CON T EN T S LONDON OCTOBER 2022
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MEMPHIS
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ALBION Issue 347
FEATURES
30 T BONE BURNETT Rolling Thunder veteran, Americana evangelist, consigliere to the stars, and now producer of a single disc worth £1.5m: the Renaissance Hillbilly opens up.
36 NEU! Did the odd couple
of German rock drive each other wahnsinnig? No question. Did they also invent music that new generations still strive to emulate? Stimmt!
42 MARCUS KING
Tragedy, daddy issues, and a brush with the uncanny have helped Southern rock’s New Blood find his voice: “I had this eerie feeling, like the presence of death…”
46 JACKIE LEVEN
Navigating the late, lamented Leven’s labyrinth of half-truths and genius songs with the help of friends, lovers, antagonists, a Sex Pistol and Ian Rankin.
52 THE LIBERTINES
How The Smiths, The Clash, Mythicke Englande and mental illness combined on Up The Bracket, 20 years young. “We were woefully reckless,” survivors recall.
56 BILL NELSON
ROGER McGUINN, THE BYRDS, P62
62 THE BYRDS The rise
from folk purism to pop primacy and beyond, encapsulated in newly unearthed photographs. “We didn’t have a blueprint,” admit Hillman and McGuinn.
COVER STORY
68 KATE BUSH As Running Up That Hill continues to fuel her record-breaking summer, MOJO goes back to the source with a deep dive into Hounds Of Love, with help from collaborators, admirers and MOJO’s top writers.
Barry Feinstein/© Barry Feinstein Photography, Inc.
“You’d look out and there’d be a bunch of kids in the audience wearing the same glasses.”
Splitting glam futurists Be-Bop Deluxe baffled label and fans, but Wakefield’s guitar guru was on another path. “I’ve got to do my thing,” he tells James McNair.
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