LONDON, UK (Top40 Charts/ Bauer Media) Bauer Media's MOJO, the world's finest music magazine, celebrates 20 years of publishing excellence with a landmark, collector's issue.
The issue, which goes on sale on 29th October, is based on the founding MOJO principle of producing a magazine which transcends time, place and genre and simply celebrates the very best in music. The jam-packed issue contains three key features based on the number '20'.
Continuing to deliver the first-hand stories about remarkable moments in music which appear in MOJO every month, the anniversary issue will include a cast list of some of the most significant figures in music who will re-live the year they turned 20. Highlights from the '20 at 20' feature include Ringo Starr on how he got his stage name, Martha Reeves on joining Motown andAlex Turner on scoring the fastest selling debut album in Britain in 2006 with Arctic Monkeys.
In addition, MOJO asked its readers and website users to vote for the most significant albums of the last 20 years for the '20 Albums That Shook The Last 20 Years' feature. Thousands voted and the results present a genuine view of the best in music over the last two decades with a list of the most popular albums alongside a list of favourite albums from each year since 1993. The top five:
1 The
White Stripes - Elephant
2
Arcade Fire - Funeral
3
Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind
4
Radiohead - OK Computer
5 The
Strokes - Is This It
Highlighting MOJO's commitment to contemporary music, the special issue will also include a '20 From 20' CD - the ultimate soundtrack of the last 20 years, featuring artists from Animal Collective, Joe Strummer, John Grant, Teenage Fanclub,Mercury Rev,
Fleet Foxes and My Morning Jacket.
Following the recent re-launch of www.MOJO4Music.com earlier this year, the website will also celebrate the 20th anniversary with additional content from each of the '20 At 20' interviewees, as well as an exclusive 'Big Read' with Ringo Starr.
Phil Alexander, Editor-In-Chief of MOJO, commented: "When we started talking about celebrating 20 years of MOJO we felt that we wanted to genuinely reflect what the magazine was all about: the music - the people that make it and the people that listen to it. The ideas we came up with revolved around that rather than looking back at the history of the magazine itself which, while admirable, we felt was less exciting than asking Ringo Starr about what it was like to play Butlin's in 1960, or how John Lydon felt in the year he became Johnny Rotten. The idea of everything revolving around the number 20 seemed obvious, but it gave us the option of delivering great stories, as well as celebrating 20 years of great music."
In addition, the issue will offer readers an exclusive magazine front cover, hand drawn by Kate Bush. In the last two decades
Kate Bush has conducted two print interviews, both with MOJO, underlining the magazine's pedigree as the 'go-to' magazine for musicians, so it is fitting that Bush has contributed to the issue and truly marks MOJO's anniversary as an event to celebrate. Bush has created a unique image that graces the cover of the anniversary edition in what is a unique piece of art.
Alexander added: "As ever, we compiled the '20 From 20' CD as if we were making a compilation for our mates. We spent time picking the tracks we felt were really representative of certain periods in the magazine's history and then we spent time sequencing them properly. The result is one of the best compilations ever assembled by MOJO."
