Word In Your Ear

A podcast by Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

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Music

784 Episodes

  1. The Stones’ clothes, our love affair with Abba & rock’s most appalling spectacle

    Published: 4/8/2024

  2. Big Characters we have loved and why the Clash wouldn’t last ten minutes in 2024

    Published: 3/31/2024

  3. How Paul Cook broke into Hammersmith Odeon to see the Who, Slade, Queen & Alex Harvey

    Published: 3/28/2024

  4. Sharleen Spiteri saw Joe Strummer onstage and thought “that’s what I want to be”

    Published: 3/26/2024

  5. Album sleeves as lifestyle statements and 5 seconds that made Phil Manzanera a fortune

    Published: 3/25/2024

  6. Phil Manzanera Part 2: an insider’s guide to Roxy Music (and a great Bob Dylan story)

    Published: 3/24/2024

  7. Phil Manzanera’s enviable life in Roxy Music and beyond

    Published: 3/22/2024

  8. Fish is bowing out to become a Hebridean shepherd. What’s he learnt in 45 years onstage?

    Published: 3/20/2024

  9. The extraordinary story of Steve Harley’s greatest hit

    Published: 3/18/2024

  10. Great divorce albums, Powerpop snobs and dark tales of 1999

    Published: 3/17/2024

  11. Stephen Fall’s reviewed 3,333 of his albums. Buy the book!

    Published: 3/14/2024

  12. It’s Arthur Brown, the god of hellfire … paging Health & Safety!

    Published: 3/12/2024

  13. Suzi Ronson - Bowie’s stylist - knows why rock and roll is all about hair

    Published: 3/11/2024

  14. How the Beatles invented pop video and acts we love who always sound the same

    Published: 3/10/2024

  15. Is social media killing pop music? And where have all the bands gone?

    Published: 3/4/2024

  16. For Henry Normal comedy is like “sugar and salt”

    Published: 3/3/2024

  17. Steve Howe of Yes tells a few tales from topographic oceans

    Published: 2/29/2024

  18. The evergreen record that’s 50 years old & Jeremy Thorpe at a hippie commune

    Published: 2/25/2024

  19. Richard Coles has faced every audience imaginable, one armed with pea-shooters

    Published: 2/23/2024

  20. For Jah Wobble driving tube trains was even more thrilling than playing Glastonbury

    Published: 2/20/2024

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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.