A choice of anniversary covers this month. One celebrates the Golden Jubilee of UK punk’s Year Zero. The other salutes Miles Davis – music’s ultimate re-inventor – who would have been 100 this spring. Inside the magazine, premier punk historian Jon Savage revisits 1976 while new interviews with Sex Pistols Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock take us back into the trenches. Meanwhile, Miles Davis’s extraordinary life and work prompts an in-depth exploration – from bebop to space-funk and beyond. Also in the issue: Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir eulogised; Flea flies solo; The Specials’ Terry Hall remembered; Courtney Barnett returns. Plus: unheard Beach Boys; unseen Kinks; The Black Crowes; Happy Mondays; Shabaka Hutchings; The Hold Steady; Funkadelic; Faust; NRBQ; Osees; David Bowie’s gaff; all back to Michael Imperioli’s; and more!
THIS MONTH’S COVERMOUNT CD is 100 Miles: The Classic Sounds Of Miles Davis & Friends. Fifteen giant steps in jazz featuring this month’s co-cover star as band leader or key sideman, with Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, ‘Rubberlegs’ Williams and more!
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CONTENTS MOJO 389
COVER STORY A: MILES DAVIS Not just the King Of Jazz, but an avatar of aheadness in all cultural milieux, Davis would have been 100 this spring. The perfect moment to celebrate the beauty, daring and madness of his finest work.
COVER STORY AA: PUNK 1976 Jon Savage revisits 10 Year Zero flashpoints with the help of 10 evocative photos and vivid eyewitness testimony. Meanwhile, 50 years on, Jones, Cook and Matlock tell it like it was: “I said, ‘You were bottling us!’ They said, ‘Well, we read that you like that.’”
BOB WEIR The Grateful Dead’s driving spirit joins Jerry, Pigpen, Phil and Co in the psychedelic jugband in the sky. Bandmates tell his story and salute his legacy.
FLEA The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ four-string dynamo on jazz, drugs, Thom Yorke, Nick Cave, his new solo album and more: “I knew music was something serious.”
TERRY HALL Through The Colour Field and beyond: how the unique personality and quirky song-sense of the Specials singer survived trouble and trauma in the ’80s and ’90s.
COURTNEY BARNETT She’s back, with a bag of topnotch songs and a rattlesnake anecdote, but the journey’s not been easy: “I didn’t know what I was doing or where I was going.”
THE HOLD STEADY Twenty years since Boys And Girls In America, the band who were “Springsteen fronting The Damned” remember their Thin Lizzy/Jim Beam-fuelled coup.
REVIEWED The Beach Boys / The Black Crowes / Shabaka / Wings / Kim Gordon / Squeeze / Morrissey / Buck Meek / Gorillaz / Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy / Sault / Van Morrison / Mitski / Altin Gün / Iron & Wine / Mumford & Sons / Tinariwen / Gong / Carolina Chocolate Drops / Isabel Pine / The Delines / Clifton Chenier / The Sophs / Pat Metheny / Heavenly / The Wave Pictures / Bill Frisell / Slim Dunlap / Top Jimmy & The Rhythm Pigs / 600% Dynamite
PLUS Unseen Kinks! / Bowie’s childhood home / Happy Mondays rave on / Funkadelic’s questionable HR policies / Faust – times four! / Rough Trade at 50 / NRBQ’s American music mission / Michelle David & The True Tones shake our souls / Shane Parish plays Autechre… on guitar / Adieu, Sly Dunbar, Kenny Morris, Brigitte Bardot, Tucker Zimmerman… / Navigating the Osees / And more!