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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Episodes (1006)
How much of ‘Indie’ is just shoes and hair?
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Chris Blackwell remembers the “underdogs, rejects and misfits” he signed to Isla...
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Danny Baker and Graham Gouldman at our live McCartney 80th birthday special!
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Paul McCartney in the Park: our 80th birthday special (Part One!)
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What links The Day Of The Jackal, Supertramp, the Sun and James Callaghan?
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The new Elvis movie and why we loved it
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Why music is largely about everything but music
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Jeff Beck, Johnny Depp and how to ‘rockwash’ your tarnished reputation
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Has any actor played a rock star convincingly?
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You spent HOW MUCH on speakers?
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Can bands still “sell out”? - plus 50 years of Exile On Main Street and RIP the...
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The world’s rarest records and the sartorial splendour of the satin tour jacket
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Kate Rusby (12) bought Bon Jovi tapes on hire purchase from Casa Disco in Barnsl...
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It’s our fantasy seven-decade Queen’s Jubilee line -up!
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You’re either a t-shirt act or a non t-shirt act: discuss
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Which band played the Old Grey Whistle Test and was then completely forgotten?
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‘Streaming Killed the Skit Track’ plus Toastface Grillah and the Sgt Peppermill
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We spot Will “Slapper” Smith’s biggest mistake at the Oscars and salute Ben Sidr...
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No Top Of The Pops. No NME or Smash Hits covers. What do bands dream of now?
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How did ‘New Boots And Panties!!’ get released without a parental advisory stick...
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There’s only been one truly original group and we know who they are
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Which bands were ALL good–looking? 15 contenders considered...
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Why $15m for Britney Spears’ memoir is “a bargain” and the curious tale of A Whi...
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Why do all bands seem ludicrous apart from the ones you personally like?
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Does anyone capture the spirit of a place better than Van Morrison’s Belfast? –...
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The story of Don Henley’s the Boys of Summer, £10k headphones and ‘I’m Getting B...
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Morrissey v Marr, Neil Young v Spotify, Albarn v Swift – it’s a Pop Tiffs specia...
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The pleasing eccentricities of Jonathan Richman plus Natalie Umbrella-Stand, Chr...
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Ronnie Spector, the Day Of The Jackal and why no-one screams at musicians with b...
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The inventor of the rock logo and why Rick Wakeman’s owed a fortune
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The Summer Of Soul movie, Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense and listening to 1,00...
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Rock memoirs that need to be written, the Porridge Christmas Special and Hunky D...
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Mike Nesmith, Don’t You Want Me and Sly Stone’s drum machine
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Alternative Xmas songs, Zappa’s worst year, Milk Almond and the Happy Mung Beans
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Sex In The Sixties - let Peter Doggett be your guide
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John Illsley tells the Dire Straits story
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Sondheim, the Band Aid recording and the first F-word on record
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Lenny Kaye nails some moments “when the universe shifted”
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Elvis Costello, aka rock’s “greatest communicator”
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Inscrutable album covers and Hunky Dory’s 50th birthday
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McCartney’s lyrics & the Tom Tom Club plus Lionel Blair and other rhyming slang...
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Happy 50th to the Pink Moon recording sessions!
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Daniel Rachel hears 100 hours of Beatles audio – “it’s like the DNA in a crime s...
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Tim Burgess: how Tim’s Twitter Listening Party raised the sum of human happiness
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The best five tracks of the ‘70s and massive applause for Paul Simon (80)
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Kacey Musgraves’ naked TV appearance restaged by Alex Gold
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Richard Balls: the intoxicating songs and chaotic life of Shane MacGowan
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The late Commander Cody and other enthusiastic smokers
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"Mrs Robinson, you're trying to seduce me!"
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Tony Fletcher and a rock press version of “the Beano Christmas Annual”
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