- The Electrifying Mojo
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Charles "The Electrifying Mojo" Johnson (b ?) was a Detroit disc jockey whose on-air journey of musical and social development shaped a generation of music-lovers in Detroit and throughout southeastern Michigan and Canada and was of importance to the development of Detroit Techno. He is recognized for having introduced or "broken" many artists into the Detroit radio market, including Prince, the B-52's, and Kraftwerk, … - Nikki Sudden
Nikki Sudden born Adrian Nicholas Godfrey in London, was a prolific English singer-songwriter and guitarist. He co-founded the post-punk band Swell Maps with his brother Epic Soundtracks born Kevin Paul Godfrey whilst attending Solihull School in Solihull. Following the band's break-up in 1980 he started a solo career, as well as releasing records with Dave Kusworth as The Jacobites. Kusworth had been a member of the Dogs D'Amour and led his own band, … - Jess Klein
Jess Klein (born in 1974 in Rochester, New York) is an American singer/songwriter. A native of Rochester, NY, Jess Klein picked up the acoustic guitar and started writing songs while living in Kingston, Jamaica in her late teens. On a whim she auditioned for a guest slot at a local weekly dub poetry and music session, where, upon hearing the first song Klein had written, the host, locally renowned author Lady Elean Thomas declared, 'She have soul, mon'. - Ross Halfin
Ross Halfin (b. 1958) is one of the world's top English music and travel photographers. Having shot bands such as Led Zeppelin, Def Leppard, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Guns N' Roses, KISS, Metallica, The Who, Rob Zombie, ZZ Top and many others, Halfin's images are widely published in magazines, newspapers and books. Halfin began his career as a freelance photographer for "Sounds Magazine" in the 1970s, … - John Harris
John Harris (born 1969) is a British journalist, writer, and critic. Harris was raised in Cheshire by two university lecturers and became fixated by pop music at an early age. After three years at Queen's College, Oxford, he began his professional writing career with "Melody Maker" in 1991, but he didn't stay long and has since expressed his distaste for its more intellectual writing style. - Jez Butterworth
Jez Butterworth is a playwright and screen writer who had major success with "Mojo" on stage (Royal Court, 1995) and film (1997) and "Birthday Girl" (2001), which he co-wrote with Tom Butterworth and directed. The upcoming film "Headhunters" (2008), directed by John Butterworth and produced by Nicole Kidman, Ronald Bass, and Ric Schwartz, is also based on his screenplay. - Ramones
The Ramones were an American rock band often regarded as the first punk rock group. After forming in Forest Hills, Queens, New York in 1974, they performed and played 2,263 concerts, touring virtually non-stop for 22 years, in 1996 after a tour with the Lollapalooza music festival, the band went on a brief club tour, and then disbanded. Three of the original band members-Joey, Johnny, and Dee Dee Ramone-died relatively shortly after the break up. - Jon Savage
Jon Savage (born 1953), real name Jonathon Sage, is a Cambridge-educated writer, broadcaster and music journalist, best known for his award winning history of the Sex Pistols and punk music, "England's Dreaming" (1991). He was a high-profile writer during the glory days of British punk and wrote articles on all the major punk acts. Savage wrote and published a fanzine called "London's Outrage" in 1976, and in 1977 began working as a journalist for Sounds. - Richie Unterberger
Richie Unterberger (b 1962) is an American writer, particularly on rock and other popular music. From 1985 to 1991, Unterberger was an editor for "Option". Since 1993, he has been a prolific contributor to the All Music Guide, the on-line database of music biographies and album reviews, for which he has written thousands of entries. He also contributes to various publications, including "Mojo", "Record Collector", and "Rolling Stone". - Fionn Regan
Fionn Regan is a singer-songwriter from Bray, Ireland. He is currently based in Brighton, England. Following the limited release of the "Hotel" and "Reservior" EPs on Anvil Records, Regan signed to former Cocteau Twin Simon Raymonde's independent record label Bella Union. His debut album, "The End of History", was released in August 2006 and received much critical acclaim including four star ratings in "The Times", … - David Katz
David Katz is an American music journalist, photographer and reggae historian raised in the US. Known as a Lee "Scratch" Perry expert (he has launched the "Upsetter magazine"), he writes articles for different magazines and newspapers including "The Guardian", "Mojo", "Rhythm" and "The Beat" and has led many radio programs. He also contributed to "The Rough Guide to Reggae" (directed by Steve Barrow and Peter Dalton, … - Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds (born 1963 in London), is an influential British music critic who is well-known for his writings on electronic dance music and for coining the term "post-rock". Besides electronic dance music, Reynolds has written about a wide range of artists and musical genres, and has written books on post-punk and rock. He has contributed to "Melody Maker" (where he first made his name), "The New York Times", "Village Voice", "Spin", … - Charles Shaar Murray
Charles Shaar Murray (born 1951) is an English music journalist. His first experience came 1970 when he was asked to contribute to the satirical magazine "Oz". In particular, he contributed to the notorious Schoolkids OZ issue, and was involved in the consequent obscenity trial. He then wrote for "IT (International Times)" before decamping to the "New Musical Express" in 1972 for which he wrote until around 1986. - Bob Stanley
Bob Stanley (born Robert Andrew Shukman, 25 December 1964, in Horsham, Sussex) is a UK musician, film maker and journalist. He is best known as a member of the pop/dance group Saint Etienne for which he co-writes songs and produces. Live on stage, he normally plays keyboards and xylophone. He has had a long parallel career as a music journalist writing for amongst others NME, Melody Maker, Mojo, The Guardian and The Times. - Colin Irwin
Colin Irwin is a British music journalist. Irwin was an assistant editor of "Melody Maker" in the 1970s and 1980s, before leaving in the summer of 1987 as the magazine moved in a different direction, and editor of "Number One" magazine in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His book "In Search of the Craic" details a comic journey around Ireland seeking out pub music sessions and became a best-seller in Ireland. - Ashley Kahn
Ashley Kahn is an American music historian, journalist and producer. Kahn has made different jobs related to music in his career: from deejay to video producer and freelance writer, from road manager to concert producer and TV music editor (for VH1)... As a road manager, he has been touring with jazz musicians like Henry Threadgill, Cassandra Wilson or Greg Osby, with African artists like Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Hugh Masekela or Lucky Dube, … - Mary Margaret O'Hara
Mary Margaret O'Hara is a Canadian singer-songwriter, who has been hailed as one of the greatest cult heroines in rock music despite having released very few of her own recordings. She is the sister of comedic actress Catherine O'Hara. O'Hara was a student at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Ontario in the 1970s, and was involved in the music scene as a member of Toronto bands Songship and Go Deo Chorus. - David Hepworth
David Hepworth (born 27 July 1950 in Dewsbury, Yorkshire) is a journalist and music writer responsible for the launch of many British magazines. He attended the Queen Elizabeth School, Wakefield and Trent Park College of Education, Barnet. He then worked in record shops and for a record company, before becoming a freelance journalist. After working at the music magazines "NME" and "Sounds", he joined the newly-launched "Smash Hits" magazine in 1979, … - Alan Clayson
Alan Clayson (Dover, England, 1951) is of a late 1970s vintage of composer-entertainers that also embraces the likes of Wreckless Eric, Tom Robinson, Elvis Costello and John Otway. While he is still making regular concert appearances, he has become better known as an author of around thirty books - mostly musical biography. These include the best-sellers "Backbeat" (subject of a major film), The Yardbirds and The Beatles book box. - Chris Hunt
A freelance editor, journalist and author, Chris Hunt has written about music and football for many years. In the last five years he has been the Editor of many of the acclaimed special editions of leading music magazines. - Ann Nocenti
Ann Nocenti is an American journalist, writer and editor known for her work on comic books and magazines. For Marvel Comics, she edited "New Mutants" and "The Uncanny X-Men", making her comics writing debut on a brief run of "Spider-Woman" (issues #47-50) and wrote a long run of "Daredevil v1", issues 236-291 from 1986 to 1991 and directly following Frank Miller's definitive Born Again storyline. - Irwin Chusid
Irwin Chusid (b. 1951), based in Hoboken, New Jersey, is a record producer, journalist, music historian, radio personality and self-described "landmark preservationist." His stated mission has been to "find things on the scrapheap of history that I know don't belong there and salvage them." Those "things" have included such previously overlooked but now-celebrated icons as composer/bandleader/electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott, Space Age Pop avatar Esquivel, … - Cristina Donà
Cristina Donà (Rho, Italy, September 23, 1967) is an Italian singer and songwriter. She developed a passion for music since she was a teenager, her favorites singers being, among others, Bruce Springsteen, Sinead O'Connor, Joni Mitchell, Michelle Shocked, Tom Waits, Lucio Battisti, and Beatles. She studied at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milano, where, during a student protest in 1990, she met Manuel Agnelli, leader of the Italian indie rock band Afterhours. - Mark Ellen
Mark Ellen is a music journalist and broadcaster. Whilst at Oxford University in the 1970s, he played in the band Ugly Rumours alongside Tony Blair. After graduating, he wrote for "Record Mirror", "NME" and "Time Out" before signing up as Features Editor of "Smash Hits" in 1981, becoming the editor in 1983. He was the launch editor of "Q", re-launch editor of "Select", the launch managing editor of "Mojo", … - Colin Harper
Colin Harper (born 1968) is an Irish music journalist. He was born in Belfast and graduated in 1989 from Queen's University, Belfast. As a writer for the Belfast "Irish News" he wrote unsiged features on local bands and famous bands on tour. During the mid-nineties he was able to have pieces published by Q and Mojo. The Irish times also printed theatre reviews by him, and Belfast music events. - Hans Matheson
Hans Matheson is a Scottish-born actor who made his feature film debut as Johnny Silver in Jez Butterworth's critically acclaimed directorial debut, "Mojo". Prior to "Mojo", Matheson appeared in various plays and television series. He followed his role in "Mojo" with "Stella Does Tricks", playing a male prostitute hooked on drugs. Then came the classic literary character Marius, in Bille August's film version of "Les Misérables". - Paul Gorman
Paul Gorman is a writer born in 1959 in north west London. Among his siblings is Michael Gorman, president of the American Library Association (ALA) 2005-2006. Gorman worked on weekly news for a number of trade publications and freelanced for United States national newspapers before taking up the post of west coast bureau chief for Screen International in 1990. Based in Los Angeles, he interviewed leading executives, directors, producers and stars, … - Mark Wirtz
Mark Wirtz is an Alsatian born producer of pop records. His most famous output being from the mid to late 1960s, when he worked at Abbey Road Studios alongside Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick, under contract to EMI. Wirtz is chiefly known for the never-completed "A Teenage Opera" concept album, from which only four songs were ever finished before a concerned EMI pulled the plug on the project. - Jeff Tamarkin
Jeff Tamarkin (born October 15 1952, Brooklyn) is an editor, author and historian specializing in music and popular culture. For 15 years he was editor of "Goldmine", a magazine for record and CD collectors. Prior to that, he served as the first editor of "CMJ" (College Media Journal) and as editor of "Relix". He was also the first editor of "Grateful Dead Comix", and has written for many other publications, including "Billboard", … - Lucy O'Brien
Lucy O'Brien (born September 13, 1962 in Catford, London; grew up in Southampton), and now living in London; is an author and journalist whose work -in particular the book "She Bop: The Definitive Encyclopedia Of Women In Rock, Pop & Soul" (Pan, 1995) focuses on women in music. "She Bop II" (Continuum Press, 2002) has been rewritten to include more recent artists and a chapter on girl power. In 1979, whilst attending a convent school in Southampton, … - Lloyd Bradley
Lloyd Bradley (born 1955) is a British music writer. Born in London, Bradley discovered Jamaican music in his teenage years, while going out in the North London based sound systems and created his own named "Dark Star System" in the end of the sixties. He worked on several in their early years Q Magazine and Empire for Emap Metro and launched Big! for that company. Together with Mat Snow he developed Maxim for Dennis Publishing, … - Nina Antonia
Nina Antonia (born in Liverpool, England) is a music journalist and author. She has written books and articles about punk-rock era recording artists Brett Smiley and Johnny Thunders. She has also contributed to "Mojo" and "Spiral Scratch" magazines, wrote the liner notes for The Stooges live recording "Studio Sessions" and Nico's "Femme Fatale" CD, and appeared in the documentary "New York Doll". She currently lives in London, England. - Charlotte Greig
Charlotte Greig is a [British] novelist, singer and song-writer. Charlotte Greig was born in 1954 in Malta. Her father was in the navy and the family travelled the world. In 1962 she attended Charsfield village school, later described in Ronald Blythe's book 'Akenfield', where she learned to sing folk songs. At the age of ten she was sent to a convent boarding school, where she learned to play piano. - Ian McMillan
Ian McMillan (born January 21, 1956 in Barnsley) is an English poet, journalist, playwright and broadcaster. McMillan graduated from North Staffordshire Polytechnic in 1978. McMillan started performing on the live poetry circuit in the 1970s. He has had several volumes of poetry published for both adults and children. He is an enthusiastic advocate of poetry. In addition he has had journalism published in "Q magazine" and "Mojo magazine". - Tim Footman
Tim Footman is a British author, journalist and editor. He is the author of several books about popular music, including "Welcome To The Machine: OK Computer and the Death of the Classic Album" (2007, ISBN 1-84240-388-5). He has also written for The Guardian, Mojo, Time Out, the Bangkok Post, Careless Talk Costs Lives, Zembla and several other publications. He is a contributor to Comment is Free. From 1999 to 2001 he was the editor of the Guinness Book of Records. - Ian Winwood
Ian Winwood is a British music journalist who has written for several of the country's top alternative music magazines, most notably Kerrang!', the NME, Mojo, Q and Revolver. Since joining Kerrang! in 2000, Winwood has interviewed, among others, Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Muse, Beastie Boys, Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails, Rancid, Velvet Revolver, Nickelback and Fall Out Boy. While his writing style can be said to be occasionally overblown, … - Ed Glinert
Ed Glinert is an English author and journalist. He was born in Dalston in east London, and studied Classical Hebrew at Manchester University. He has worked as a journalist for several magazines including "Radio Times", "Private Eye", "Mojo" and "Time Out". He has edited the Penguin Classics edition of "The Diary of a Nobody" and annotated two volumes of Sherlock Holmes stories, also for the same imprint. - Gary Valentine Lachman
Gary (Valentine) Lachman (born December 24, 1955 in Bayonne, New Jersey, United States) is a writer and musician. He was a composer and performer with Blondie, writing the band's first single, "Sex Offender" (later changed to "X Offender") and "Presence, Dear". Since then has become an authority on various occult and esoteric subjects. Lachman is a prolific author and has written a number of books about music and the occult, … - Mark A. Moore
Mark A. Moore (born April 5, 1966) is a writer and historian, and a graduate of East Carolina University. He has published books, articles, and numerous maps in the field of Civil War military history. Moore has researched and created maps for well known authors and historians, including Steven E. Woodworth, Brian Pohanka, D. Scott Hartwig, John Coski, Lesley J. Gordon, William J. Miller, Terry L. Jones, William S. Powell, Mark L. Bradley, Chris Fonvielle, and many others. - Gary Lee Yoder
Gary Lee Yoder is a musician who was part of several 1960s San Francisco psychedelic rock bands, including Kak, Oxford Circle, and Blue Cheer. While Oxford Circle frequently shared the stage with greats such as the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Janis Joplin, they did not achieve the same level of fame and never got a record deal. In 1997, a live album, "Live at the Avalon 1966" was released.
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