Happy Friday everyone.
What have The Rolling Stones, Can, This Mortal Coil, Todd Rundgren, MOJO’s review of 2011, Roy Harper, PJ Harvey, Nile Rodgers, DJ Shadow, The Black Keys, Roy Wood and Johnny Marr all got in common? Well, they are all featured in the new issue of MOJO. Which looks like… this!
Some Heads watching Kilburn & The High Roads in 1973
The Who - Quadrophenia: The Director’s Cut (2011)
Pete Townshend’s mod opera epic will be reissued on November 14 in deluxe format. Quadrophenia: The Director’s Cut features a DVD with 5.1 surround-sound mix, a 100-page hardback book with reproductions of rare memorabilia, a 7-inch vinyl of 5:15, a new 13,000-word essay by Townshend and, most importantly, two CDs of unreleased demos!
And if you can’t wait until November to hear those unreleased demos, you can find two of them (Cut My Hair and Joker James) on MOJO’s covermount CD, The Route To Quadrophenia - available exclusively with the new issue of MOJO magazine.
The Kinks - Live at La Mutualité, Paris, 1965
Want to go to this Kinks gig in Paris in 1965? This amazing clip puts you right there.
(via DustingShelves)
Some Heads watching the MC5 in 1970
MC5 - Looking At You (Tartar Field, Wayne State University, Detroit, July 19, 1970)
Here’s some razoring, proto-punk abandon from the Detroit legends. “That became the powerful idea…we are the MC5!” Look at Wayne Kramer go!
Happy 76th birthday Jerry Lee Lewis!
“I’m a rock’n’roll singer. A rock’n’roll-country singer. A rock’n’roll-country & western-rhythm & blues-singer…a stylist.”
“At times he made my big toe shoot up in my boot”. Little Richard extols the virtues of his former guitarist, Jimi Hendrix, back in 1973.
Currently investigating the roots of punk here at MOJO. Found this incredible clip from 1972.
