Sommaire pour June 2020 de MOJO

Dorian Lynskey Dorian writes for titles including The Guardian, Q, GQ and Billboard. From page 36 he chronicles Diana Ross’s epic reign as the Queen of Motown. As the author of The Ministry of Truth: A Biography Of George Orwell’s 1984, he was delighted to find an article that compared Berry Gordy to Big Brother. David Fricke For David Fricke, it was an annual rite of spring in New York: peakin’ at the Beacon with The Allman Brothers Band. He writes about the surviving members’ reunion on page 112. A contributor since MOJO’s inception, he also wrote for Rolling Stone for over four decades. He’s now back to his first love, radio, as DJ and interviewer at Sirius XM. Carne Griffiths Carne is an illustrator and exhibiting artist based in…

MOJO welcomes letters for publication. Write to: MOJO Mail, Academic House, 24-28 Oval Road, London NW1 7DT. E-mail: mojoreaders@bauermedia.co.uk MOST SONGWRITERS WITH A HEFTY back catalogue have a lyric for every eventuality, and Nick Cave is no exception. “This is the time of our great undoing,” he sang in 1992’s Straight To You, a useful way of describing the uncanny days every one of us are living through right now. In extraordinary times, though, different kinds of ties and communities become more valuable than ever, and it’s our hope that the world of MOJO can provide distraction and consolation to all of you who’ve been so loyal to us for so long. We may have abandoned our Camden office for now, but essentially it’s business as usual. This issue was created…

“It’s Late is a sort of wholesome pop-rock tune, with a very rich, effortless delivery and a very good guitar break by James Burton, of the kind that was very popular at that time. I had it on a single. I loved Elvis, Little Richard and Chuck Berry too, and I sang all the time – not in front of people – but walking down the road, shopping… Years later one of my neighbours told me they called me, ‘The Boy That Sings’, but I didn’t feel I was ever going to be a singer. In Easter 1961 in St Albans, I met some other 15-year-old musicians, with a view to starting up a band. We met on Saturday morning and rehearsed in a pub called The Pioneer Club. I…

1 BOB DYLAN MURDER MOST FOUL Dylan’s first new song in eight years and, at 17 minutes, his longest ever: a near-ambient history lesson; a lullaby-cum-incantation for ’60s survivors; another highwater mark. Find it: streaming services 2 JEFFREY LEWIS KEEP IT CHILL! (IN THE EAST VILL) Self-isolation mind-map from NYC’s premier anarcho folkie swings from personal fears to global optimism, in a fluid four minutes 20. Find it: YouTube 3 ENDLESS BOOGIE V The indomitable Boogie in full-on metallic KO mode. From the essential new offcuts comp, Basement Jam Ritual. Find it: Bandcamp 4 MART AVI SOUL REAVER Estonian auteur dreams shimmering, melodious pop escape as his machines become sentient and something stirs in the deep. Find it: YouTube 5 FOUR…

CLAD IN A BLACK TRACKSUIT AND TRAINERS, Peter Frampton welcomes MOJO into his Nashville recording studio with an apology. “I’m sorry I’m dressed for the gym,” he says, smiling, “but that’s what I do these days.” The Bromley-born guitarist/singer, who turns 70 on April 22, could be forgiven for trying to pack a lot into a day. In early 2019 he announced he had been diagnosed with inclusion body myositis (IBM), a painless but progressive disorder that weakens the muscles in the legs, arms, fingers and wrists. It’s a somewhat rare condition – fewer than 200,000 cases in the US – though it’s often misdiagnosed. “I’m kind of the poster boy for it now,” says Frampton, who’s helped raise IBM awareness dramatically since going public, and has also started a…

HOW TO LEAVE TOWN &#9733&#9733&#9733 (Self-released EP, 2014) Toledo signs off his unsigned period with an hour of lo-fi eclectica, with the synth moves of 14-minute mega-mope The Ending Of Dramamine prefiguring the more varied soundworld of the upcoming MADLO , while You’re In Love With Me perfects the art of the bored-yet-epic chorus. Quite trebly. TEENS OF STYLE &#9733&#9733&#9733&#9733 (Matador, 2015) Sensibly, Toledo cherry-picks from his Bandcamp back catalogue for his label debut – rerecording the likes of Sunburned Shirts, The Drum, Times To Die and Maud Gone in a manner reminiscent of Bee Thousand -era Guided By Voices. Fuzzy, scratchy, boomy, real cool times for indie kids of all ages. TEENS OF DENIAL &#9733&#9733&#9733&#9733 (Matador, 2016) Toledo comes of age, in his writing and sonically, with Vincent’s roiling…

“It was a midnight session at Townhouse studios [in west London] where I’d started as tea boy. I remember getting a call from the Cockney receptionist: ‘Oi! Can you come and collect this band because they’re scaring people?’ So I went to get them and sure enough they really did look like vampires, very ill and pale. Mountains of black hair. But wearing suits. Elegant and wasted. Really cool. We recorded Release The Bats and Blast Off! that night and finished about 8am. And it was as intense as fuck. There was passionate, emotional conflict and lots of funny Aussie piss-taking. Mick [Harvey] and Rowland [S Howard] were very insistent on their guitar sounds. They wanted them harsh and cutting. Rowland wanted it like a mosquito in your ear. Tracy…

Marling’s interest in psychoanalysis got her obsessed with Lou Andreas-Salomé, the first female psychoanalyst, who became a huge influence on the Austrian poet, Rilke. Often described as his muse, she was 16 years his senior, and actually his teacher. She helped him to learn Russian, to read and later meet Tolstoy. Marling even started an opera about her (although this album is her focus now). “I’m fascinated in women that have been in that position,” she says. “I’ve wondered whether they felt allowed to touch who they really are.”…

The Neighbourhood / 1st Floor 44 Warwick Street Leamington Spa CV32 5JS www.seismicrecords.co.uk 01926 831333 Seismic Records - Vinyl specialist stocking the best new releases finally returns to the high street after an unplanned closure in June 2019 due to shady landlord manoeuvres, just in time to celebrate its 15th Birthday this year. Back in new digs inside The Neighbourhood in the centre of town where you can pick up the latest vinyl then grab a coffee or a beer & taste some of the finest street food in Warwickshire.…

THE BOUNDARIES between popular and classical music might be more porous than we sometimes assume. Nevertheless, it’s an unusual composer who plays at an all-night concert titled Purple Modal Strobe Ecstasy With The Daughters Of Destruction. Terry Riley was, and still is, modern classical music’s head emissary to the counterculture. It was Riley’s name, and his infinitely rippling organ style, that Pete Townshend memorialised in the title and introduction of Baba O’Riley in 1971. “New ideas keep coming to me. I can’t repress them.”TERRY RILEY By then, the spiritually fearless Californian, born in 1935, had pioneered minimalism alongside Steve Reich, Philip Glass and La Monte Young. He had experimented with tape editing and manipulation, invented a kind of sampling at the dawn of the 1960s, and found his trance-inducing music…

• Steve Howe auditioned for Atomic Rooster, was approached by Jethro Tull after Mick Abrahams left and was a member of The Nice – for one day. • When Asia first formed, the four musicians auditioned a number of musician/writer/ singers as a fifth member and even discussed the idea with Roy Wood. • Long-time Yes producer Eddie Offord was sacked, by Howe, during the recording of Drama in 1980 due to a lack of interest in the process, culminating in him boiling up a feral pigeon in the Townhouse Studios restaurant. • Howe became vegetarian in 1972 and eats organic and wholefoods with no GM ingredients.…

MAY 2  Hailed as the London division of Madchester, Camden Town’s Flowered Up reach their chart zenith – Number 20 – with 13-minute psychodrama Weekender. It’s accompanied by a striking, Quadrophenia-like short film starring ex-EastEnders actor Lee Whitlock as a working everyman made to question his existence via queasy recreational drug use and clubbing. Though the band reach the Top 30 on a charity Right Said Fred covers EP later in the year, line-up changes and substance abuse hasten their demise in spring 1993. “Just as it reached its zenith, it all fell apart,” keyboardist Tim Dorney later told MOJO. “A lot of them had moved onto smack.” Singer Liam Maher and his guitarist brother Joe will die from heroin overdoses in 2009 and 2012 respectively.…

1 TO BE WITH YOU MR. BIG ATLANTIC 2 RHYTHM IS A DANCER SNAP! LOGIC 3 JIVE CONNIE CONNIE FRANCIS POLYDOR 4 STAY SHAKESPEAR’S SISTER LONDON 5 DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME MAMA CASS WITH THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS MCA 6 DON’T TALK JUST KISS RIGHT SAID FRED BLOW UP/INTERCORD 7 DAS BOOT U-96 POLYDOR 8 WELCH EIN TAG MARIO JORDAN BMG/ARIOLA 9 GOD GAVE ROCK & ROLL TO YOU II KISS EASTWEST 10 TEMPLE OF LOVE (1992) SISTERS OF MERCY MERCIFUL RELEASE…

HELLO APRIL 1962 I’d met each of the M.G.’s over the years, in Memphis. I met Steve Cropper [guitar] on my paper round, I was 13, 14 – he was a clerk at the Satellite record store. Al Jackson was the drummer in Willie Mitchell’s band, I sat in with them on bass and baritone sax, and I’d seen him play in his father’s band when I was seven or eight. Lewie Steinberg played bass for Rufus and Carla Thomas on Stax. Steinberg and Jackson, I was running into them all the time, but Cropper was different, he was from East Memphis, and a Stax regular. “That was a terrible phone call... like pulling myself away from a lover.”BOOKER T. JONES That day was a relaxed, lazy Sunday afternoon and…

…chatting on Mixlr last month, Rochdale techno veterans AUTECHRE shared the following revelations: ”We just prepped an album… two actually.” They also indicated they’d “done roughly 750 hours of jams last year” …in March, The Irish Sun was on hand when SHANE MACGOWAN (above) returned to the studio for his first non-guest-spot recording since 1997. He was joined by brothers Johnny and Mick Cronin of e group Cronin: Johnny told journalist Ken Sweeney that MacGowan “feels he’s on a roll recording these songs so he wants to keep going” and described the material as, “raw timeless punk” … THUNDERCAT, talking to Japanese fashion line Neet Tokyo, confirmed that he’s contributed to an upcoming Kendrick Lamar LP, saying, “I think I worked on the new one a little bit,” before adding,…

“Are you ready? Phil?” May 27, 1970, Abbey Road Studios. George Harrison stood alone, facing a microphone, and songs began to pour out of him. On the other side of the glass sat Phil Spector, ‘fresh’ from the controversial overdub and remix salvage sessions for Let It Be , released 19 days earlier. Accompanying himself on either acoustic or electric guitar, Harrison performed 15 sparse demos of only a portion of the songs he’d been stockpiling over the past months and years. “Phil, this is the one [called] Window Window, and it’s a bit silly,” he announced to the producer, before strumming through a lightly surreal, Dylanesque folk song related to his recent withdrawal from the public eye: “I go for a walk in the shed/And check out the paint…

“I’ll never forget the first day recording Nocturama. Blixa swept into Sing Sing studio [in Melbourne] in that hat. Mick Harvey introduces me and Blixa goes, ‘Oh, ja, the engineer.’ Mick says, ‘No, Blixa – the producer.’ Blixa says, ‘Well we’ll see about that, won’t we?’ From a distance they look like the most chaotic band. From an engineering point of view, it’s just fucking mental – like recording a live gig but you’re capturing this thing for ever. As soon as Nick walks in and sits at the piano, you’re recording. The intensity is unlike any other band. Each album I made with them [Nocturama through to Push The Sky Away] was different. The Grinderman thing was extraordinary: louder, faster, more intense. Warren said to Nick, ‘Why don’t you…

“Nick Cave was a big inspiration on my first album [ Anna Calvi , 2011]. I was always asking myself, What would Nick Cave do? He has this unique combination of beauty and brutality. There are sharpened edges – it feels dangerous. But he can also write the most beautiful love song. That’s matched by a band with a unique sound, but a palette that’s quite different now to how it was 20 years ago. Before Ghosteen I would have said that someone in the band is guaranteed to pick up a shaker at some point. Beyond that, it’s a kind of wild disorganisation made into something with an amazing attitude and cool. Let Love In was the first Nick Cave record I got into. It has this dramatic, cinematic…

1 On why he writes: “One of the reasons I write is because it allows me the freedom to move beyond the declared world into the uncanny and unfamiliar world. As a songwriter I have made a commitment to uncertainty and to embrace that which I do not know.” 2 On Mary Magdalene: “When Jesus was taken down from the cross, his body laid in a tomb and a stone rolled across the entrance, his 12 male disciples essentially fled. Mary Magdalene did not. In Matthew 27:61 it says – ‘Mary Magdalene and the other Mary remained standing there in front of the tomb.’ I think this haunted single sentence is probably my favourite moment from the Bible.” 3 On his more ‘problematic’ lyrics: “These days, some of my songs…

You’ve had a surprising few years since 2017’s Semper Femina. First LUMP with Tunng’s Mike Lindsay, then taking time off. Why such big changes? “After Semper Femina, I went around Europe in a VW camper van for a year, to step away from everything. It gave me a totally fresh palette when I came back. LUMP’s been great for that, too, especially as my own work and LUMP are chalk and cheese. With LUMP, Mike gets a soundbed up, and I sing over it until it becomes a song. That’s it. It’s exciting.” You’re also now at university part-time studying psychoanalysis. “Yes. I’d been a patient of psychoanalysis for a few years, and I found it really interesting. I got obsessed with the poet Rilke’s editor, Lou Andreas-Salomé, the first…

Neil Young ★★★★ Homegrown REPRISE. CD/DL/LP “Florida is pretty out-there. It seems to foretell 9/11, what with planes hitting buildings and people tumbling down.” “THE ONE that got away,” wrote Neil Young on his Archives website, announcing the release of his legendarily long-lost album. Well, not so much got away as locked away by Young himself, and so successfully that bootleggers didn’t get their hands on so much as a tracklist. Which led to 45 years of speculation by Young scholars over exactly what was on the album he now calls “the unheard bridge between Harvest and Comes A Time”. Homegrown, scheduled for release in 1975, was to be the back-to-the-country-and-top-of-the-charts LP that his record label was praying for, following two albums in a row, Time Fades Away and On…

Mike Batt ★★★ The Penultimate Collection DRAMATICO ENTERTAINMENT. CD/DL The Wombling MOR-maverick sings songs written for Art Garfunkel and Katie Melua, plus symphonic deep cuts, shiny pop and soft rock, with help from Sir John Gielgud, George Harrison et al. He made the charts fun and wacky. IH The Fall ★★★ Another “Set Of Ten” COG SINISTER. CD An 11-disc box of Europe/US audience recordings, 1984-2013? As murkily recorded shows swing between the ho-hum – live instrumentals, mid-’90s – to the true Fall essence within the monstrous Hanover ’84 gig, a menacing, autonomous totality emerges. Achtung! IH Sleaford Mods ★★★★ All That Glue ROUGH TRADE. CD/DL/LP Double disc rarities and roundup of Grantham grot duo spans the last seven years, from the rudimentary beat-logic of Fizzy and McFlurry (from 2013’s…

At 84, Riley is still compulsively active, often in the company of his son, Gyan. Of recent albums, 2012’s Aleph harks back to the Dervishes heyday, while a slew of works written for the Kronos Quartet can be sampled on the 2015 box set, One Earth, One People, One Love: Kronos Plays Terry Riley. While much of Riley’s music depends on his own performances, In C is the generous, ultra-flexible gift that keeps on giving. Recent noteworthy versions have included In C Mali, a 2015 reworking by Damon Albarn’s Africa Express project; and the 2017 take by the Brooklyn Raga Massive.…

The Brothers Madison Square Garden, New York THE LAST inning of this one-night stand – two sets, 24 songs, three-and-a-half hours of jamming and memorial – was inevitable: the 6/8 grind of Whippin’ Post, the ritual sign-off on many evenings along The Allman Brothers Band’s long road of fortune, loss and cyclical resurrection. But there was nothing routine about this finish. Surviving members of the final line-up, with extra friends and family, jumped on that grunting bass line like it was new meat. In their solos, guitarists Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes spiralled to a crossfire of spearing exclamation, tied to the roiling earth of a three-drummer backline that included Jaimoe, the sole founding Brother on hand. In the same mid-March week 49 years ago that the original group played…

MAY 30  It’s reported that Nirvana have been served with a lawsuit by Nirvana, the London baroque-pop group who had a Top 40 UK hit in 1968 with Rainbow Chaser, over naming rights. The latter outfit’s Patrick Campbell-Lyons says the Seattle Nirvana have “obliterated” his band. The judge rules that, after a financial settlement, both outfits can carry on as billed. “I suppose we weren’t going to play grunge and they were not going to start suddenly playing baroque pop music,” muses Campbell-Lyons later. In 1996, his Nirvana will record a synth-pop cover of Cobain’s song Lithium.…

I’m a charity shop fiend and it’s funny how once common second-hand records have become popular again on sales sites, if they’re in good condition – Brothers In Arms, Purple Rain, Diamond Life and Tracy Chapman, I’m looking at you. But what are the huge sellers that you still can’t give away? I’m thinking of investing for when they get big again. Simon Hall, via e-mail Fred Says: Is that the inverse of that 50-copy private press oddity becoming something vinyl nuts will sell their grandmothers for? A lot of Original Soundtracks fit the bill – see the nine million-selling Footloose soundtrack from 1984, forlornly going for about a quid, in droves, on a site near you. As for proper albums, megamillion smashes by New Kids On The Block and…

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith MODULAR EXPLORER What music are you currently grooving to? Dogs On The Beach by Nobuo Uematsu – he did the music for Final Fantasy – which has been bringing me a lot of uplifting energy. Geinoh Yamashirogumi, who did the Akira soundtrack. I don’t watch anime but it has a lot of good music. What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album? Music For 18 Musicians by Steve Reich. When I‘m feeling stagnant it gets things flowing, and I have a lot of realisations and deep thoughts. What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it? Vanilla Ice’s To The Extreme. I was six or seven and my brother had took me to Tower Records in Encinitas. He was…

1 SCENES FROM A NIGHT’S DREAM (from …And Then There Were Three…, Charisma, 1978) This song is PROGRESSIVE POP. Genesis fans generally see this record as a low point – and I tend to agree. All the songs are like… three minutes? The band that birthed the fried 10-minute epic prog song has chopped out all the cool parts to make pop songs. Dudes… c’mon. However, this tune remains a standout. It sounds very confused and deeply psychedelic. Sounds like what could have been a fresh start for a decent record. 2 DUKE’S TRAVELS/DUKE’S END (from Duke, Charisma, 1980) It’s 1980 baby. Shit is WEIRD. Duke is definitely the high point of where the trio could take things. The stunning Duke’s Travels/Duke’s End – holy shit, redemption! It’s…

PETER KEMBER likes a mission statement. As a prominent third of supercharged ’80s psychonauts Spacemen 3, he dreamt up Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To. Printed on the sleeve of his new analogue electronic trip, All Things Being Equal – his first record in 11 years, and the first as Sonic Boom since 1989 – is Vote Every Day With Your Way Of Life. Having kept busy in the last decade producing MGMT, Panda Bear and Beach House, in 2016 Kember moved from landlocked Rugby to the Portuguese coastal town of Sintra, where he declares himself now galvanised by ecological concerns and the fight against right-wing extremism. “The songs that most deeply resonate with me are based around one note and sustained elements,” he says, philosophically. “And…

1 982 WAS an active year for the McCartneys: as well as announcing that Wings was over when promoting his third solo record, Tug Of War, in April, Paul would enjoy hit duets with Stevie Wonder (Ebony And Ivory) and Michael Jackson (The Girl Is Mine). But there was also family time at High Park Farm on Kintyre in western Scotland. That world can be glimpsed in this image of Paul, Stella and James McCartney taking things easy in their sleepwear one sunny morning, possibly in the April of that year, taken by McCartney family matriarch Linda. Low-key, non-materialistic, and more concerned with wholesome living and her beloved horses than the madness of rock’n’roll, Linda was also a musician, animal rights activist and a superb photographer with an unmediated, naturalistic…

FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE bassist and songwriter ADAM SCHLESINGER (below, b.1967) co-founded the suburban New Jersey powerpoppers – named for a local garden ornament shop – with Chris Collingwood in 1995. They released five albums and had their biggest international hit with Stacy’s Mom in 2003, before disbanding in 2013. Schlesinger’s other projects included Ivy, Fever High and Tinted Windows: he also wrote for The Monkees, Stephen Colbert and the Jonas Brothers. His award-winning screen and stage credits included That Thing You Do!, Cry-Baby and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. He died from coronavirus. GOVAN-BORN lyricist BILL MARTIN (b.1938) sold his first composition, Kiss Me Now, to Brian Epstein client Tommy Quickly in 1963. He found greater success working with melodist Phil Coulter: from 1965, the duo would pen hits for Elvis, Sandie Shaw,…

THE POP IDOL The Herd ★★★ The Complete Herd (REPERTOIRE, 2005) A 48-track omnibus of Frampton’s teen combo, the set includes the band’s earliest tracks from the mid-’60s, the better known psych-pop hits (From The Underworld; I Don’t Want Our Loving To Die) as well as material off their lone LP, Paradise Lost. Amid some fluff, many insights into Frampton’s embryonic songwriting and guitar style, with the moody On Your Own and the nimble jazz instrumental Impressions Of Oliver among the highlights. THE ROCKER Humble Pie ★★★★ Performance: Rockin’ The Fillmore (A&M, 1971) The yin-yang union of Frampton and Steve Marriott reached its apotheosis on this smouldering live album. A covers-heavy set – songs by Muddy Waters, Dr. John, and Ray Charles feature prominently – the Pie’s exploratory renditions showcase…

WILL TOLEDO IS HARD to miss in broad daylight: a lanky American-indie-rock archetype with black hair that falls in unruly bangs over his large-frame glasses and cool-bookworm looks. But tonight, none of that is visible. The founding singer-songwriter of Car Seat Headrest is jiving on the tiny stage at Trans-Pecos, a club behind a narrow Brooklyn storefront, in a disguise that suggests apocalypse is dead ahead. Toledo is performing with Car Seat drummer Andrew Katz as 1 Trait Danger, a side project of tabletop electronics and profane, comic rapping. He is also road-testing a look that goes with Making A Door Less Open, Toledo’s fourth studio effort since he turned Car Seat Headrest from a solo-recording pseudonym into a working combo on 2015’s Teens Of Style. With eerie timing, as…

A MORE UNLIKELY CANDIDATE FOR FUTURE canonisation would be hard to invent. Nicholas Edward Cave was born in Warracknabeal, Australia, on September 22, 1957 (sadly, legend does not record a Biblical storm). A bookish kid, a teenage terror, post-punk pyromaniac in The Birthday Party – the most druggy and dangerous band of their generation – he would grow as a writer, singer and performer into an explorer of human extremity and the mysteries of the universe: of good and evil, pain and love. Cave’s cavalcade of freaks and badasses, wounded and obsessed, lovelorn and bereaved, would be drawn with electrifying language and black humour, and paraded in front of the extraordinary sonic backdrop of The Bad Seeds: wild and rich, torridly tempestuous or gently sorrowful, so ever-evolving that no comparable…

“Nick had seen me play in Gallon Drunk, so when Blixa said he couldn’t do the Lollapalooza tour in ’94 Nick asked if I’d stand in on guitar. He came round to my place in Brick Lane for a drink and wrote out a massive songlist to learn. Blixa showed me what he played, pretty specifically, then when he left Nick said, ‘Don’t worry about all that, just play whatever – it’ll be fine.’ Returning in 2004 was a bit daunting at first. Blixa had left the band, and Nick was thinking of getting an organ player rather than a guitarist. It was a slightly different line-up by then, Warren had joined and become a very big part of the music, and the gigs sounded great. I joined the band…

Laura Marling ★★★★ Song For Our Daughter CHRYSALIS/PARTISAN. CD/DL/LP “Her voice has never been better, each syllable a shining pool of water, clear, vivid and beautiful.” LAURA MARLING’s seventh album has arrived early, surprisingly, but with good reason. Originally due in late summer, its maker decided she would rather put it out quickly, without fanfare, simply because it was ready. She has clearly felt the urge to be more direct in recent years, anyway. Take her work with Tunng’s Mike Lindsay in LUMP, which has been thrillingly spontaneous. She’s even been giving guitar lessons direct to fans on Instagram. Song For Our Daughter pours this apparent desire for immediacy into 10 songs that arrive like lush, early-’70s classics, halfway between Joni and Carly, with good sprinkles of Paul McCartney, Paul…

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• The first of what promises to be a slew of 2020 releases from Neil Young – including Archives 2 (purported to cover 1972-82), 1990 live film Rust Bucket and Young Shakespeare, a ’71 live album/film – Homegrown was a full studio LP, finished right up to the sleeve that Neil decided (not for the last time) to ditch. It was recorded in 1974-75 – a very busy and creative period for Young that included the release of parts two and three of the so-called Ditch Trilogy, On The Beach and Tonight’s The Night, a world tour with CSNY and a reunion with Crazy Horse to record Zuma. Ever the audiophile, Young had the original master tapes painstakingly restored using analogue, not digital, methods.…

SUEDE RAID 11 Suede’s (above) debut 45 The Drowners is released on Nude records. It enters the indie charts at Number 1 and reaches Number 49 on the UK singles chart. Its 12-inch B-side, My Insatiable One, is later covered by Morrissey. PSB PLAY HAÇ 13 Pet Shop Boys play the 10th birthday party of Manchester’s Haçienda club. Their set includes their first performance of Village People’s anthem Go West. GOODBYE WELK 17 Bandleader, accordionist, broadcaster and purveyor of “champagne music” Lawrence Welk, who hosted a US TV show from 1951 to 1982, dies aged 89. ZEP FANS MINGLE 23 Celebration Days, the first UK Led Zeppelin convention, takes place at the Royal National Hotel, Euston, on the 17th anniversary of the band playing Earls Court. Deborah Bonham’s band perform;…