Word In Your Ear
Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold
Mark Ellen and David Hepworth have been talking about and writing about music together and individually for a collective eighty years in magazines like Smash Hits, Mojo and The Word and on radio and TV programmes like "Rock On", "Whistle Test" and VH-1.Over thirteen years ago, when working on the late magazine The Word, they began producing podcasts. Some listeners have been kind enough to say these have been very special to them. When the magazine folded in 2012 they kept the spirit of those po...
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For the love of Wayne Shorter & David Lindley - and are U2 really U2 without Lar...
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Is Karen Carpenter pop music’s saddest story?
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Was the pop boom of 1996-2006 a comedy or a tragedy?
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What the Beatles said about the Stones plus the most expensive live music in Lon...
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Was Chuck Berry the strangest man in the history of rock?
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Word Down Your Way: 15 minutes with Mark Everett – E from Eels - about shows he'...
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What’s the best age to be and when are we at our most stupid?
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Burt Bacharach, Waters v Gilmour and how to save the BRITS
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15 minutes with Midge Ure about shows he's seen and played
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George Harrison and the T-Bone steak, rock fantasy football teams & spot the AI...
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Ron Sexsmith - heading your way in April – remembers “life-changing” shows seen...
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Joel De’ath, “the Indiana Jones of rare vinyl”, describes his hunt for the Holy...
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Peter Asher: singer, producer, manager, main role model for Austin Powers
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Farewell Tom Verlaine – plus terrible records we can’t help loving
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The Long Ryders are heading your way - and it all began with a “red negligee” …
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Farewell David Crosby plus “classic” records that leave us cold
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Suzanne Vega: she started at Carnegie Hall and she's coming to a town near you i...
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Jeff Beck “had a boom-tish anecdote about every step of his life”
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Tony King – friend, adviser and confidante: you can see why the Beatles, Stones...
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The greatest singer of all time? (we know the answer)
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The transformational role of the bus in ‘60s pop: discuss!
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The deliciously eccentric life and art of Ivor Cutler by his biographer Bruce Li...
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The things rock made us wear
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Strokes producer Gordon Raphael on the serendipitous creation of 'Is This It'
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Jet Black, exotic Americans and Oscar Hammerstein’s joke
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Word Down Your Way: Danny Baker with a taste of his thunderous one-man stand-up...
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Stories Christine McVie told us - including “Freddie King fixed my puncture”
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Phil Jump tells the story of the legendary Badlands - and the day he took Steve...
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A farewell to Wilko – “Dr Feelgood didn’t play the music, the music played them....
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Kenneth Womack – author of 12 Beatles books – dives “back through the looking gl...
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If you could only listen to one act all week who would you choose?
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Dylan’s love letters and the one album that never lets you down
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Twitter and World Cup chaos, Jaco Pastorius, gruesome 18th C combat and other ma...
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Trevor Horn’s adventures in modern recording with ABC, Frankie, Yes and Rod Stew...
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Farewell Jerry Lee Lewis and is ‘Talking Book’ the most influential record ever...
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Why did Sheila Rock walk out of a New Order shoot?
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What’s the connection between Liz Truss, Bruce Springsteen and Revolver?
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Craig Brown - our greatest living satirist – has a theory about Keith Richards
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Simon Sebag Montefiore knows the five best songs about history ever written
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All of your rock heroes have had work done
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King Crimson, Dave Vanian’s shoe and seeing one of the world’s most famous women...
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50 years of Nuggets, Ian Brown’s karaoke and is there a band name worse than Jea...
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Hilary Mantel, Zappa track or ad slogan and the day Beefheart sold Aldous Huxley...
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Our farewell to the most famous person in the world (and the story of a brief en...
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You’re not going to Duran Duran’s Halloween party dressed like that!
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Celebrity mash-ups! An afternoon with Billy Joel, Ivanka Trump, Bono, Geldof and...
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The horror, the horror! Why you MUST see the new Woodstock ’99 documentary
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In praise of Bernard Cribbins, Clive James and the noble art of guitar-smashing
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Why half the people at a gig don't really want to be there
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Dave Grohl reaches ‘Meldrew age’, Be Here Now’s 25th birthday and the sex life o...
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