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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Buddy Holly airlines and the inimitable Bob Dylan
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“Pop music is 80 per cent about hair”, remaking classic albums and why CDs are s...
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Queen, Bowie and other residents of Rockfield Studios remembered by the cook’s d...
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57 years of Fleetwood Mac: author Mark Blake's fond encounters and fresh revelat...
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Ron Sexsmith doesn’t need a teleprompter. He can do 40 Dylan songs at the drop o...
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Without John Mayall … no Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo or Led Zeppelin?
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Best album sleeves, what’s ruined singing and pop as ‘empowerment porn’
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Who is Lawrence and why did Will Hodgkinson write a whole book about him?
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Backstage at Live Aid, the first Knebworth and bands that don’t get on
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How Joni Mitchell joined the boys’ club and why we don’t need a comeback – by An...
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Twist And Shout? Spiral Scratch? Corey duBrowa celebrates the best and rarest EP...
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What songs should be longer or shorter?
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Dylan Jones – Clegg’s women, Hague’s pints and “the wiring behind celebrity cult...
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Happy accidents, whooping at gigs and why the album review star system doesn’t w...
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Pop football chants, Reg ‘Reg’ Snipton sings Joni Mitchell & the tale of John Le...
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Only Clare Grogan knows how it feels to burst onstage from a giant birthday cake
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The wit and charisma of Kate Bush by Graeme Thomson: going too far makes you wha...
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For the love of Françoise Hardy, Ben Sidran and the TV comedy Twenty Twelve
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Stewart Lee knows the rigours of ‘animal costume work’ and why great comedy is a...
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How Springsteen went “six deep”, fictional rock hacks and who’s more conservativ...
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Jon Savage - Dusty’s wig, Bowie’s bombshell and how gay pop culture changed musi...
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“Abba’s success is more about us than them”: Giles Smith looks back at a 50-year...
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the Architect of Mod: how Peter Meaden restyled and launched the Who - by Steve...
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Great album trilogies, suing Madonna and "the pantheon of psychedelic heaviosity...
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The spectacular Dead & Co, songs performed backwards & happy birthday Diamond Do...
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Why They Might Be Giants now perform an entire song backwards
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Guy Chambers - writing with Robbie, a tangle with Bowie & half a bagel with Paul...
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Alan Edwards, pop PR – ‘Bowie was like King Arthur and the Spice Girls like the...
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Rock’s image-makers, men on dancefloors and why bands can’t act like bands anymo...
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Paul Carrack has seen it all – beat, soul, prog, pub rock, pop & the perfect ‘sl...
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Nige Tassell was so obsessed with Dexys he’s tracked down all 24 ex-members
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Why Nick Mason’s “cottage industry” band plays just early Pink Floyd
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Let It Be revisited, the wisdom of Steve Albini and a woeful tale about Steve Ma...
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The genius of Little Feat, the Man with the Twang & pop’s greatest scandal in th...
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Steve Diggle of the Buzzcocks remembers the day “a terrible beauty was born”
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Rock snobbery, the seven wives of Gregg Allman & the greatest solo on a pop reco...
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Harold Bronson of Rhino Records kept a 40-year rock and roll diary…
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The “amniotic throb” of modern pop, the eternal life of the Top Gear theme and t...
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Hollywood Babylon, the inspired gimmickry of Catch A Fire and the luck of Ron Wo...
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Neil Tennant remembers life “with dyed red Bowie hair and clattering platforms”
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Richard Thompson – “you know it’s time to go when the audience starts throwing c...
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Neil Tennant remembers the pop press and “the last great era of forward-looking...
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The Stones’ clothes, our love affair with Abba & rock’s most appalling spectacle
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Big Characters we have loved and why the Clash wouldn’t last ten minutes in 2024
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How Paul Cook broke into Hammersmith Odeon to see the Who, Slade, Queen & Alex H...
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Sharleen Spiteri saw Joe Strummer onstage and thought “that’s what I want to be”
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Album sleeves as lifestyle statements and 5 seconds that made Phil Manzanera a f...
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Phil Manzanera Part 2: an insider’s guide to Roxy Music (and a great Bob Dylan s...
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Phil Manzanera’s enviable life in Roxy Music and beyond
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Fish is bowing out to become a Hebridean shepherd. What’s he learnt in 45 years...
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