Word In Your Ear

A podcast by Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

Categories:

Music

729 Episodes

  1. Smoking on album sleeves, Smash Hits The Musical and records you own but have never played

    Published: 10/9/2023

  2. Echo & the Bunnymen, why the rock press were “divs” and the secret of good hair by Will Sergeant

    Published: 10/8/2023

  3. An Insider’s Guide To Goth by Cathi Unsworth (via Cruella De Vil and the Cure)

    Published: 10/4/2023

  4. Nick Drake – a whole new perspective by Richard Morton Jack

    Published: 10/3/2023

  5. Gary Numan, unlikely sex symbols and U2’s £1,000 night in the desert

    Published: 10/2/2023

  6. Does Gary Numan regret throwing the glo-stick that hit David Bowie?

    Published: 10/1/2023

  7. Why a sumptuous new book about the Island label is “like entering the record shop of your dreams”.

    Published: 9/27/2023

  8. Mojo’s 30th birthday plus bands whose t-shirts you’d wear even if you didn’t have any of their records

    Published: 9/25/2023

  9. The “unknown woman” in McCartney’s photos, the Human League and a new U2 game

    Published: 9/18/2023

  10. Pulitzer Prize winner David Remnick takes the long view of Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Macca and more

    Published: 9/17/2023

  11. The Stones return, rock’n’roll marriages and Freddie’s 50 kimonos

    Published: 9/12/2023

  12. Plaid shirts? Brown ale? A smoke-stained pub rock special with Simon Matthews

    Published: 9/6/2023

  13. What Kevin Armstrong learnt as the sideman for Bowie, McCartney, Morrissey, Sinead and Iggy Pop

    Published: 9/5/2023

  14. Which acts will “go down in history” and what matters more than their music?

    Published: 9/3/2023

  15. Bob Dylan - why he signs autographs left-handed and other mysteries solved by Ray Padgett

    Published: 9/2/2023

  16. Achtung Baby, rock fantasy friends and the band that inspired the Bad News Tour

    Published: 8/29/2023

  17. Robbie Robertson, Billy Connolly, Bridge Over Troubled Water and the “fake history” of Punk

    Published: 8/21/2023

  18. Sinead O’Connor, that Morrissey outburst, over-long films and the pitiful plight of roadies

    Published: 7/31/2023

  19. Tales of Hipgnosis sleeves (and the new film) and why the world needs Steely Dan more than ever

    Published: 7/24/2023

  20. PP Arnold remembers life in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue aged 17

    Published: 7/19/2023

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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.