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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Kenney Jones remembers the Small Faces’ masterpiece
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The fabulous Bob Weir and how the Grateful Dead invented the internet
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Steve Cradock on Ocean Colour Scene, Mod hair & the ghost of Ronnie Lane
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Mary Coughlan, onstage from the age of five - ‘Applause and lemonade!’
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Pet Shop Boys at 40, missing folk star found! & rock stars’ childhood bedrooms
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From Dylan to Chappell Roan, pop’s 60-year obsession with Brigitte Bardot
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Peter Hammill, Van Der Graaf Generator and what makes them unique
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Do all panned albums end up loved? And what’s the most significant record sleeve...
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Paul Kelly – ‘national treasure!’ - and the song that took 30 years
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Lucinda Williams is fighting on every front
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Beastie Boys, Frankie, teds, punks, raves - ‘moral panics’ remembered!
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Punk Rock recalled by Chris Sullivan - can music STILL be outrageous?
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UK Subs’ Charlie Harper (81) has served 50 years in the punk wars. Give this man...
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Fairytale of New York's full story & the imperishable genius of Steve Cropper
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The Beatles versus Capitol Records and ‘the greatest marketing hype in history’
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The Undertones are 50! And no-one’s more amazed than Damian O’Neill
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Jimmy Cliff, unseen Beatles and the greatest bassline on record!
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Boo Hewerdine’s funny and alarming account of real life on the road
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Legendary duos who met by chance, RIP Mani & ironing to gangsta rap
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Kula Shaker’s Crispian Mills had a colourful childhood
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The Beach Boys’ story gets more tangled by the minute
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What makes a rock star a ‘ledge’ & the daft rituals of the ‘70s disco
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Rock’s fascination with the Third Reich exposed by Daniel Rachel
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Paul Weller – ‘gloriously chippy’ – as seen by friends, family, fans and collabo...
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Did rave kill dancing in couples? Stars seen in strange places?
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David Bowie and why we need him more than ever. Paul Morley looks back in wonder
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‘Bob Dylan is my father’ - and why Sam Sussman is convinced it’s true.
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Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey had a ‘manifesto for success’. Here’s how it worked
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Cowbells, maracas, gongs, castanets – classic percussion parts demonstrated!
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The Smiths’ Mike Joyce on triumph, gladioli & Morrissey when he was still ‘Steve...
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Records that sound unique and why all bands need a backlash
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Paul Young – “Big in the ‘80s! What lucky bastards we were!’
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Billy Bragg – 40 years, 2,700 gigs and what he learnt from Taylor Swift
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Mark Kermode tells us stories about music in movies
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How many bands can you name every member of?
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The Zombies’ Colin Blunstone – a psychedelic showpiece then ‘washed up’ aged 21
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Led Zeppelin’s fight for attention and how they fudged their backstory
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Stones, Blondie, Iggy and songs that make a movie & why we loved Diane Keaton
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Ringo and why the Beatles wouldn’t have worked without him
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Rock stars we envy, Madonna as a sister-in-law & the British obsession with posh...
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Bowie, Boy George and the rise of the riotous Blitz club with Robert Elms
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The Prince story by 200 people who knew him - and John McKie
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The three London kids who invented rock style
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Danny Thompson’s bass adventures, Dylan’s women, TV satire and great sleeve art.
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Thea Gilmore on Joan Baez, Jake Thackray and Dave Pegg’s dog starting her career
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How pioneer tape-rat Roger Armstrong found vintage America a whole new audience
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Why Van and Fairport make the perfect send-off, Robert Redford & the best-lookin...
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John Prine, Elvis Costello and a jukebox on fire
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Alex's star-studded week in Hollywood
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Peter Hammill on Bowie, other superfans & 47 albums of ‘self-sabotage and chaos’...
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