Mojo Magazine Issue 372 (November 2024) David Gilmour

Mojo Magazine Issue 372 (November 2024) David Gilmour

An in-depth audience with David Gilmour, the stentorian voice and stellar guitar of Pink Floyd. His new album, his greatest moments, a tantalising future, the spat with Roger, the lot! Also in the issue: Joni Mitchell’s jazz-rock revolution; the birth of the Ramones; Randy Newman and the ‘n’ word; Laura Marling in the MOJO Interview; The B-52’s’ riot of colour; Stephen Malkmus brings you… The Hard Quartet. Plus: Tucker Zimmerman; Sade; Lone Justice; MC5; Lou Reed; The Pogues; Tav Falco and more.

THIS MONTH’S COVERMOUNT CD is Point Me At The Sky. 15 tracks of Floyd-adjacent psych from the golden age, featuring Soft Machine, The Pretty Things, The Action, Blossom Toes, Apple and more.

COVER STORY: DAVID GILMOUR The guitar and voice of Pink Floyd roars back, with an album mixing classic moves with startling innovations. On his mind: Rick Wright, false nostalgia, Covid survival, and that Roger tweet. “I have no regrets about it whatsoever.”

RAMONES It’s a half century since the birth of the fake family with the real-life family issues. Kris Needs returns to the Big Bang of their rock revolution.

LAURA MARLING Teenage star turned wild California seeker, turned grounded philosopher, a Great British Songwriter comes into her own. Just don’t mention the ‘f(olk)’ word…

RANDY NEWMAN In 1974, America’s funniest/most serious songwriter unleashed Good Old Boys and the incendiary Rednecks. The inside story, from an important new biography.

THE HARD QUARTET Take Pavement’s Steve Malkmus. Add Dirty Three/Will Oldham/Cat Power/Ty Segall side-wizards. Bake. And voilà: careening indie rock like mom used to make.

KATE PIERSON The story of The B-52s – the freakiest thing out of an Athens funeral parlour ever – told by their beehived belle, as her second solo album emerges.

TUCKER ZIMMERMAN Admired by Bowie, courted by Crosby and Stills, exiled in Europe, rediscovered by Big Thief: one of the Great Lost Singer-Songwriters has his day at last.

SADE The hardscrabble story behind the sophisto styles of one of the Great Albums Of The ’80s. “The day she went to do Top Of The Pops, the toilet had frozen over.”

REVIEWED MC5 / Lou Reed / Jack White / ABBA / Gillian Welch & David Rawlings / Bob Dylan & The Band / The Smile / Geordie Greep / Public Service Broadcasting / Bill Callahan / Jake Shimabukuro & Mick Fleetwood / Jamie XX / Manu Chao / The Lijadu Sisters / Thurston Moore / Genesis / Paul Heaton / Van Morrison / Laurie Anderson / Alan Sparhawk / Millie Jackson / Jon Spencer / The Yardbirds / Chuck Prophet / Goat / Nubya Garcia / Gemma Hayes / Dawes / Dale Crover / Field Music / The Waeve / Galaxie 500 / Marcos Valle / Efterklang / Seun Kuti / Naima Bock / Kevin Ayers / Suede / Grateful Dead

PLUS Joni Mitchell: more archive treasures unearthed / English Teacher – Mercury Rising! / Lone Justice – justice at last? / Pogues plans emerge / Tav Falco vs The Phantom Of The Studio / Julian Casablancas talks to crows / Rhoda Dakar – Queen Of Ska-Soul / Tindersticks unstuck / Syd Griffin and The Long Ryders / Muireann Bradley / Farewell, Martin Phillipps, Mick Underwood, Alain Delon... / All back to Jason Pierce’s – if he’s up!

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