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)
Talking Heads, where they came from and where they went - with Jonathan Gould
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Freddie Mercury has a daughter’ – and Lesley-Ann Jones can prove it
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Oasis in 2026, the Troggs and what Morrissey’s only gone and done now!
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‘Hey Joe’, its miracle birth & why violent songs are like True Crime - by Jason...
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Maddy Prior of Steeleye Span drove Rev Gary Davis round Britain in a Triumph Her...
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Why reviews lost their sting - and what matters more, the song or the record?
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Debsey Wykes of Dolly Mixture wants you to read her teenage diary
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Singers’ vast egos explained and what’s the real definition of ‘a fan’?
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Neil Hannon - the Divine Comedy, the Father Ted saga & nights at the Indie Disco
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Tanita Tikaram - from ‘girl with guitar in bedroom’ to Hammersmith Odeon in six...
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Bob Mould remembers Hüsker Dü, Sugar & that guy with the hipster moustache
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Comedy records, TV gold & have Oasis and Coldplay hoovered up all the cash?
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Brian Protheroe on the eternal life of his 1974 hit “Pinball”
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Terry Reid, the man who really invented Led Zeppelin, & guitar fetishism
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Peter Ames Carlin on the record that made Bruce Springsteen
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Jah Wobble - 40 hilarious unedited minutes interrupted by a pest control officer
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Elvis, the Colonel & how unseen letters changed Peter Guralnick’s view of their...
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Are the Nineties the new Classic Rock? And whatever happened to comedy records?
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The Wedding Present turns 40, memories of John Peel & ‘the only time I ever pogo...
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Bret McKenzie on Flight of the Conchords, Hollywood and writing songs for frogs...
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Del Amitri’s Justin Currie has faced every tough crowd imaginable. Lessons were...
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Ozzy Osbourne, Jaws, the lost world of mix tapes & the movies’ most chilling mom...
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The late Nick Drake’s manager on the nine-year project “The Making Of Five Leave...
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Suzi Quatro - how Dad, Elvis and Mickie Most transformed my life
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New Nick Drake tapes, Bob Marley’s masterpiece and the Coldplay ‘kiss-cam’.
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The story of David Ackles, who never recovered from putting out “the best album...
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Kevin Rowland, Oasis, Velvet Sundown – and do we want the truth or just a good s...
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John Otway – Micro-stardom, 5,000 gigs and how to capture a crowd in 20 seconds
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Peter Hook looks back at Joy Division, New Order and how not to be a DJ
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Live Aid remembered – from inside and out – on its 40th birthday
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Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull and 58 years of one-legged live performance
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Album sleeves the modern world would ban & the best song titles and opening line...
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Bobby Bluebell’s thriving third act, ‘80s Glasgow and the gift that keeps on giv...
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Dubmaster Dennis Bovell has had 50 fun-filled years making magical records
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Rick Wakeman once signed a contract guaranteeing he’d wear “at least one cape on...
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10cc’s I’m Not In Love is still weird & wonderful! - plus Kneecap & Carol Kaye
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When Peter Hooton, the Farm & Eric Cantona played Clash songs in an amphitheatre
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Carol Decker of T’Pau and the ocean-going world of the 80s package tour
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The magnificent Sly Stone & Brian Wilson and the curse of our expectations
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Why Oasis were God’s gift to the rock press and the story of two missing teeth
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Elkie Brooks once opened for the Beatles. A lot happened in the next 65 years …
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Why they MUST make the Cat Stevens movie + rock feuds, the best video & Beyoncé...
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Stuart Maconie – every character in the Beatles’ story has a story of their own
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Inside the world of reissues with producer Rob Caiger
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Genuinely ‘iconic’ rock pictures, words we should ban and how Freddie Mercury st...
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Martha Wainwright - ‘never nervous, always ballsy’ and onstage from the age of e...
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Budgie of Siouxsie And The Banshees started out in nightclub cabaret acts, aged...
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Books rock stars want you to read, sacked drummers and how Dylan spent his birth...
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Dylan Jones bangs the drum for 1975, an explosion of talent and creativity
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The great lost Beach Boys SMiLE album – David Leaf unravels rock’s Holy Grail
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