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)
Clint Boon saw Manchester lift off twice and auditioned the young Noel Gallagher
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The Slits, a movie in waiting - “Marvel superheroes with their pants on the outs...
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Shawn Colvin – songwriter, storyteller, urban cowgirl, singing waitress
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The world’s greatest radio station! & things we loved about Dolly Parton
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Blur’s thrilling early years in words and pictures by Dave Rowntree
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Natalie Merchant returns playing ‘Mother Goose as an 18th Century feminist’
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The Proclaimers know the exquisite delight of your songs being sung in football...
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What are the great singles that have entered our bloodstream? “Nobody hums an al...
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Martin Simpson’s 60 years on the folk circuit ‘making people cry for a living’
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The Shadows and the chequered tale of the first British rock’n’roll band
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Stiff Records’ 50th birthday! – the farcical magnificent record label and why we...
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Elliott Smith, his life, his afterlife and the friends who believed in him
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How Kylie became the whole world’s sweetheart
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Sandy Denny’s life and luminous talent celebrated by Linda Thompson
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The Abbey Road photo miracle, Glen Hansard and TV we’d pay to watch
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Bowie, the Cure, Neil Young and the golden age of the video shoot
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Pauline Black of the Selecter, the girl who invented the Rude Girl
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Tony Fletcher - teenage label boss! – remembers the Jam, the Tube and the ‘80s p...
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Is AI wrecking rock history? – plus festivals in heatwaves and Kate Bush dancing
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Jonathan Richman, on-the-road songs and the best-known solo ever recorded
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Georgie Fame, Ben Sidran and the golden age of ‘60s Soho
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Steve Hackett remembers batwings, blues clubs and Genesis on £15 a week
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Mari Wilson, our favourite girl about town, takes Neasden to Chelsea
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All music is dance music! – and the best stage name ever
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Adam & the Ants, pop stardom and Marco Pirroni’s brief spell in the spotlight
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The Specials are no more! Horace Panter remembers days when it was ‘like walking...
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Is Indie the new Good Old Days? And why are there no British country stars?
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Kevin Rowland, the new Dexys and what he's learnt from life
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Great rock feuds of Manchester, TV comedy & the man who invented the pop song
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Joan Armatrading, Tom Robinson and the great music meltdown of Summer ‘76
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Prefab Sprout - a tale of mystery, eccentricity and pop’s most famous motorbike
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Madonna smoking, the first indie PM and have we just witnessed the nadir of pop?...
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Gary Numan’s reality check – ‘I’m essentially a guy who wears make-up for a livi...
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David Gray’s priceless memories of lessons learned the hard way
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Why George Michael’s life is a movie plus Syd, Kirsty, Gorillaz & the worst albu...
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Peter Frampton – ‘the Face of 1968’ looks back!
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Paul Simon’s Graceland and how the masterpiece was made
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Kate Mossman has strong feelings about rock stars past their prime
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Pop stars’ weddings and why Noel Gallagher’s right about World Cup music
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Dave Balfe remembers the Teardrops, Blur and a very big house in the country
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Star Ratings - do we love/hate/need them? Five-star debate here! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Brian Epstein & the Beatles - what he did and what he hid
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Are we nearing Beatles Overload? plus the rock star with the most children (41!)
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The glorious story of Funk from James Brown to Off The Wall
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Leo Sayer has met everyone – rock legends, sport superstars, future presidents …
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Songs about sweltering heat, Willie Nelson’s braids and is vinyl now ‘luxury goo...
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How Daniel Lanois made those adventurous records with Dylan, U2 and Willie Nelso...
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Siouxsie, Nico, Cocteaus, Shangri-Las, Bobbie Gentry … a celebration of the soun...
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Blondie and Clem Burke remembered by devoted pal Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go’s
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Nick Lowe’s miracle payday, Rock feuds and a giant inflatable Jarvis
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