Mojo Magazine Issue 363 (February 2024) Stevie Wonder

Mojo Magazine Issue 363 (February 2024) Stevie Wonder

Note: GREAT NEWS FOR ALL READERS! MOJO’s covermount CD is now available on newsstands IN ALL TERRITORIES, WORLDWIDE, UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!

SIXTY YEARS since his career-defining Number 1, MOJO presents the amazing life and astonishing music of Stevie Wonder: the landmark albums and head-turning deep cuts of a true one-off. Also in this issue: 2024 – the essential music preview; AC/DC – the Bon years revisited; Brittany Howard – the new soul genius; Jim Gordon – the tragic story of one of rock’s greatest musicians. Plus: Billy Bragg; Bill Ryder-Jones; Captain Beefheart; Buena Vista Social Club; Sleater-Kinney; Mott The Hoople; MC5, Kamasi Washington; unheard Faces, and more!

THIS MONTH’S COVERMOUNT CD is Boogie Children, Volume 7 of our popular Heavy Nuggets series. Hypnotic rifferama in the key of Young/Young, starring Canned Heat, ZZ Top, Little Feat, John Lee Hooker, R.L. Burnside, Howlin Rain, Endless Boogie and more!

COVER STORY: STEVIE WONDER Sixty years since Fingertips topped the charts, we celebrate the songs and stories of the Motown Wunderkind turned sensational soul visionary and auteur. Plus! The amazing deep cuts even MOJO readers might not know.

2024 PREVIEW All the music and music stories to look forward to in the coming 12 months, including Faces, Nick Cave, MC5, Kamasi Washington, Waterboys, ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, Waterboys, Springsteen, Questlove and more.

BRITTANY HOWARD Grammy-grabbing in Alabama Shakes, dream-chasing in her current solo guise, the barnstorming singer and proud one-off takes stock in The MOJO Interview.

AC/DC Sixty years Young, the Aussie riff machine forges on. Sylvie Simmons discovers how their hardscrabble origins, and an irrepressible front man, shaped the band.

BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Ry Cooder, Juan De Marcos González and team remember a mid-’90s act of musical archaeology that became a phenomenon, and a revival that endures in 2023.

JIM GORDON The shocking story of the master drummer of the rock era, his terrifying mental disintegration and its tragic consequences, from a new book by Joel Selvin.

BILLY BRAGG Forty years of recording and rabble-rousing have brought wisdom, including the suspicion that a copy of Aladdin Sane might contain “the real Billy Bragg”.

BILL RYDER-JONES How the Coral’s guitar prodigy broke down, and rebuilt himself as a stunning singer-songwriter and sought-after producer. Everything resolved? Not quite.

REVIEWED Sleater-Kinney / Mott The Hoople / Aretha Franklin / Pink Floyd / Future Islands / Joe Jackson / Ty Segall / Marika Hackman / Willie Nelson / Gruff Rhys / Danny Brown / Conchúr White / Ambrose Akinmusire / Yes / Dorothy Carter / Donovan / Plastikman / The Seeds

PLUS The art of Captain Beefheart / The chops of Albert Lee / Kali Malone and His Lordship are Rising / How To Buy… The Necks / The tao of Mal Evans / The apotheosis of Van Morrison’s Them / Derek Forbes and Simple Minds

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