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Sex Pistols, The, Sid Vicious: Sid Vicious: A Star Is Born!

Retrospective by David Dalton, MOJO, February 2005

When Sid Vicious joined the Sex Pistols in 1977 it was the end of the band and the beginning of his metamorphosis into mythic rock ...

Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks

Retrospective by Andy Gill, MOJO, June 2001

AFTER HIS EXTRAORDINARY ACHIEVEMENTS OF the '60s, there should have been no doubt about Bob Dylan's position in the rock firmament. After all, he had ...

Nirvana's 'You Know You're Right'

Retrospective by Gillian G. Gaar, MOJO, May 2004

ON SATURDAY, September 21, 2002, Nirvana's 'You Know You're Right' was leaked on the internet. ...

Bob Marley & the Wailers: Bob Marley: Change Is Gonna Come

Retrospective by Andy Gill, MOJO, August 2002

BY 1966, IT LOOKED LIKE THE WAILING WAILERS WERE FINISHED ON the Jamaican music scene. They had recorded numerous hits, eventually challenging The Maytals as ...

Joy Division: The Eternal

Retrospective by Jon Savage, MOJO, February 2007

Jon Savage returns to the claustrophobic urban landscape of post-punk northern England to re-examine the soul-scorching singular vision of the band's late vocalist, Ian Curtis, ...

Def Leppard, Girlschool, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica, Motörhead, Saxon, Tygers of Pan Tang, Venom, Sledgehammer, Diamond Head: NWOBHM: Never Mind The Bollocks

Retrospective by Paul Elliott, MOJO, February 2007

Threatened by punk, Led Zep, Sabbath and Purple came under fire in 1977. A year later Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon led a New ...

Kate Bush: Season Of The Witch

Retrospective by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, February 2003

It's almost 25 years since 'Wuthering Heights' made Kate Bush into a star, and a decade since she quietly slipped from view. Phil Sutcliffe traces ...

Elvis Presley: Enter The Dragon

Retrospective by Bill DeMain, MOJO, April 2002

In the early '70s, Elvis took on the beast of Las Vegas with a mean-assed backing group and a neat line in ludicrous stage-wear. But ...

Sly & The Family Stone: Lucifer Rising

Retrospective by Joel Selvin, MOJO, August 2001

THE ENGLISH TUDOR MANSION AT 783 BELAIR ROAD HAD BEEN built for Jeanette MacDonald, the Hollywood screen actress who starred in all those '30s operettas ...

Jimi Hendrix

Retrospective by Mat Snow, MOJO, November 2006

ON THE Friday night of September 23, 1966, former Animals bassist-turned-would-be-starmaker Chas Chandler, Animals road manager Terry McVay, and Jimmy (as he was then) Hendrix ...