was, in Reed’s own words, “a real hack job,” the 9-to-5 dark night before his revolutionary dawn with The Velvet Underground. Mentored at Syracuse by the poet Delmore Schwartz and charged by the ...

In luscious super-saturated colour, in an artful shot by top Vogue snapper Peter Rand, The Kinks look about as glamorous as they ever would. A shame, perhaps, that it’s taken nearly 60 years for the ...

Led Zeppelin’s Golden God returns, with a new album of mystical roots manoeuvres. He regales us with classic tales and forthright views as we riffle through his record collection and he compiles us a ...

“I first saw Oasis that night at King Tuts Wah Wah Hut [in Glasgow, supporting 18 Weeler on May 31, 1993], I knew literally nothing about them. I hadn’ t heard anything. I was trying to grab a girl ...

SPEAK TO A MEMBER of any band formed in the 1960s and you’ll find a decidedly competitive streak emerging in terms of their relationships with other musicians. The reasons for this are hard to fathom, ...

General Manager at MGM Records at age 22, dubbed “the King of Bubblegum” a Buddah for successes with frothy pop acts such as ...