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 podcasts alive in regular Word In Your Ear evenings in which they spoke to musicians and authors in front of an audience.
Over these years they've produced hundreds of hours of material. As of the Current Unpleasantness of 2020, they've produced yet hundreds of hours more with a little help from guests kind enough to digitally show them around their attics such as Danny Baker, Andy Partridge, Sir Tim Rice and Mark Lewisohn. For the full span of the Word In Your Ear world, visit wiyelondon.com.
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Categories: Music
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Once again the ping-pong ball of conversation is batted across the rock and roll net and these are the scores on the doors …
… how to wreck the national anthem.
… cover versions that are better than the original.
… the genius of Bob Newhart - "nutty Walt", Abraham Lincoln and that gag about country music.
… virtue signalling in rock magazines.
… why we connect with pop stars on the slide.
… how Tainted Love went from the Northern Clubs to the top of the American charts via a cloakroom in Leeds.
… Ingrid Andress and the curse of ‘cursive singing’.
… the comedy album that saved Warners Brothers Records.
… parenthood and Bruce Springsteen: “the world of love and the world of fear – and they’re the same world”.
… who’d rather Elvis Costello played (whisper it) other people’s songs?
… have there been any great album sleeves since the arrival of CDs?
… why Don Rickles and Bob Newhart’s friendship proves all showbiz is just an act.
... musicians, athletes, comedians, politicians and the addiction of adrenaline.
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Previous episodes
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700 - Best album sleeves, what’s ruined singing and pop as ‘empowerment porn’Sun, 21 Jul 2024 - 0h
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699 - Who is Lawrence and why did Will Hodgkinson write a whole book about him?Thu, 18 Jul 2024 - 0h
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698 - Backstage at Live Aid, the first Knebworth and bands that don’t get onMon, 15 Jul 2024 - 0h
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697 - How Joni Mitchell joined the boys’ club and why we don’t need a comeback – by Ann PowersFri, 12 Jul 2024 - 0h
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696 - Twist And Shout? Spiral Scratch? Corey duBrowa celebrates the best and rarest EPs ever madeMon, 08 Jul 2024 - 0h
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695 - What songs should be longer or shorter?Sun, 07 Jul 2024 - 0h
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694 - Dylan Jones – Clegg’s women, Hague’s pints and “the wiring behind celebrity culture”Wed, 03 Jul 2024 - 0h
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693 - Happy accidents, whooping at gigs and why the album review star system doesn’t work anymoreSun, 30 Jun 2024 - 0h
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692 - Pop football chants, Reg ‘Reg’ Snipton sings Joni Mitchell & the tale of John Lennon’s watchMon, 24 Jun 2024 - 0h
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691 - Only Clare Grogan knows how it feels to burst onstage from a giant birthday cakeFri, 21 Jun 2024 - 0h
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690 - The wit and charisma of Kate Bush by Graeme Thomson: going too far makes you what you areTue, 18 Jun 2024 - 0h
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689 - For the love of Françoise Hardy, Ben Sidran and the TV comedy Twenty TwelveMon, 17 Jun 2024 - 0h
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688 - Stewart Lee knows the rigours of ‘animal costume work’ and why great comedy is about shockSat, 15 Jun 2024 - 0h
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687 - How Springsteen went “six deep”, fictional rock hacks and who’s more conservative than Liam Gallagher?Tue, 11 Jun 2024 - 0h
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686 - Jon Savage - Dusty’s wig, Bowie’s bombshell and how gay pop culture changed musicSun, 09 Jun 2024 - 0h
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685 - “Abba’s success is more about us than them”: Giles Smith looks back at a 50-year love affairSat, 08 Jun 2024 - 0h
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684 - the Architect of Mod: how Peter Meaden restyled and launched the Who - by Steve TurnerThu, 06 Jun 2024 - 0h
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683 - Great album trilogies, suing Madonna and "the pantheon of psychedelic heaviosity"Mon, 03 Jun 2024 - 0h
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682 - The spectacular Dead & Co, songs performed backwards & happy birthday Diamond Dogs!Sun, 26 May 2024 - 0h
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681 - Why They Might Be Giants now perform an entire song backwardsWed, 22 May 2024 - 0h
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680 - Guy Chambers - writing with Robbie, a tangle with Bowie & half a bagel with Paul McCartneyTue, 21 May 2024 - 0h
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679 - Alan Edwards, pop PR – ‘Bowie was like King Arthur and the Spice Girls like the Pistols’Mon, 20 May 2024 - 0h
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678 - Rock’s image-makers, men on dancefloors and why bands can’t act like bands anymoreSun, 19 May 2024 - 0h
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677 - Paul Carrack has seen it all – beat, soul, prog, pub rock, pop & the perfect ‘slow burn’ career.Thu, 16 May 2024 - 0h
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676 - Nige Tassell was so obsessed with Dexys he’s tracked down all 24 ex-membersWed, 15 May 2024 - 0h
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675 - Why Nick Mason’s “cottage industry” band plays just early Pink FloydTue, 14 May 2024 - 0h
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674 - Let It Be revisited, the wisdom of Steve Albini and a woeful tale about Steve MarriottSun, 12 May 2024 - 0h
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673 - The genius of Little Feat, the Man with the Twang & pop’s greatest scandal in the makingSun, 05 May 2024 - 0h
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672 - Steve Diggle of the Buzzcocks remembers the day “a terrible beauty was born”Fri, 03 May 2024 - 0h
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671 - Rock snobbery, the seven wives of Gregg Allman & the greatest solo on a pop recordMon, 29 Apr 2024
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670 - Harold Bronson of Rhino Records kept a 40-year rock and roll diary…Sun, 28 Apr 2024 - 0h
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669 - The “amniotic throb” of modern pop, the eternal life of the Top Gear theme and the Blue Nile’s lucky breakSun, 21 Apr 2024 - 0h
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668 - Hollywood Babylon, the inspired gimmickry of Catch A Fire and the luck of Ron WoodMon, 15 Apr 2024 - 0h
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667 - Neil Tennant remembers life “with dyed red Bowie hair and clattering platforms”Thu, 11 Apr 2024 - 0h
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666 - Richard Thompson – “you know it’s time to go when the audience starts throwing chairs”Wed, 10 Apr 2024 - 0h
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665 - Neil Tennant remembers the pop press and “the last great era of forward-looking songs"Tue, 09 Apr 2024 - 0h
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664 - The Stones’ clothes, our love affair with Abba & rock’s most appalling spectacleMon, 08 Apr 2024 - 0h
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663 - Big Characters we have loved and why the Clash wouldn’t last ten minutes in 2024Sun, 31 Mar 2024 - 0h
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662 - How Paul Cook broke into Hammersmith Odeon to see the Who, Slade, Queen & Alex HarveyThu, 28 Mar 2024 - 0h
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661 - Sharleen Spiteri saw Joe Strummer onstage and thought “that’s what I want to be”Tue, 26 Mar 2024 - 0h
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660 - Album sleeves as lifestyle statements and 5 seconds that made Phil Manzanera a fortuneMon, 25 Mar 2024 - 0h
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659 - Phil Manzanera Part 2: an insider’s guide to Roxy Music (and a great Bob Dylan story)Sun, 24 Mar 2024 - 0h
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658 - Phil Manzanera’s enviable life in Roxy Music and beyondFri, 22 Mar 2024 - 0h
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657 - Fish is bowing out to become a Hebridean shepherd. What’s he learnt in 45 years onstage?Wed, 20 Mar 2024 - 0h
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656 - The extraordinary story of Steve Harley’s greatest hitMon, 18 Mar 2024 - 0h
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655 - Great divorce albums, Powerpop snobs and dark tales of 1999Sun, 17 Mar 2024
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654 - Stephen Fall’s reviewed 3,333 of his albums. Buy the book!Thu, 14 Mar 2024 - 0h
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653 - It’s Arthur Brown, the god of hellfire … paging Health & Safety!Tue, 12 Mar 2024 - 0h
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652 - Suzi Ronson - Bowie’s stylist - knows why rock and roll is all about hairMon, 11 Mar 2024 - 0h
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651 - How the Beatles invented pop video and acts we love who always sound the sameSun, 10 Mar 2024 - 0h
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