Lois Wilson
Lois Wilson (pictured with Paul Weller in 2002) worked in record and book shops and lectured in politics, philosophy and sociology before writing about music for MOJO from 1999. Soon after she became deputy editor on the late MOJO Collections and has also been published in Record Collector, for whom she does their monthly soul column, The Quietus, Planet Rock, Classic Rock Blues and more. Her fiction has been published in the Punk Fiction collection published by Portico. She has compiled CD selections for Motown, Chess and Trojan and overseen Paul Weller’s back catalogue and a series of soul related titles for the Future Noise label. She also heads People Powered concerts and is the founder of the NHS1000Musicians social media campaign. She collects Motown and Trojan 45s and 60s EPs and picture sleeves.
31 articles
List of articles in the library
Interview by Lois Wilson, Record Collector, November 2004
Lois Wilson meets the queen of X-rated soul ...
The Velvelettes: Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Retrospective and Interview by Lois Wilson, Record Collector, March 2005
Lois Wilson salutes the Velvelettes, a great but neglected Motown act who are finally getting their due. ...
Interview by Lois Wilson, Record Collector, December 2005
Kiki Dee on working with Motown, Elton John and Boots The Chemist. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Lois Wilson, Record Collector, January 2006
Lois Wilson celebrates the career of Motown diva Kim Weston ...
Retrospective and Interview by Lois Wilson, Record Collector, July 2006
From doo wop to R&B, from deep soul to Northern Soul, they are the most enduring story in vocal group history. Lois Wilson celebrates 50-plus ...
Review by Lois Wilson, MOJO, November 2006
Eagerly awaited re-release of the ex-Action lead singer's sole 1971 solo outing. ...
Screamin' Jay Hawkins: The Whamee 1953-55 (Rev-Ola)
Review by Lois Wilson, MOJO, November 2006
Born bad: early recordings for Grand, Mercury, Wing, Timely and Gotham. ...
Jill Scott: The Real Thing – Words and Sounds vol. 3
Review by Lois Wilson, MOJO, January 2008
Scott chronicles her marriage break-up. More Let's Get It On than Here, My Dear, though, says Lois Wilson. ...
The Godfathers: Welcome Back: The Godfathers
Interview by Lois Wilson, MOJO, February 2008
Cult Rock'n'roll Enforcers Return To Take Care Of Unfinished Business ...
Review by Lois Wilson, MOJO, April 2008
Escapist soulful pop from Bernard Butler protégé, who hails from north Wales ...
The Special AKA, The Specials: The Specials: Original Gangsters
Retrospective and Interview by Lois Wilson, MOJO, May 2008
Out of the inner-city misery and post-punk experiment of the late '70s came a group of black and white Coventry kids called the Specials who ...
Interview by Lois Wilson, MOJO, June 2008
The eldritch folk siren, in her own words and by her own hand ...
The Cribs, Johnny Marr: The Cribs and Johnny Marr
Report and Interview by Lois Wilson, MOJO, June 2008
The Smiths and Modest Mouse guitar man blows minds with Wakefield's finest. ...
Interview by Lois Wilson, Record Collector, July 2008
Mary Wilson Recalls The Highs And Lows Of The Most Successful Girl Group Of All Time. Interview By Lois "No Relation" Wilson ...
Jah Wobble: The Bass Leviathan, In His Own Words
Interview by Lois Wilson, MOJO, October 2009
How would you describe yourself... ...
The Cribs, Johnny Marr: The Cribs: State of Independence
Retrospective and Interview by Lois Wilson, MOJO, October 2009
Yorkshire siblings the Cribs have spent seven years spurning rock star indulgences for DIY indie sufferance, winning over everyone from Franz Ferdinand to Sonic Youth ...
Interview by Lois Wilson, MOJO, November 2009
France's Melancholic Melodists, In Their Own Words ...
Interview by Lois Wilson, MOJO, November 2009
Post-punk's dissonant game changers return to inspire again. ...
Eli "Paperboy" Reed: The Soul Evangelist
Profile and Interview by Lois Wilson, MOJO, January 2010
THE MOST FEROCIOUS BLUE-EYED-SOUL BELTER OF HIS GENERATION FORGED HIS EXULTANT VOCAL STYLE IN A BLACK CHURCH ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO. ELI "PAPERBOY" ...
Dusty Springfield: Southern Harmony
Retrospective and Interview by Lois Wilson, MOJO, April 2011
She was one of the greatest vocalists of all time at the height of her powers but for Dusty Springfield the making of Dusty in ...
Obituary by Lois Wilson, MOJO, January 2013
The inspirational folk-jazz-soul singer songwriter died last month. Lois Wilson salutes him. ...
Retrospective by Lois Wilson, MOJO, February 2013
Abandoned as a child, addicted as an adult, Etta James lived a life punctuated by self-destruction and "wrong-headed men". Then came redemption. As the first ...
The Strypes: The Big Beat Reborn!
Interview by Lois Wilson, MOJO, February 2013
You CAN judge a band by looking at their covers! Lois Wilson speaks to The Strypes, Paul Weller and Jeff Beck's favourite new band... ...
Mud Morganfield: Blues scion stands up at last
Interview by Lois Wilson, MOJO, April 2013
"LIFE WAS ROUGH," says Mud Morganfield, the 57-year-old blues singer and son of Muddy Waters. "Pop left us when I was seven, we were poor, ...
Valerie June: Dingwalls, London
Live Review by Lois Wilson, MOJO, August 2013
Memphis singer follows the gravelled road to Camden Lock. ...
Leadbelly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
Review by Lois Wilson, MOJO, May 2015
The last word on the convicted killer and extraordinary musician who shaped the future of white music. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Lois Wilson, MOJO, November 2015
IT'S DECEMBER 1962, three sharp dressed GIs are hefting a Hammond organ down the icy steps of the Flamingo, a tiny jazz club on Wardour ...
Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham: Do Right Men: Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham
Retrospective and Interview by Lois Wilson, MOJO, January 2016
DAN PENN AND Spooner Oldham still remember the day everything changed. "I was in American Studios in Memphis working on the Box Tops," recalls Penn. ...
Aretha Franklin: The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Retrospective by Lois Wilson, MOJO, February 2017
IT'S THE EVENING of January 24, 1967, downtown Florence, Alabama. Rick Hall, the owner of Fame Studios in nearby Muscle Shoals, is stood in the ...
Dave Davies: Rock'n'roll Confidential: Dave Davies
Interview by Lois Wilson, MOJO, July 2017
A pioneer of the molten guitar riff on drinks, Kinks, and the nature of time. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Lois Wilson, MOJO, January 2018
"IT NEVER FELT like it was going to be a life-changing moment," says Robert Finley. "It was just an ordinary Saturday morning, and I was ...
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