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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Bill Bailey celebrates “the things that make us human”.
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How Al Stewart struck gold, the folk boom and a flat-share with Paul Simon
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‘Mystique is dead’: what Gary Kemp learnt in 40 years of making and selling reco...
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The afterlife of Hallelujah and the day David sold his old singles
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The greatest sax solo, YMCA, musical one-night stands and Tom Hanks’ wise advice
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How ‘60s pop was sold and the first news stories launching the hits
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The Beatles ’64 movie - one of us loves it, the other doesn’t. Plus Rod’s tweets...
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How R.E.M. changed the game and why there’ll never be another band like them
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Fairport, Nick Drake, Traffic and why Island Records was a sumptuous visual deli...
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Danny Baker - the panjandrum of unstoppable anecdote with a taste of his upcomin...
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The Band Aid recording, the birth of the tape loop and the power of the movie th...
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How Toyah & Robert’s kitchen show became an Xmas rock’n’roll ding-dong
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John Lydon on the genius of Frankie Howerd, Tommy Cooper and the fine art of Spo...
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The poshest pop star ever, music in Xmas ads and song lyrics we can still recite
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Robert Hilburn on the lifetime achievement of Randy Newman
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Peter Perrett of the Only Ones – teenage life, a wondrous return and a 35-year l...
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Does ‘celebrity endorsement’ still work? - and how Quincy Jones invented the blo...
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The genius of George Harrison and why he’s still underrated
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Ian Broudie of the Lightning Seeds - his Year Zero moment, Imposter Syndrome and...
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Kraftwerk, Cream, Nirvana, savage reviews, fantasy girlfriends and a naked Nick...
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Life with the Lennons, fame, friendship, the FBI and the Lost Weekend – by Ellio...
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How Goth took over, farewell Phil Lesh and the curse of teenage stardom
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When Mark King of Level 42 was the 11 year-old singing drummer in a novelty act
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King Crimson, red hair dye and a singing Jack Russell: the boisterous memoir of...
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Obsessive fans, Dylan’s reading list and how Taylor Swift tickets are the new co...
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Britpop, its peaks and its spiritual godfather: a Golden Age rebooted by Miranda...
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Zappa and Elvis as fathers (!), Billy Joel’s house sale and the curse of too muc...
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Hugh Cornwell on how the drummer has the best seat in the house
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Kris Kristofferson, a lost Tom Petty film and rock stars and the curse of the se...
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How Christine McVie saw Fleetwood Mac and the real reason she left them – by Les...
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Nick Heyward dressed like Cary Grant – then the Jam, XTC and Talking Heads. “It’...
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In the studio with Nick Drake, Fairport, John Martyn & the String Band: John Woo...
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Ian Hunter – joining Mott The Hoople, Bowie, Hamburg and being “enthused into cr...
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Bryan Ferry, Maggie Smith and why Ian Hunter is a movie in waiting
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When Cocteau Twins followed the Ramones onstage and why 1979 was the Golden Age...
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The deep secret of Abba’s “music without nostalgia” and the time they met the Pi...
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Fond memories of lost ‘80s London, Morrissey v Marr and the film they should mak...
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Swinging London & the Wombles seen from an electric-blue Rolls-Royce. Mike Batt...
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Joe Boyd – Little Richard, Nick Drake, Tight Fit and why everything sounds the w...
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Screaming Jay Hawkins 75, Dave Grohl 1
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One Day author David Nicholls – prog rock, Live Aid and making tapes for girls
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Nick Lowe – war stories, wise decisions and the event in 1970 that made him thin...
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The Buskers’ Hall of Fame – from Moondog and Billy Bragg to Don Partridge and “t...
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Who should follow John Lydon with a Spoken Word spectacular?
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David Hepworth on the glory, comedy and tragedy of rock stars who can't retire
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The Oasis reunion – feuds, cash, symbolism and the desire to repair our imperfec...
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Are comedians more competitive than rock stars?
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Johnny Beatle’, early Blondie, Led Zeppelin’s plane and seven fabulous years at...
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One-word rock star mimicry, bands who shouldn’t reform & the best thing about Ta...
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The extraordinary story of Arthur Lee, Love and the 1966 flop which became a hit...
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