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)
The best songs written in seconds, Lennon’s legs and Springsteen’s chimes of fre...
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Dennis Greaves, Nine Below Zero – old-school R&B, police and thieves and the ago...
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Peter Capaldi’s life in a teenage Glasgow punk band and a public apology to the...
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Alan Parsons – from the rooftop of Savile Row to Pink Floyd, Steve Harley and so...
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Mom Rock v Dad Rock, the Oasis rumour mill and Kanye West’s devious dentist.
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Dennis McNally saw the Summer Of Love in London, New York and California
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The greatest duet, rock cameos in Miami Vice and the rebirth of Mississippi John...
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Al Murray and James Holland talk the ending of the war in 1945 and the afterlife...
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Derek Shulman – when Simon Dupree and Gentle Giant were “the darlings of the Eng...
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The entertaining fictions of Max Romeo and Robert Smith and tech that actually w...
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Moon Zappa remembers life with her father Frank. ‘Pagan absurdists’ aren’t great...
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Daryl Hall - ‘60s soul session work, the right shoes and a barge trip with Bob D...
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Rock star pilots, sacking Zak Starkey and bold pioneers of the psychedelic moust...
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Dave Pegg, Fairport’s “longest-serving member” (fnarr!) looks back at hippie cha...
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Withering reviews of famous albums, Jaws versus Jeeves and the genius of Blondie...
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Why Sparks’ Russell Mael preferred British acts to the ‘faux honesty’ of Laurel...
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Seven ‘lost’ Springsteen albums, romance in sitcoms and the age of spectacle
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Ed Tudor Pole – singer, actor, serial showman – saw the pop and punk wars as ‘pu...
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AI’s Word In Your Ear theme tune (!!), the four stages of showbiz & taking kids...
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Hearing 45 year-old records you’d never played & the least likely-looking person...
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What Kate Mossman discovered about rock’s elder statesmen
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How John Harris and his son found a life-changing connection through music
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Mike Rutherford looks back at 60 years onstage and the art of cheap rock theatre
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Mike Scott of the Waterboys remembers the shows that inspired him
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The lost world of teenage love songs – and the best pop song ever written!
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Nik Kershaw remembers Live Aid, snoods, fingerless gloves & a sudden male-female...
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Gang Of Four’s Jon King now sees the comedy in their endless self-sabotage
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Has politics eaten entertainment? What’s ‘perfect sound’? Plus Brian James & how...
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Film-maker Denny Tedesco on dad’s old band The Wrecking Crew and new doc “Immed...
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Lennon & McCartney seen in a fresh, stirring and original new light by Ian Lesli...
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The threat of AI, the appeal of Gene Hackman & the filthy glamour of Exile On Ma...
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Graham Fellows, “the comedy of the underdog” and inventing John Shuttleworth and...
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Eternally cool rock stars, the Bond takeover and remembering Rick Buckler
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Justin Hayward – ‘60s package tours, lost profits & the highpoint of the Moody B...
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Your guided tour of David Bowie’s London with Paul Gorman’s stories about its ke...
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Eddi Reader - busking, singing radio jingles and “men you put on the shoulder-pa...
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Why all great pop stars are cartoons, Bowie doing mime and people whose voices w...
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Bob Marley in London, Chappell Roan’s outburst & records that sound best in the...
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The rise of David Bowie and the Spiders From Mars through the eyes of Woody Wood...
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So Long, Marianne Faithfull plus the Shipping Forecast as read by Nick Cave
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Did Britain invent the rock band? - plus our new laws about music & Garth Hudson...
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Howard Jones has ‘the best job in the world’
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Andy Fairweather Low’s teenage psychedelic stardom
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A 3-part rant about LPs sold as ‘antiques’, TikTok & the shameful AI Michael Par...
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The unstoppable Francis Rossi – open the fridge door and he’ll do 30 minutes
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Graham Nash beat the Beatles in a talent contest
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The Dylan biopic, Sam & Dave and why 2025 is the most important year in our live...
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Johnnie Walker, pop’s golden year and what’s wrecking rock documentaries.
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How Dylan and Leonard Cohen punctured the Summer Of Love plus the birth of block...
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Why we have enough Christmas hits plus the greatest songs about money
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