Bowie’s stellar 1974, The Cure, Tom Petty, Queen, The Beatles and dystopian covermount CD in latest magazine.

The madness and majesty of David Bowie’s 1974 – the year he made Diamond Dogs and Young Americans – by the musicians who helped facilitate his extraordinary transformations. Also in the issue: the new Cure album unpacked; the Small Faces, Faces and The Who relived by Kenney Jones; Supertramp’s Crime Of The Century retried; Tom Petty’s crisis year remembered. Plus: Queen; Ezra Collective; The Cult; King Crimson; The Saints; Kim Deal; Idles; (Ike &) Tina Turner; Manic Street Preachers; Redd Kross; band logos; and All Back To Peter Capaldi’s!

THIS MONTH’S COVERMOUNT CD is Future Legends: 15 Tracks Of Dystopian Sci-Fi Rock. Imbibing a hair of the Diamond Dog: The The, Hawkwind, St. Vincent, The Flaming Lips, Iggy Pop, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Joan As Police Woman, John Foxx, Father John Misty, Thomas Dolby and more!

CONTENTS MOJO 373

COVER STORY: DAVID BOWIE It’s 1974 and the Dame is moving at speed, chewing through glam rock and George Orwell, Gouster suits and Philly soul. The major players – Earl, Ava, Carlos, Angie and more – revisit a year of creativity, conflict and mounds of cocaine.

TOM PETTY A reissue of Long After Dark and an unearthed doc by Cameron Crowe throw light on Petty’s struggles with fame. Heartbreakers and indie-rock acolytes weigh in.

KENNEY JONES A wise head in Small Faces, Faces and The Who, the polo-playing percussionist looks back. Cue hi-jinks, sad losses and pissing on a future king’s shoes.

THE SAINTS It crawled from the south(ern hemisphere), a splenetic premonition of punk. Their classic line-up was short-fused but the records, and legacy, casts long shadows.

SUPERTRAMP How a yin-and-yang songwriting team from each end of England morphed prog with pop and pulled off the Crime Of The Century. Fifty years on, the guilty step forward.

EZRA COLLECTIVE Taking UK jazz to the next level, the Mercury Prize-winning, Wembley Arena-filling quintet who integrate Afrobeat and dub and get chin-strokers shaking a leg.

THE CULT The post-punks turned goth popinjays turned fringe-jacketed monsters of rock relive the transformations that brought a Stateside breakthrough, but at what cost?

REVIEWED The Cure / The Beatles / Kim Deal / Queen / Michael Kiwanuka / Amyl & The Sniffers / Brian Ferry / Peter Perrett / Coldplay / Pixies / Thin Lizzy / Leon Bridges / Ebo Taylor / Aphex Twin / The Hard Quartet / Joachim Cooder / Ryuichi Sakamoto / Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young / Lone Justice / Underworld / Motörhead / The Necks / The War On Drugs / New Order / Primal Scream / Laura Marling / Godspeed You! Black Emperor / Gavin Friday / Ian Hunter / The Bug / Willie Nelson / Fionn Regan / Soccer Mommy / Sarah Blasko / Propaganda / Anna Butterss / Jason Isbell / Spoon / John Cale / MC5 / Bruce Springsteen

PLUS Idles’ Joe Talbot ’fesses up / How To Buy… (Ike &) Tina Turner; Manic Street Preachers get down to it / Pye Records – back from the dead! / Redd Kross’s star-krossed kareer / Fela Kuti vs The Generals / Warmduscher and Shovel Dance Collective are Rising / Farewell, Herbie Flowers, Sérgio Mendes, Tito Jackson, Zoot Money, J.D. Souther… / Rock’s greatest stage props / The story of band logos / All Back To Peter Capaldi’s / how Jakko Jakszyk’s King Crimson dream came true / And, ladies and gentlemen… Ms Elkie Brooks!