Word In Your Ear

A podcast by Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

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Music

784 Episodes

  1. Kanye West & the billion dollar gym pumps plus the album sleeve that changed the game

    Published: 11/21/2023

  2. The 2-Tone story - Daniel Rachel remembers the school playground “turning black and white”

    Published: 11/18/2023

  3. Why Kirsty MacColl was so funny, honest, original and impossible to sell – by Jude Rogers

    Published: 11/14/2023

  4. Mystery people on album sleeves, Elton dressed as a hornet and Leonard Cohen’s favourite song and why

    Published: 11/13/2023

  5. Slade, a rambunctious reminder of a vanished world by Daryl Easlea

    Published: 11/9/2023

  6. The KLF torched £1m "and are haunted by it daily". John Higgs knows why

    Published: 11/7/2023

  7. What did we think of the Beatles' last hurrah?

    Published: 11/5/2023

  8. For Ian Broudie & the Lightning Seeds, 'Three Lions' has been a blessing and a curse

    Published: 11/3/2023

  9. Billy Sloan, the man who interviewed Grace Jones in a bath

    Published: 11/2/2023

  10. The greatest guitarist & the strange tale of Mike Raven - plus a leaked Radio One memo!

    Published: 10/30/2023

  11. Pin-Ups’ 50th, Morrissey The Eternal Teenager and what the Stones should be writing songs about

    Published: 10/23/2023

  12. The “gangsterish” charm of Andrew Loog Oldham and Immediate Records, by Simon Spence

    Published: 10/21/2023

  13. Denmark Street, London's Tin Pan Alley, where the Sex Pistols met Pink Floyd and a luverly bunch of coconuts, by Peter Watts

    Published: 10/19/2023

  14. Madonna’s karaoke show, albums that sound their covers and whatever happened to protest music?

    Published: 10/17/2023

  15. Jarvis v Jacko and why drummers are like goalkeepers. Let Pulp’s Nick Banks be your guide

    Published: 10/12/2023

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

    Published: 10/9/2023

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

    Published: 10/8/2023

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

    Published: 10/4/2023

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

    Published: 10/3/2023

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

    Published: 10/2/2023

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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.