12 July 2025
A statue in the memory of JOHN LENNON was unveiled in London’s Trafalgar Square.
The sculpture featured a revolver with a knotted barrel created by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reutersward.
Listen up, Putin, Netanyahu and all you disgusting war pigs in the world.
7 July 2025
Ringo Starr was born, named Richard Starkey
in Liverpool, on 7 July 1940. Happy 85!
Image on top: Cover of his new album Look Up.
22 June 2025
Sixty years ago, THE BEATLES hit new highs, metaphorically and literally, and took their music to another level with 1965 LP Help! MOJO focuses on that album in this new issue.
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Also in this issue: Black Sabbath’s Last Stand; life as a Banshee (and Mr Siouxsie Sioux)
by Budgie; Bruce Springsteen’s lost albums unearthed; Herbie Hancock’s highlights reel;
soul survivor Carla Thomas.
Plus: Tropicália; Wet Leg; Rick Wakeman; English Teacher; Dylan ’65; unseen Blur; Charlie Musselwhite; Gina Birch; ABC’s The Lexicon Of Love; Cabaret Voltaire after Richard Kirk, All Back To… all of The Kinks’ an much more.
The free CD is named Feed Your Head: The Second Course. 15 Mind-altering classics
by Otis Redding, The Fall, John Prine, Love, Bert Jansch, The Orb, Charlie Parker and more.
You can purchase a copy and have it sent straight to your home. Info here.
18 June 2025
Macca was born on 18 June 1942 in Liverpool. Happy 83!
Image on top: Promo photo for his 2024 ‘Paul McCartney Got Back Tour’
26 May 2025
THE BEATLES released their 8th longplayer, masterpiece
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on 26 May 1967,
today 58 years ago.
The album had an immediate cross-generational impact and was associated with numerous touchstones of the era’s youth culture, such as fashion, drugs, mysticism,
and a sense of optimism and empowerment.
It topped nearly all album charts around the world.
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All Fab Four Albums
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Goth gods THE CURE released their 7th album
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me today 38 years ago,
on 26 May 1987.
Robert Smith: “It’s like an end to what we’ve been doing for the last 10 years.
This one is taking bits from everything we’ve done, all the bits that I’ve liked. But
there’s a single album’s worth of that and a single album’s worth of stuff we’ve
never really attempted before.”
No. 6 in the UK. No. 4 in Germany and Austria. No. 35 in the US.
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Instagram – All Albums
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THE ROLLING STONES reached the top seat of the UK Singles Chart
with Paint It, Black on 26 May 1966, today 59 years ago.
I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes…
Instagram – Discography
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BLONDIE hit the top spot of the UK Singles Charts on 26 May 1979,
today 46 years ago with pop pearl Sunday Girl. It was part of their
splendid Parallel Lines LP.
The song was written by Chris Stein, inspired by Debbie Harry‘s cat, who was named
Sunday Man. The cat had recently run away, inspiring the song’s “plaintive” nature.
19 May 2025
Yesterday.
Significant longplayers from the past
8 May 2025
Today 55 years ago, on 8 May 1970, THE BEATLES
released their twelfth and final LP LET IT BE.
A criminally underrated Beatles album to my ears, featuring supreme
tracks such as Across The Universe, Let It Be, Get Back, I Got A Feeling and
The Long And Winding Road.
In January 1970, four months after John Lennon departed from
the band, the remaining Beatles completed the LP with the song
‘I Me Mine’.
Despite the longplayer’s commercial triumph – it topped
the charts in America and the UK – the reviews were mixed
when the record came out, later the opinions got suddenly
much better.
NME critic Alan Smith wrote (probably with earbuds in) : “If the new Beatles’
soundtrack is to be their last then it will stand as a cheapskate epitaph, a cardboard tombstone, a sad and tatty end to a musical fusion which wiped clean and drew again
the face of pop. The album showed contempt for the intelligence of today’s record-buyer”
and that the Beatles had “sold out all the principles for which they ever stood”.
Then again Let It Be was ranked number 86 on
Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums
of All Time in 2003.
KEY SINGLE
ALBUM
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Back sleeve
Macca, who actually didn’t actually Phil Spector production, enforced for a more pure rock remix of the album years later. It came out in 2003, titled Let It Be… Naked.
It featured alternate takes, edits, and mixes of the songs, mainly removing elements
added by Spector. The album omits the group chatter, ‘Maggie Mae’ and ‘Dig It’, and adds a live rooftop performance of ‘Don’t Let Me Down’, the B-side of the ‘Get Back’ single. It wasn’t on the original longplayer.
NAKED
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10 April 2025
55 years ago today, on 10 April 1970, the pop world woke up to horrible news.
27-year-old PAUL McCARTNEY revealed in a press statement that he had quit
THE BEATLES.
“I have no future plans to record or appear with
The Beatles again, or to write any music with John.”
But, it actually was John Lennon who broke up the group when
he already had left the Fab Four in late 1969. He had kept his
decision under wraps to aid the band’s business ventures.
His reaction to the Macca exit: “Paul hasn’t left. I sacked him.”
Front & back cover of the ‘McCartney’ LP.
A week later Paul released his solo
debut LP, named McCartney.
No troubles anymore, Paul?
Top singles from the past…
9 April 2025
The invincible masters of big tunes and catchy melodies THE BEATLES
released hit single TICKET TO RIDE 60 years ago today, on 9 April 1965.
The song was written by John Lennon. It topped the UK Charts.
Their 7th consecutive No.1 in their home country. Also at #1 in
the US, Canada and in several European countries.
Let’s take a ride.
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