Word In Your Ear
A podcast by Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold
837 Episodes
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Bret McKenzie on Flight of the Conchords, Hollywood and writing songs for frogs and unicorns
Published: 29/07/2025 -
Del Amitri’s Justin Currie has faced every tough crowd imaginable. Lessons were learn
Published: 29/07/2025 -
Ozzy Osbourne, Jaws, the lost world of mix tapes & the movies’ most chilling moment
Published: 28/07/2025 -
The late Nick Drake’s manager on the nine-year project “The Making Of Five Leaves Left”
Published: 26/07/2025 -
Suzi Quatro - how Dad, Elvis and Mickie Most transformed my life
Published: 22/07/2025 -
New Nick Drake tapes, Bob Marley’s masterpiece and the Coldplay ‘kiss-cam’.
Published: 21/07/2025 -
The story of David Ackles, who never recovered from putting out “the best album ever made”.
Published: 17/07/2025 -
Kevin Rowland, Oasis, Velvet Sundown – and do we want the truth or just a good story?
Published: 14/07/2025 -
John Otway – Micro-stardom, 5,000 gigs and how to capture a crowd in 20 seconds
Published: 10/07/2025 -
Peter Hook looks back at Joy Division, New Order and how not to be a DJ
Published: 08/07/2025 -
Live Aid remembered – from inside and out – on its 40th birthday
Published: 06/07/2025 -
Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull and 58 years of one-legged live performance
Published: 01/07/2025 -
Album sleeves the modern world would ban & the best song titles and opening lines
Published: 29/06/2025 -
Bobby Bluebell’s thriving third act, ‘80s Glasgow and the gift that keeps on giving
Published: 27/06/2025 -
Dubmaster Dennis Bovell has had 50 fun-filled years making magical records
Published: 26/06/2025 -
Rick Wakeman once signed a contract guaranteeing he’d wear “at least one cape onstage”
Published: 25/06/2025 -
10cc’s I’m Not In Love is still weird & wonderful! - plus Kneecap & Carol Kaye
Published: 23/06/2025 -
When Peter Hooton, the Farm & Eric Cantona played Clash songs in an amphitheatre
Published: 19/06/2025 -
Carol Decker of T’Pau and the ocean-going world of the 80s package tour
Published: 16/06/2025 -
The magnificent Sly Stone & Brian Wilson and the curse of our expectations
Published: 15/06/2025
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
