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doesn't mean that you should..."

THE METERS thenew

Orleans funk pioneers thrived on telepathy and fell out over business. Now lost music from their midst is a reminder of their bewitching genius.

PRIMAL SCREAM

v Thirty years on, how Screamadelica got | оп опе, turned ‘indie’ upside down... but exacted a high price. “It goes to show just how fragile we all are.”

PATTI SMITH te:

w^ irresistible rise, punkrock, Dylan and Hendrix, by bandmate Lenny Kaye. An extract from his new book about rock's most incandescent flashpoints.

G E N ESIS Exclusive

interviews with Mike, Tony and Phil. How they survived Peter Gabriel’s exit to become stadium stars. Why their latest tour is likely their last.

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COVER STORY 68 THE BEATLES но,

the upcoming Get Backfilms, anda brand new audio package, will make you rethink Let It Be, the album and its context. With Paul McCartney, Peter Jackson, Glyn Johns, Michael Lindsay-Hogg and more.

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—— Everly, Nanci Griffith, Tom T. Hall and many more, thanks for everything.

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aminute's notice? Read on and find out!

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CHARLIE WATTS ove ;ix

pages, Mat Snow says farewell to the Stones’ irreplaceable, ever-swinging drummer and his idiosyncratic genius. Plus, Charlie's finest beats, and memories of personal encounters.

LITTLE STEVEN sStevieVan Zandt

has written his memoir, Unrequited Infatuations. We get the lowdown from the man himself on rock, soul, Springsteen and the buffoons still running the world.

BIG THIEF the Brooklyn indie four

stretch out on a new 20-track album. Expect bombast, country, serenity and mikes made out of plastic fruit, they tell us.

ROGER TAYLOR in confidential

mood, Queen's drummer talks lockdown bursts of creativity, outsiderdom and when he nearly V — i —— — formed a band with Mick Ronson and lan Hunter. T- Е ч ^^ SHEL TALMY He was the feedback | fal "d MY — king of punchy production who directed early classics forTheWho andThe Kinks. But where's he been for the past 50 years? Cult Hero Shel tells all!

MOJO FILTER 82 NEW ALBUMS The War on Drugs

still chasing the dream, plus My Morning Jacket, Tricky’s Lonely Guest and many more.

96 REISSUES Joni Mitchell's second

archive dive, The Charlatans, Faniaand more.

108 BOOKS shane MacGowan’s furious

| = devotion, Barry Adamson's memoir and more. Keep moving

Е on: The War On 112 SCREEN Todd Haynes's “immersive”

Drugs, Lead Album, page 82. documentary on The Velvet Underground.

THIS MONTH'S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE...

John Harris

John has been writing for MOJO for 20 years, as well as covering politics at The Guardian. He’s just had the fascinating experience of editing down hours of conver- sation caught during The Beatles’ early 1969 sessions for the thump- ing official book that accompanies the new Get Back films. Read his findings from page 68.

Lenny Kaye

Lenny is an American guitarist, composer, record producer, writer, Melbourne, Janelle Barone loves founding member of Patti Smith to tell visual stories and make And Her Band, and the compiler ^r everyday things more intriguing. of Nuggets, arguably the most = She illustrates this month’s Lead influential compilation album Album on page 83 and you can ever. His new book, Lightning find a range of her editorial and Striking, tracing the key flash- commercial work at: www. points in rock'n'roll history, janelle-barone.com or follow her is extracted from page 52. on Instagram: @janelle.barone

Janelle Barone An illustrator based in

Janelle Barone, Ulf Holberg, Alamy

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The final album from The Beatles remixed with additional content collecting outtakes, jams, rehearsals, studio chat and the previously unreleased Get Back album from 1969. Includes 100 page book with new essays, track-by-track recording information, unseen photos, memorabilia, tape boxes and more.

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1 The Black Keys

She Said, She Said

(Vinyl Version)

Alongside choice R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and Muddy Waters tunes, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney also burned through this Revolver classic on their 2002 debut, The Big Come Up. Shorn of psychedelic trim and kicked upa gear, She Said, She Said emerges as a raw and punchy garage rocker.

А T 9 P.P. Arnold Eleanor Rigby Very different from Booker's instrumental, Arnold's Eleanor Rigby has the original's baroque feel (note the harpsichord solo), with a Mod-friendly backbeat. Off Arnold's second LP, 1968's Kafunta, which also featured Yesterday.

Written by Lennon & Mc Cartney. Published by

Sony/ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd. ISRC GBAWA0210416. ©1968 Immediate. An Original Immediate Recording. From Kafunta (Immediate Records IMSP 017). Inside the UK: Licensed from Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company / Outside UK: Courtesy of Charly Acquisitions Ltd, Licensed from LicenseMusic.com ApS.

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2 Richard Thompson It Won't Be Long

When Thompson began his 1,000 Years Of Popular Music project, it was inevitable - that early snobbery notwithstanding - that The Beatles would be included, next to ancient folk songs and work by, Gilbert & Sullivan, Purcell, Hoagy Carmichael and Britney Spears. His pick was this belligerent acoustic bash through the With The Beatles opener, Judith Owen singing the essential "Yeahs".

Written by Lennon & McCartney. Published by n 1963 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC &Beeswing Music ORichard Thompson 2003.

10 Jim James

Long, Long, Long

If The Beatles' original had an ethereal cast, Jim James' solo

Long, Long, Long is softer and more ghostly still. James recorded the song on 8-track, along with five other George Harrison tunes, in 2001, just days after Harrison died. They were only released, however, on the 2009 Tribute To EP. James and My Morning Jacket's excellent new LP is reviewed in this issue (page 85).

3 James Booker Eleanor Rigby

"The best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced," as Dr. John called him, actually worked with a Beatle; Booker added the honky- tonk to Ringo's Have You Seen My Baby in 1973. Here, though, he elaborately revamps Eleanor Rigby with a Big Easy stride, at a late '70s club date at the Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans.

Written by Lennon & McCartney. Published by

Sony/ATV 6801993 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group.

11 World Party

Cry Baby Cry

While much of Fab Gear focuses on reinventions, there's also room for a meticulous homage. Who better to recreate the chamber intricacies of Cry Baby Cry than World Party's Karl Wallinger, a painstaking Beatles- facing studio perfectionist. From 2012's Arkeology, a 5CD extravaganza of unreleased World Party music.

Written by Lennon & McCartney. From Arkeology

Fab gear!”

MOJO presents 15 customised Beatles covers

starring The Black Keys, Richard Thompson, Jim James, Swamp Dogg, The 13th Floor Elevators, P.P. Arnold and more!

4 Judy Collins Golden Slumbers

Collins has been in the Beatles covers game longer than most: her take on In My Life was the title track of her sixth album, back in 1966. Forty-one years later, she rounded up a dozen more songs for Judy Collins Sings Lennon & McCartney, with that voice of uncanny purity having particular resonance on the Abbey Road lullaby.

Written by Lennon & McCartney. Published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing 6&62007 Cleopatra Records.

12 Melvins | Want To Hold Your Hand

Beatlemania revisited, now, by Washington grunge trailblazers the Melvins. This stomping | Want To Hold Your Hand ramps up the heaviness, but the song's irresistible pop core remains intact, even as the band - including Redd Kross' Steve McDonald and Butthole Surfer Jeff Pinkus, alongside lifers Dale Crover and King Buzzo - freak out at the end.

М BEESWING, HIS RECENT AUTOBIOGRAPHY, RICHARD

Thompson recalls being invited to Paul McCartney’s 26th

birthday party. "It shows how much of a musical snob І was at

the time that | decided not to go,” he writes regretfully. "To me, The Beatles were a 'pop' band and not to be taken seriously."

The Beatles, of course, really were a pop band, but one whose relentless creative energy meant that the boundaries of pop were being expanded and redrawn with most every release. Their records were at once immediate and profound, suitable for a three-minute slot on primetime radio and a lifetime of spiritual investigation. And their songs had a robustness that would endure in radically different settings.

Take, for instance, the 15 versions on this month's MOJO CD. For Fab Gear, we've dug deep into the archives to find some of our favourite and most transformative Beatles covers. Here, pop becomes funk, and jazz, and grunge; at һоте їп a tiki bar, or a New Orleans carnival. A showcase of how The Beatles’ music is for everyone - even a snobbish young folk-rocker, who grew up

to see the error of his ways...

While My Guitar

Gently Weeps

The stealthy Massachusetts duo of Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang, who came to prominence as two- thirds of Galaxie 500, take a typically delicate run at While My Guitar Gently Weeps on this 2005 cut. Frequent collaborator Michio Kurihara joins on electric guitar, his grace, subtlety and invention perfect for George Harrison's mission statement.

Written by George Harrison. (02005 Damon &

Naomi. From The Earth Is Blue (20/20/20 Records); http://www.20-20-20.com/

The Word

As The Beatles expanded into psychedelic territory, a generation of bands were inspired to head for more extreme sonic zones. Here the Texas band, live in San Francisco in '66, psychedelicise the moptop era.

Written by Lennon & McCartney. Published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing Ltd. From the forthcoming LP Live Їп California (International Artists [A#14). ISRC GBAWA0915864. ©2011 Charly Acquisitions Ltd. An Original International Artists Recording. Courtesy of Charly Acquisitions Ltd. Licensed from LicenseMusic.com ApS.

Don't Let Me Down

There are three different versions of Don’t Let Me Down on the new Let It Be box, but nothing remotely like this, as industrial funk savants Tackhead subject Lennon’s plaintive love song to a zoned- out dub makeover. Frontman Bernard Fowler has been The Rolling Stones’ first-call backing vocalist for over 30 years.

| Should Have Known Better

Cocktails aloft, as noted actor Zooey Deschanel and Americana MVP M. Ward spirit a Hard Day’s Night song off to the South Pacific. Paul Brainard serenades the tiki bar with his steel guitar, Deschanel stifles a giggle, and if Beatles songs have often been repurposed as easy listening, they've rarely turned out as classily.

Written by Lennon & McCartney. Published by Sony/ATV Tunes LLC/Beatles (ASCAP). From She & Him Volume One ®&©Merge Records 2008 www. mergerecords.com

starring The Black Keys, Richard Thom uc PRESE | i a | ys, RICH ipson, Jim James, Swamp Dogg, The 13th Floor Elevators, Р.Р, Arnold ond see

The Word

LaVette’s lengthy R&B career has encompassed stints at the seminal labels - Motown included - and in the company of the storied players The Beatles loved, and in 2010, she returned the compliment. Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook included takes on solo Paul, George and Ringo songs, as well as this vibrant reading of the Rubber Soul gem.

Written by John Lennon & Paul McCartney. Paul

McCartney (Sony/ATV Tunes LLC (ASCAP)), John Lennon (Sony/ATV Tunes LLC (ASCAP)).

Let It Be

An auspicious jazz combo to close, with saxophone scion Redman (son of Ornette sideman Dewey Redman) joined by Brad Mehldau (piano) and Brian Blade (drums, familiar from Dylan, Joni, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter projects). Let It Be’s gospel accents rise to the fore, but there’s also space for Redman to stretch out into freer territory.

Lady Madonna

Cuffed, Collared And Tagged, the third LP by outsider soul maverick Swamp Dogg, might be most famous for its version of John Prine’s Sam Stone. But you'll also find this terrific Lady Madonna. It’s relatively straight by Swamp Dogg's wild standards, but stick around for some profoundly uninhibited scatting in the last 40 seconds.

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What music are you currently grooving to?

I've been listening to Alycia Bella, who | recently became familiar with, and I’ve become a really big fan. Black Metal 2 by Dean Blunt, and Gal Costa too, that’s my recent rotation.

What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album?

It’s so hard to choose. | really connect with Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens, | think that’s the golden example for sad songwriting. | can lis- ten to it start to finish. | would play it and my roommates would say, “I can’t believe you're listening to this again,” because it sets the tone for the night.

What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it?

It was Funeral by Arcade Fire, at a little record store called Tracks On Wax in Maryland, near to where | grew up. | don't know if | had the record or a record player first, but | was very excited about it. Funeral is

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE

Mail

such a moment in indie rock that everyone feels nostalgic about.

Which musician, other than your- self, have you ever wanted to be?

Prince has it all, his songwriting and guitar playing is insane. | don't think anyone is comparable, he's the coolest.

What do you sing in the shower?

Fire & Desire by Drake, from Views. It's a really intense song for the shower.

What is your favourite Saturday night record?

It's got to be Hats by Blue Nile, | live in Manhattan, and that album has such 'a city at night' vibe, it makes perfect sense to me.

And your Sunday morning record?

Live In Sausalito 1973 by John Fahey is a very "clean up the apartment from Saturday night" style. Peaceful and instrumental, and quiet time in the morning is important. It's well-suited.

Snail Mail's new album Valentine is released in November.

THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING...

Barry Adamson

What music are you currently grooving to?

A rich mixture of old and new. Sault, Dry Cleaning, Adrian Crowley, Sarah Tandy. Then there's Muddy Waters, Mississippi Fred McDowell. Lots of reggae too. King Tubby and Scientist

in particular.

What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album?

It changes depending on who's doing the pushing but l'Il go with Tubby Hayes' Late Spot At Scott's. A live jazz album of incredible force and musical dexterity, and

опе I've gone back to again and again since | was a kid listening to my dad's records.

What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it?

It was possibly Wet Dream by Max Romeo aged around 11 from Paul Marsh's record shop in Moss Side. We kids used to go from school every Friday to buy a single with our pocket money.

Which musician, other than your- self, have you ever wanted to be?

David Bowie probably. | was offered the chance to meet him while playing bass with Iggy Pop but

| declined. still listen to him for inspiration and musicianship and arrangement skills.

What do you sing in the shower?

Usually, something l'm working on to see if I'm going along the right lines and getting somewhere.

What is your favourite Saturday night record?

Has to be Windowlicker by Aphex Twin. l'm ‘there’, as it were, straight away. The whole song is a phenome- nal piece of work that gets under the skin and transforms every sense.

And your Sunday morning record?

A new one, The Hunt, by drummer and bandleader Makaya McCraven. Pure music to scramble eggs to, whilst still coming around. The whole album, Universal Beings, is just a simply beautiful collection

of bold new jazz directions.

Barry Adamson's memoir Up Above The

City, Down Beneath The Stars is pub- lished by Omnibus on September 30.

Don McLean

What music are you currently grooving to?

My own, because I’m making a new album called American Boys. Most of the music around | look down on. | know it’s all made with computers, it’s Auto-Tuned, the guy isn’t singing, and it’s a piece of shit song!

What, if push comes to shove, is your favourite album?

Elvis Presley's Golden Records, the first compilation they put out. | also love Sinatra-Basie. It has a dark, sinister sound, like they're in a night- club. When | wrote And | Love You So | wanted 40 strings because of the Sinatra records I had.

What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it?

Probably a Buddy Holly album,

The "Chirping" Crickets or the album Buddy Holly. | bought it at the House Of Music in New Rochelle. The diversity of his music made an impression on me.

Which musician, other than your- self, have you ever wanted to be? Buddy Holly, but | would drive a lot and not fly! | never wanted їо be in а group because you can't determine

“МаКауа McCraven... pure music

to scramble eggs to."

BARRY ADAMSON

the person’s talent. Lennon & McCartney were unbeatable, but as solo artists | wasn’t that thrilled.

What do you sing in the shower?

The other day | burst out with an antique old folk song, The Isle Of St Helena, which is about Napoleon Bonaparte being isolated there.

Or Come Fly With Me. | cover

a lot of ground.

What is your favourite Saturday night record?

In The Summertime by Mungo Jerry. If you get sand in your shoes, listen to that one! I play a lot of Beach Boys. They invented this whole surf and car culture. It's incredible what they did.

And your Sunday morning record?

Elvis Presley's gospel album, His

Hand In Mine. A typical Sunday for me is like any other day, | don't go to church, and | don't like religion.

Don McLean celebrates 50 years of American Pie with a UK Tour in 2022. www.donmclean.com for tickets.

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Among this month's contributors:

Manish Agarwal, James Allen, Martin

Aston, John Aizlewood, Mark Blake, Mike Barnes, Glyn Brown, John Bungey, David Buckley, Keith Cameron, Stevie Chick, Andrew

Collins, Andy Cowan, Max Décharné,

Tom Doyle, David Fricke, Alison

Fensterstock, Andy Fyfe, Pat Gilbert,

John Harris, David Hutcheon, Jim Irvin, Colin Irwin, David Katz, Lenny Kaye, Celina Lloyd, Andrew Male, James McNair, Bob Mehr, Lucy O'Brien, Andrew Perry, Jon Savage, Victoria Segal, David Sheppard, Michael Simmons, Sylvie Simmons, MatSnow, Ben Thompson, Kieron Tyler, Charles Waring, Lois Wilson, Stephen Worthy.

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Cover: Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Paul McCartney & Ringo Starrfrom The Beatles: Get Back film. © 2020 Apple Corps Ltd. All Rights Reserved. George Harrison: Ethan A. Russell / © Apple Corps Limited; Bag credits: Tom Sheehan, Desmond Murray, Getty (3); Richard E Aaron, Johan Bergman, Adrian Boot, Alec Byrne, Andrew Catlin, David Corio, Cheryl

Dunn, Jesper Eklow, Jill Furmanovsky,

Linda McCartney, Desmond Murray,

Cindy Palmano, Aubrey Powell, Helen Rob, Wolf Roxon, Ethan A Russell, Tom

Sheehan, Michael P Smith, Allan Tannenbaum, Guy Webster.

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MARCH 1969, AND THE TANGLED PATHS

of The Beatles and the Stones converged on Olympic Studios in south-west London. Here, Glyn Johns worked on the mixes for Let It Be — even though his unadorned versions would only see the light of day now, in autumn 2021. Here too, The Rolling Stones were beginning the sessions for Let It Bleed.

A year later, The Beatles were no more, but the Stones have continued to defy most logic ever since. In the ensuing 50-odd years, their union has redefined what it means to grow older. А young person's game has been reconfigured as a lifelong pursuit, an infinite career made to seem plausible. They have seemed,

improbably, indestructible.

But as we were putting the finishing touches to this edition of MOJO, with its in-depth look at the Get Back movie and the Let It Be box set, the remarkable Charlie Watts passed away, aged 80. Every death is its own tragedy — and this month, as we also mourn Lee 'Scratch' Perry and Don Everly, has been a par- ticularly tough one in our world. We are fortunate, though, to have so much astonishing music to soundtrack our memories of these giants. Great art endures. Go and play Monkey Man, or Roast Fish And Cornbread, or I Wonder If I Care As Much; they're all, in a way, still with us.

JOHN MULVEY, EDITOR

An absolute paradise of music,

art and pure enjoyment In 1961, at 11 years old, I entered a café in St Albans

with my parents, and was instantly transfixed by a record playing on the jukebox. It was The Everly Brothers singing Temptation. The hairs on the back of my neck bristled and I felt a wave of excitement that triggered a passion for music that has grown ever since. I bought a copy of the 45rpm single (backed with Stick With Me Baby) the next week, even though my family did not own a record player. A few weeks later my father bought a simple deck from St Albans market and connected it to the valve radio, so I could play the record over and over again. Consequently I was very saddened to read of the recent death of Don Everly. The brothers' voices blended beautifully to the extent that they melded into a seemingly effortless harmony, which has never been matched by any other duo. Temptation wasn't the best recording they made, but it has a special significance for me. Many US musicians talk of The Beatles' appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show as the significant moment in their musical lives; for me it was the moment I first heard the Everlys in that café.

Andy Pegg, via e-mail

It's all frightfully romantic

I took a girlfriend, Hillary Tope, to see Faust on

the 1973 tour at Birmingham Town Hall [MOJO 335]. She was very beautiful but straight, and her favourite music was Demis Roussos. However, she loved the darkness, the pneumatic drill, the pinball zinging around the hall, the extremely loud constant drumbeat and the sound of the venue's magnificent organ hovering above their music. An absolutely astonishing concert. А week later, Alan Freeman on one of the Radio 1 Roadshows in Kidderminster picked her out of the crowd and asked her what her favourite music was. She replied, *Faust and Demis Roussos." Freeman, for once, was struck dumb for a few seconds. I think it is safe to say that is the only time such a combination has featured on Radio 1.

Stephen Dorril, Netherthong, Holmfirth

An imaginative and spirited girl

What a joy to open MOJO 333 and find one of my all-time favourites, Ellen Foley's Spirit Of St. Louis

— or as I like to call it, The Great Lost Clash Album

— as your Buried Treasure. It seems Strummer

and Jones were nursing an ongoing romantic identification with the anti-fascists of the Spanish >

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7 Civil War, and the presentation of Foley as a 1930s cabaret chanteuse tied into that. I was a bit taken aback to see her dissing the contributions of Tymon Dogg, whose Indestructible I consider the album's best track. But hey, she’s the star of this magnificent obscurity and her vocal prowess cannot be denied. Having bought multiple copies as gifts,

I got back multiple quizzical looks; this record was so anachronistic it was bound to fail commercially. Now that more listeners have discovered Edith Piaf, perhaps more will seek out La Foley’s gem.

Al Szopinski, Chicago, Illinois

Only the best people fight against all obstacles

in pursuit of happiness

Your article on the film Under The Volcano [MOJO 335] gives the impression AIR Studios in Montserrat has ceased to exist. While not in full use still, I have an album called Montserrat, recorded by the one and only John Otway in 2016. The deluxe version has

a booklet about how they managed to record there and the contact with George Martin’s son, as well

as how welcoming the island was to them.

Maybe not in the same league as The Rolling Stones, The Police et al, but not to be ignored. Hopetully you will cover John’s 5,000th gig at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire next April with a major article about the man himself.

Colin Coates, via e-mail

It’s sort of like heaven,

only better I enjoyed your article about Joni & Jimi [MOJO 334] and the mention of Café Le Hibou in Ottawa, which I have been to, although it