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The Album Is Dead!? Long Live The Album!

An introduction to The MOJO Collection

What Have We Here?

Making the best of The MOJO Collection

The Beginning

The first vinyl pop album

The 1950s

The Cold War breaks out. Hollywood stumbles, TV triumphs. The teenager is created. Jive turns to rock. The King arrives from the Sun. The US and USSR race to the moon. Kids race to the top of the British charts on washboards

The 1960s

You never had it so good. A US president assassinated, a British Cabinet disgraced. From Love Me Do to Let It Be. From I Saw Her Standing There to Visions Of Johanna. Psychedelics, pot, the pill. Colour TV, black power. The sex war breaks out. A call to women’s liberation. A giant leap for mankind

The 1970s

The dream is over. A Stairway To Heaven. LSD decimalised. The first clang of metal, the last days of peace and love. The singer-songwriter prospers. From high street hi-fi to Quadrophenia. Strikes, slumps, glitter, disco, punk, P-funk. “I will survive”/“No future.” The King is dead. God save the Dancing Queen

The 1980s

A new romance. Maggie, Ronnie and their pet yuppies. From Prince Charming to Terminator X. Video helps the radio star. The Me Generation speaks: “I want my MTV.” Frankie Says Relax. HIV. Live Aid. The silver disc for all; perfect sound forever. The PC arrives. Wall Street thrives, the Berlin Wall crumbles

The 1990s

Here we are now, entertain us. Take That and party. E’s are good. Hip hop don’t stop. Britpop gets hot. DCC flops. Corporate rock booms. DVD looms. Supa Dupa Fly and the World Wide Web

The 2000s

The new millennium, reality TV and the question Is This It? When it’s all Back to Black at a Funeral, and the angry young men are insisting that ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’ whilst the older generation just keep grinding on …

MOJO Miscellaneous

The Easy Life

Lounging, and collecting the music it spawned

The Single Life

Reggae, the music that didn’t believe in the album

100 Great Soundtracks

Music to watch films by

The Best Of The Best Ofs

100 Great Compilations

Index

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