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Beatles, The: Nice Country, We'll Take It: Beatlemania in America

Retrospective by Dave Marsh, MOJO, September 2004

40 years ago this month, the Beatles' first full tour of the States rewrote the rulebook of rock. Death threats and Dylan, music and meat-throwing: ...

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 ...

Julian Cope: Citizen Cain'd

Review by Roy Wilkinson, MOJO, March 2005

From his personal Xanadu, Julian Cope emerges with a straight-ahead rock album for the 21st century. ...

Kraftwerk: Paranoid Android

Retrospective and Interview by Simon Witter, MOJO, September 2005

2009 NOTE: This is a 9000-word "Director's Cut" version of a 5000-word piece written for MOJO in September 2005. ...

Alice Cooper: American Excess

Interview by Mark Paytress, MOJO, December 2005

Leading a band of blood-thirsty long-haired crazies, Alice Cooper ruled '70s rock'n'roll, surviving hangings and electrocution, before booze, madness and global fame destroyed the beast. ...

New York Dolls: Make-up America!

Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, MOJO, June 2006

In 1971 Manhattan, five teenage toughs in make-up, tried to kick-start the punk revolution. By 1976 the New York Dolls seemed finished, poleaxed by drugs, ...

Lemmy: Speed kills...

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, July 2006

… but not when you have the constitution of a warthog and you're the Lewis gun of the bass guitar. Cue tales of Sid Vicious, ...

George Clinton: An Interview with George Clinton

Interview by Lloyd Bradley, MOJO, October 2006

Mix Motown, acid, Jethro Tull and a guitarist in a nappy and you get George Clinton. But where now for the sage of Parliament/Funkadelic? "The ...

Sonic's Rendezvous Band: Sonic's Rendezvous Band

Review by Paul Trynka, MOJO, November 2006

Box set from Detroit supergroup led by ex-MC5 guitarist (and Patti Smith hubby) Fred Smith. ...

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 ...

The Stooges: Return To The Fun House

Retrospective and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, April 2007

SCENES OF PRIMAL rock'n'roll hoopla are not the normal preserve of a Butlins holiday camp. Yet behind the stage of the Reds ballroom, next door ...

Iggy Pop, Stooges, The: Iggy Pop: Meet Ze Monster

Retrospective by Paul Trynka, MOJO, April 2007

How shy, preppy James Osterberg built himself an alter ego that would allow him to dominate, ingest and fornicate at will. And how, in turn, ...

Suicide

Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, MOJO, November 2007

JULY 26, 1978: The Clash are on the third out of four nights at Camden's Music Machine during their chaotically-successful On Parole tour. Suicide, here ...

Mott The Hoople: Teenage Riot!

Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, MOJO, May 2009

This is the complete, unedited version of the feature from Mojo, May 2009 ...

Damned, The: The Damned: Fun! Fun! Fun?

Retrospective and Interview by Mark Paytress, MOJO, February 2013

Armed with "a license to cause mayhem", they created an "'orrible" speedball of a debut album. Before losing control…. Thirty five years on, all four founder ...

David Johansen, Buster Poindexter, New York Dolls: David Johansen: The MOJO Interview

Interview by Alan Light, MOJO, March 2015

DAVID JOHANSEN sits on the couch in the living room of his wife's long-time, walk-up apartment on a nondescript block of Manhattan's Upper West Side. ...