MOJO, 2020/11

FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, Queen released a single that became a legend. Today, Brian May and Roger Taylor take MOJO back to the birth of Bohemian Rhapsody, and behind the scenes of a new Queen live album with Adam Lambert. Our covermount CD has a regal theme, too: epic art-pop and rock by Sparks, Todd Rundgren, Rufus Wainwright, XTC, John Grant, Os Mutantes, The Flaming Lips and more. Inside the magazine, the stars align. Ray Davies says amazing things in The MOJO Interview; Sun Ra’s fellow (astral) travellers remember the man from Saturn; Elvis Costello delivers a postcard from lockdown; Echo & The Bunnymen on Crocodiles, 40 years on; and John Lennon’s baking years – at last, the evidence! Plus: Robert Plant, Sinead O’Connor, Matt Berninger, Oasis, Orbital, This Is The Kit, Lou Reed, Thin Lizzy, the confounding Connie Converse and star-hunting ’60s drug cop Norman Pilcher.