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)
Nick Drake – a whole new perspective by Richard Morton Jack
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Gary Numan, unlikely sex symbols and U2’s £1,000 night in the desert
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Does Gary Numan regret throwing the glo-stick that hit David Bowie?
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Why a sumptuous new book about the Island label is “like entering the record sho...
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Mojo’s 30th birthday plus bands whose t-shirts you’d wear even if you didn’t hav...
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The “unknown woman” in McCartney’s photos, the Human League and a new U2 game
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Pulitzer Prize winner David Remnick takes the long view of Bruce Springsteen, Ar...
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The Stones return, rock’n’roll marriages and Freddie’s 50 kimonos
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Plaid shirts? Brown ale? A smoke-stained pub rock special with Simon Matthews
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What Kevin Armstrong learnt as the sideman for Bowie, McCartney, Morrissey, Sine...
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Which acts will “go down in history” and what matters more than their music?
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Bob Dylan - why he signs autographs left-handed and other mysteries solved by Ra...
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Achtung Baby, rock fantasy friends and the band that inspired the Bad News Tour
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Robbie Robertson, Billy Connolly, Bridge Over Troubled Water and the “fake histo...
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Sinead O’Connor, that Morrissey outburst, over-long films and the pitiful plight...
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Tales of Hipgnosis sleeves (and the new film) and why the world needs Steely Dan...
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PP Arnold remembers life in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue aged 17
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The things Bruce and Bing have in common and the adventures of Punch in 1976 clu...
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Nick Drake - and what Richard Morton Jack learnt from 200 people who knew him
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Cathi Unsworth was a teenage goth. Think “Robert Smith’s tarantula hair” and “ci...
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Wham!, Rock Follies and lost ‘70s prog foot-soldiers Renia – we will remember th...
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Cocteau Twins song or Farrow & Ball paint colour? plus the day Beatlemania began
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Grotesque/brilliant sleeves plus does upping the price make a ticket more desira...
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Harvey Lisberg – managing 10cc, meeting Elvis and “Peter Noone’s extra tooth”
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Record shops in movies and what Glenda Jackson did that no other actor ever dare...
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Revenge songs, Nick Drake and that sorry tale about Primal Scream
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Word In The Park 2023 #4 – Clare Grogan's adventures in TV, film and music
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Word In The Park 2023: How the Beatles and James Bond shaped us all
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Word In The Park 2023 #2 – 60 years of the Bee Gees with Bob Stanley
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Word In The Park 2023: 60 years of the Stones with Lesley-Ann Jones
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What bands are becoming unfashionable?
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Which is the most two-faced world - movies, music or daytime TV?
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Farewell Tina Turner – “all you needed was Nutbush City Limits and a Watneys Par...
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Robert Johnson, Shakespeare and the rock star image of Martin Amis
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Is there a more annoying rhyme than “arms” and “charms”?
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How a nine-year-old boy kick-started Rock’n’Roll (and other stories)
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Groups that look like a check-out line at B&Q? We have a winner!
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“Well I walked up to her and I asked her if she wanted to dance.”
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Jack Nitzche, a “pleat-faced” guitarist and the time Sly Stone got married onsta...
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John Cooper Clarke reveals “the performing poet’s worst enemy”
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“Fred Flange”, Barry Cryer meets the Pretenders and what we’ve learnt about the...
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The inscrutable King Crimson exposed by their documentary-maker Toby Amies
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Paul Weller as a songwriter? Dylan Jones unpacks his “Imperial Phase"
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What’s Paul Jones of the Manfreds learnt from 60 years onstage?
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Do we still need film and album reviews? Plus Seymour Stein and Keith Reid’s las...
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Why Andrew Lauder is the unsung hero of the record business
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Is U2’s new Songs Of Surrender album just plain *wrong*?
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15 minutes with Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake: it all started on Blackpool Pier...
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Is U2’s new Songs Of Surrender album just plain wrong?
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Genuinely rotten albums by brilliant artists plus the band that started cancel c...
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