MOJO Magazine 378 – May 2025: Queen Freddie Mercury & Free CD

MOJO 378 – May 2025: Queen

Fifty years since Bohemian Rhapsody cemented their flamboyant mastery, Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor explore the sonic step-changes of rock’s most daring and varied band. Also in the issue: Sex Pistols’ Jones, Cook and Matlock on their live reincarnation; inside the songwriting symbiosis of Lennon and McCartney; The Pogues’ Rum, Sodomy & The Lash at 40; Dionne Warwick on the hits (and writs) that define her career; Low’s Alan Sparhawk rebuilds after tragedy. Plus: Led Zeppelin, Kraftwerk, Japanese Breakfast, Jeff Bridges, The Doobie Brothers, Lenny Waronker, Chet Baker, the treasures of Record Store Day, a tribute to The Jam’s Rick Buckler and more.

THIS MONTH’S COVERMOUNT CD is Songs From The County Hell: the cream of raucous Irish folk’n’roll, featuring The Pogues, The Dubliners, The Mary Wallopers, Lisa O’Neill, Lankum, John Francis Flynn and more.