FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, Queen released a single that became a legend. Today, Brian and Roger take MOJO back to the birth of Bohemian Rhapsody, and behind the scenes of a new Queen live album with Adam Lambert.

Inside the magazine, the stars align. Ray Davies says amazing things in The MOJO Interview; Sun Ra’s fellow (astral) travellers remember the man from Saturn; Elvis Costello delivers a postcard from lockdown; Echo & The Bunnymen on Crocodiles, 40 years on; and John Lennon’s baking years – at last, the evidence! 

Plus: Robert Plant, Sinead O’Connor, Matt Berninger, Oasis, Orbital, This Is The Kit, Lou Reed, Thin Lizzy, the confounding Connie Converse and rock star-hunting ’60s drug cop Norman Pilcher.