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 extraordinary story of Steve Harley’s greatest hit
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Great divorce albums, Powerpop snobs and dark tales of 1999
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Stephen Fall’s reviewed 3,333 of his albums. Buy the book!
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It’s Arthur Brown, the god of hellfire … paging Health & Safety!
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Suzi Ronson - Bowie’s stylist - knows why rock and roll is all about hair
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How the Beatles invented pop video and acts we love who always sound the same
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Is social media killing pop music? And where have all the bands gone?
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For Henry Normal comedy is like “sugar and salt”
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Steve Howe of Yes tells a few tales from topographic oceans
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The evergreen record that’s 50 years old & Jeremy Thorpe at a hippie commune
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Richard Coles has faced every audience imaginable, one armed with pea-shooters
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For Jah Wobble driving tube trains was even more thrilling than playing Glastonb...
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Steve Wright and other great radioheads, McCartney’s bass & the non-profits of P...
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Max Décharné reboots the golden age of the Teddy Boys
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Guy Garvey remembers the Grumbleweeds in panto, Santana fantasies & a song nicke...
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Lulu, when Prince did a bad thing and how the Beatles changed the shape of the h...
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Musicians and their mothers and the records we could never sell
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Tom Hibbert (the world’s funniest music writer) and why Madonna should be sued
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TV's greatest musical moment - and are we still allowed to laugh at hopeless old...
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Graham Gouldman knows where to alphabetically file 10cc records
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Annie Nightingale (“the great goth auntie”), choirs on pop records & the music t...
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Jim Gordon - the supernatural gift and tragic fate of “the greatest rock drummer...
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Great albums now 50 years old, the best gag ever & the haircut that launched fol...
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Noel Coward, Gallagher & Squire’s superpower summit & the art of the Bob Dylan b...
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Hipgnosis album art, the hardest working man in showbiz & the moment the world w...
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Denny Laine, the Move’s catastrophic court case & the man who's made 700 albums...
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The Beatles as seen by their roadie, co-conspirator & friend Mal Evans – and Ken...
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A drink to Shane MacGowan, Spinal Tap rebooted and lunch with Randy Newman
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Pauline Murray’s kids have finally found out what Mum did in the Punk Wars
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Glen Matlock and the ‘Sliding Doors moment’ that sparked the punk rock fuse
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Does anyone know more about rock stars than Jenny Boyd?
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Who’s next for an AI movie, first use of sampling & rock stars in unsuitable clo...
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Kanye West & the billion dollar gym pumps plus the album sleeve that changed the...
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The 2-Tone story - Daniel Rachel remembers the school playground “turning black...
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Why Kirsty MacColl was so funny, honest, original and impossible to sell – by Ju...
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Mystery people on album sleeves, Elton dressed as a hornet and Leonard Cohen’s f...
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Slade, a rambunctious reminder of a vanished world by Daryl Easlea
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The KLF torched £1m "and are haunted by it daily". John Higgs knows why
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What did we think of the Beatles' last hurrah?
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For Ian Broudie & the Lightning Seeds, 'Three Lions' has been a blessing and a c...
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Billy Sloan, the man who interviewed Grace Jones in a bath
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The greatest guitarist & the strange tale of Mike Raven - plus a leaked Radio On...
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Pin-Ups’ 50th, Morrissey The Eternal Teenager and what the Stones should be writ...
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The “gangsterish” charm of Andrew Loog Oldham and Immediate Records, by Simon Sp...
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Denmark Street, London's Tin Pan Alley, where the Sex Pistols met Pink Floyd and...
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Madonna’s karaoke show, albums that sound their covers and whatever happened to...
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Jarvis v Jacko and why drummers are like goalkeepers. Let Pulp’s Nick Banks be y...
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Smoking on album sleeves, Smash Hits The Musical and records you own but have ne...
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Echo & the Bunnymen, why the rock press were “divs” and the secret of good hair...
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An Insider’s Guide To Goth by Cathi Unsworth (via Cruella De Vil and the Cure)
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