This month MOJO celebrates the 50th anniversary of David Bowie’s most startling reinvention, as we delve into the recording of Station To Station and the evolution of the Thin White Duke, with all-new insights from Earl Slick, Carlos Alomar and more. Inside the magazine: the Essential 2026 Preview flags the albums, tours, films and books to look forward to; Chrissie Hynde tells it like it is; the triumph and tragedy of Beach Boy Dennis Wilson; Squeeze submit to The MOJO Interview. Plus: Curved Air; Dry Cleaning; The Isley Brothers; The Triffids; Arctic Monkeys; Beverly Glenn-Copeland; 1966 on 45; Heartbreak Hotel at 70; rare cassettes; and more!
THIS MONTH’S COVERMOUNT CD is Up The Junction, including Squeeze and other purveyors of unmistakeably British, street-smart pop and rock. Madness, The Soft Boys, Billy Bragg, Nick Lowe, Vic Godard, Wreckless Eric and more weigh in.
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CONTENTS MOJO 387
DAVID BOWIE Fifty years since the release of Station To Station, we investigate Bowie’s LA alienation and the torrid investiture of the Thin White Duke. Earl Slick, Carlos Alomar, George Murray and Roy Bittan add their insights.
CHRISSIE HYNDE A duets album, plans for the Pretenders and other projects: there’s no stopping our forthright heroine. Her motto? “You’ve got to keep feeling alive all the time.”
DENNIS WILSON The tragic decline of the Beach Boys’ happy-go-lucky hunk, and the miraculous genius of Pacific Ocean Blue. Plus: the latest on Brian’s other lost album.
SQUEEZE From the wild south-east of London to the world, sped by songs of grot, grace and greatness, Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook return to star, and spar, again.
1966 ON 45 Jon Savage surveys the singles that signalled a revolutionary year. The Dovers! Rex Garvin! Paperback Writer! 96 Tears! James Brown invents drum’n’bass! And more!
HEARTBREAK HOTEL How a song of gloom went boom, and – in the mouth of Elvis Presley and in the teeth of his label’s misgivings – sparked a rock’n’roll revolution, 70 years ago.
THE TRIFFIDS Bandmates recall the charisma and torment of mainman David McComb, and how the magical Perth group manifested the “desolation and longing” of Born Sandy Devotional.
BEVERLY GLENN COPELAND The utopian visions of a keyboard pioneer, and the story of an extraordinary transformation: “When you let yourself just go, something wonderful happens.”
REVIEWED Nick Cave / The Cure / Dry Cleaning / Patti Smith / Bobby Charles / The Cramps / David Gilmour / Courtney Marie Andrews / Madonna / Sleaford Mods / Bill Fay / Bebel Gilberto / Imarhan / Death Cult / Dove Ellis / Depeche Mode / Fat White Family
PLUS 2026: The Essential Preview: Rush, Macca, The Stones, Dylan and more! / Curved Air prog on / Tyler Ballgame and The Gnomes are rising / How To Buy… The Isley Brothers / Arctic Monkeys’ binned-off bassist speaks! / The not-quite forgotten genius of Motocaster / rare cassettes drool / Tributes to Mani, Jack DeJohnette, Donna Jean Godchaux / and more!