MOJO 305 – April 2019: Keith Richards Edits MOJO!
The Rolling Stones Riffmeister curates a special edition of MOJO magazine, loaded with Keef kontent plus Madchester, The Who, Dexys and more.

By Mojo Staff
February 13, 2019

THIS MONTH, MOJO SWITCHES THINGS UP, appointing someone to the staff who really knows their music. Rolling Stones Riffmaster and closet polymath Keith Richards dons the Editor’s ceremonial visor to pour his knowledge and spirit all over the magazine, commissioning pieces on Muddy Waters, Norah Jones, Peter Tosh, The Neville Brothers and more, before submitting to a revealing in-depth interview. A 15-track CD of tracks from the world of Keith features Dion, Funkadelic, Gregory Isaacs, Jimmy Reed and The Maytals. Also in the issue: Madchester, Tina Weymouth, The Who, Dexys, Jenny Lewis, Butthole Surfers, Glam Nuggets, a secret history of mispressings and Blondie Chaplin. “Let me say, it’s been a real privilege to be MOJO’s Guest Editor,” reflects Richards in his introduction to the issue. “But I seem to have left the office in an awful mess…”

[www.mojo4music.com]

Looking forward to it. Thanks.
Jeroen

I stopped buying those magazines years ago. To much nostalgia for me. I'm sure it's nice though.

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Stoneage
Too much nostalgia for me.

Well that's not the editors' fault if the truly interesting pop/rock music blossomed between (roughly) 1965 and 1980.
That's the sad irony we live in : there's never been as many bands as there are today but there's very little good new music to grab. Whereas it was the opposite in the 60's/70's 'fewer bands better music).

I dig that cover picture, it says a lot. On the subject of Rock and Roll magazines -I'm glad there's still some in existence.

Whatever happened to Rave! A great mag.

I ordered it (1 single issue) to be delivered.

He edited the magazine/ it’s fresh.

Cool.

I read PDF versions these days. I still have the Creem, Circus and other mags from the 70's I used to get. Honestly, just for the Stones content.

To Br frank, the reporting hasn't changed, the bands still offer up no real revelations. It's a game they play with the press

It's so predictable, it could have been outsourced to an intern.

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Cristiano Radtke


MOJO 305 – April 2019: Keith Richards Edits MOJO!
The Rolling Stones Riffmeister curates a special edition of MOJO magazine, loaded with Keef kontent plus Madchester, The Who, Dexys and more.

By Mojo Staff
February 13, 2019

THIS MONTH, MOJO SWITCHES THINGS UP, appointing someone to the staff who really knows their music. Rolling Stones Riffmaster and closet polymath Keith Richards dons the Editor’s ceremonial visor to pour his knowledge and spirit all over the magazine, commissioning pieces on Muddy Waters, Norah Jones, Peter Tosh, The Neville Brothers and more, before submitting to a revealing in-depth interview. A 15-track CD of tracks from the world of Keith features Dion, Funkadelic, Gregory Isaacs, Jimmy Reed and The Maytals. Also in the issue: Madchester, Tina Weymouth, The Who, Dexys, Jenny Lewis, Butthole Surfers, Glam Nuggets, a secret history of mispressings and Blondie Chaplin. “Let me say, it’s been a real privilege to be MOJO’s Guest Editor,” reflects Richards in his introduction to the issue. “But I seem to have left the office in an awful mess…”

[www.mojo4music.com]

READ ABOVE PARAGRAPH ^^
This is NOT a Rolling Stone Magazine Anniversary Issue
that Yes, are rehashes with nothing new.
Keith dabbled his magic Mojo is some way recently over this issue, and I like his taste in friends and music too!

Oh and this:

‘before submitting to a revealing in-depth interview.’

Also the words:

Exclusive Interview

on the cover.

LOL

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Stoneage
Too much nostalgia for me.

Well that's not the editors' fault if the truly interesting pop/rock music blossomed between (roughly) 1965 and 1980.
That's the sad irony we live in : there's never been as many bands as there are today but there's very little good new music to grab. Whereas it was the opposite in the 60's/70's 'fewer bands better music).

Ridiculously untrue.

Turn on the radio and tell me I'm wrong.
Btw the same goes for photography : photographers are dime a dozen but good pix worth remembering are scarily rare.

Cool …. cant wait ta read … gonna be a laugh ….bring it on



ROCKMAN

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dcba
Turn on the radio and tell me I'm wrong.
Btw the same goes for photography : photographers are dime a dozen but good pix worth remembering are scarily rare.

I thought you said pornography. Works there also

got that curator hat on.

Looking forward to it.

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

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dcba
Turn on the radio and tell me I'm wrong.
Btw the same goes for photography : photographers are dime a dozen but good pix worth remembering are scarily rare.

You're not going to find a lot of the good stuff on the radio. I can't remember when I last listened to the radio, in fact, except Sirius when I had a subscription.

BUT!! I have a MOJO subscription, bring it on.

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Stoneage
I stopped buying those magazines years ago. To much nostalgia for me. I'm sure it's nice though.

yea..perhaps he'll regale the readers with another story of how EXILE was recorded...or maybe the STREET FIGHTING MAN-recorded-on cassette-tale. How about an ENTIRE article discussing the recording of the supposed brand new soon-to-be forthcoming just around the corner here it comes wait for it LP???!! That may interest readers more than him just promoting his outlaw image again. Sorry maybe a bit harsh but there it is. Tired of this BS.

Lets just get the mag first …..



ROCKMAN

Damn fine photo.

Rolling Stones' hellraiser Keith Richards reveals he's cut down on hard liquor and cigarettes in a bid to live a cleaner life...after December turned into 'one long party' for his 75th

He is the hellraiser and renowned party animal in one of the most legendary rock and roll groups of all time.

But Keith Richards has revealed he is reining in his infamous party lifestyle and cutting down on hard liquor and his beloved cigarettes,in a new interview with MOJO Magazine.

The Rolling Stones rocker admitted he has started 2019 on a health kick, after December turned into 'one long party' for his 75th birthday and 35th wedding anniversary with wife Patti Hansen at his lavish Turks & Caicos house on Parrot Cay.

The Gimme Shelter hitmaker said: 'By January 1, you're knackered. And that's a good way to start a new year, right?! I'm drying out now!'

I've knocked the hard stuff on the head. I have a little wine with meals, and a Guinness or a beer or two, but otherwise… no. It's like heroin – the experiment is over.'

He paused. 'Mind you, if I meet you in a bar and you say, 'Do you want a drink?' – heheheh – I wouldn't turn it down! I'm not a puritan in these matters. It's just that it's not on the daily menu anymore.'

When asked if he had ever tried to give up cigarettes, the guitarist said: 'I have tried. So far, unsuccessfully! Lou Reed claimed nicotine was harder to quit than heroin.'

'It is. Quitting heroin is like hell, but it's a short hell. I mean, the actual process. Cigarettes are just always there, and you've always done it.

'I just pick 'em up and light 'em up without thinking about it. But lately, in fact – spread the news! – I've managed to cut it down by a substantial amount every day, and I'm still working on it.

'Because I realised I don't need it. I realised it's just a useless habit. But hey, when you're 75, habits are pretty ingrained.'

Asked how he stays in shape, the star revealed he relies on an extremely basic regime to maintain his honed frame.

He said: 'I get up. Ummm. And then, uh, you know, I sit down. I don't do none of this trotting around, I think it's bad for you. It's bad on the joints, especially on concrete.

'I don't go with that. It's just not for me. It works for some guys, but y'know, it's just… Mmm. Oh, and when I go to the islands, I do quite a bit of swimming.'

He added: 'It's not a regime, it's just very nice to be in the water, and, uhh, you know… float about a bit.'

Despite his hectic lifestyle, jetting all over the world for gigs with the Stones, the star said he still doesn't own a mobile phone and says he's 'pretty technically illiterate'.

He said: 'I rely upon my kids or the wife to… just look it up! Google it or something! I don't touch those things. I've never liked phones, you see.

'Maybe that's just because, being so-called famous since I've been 19, the phone is always ringing and it's always somebody that wants something.

'So with the phone, I would only ever phone out. So when they brought in mobile phones, I'm like, Oh no…! At least before I could say, 'I wasn't in!' But now… Everybody who knows me knows I don't have a phone.'

2019 will see Keith embark on the U.S leg of the Stones No Filter tour with bandmates Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts, calling at 13 US stadiums during a two-month period this summer.

Keith said: 'Everybody wants to work as long as they can and feel good about it.'

'Our [2018] tour in Britain and Europe was fantastic, the band was rocking. Until we got to Warsaw and somebody said, That's the last show…' Oh no man, it was just getting going!

'So when the proposition came up to play America in 2019, everybody jumped at it. It's what you do. If you give me 80,000 people, I feel right at home. There's something also about the harmless joy in turning loads of other people on. I wouldn't want to disappoint those people, doing the 'Ohh, I don't feel like it'.

'If I didn't feel like it, I wouldn't do it. Nor would any of us. The roar of the grease paint, the smell of the crowd – it gets ya! You can't stay away.'

The Stones are also about to start recording their new album.

Keith, who is also guest-editing the magazine this month said: 'We're in the studio in a couple of weeks, the whole kit and caboodle. The Stones with Don Was producing, in LA.

'We'll have it done this year, at some point. We'll put down as much as we can for a week or so, and then we're on the road. So we'll see what happens after that.'

The Rolling Stones, of which Richards is a founding member, are so famed for their hedonism and debauchery that their actions in the bands heyday have set the bar for what it meant to be a decadent rock star ever since.

Keith, known as Keef by die-hard fans. instantly set himself apart from the other band members for his raucous antics.

He was arrested and charged five times for drugs offences: in 1967, twice in 1973, in 1977, and in 1978.

At his first trial he was sentenced to a year in prison for allowing cannabis to be smoked on his property, though this was later overturned.

However the band were subsequently relentlessly pursued by police throughout their 1972 North America tour - dubbed the 'Cocaine and Tequila Sunrise tour' - which was when they first started book up entire floors of hotels.

Thanks Cristiano.

No mention of Talk is Cheap Deluxe, so hoping he talks more about it in the upcoming new Mojo cover issue.
It was either Mojo or Uncut that mentioned an in depth story on it in an upcoming issue...looking forward to it all.

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

I shall look forward to my subscription arriving later this month, even more than I usually do

Classic Keef Quotes throughout.....I especially like the part about phones

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Let the dissection begin!



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Ya it is good he doesn’t do iPhone otherwise his hands would cramp up. Can’t read the darn things anyway.
Go Keef.

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35love
Ya it is good he doesn’t do iPhone otherwise his hands would cramp up. Can’t read the darn things anyway.
Go Keef.

He would have a bitch of a time navigating the screens with those nodules in his fingertips.

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35love
Ya it is good he doesn’t do iPhone otherwise his hands would cramp up. Can’t read the darn things anyway.
Go Keef.

He would have a bitch of a time navigating the screens with those nodules in his fingertips.

do you think you are funny, keefriff99???
if you think you are, i wish you those fingers