Word In Your Ear

A podcast by Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

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796 Episodes

  1. Life with the Lennons, fame, friendship, the FBI and the Lost Weekend – by Elliot Mintz.

    Published: 10/30/2024
  2. How Goth took over, farewell Phil Lesh and the curse of teenage stardom

    Published: 10/28/2024
  3. When Mark King of Level 42 was the 11 year-old singing drummer in a novelty act

    Published: 10/25/2024
  4. King Crimson, red hair dye and a singing Jack Russell: the boisterous memoir of Jakko Jakszyk

    Published: 10/22/2024
  5. Obsessive fans, Dylan’s reading list and how Taylor Swift tickets are the new codeword for wealth

    Published: 10/21/2024
  6. Britpop, its peaks and its spiritual godfather: a Golden Age rebooted by Miranda Sawyer

    Published: 10/17/2024
  7. Zappa and Elvis as fathers (!), Billy Joel’s house sale and the curse of too much choice

    Published: 10/14/2024
  8. Hugh Cornwell on how the drummer has the best seat in the house

    Published: 10/10/2024
  9. Kris Kristofferson, a lost Tom Petty film and rock stars and the curse of the selfie

    Published: 10/7/2024
  10. How Christine McVie saw Fleetwood Mac and the real reason she left them – by Lesley-Ann Jones

    Published: 10/4/2024
  11. Nick Heyward dressed like Cary Grant – then the Jam, XTC and Talking Heads. “It’s all about clothes, hair and shoes.”

    Published: 10/3/2024
  12. In the studio with Nick Drake, Fairport, John Martyn & the String Band: John Wood remembers a golden age

    Published: 10/2/2024
  13. Ian Hunter – joining Mott The Hoople, Bowie, Hamburg and being “enthused into craziness”.

    Published: 10/1/2024
  14. Bryan Ferry, Maggie Smith and why Ian Hunter is a movie in waiting

    Published: 9/30/2024
  15. When Cocteau Twins followed the Ramones onstage and why 1979 was the Golden Age - by Simon Raymonde

    Published: 9/27/2024
  16. The deep secret of Abba’s “music without nostalgia” and the time they met the Pistols

    Published: 9/25/2024
  17. Fond memories of lost ‘80s London, Morrissey v Marr and the film they should make about Toyah

    Published: 9/23/2024
  18. Swinging London & the Wombles seen from an electric-blue Rolls-Royce. Mike Batt looks back

    Published: 9/20/2024
  19. Joe Boyd – Little Richard, Nick Drake, Tight Fit and why everything sounds the way it does

    Published: 9/18/2024
  20. Screaming Jay Hawkins 75, Dave Grohl 1

    Published: 9/16/2024

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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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.