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 Damned at 50 and the memories (and regrets) of Rat Scabies
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Shoegaze, slackers, ‘noise chasms’ and the 10-year reinvention of rock
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Famous rock locations, His & Hers records and weird things thrown onstage
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Brian Eno’s restless creative adventures with Roxy, Bowie, U2 and Talking Heads
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The Who, Floyd, Led Zep and the great college circuit that launched 1,000 bands
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Paul Simon, Bad Bunny, how songwriting changed & the scourge of Blue Dot Fever!
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Pleasure Gardens, cabaret, nightclubs, rave & 350 years of the Big Night Out
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Andy Earl’s memories of photographing Prince, Madonna and Johnny Cash
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Talk Talk, a deep-dive tale of mystery and imagination
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The Clash, the Cramps and Penny Kiley’s teenage punk diaries
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Van Morrison’s agent writes crime fiction as the music business sleeps
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Can the Michael movie reboot Jacko? & how social media changed festivals
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Andy Kershaw & Dylan’s jar of jam plus the things people do to get gigs
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The story of Wild Thing and whatever happened to World Cup songs?
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No Sex Pistols in Manchester? ‘No Smiths, Nirvana, indie rock.’ Discuss!
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The Keith Moon story is a movie in waiting, both a comedy and a tragedy
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The shameless age of Britpop in ‘the wildest year of the 90s’
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Who hasn’t had ‘work done’, how to spot AI and the stupidest thing we ever did
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How Tony Visconti keeps the Bowie flag flying
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Matt Johnson & the unique story of The The plus George Michael and the sunbed
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At home with Nick Drake, Sandy Denny & John Martyn in the golden year of 1970
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The Jarrett movie, Macca’s secret & when did standing at gigs start?
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The Clash story mapped by the places they lived, played, evolved … and shot pige...
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Mustn’t grumble! Songs with the essence of Englishness
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Neil Tennant revisits songs he’s written since the age of nine
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Steve Nieve looks back at Costello, Stiff tours and the magical sound of pianos
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Scores McCartney still wants to settle, Country Joe and the rise of ‘destination...
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Shaun & Bez and other Odd Couples we love
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The Kinks’ chaotic ascent mapped out day-by-day is ‘a nirvana for any fan’
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How A Hard Day’s Night ripped up the pop movie rulebook
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Bob Dylan and the Beatles, a tale of envy, affection and intense rivalry
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Mark Lewisohn and why writing the real Beatles story just got harder
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Albums we bought because we liked the title
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How Glenn Tilbrook transformed the life of Squeeze
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The Skids, Big Country and the unsettling story of Stuart Adamson
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There are only three Rock National Treasures – and we name them!
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Keith & Chuck, Bowie & Tina, Frank & Elvis and what we learnt from rock’s joint...
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Boston, Def Leppard, bad hair & the golden age of rock radio
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Was Bad Bunny at the Superbowl the greatest show ever staged?
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Andy Bown remembers the Herd, Judas Jump and 47 years in Status Quo
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How the album survived and why it satisfies the soul!
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Racy pulp paperbacks, teenage Joni and the BRIT School versus the age of the ama...
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David Bowie and the triumph, mystery and struggle of his third act
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Days with Bowie, Prince, the Stones, Hendrix & the Clash by David Sinclair
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The genius of Sly Dunbar & Catherine O’Hara plus Springsteen’s anthem and old Ne...
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Adele Bertei, New York’s art-rock explosion and Eno’s shopping list
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Steve Lillywhite produced the Stones, U2, Siouxsie, XTC - ‘the last leg of the r...
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Who’d be a nepo baby? plus the mystery album that outsold the Beatles
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Simon Nicol of Fairport Convention, back in the van with a bag of toffees
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Miles Hunt of the Wonder Stuff - ‘I’d rather make people laugh than applaud’
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