Word In Your Ear
A podcast by Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold
841 Episodes
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Without John Mayall … no Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo or Led Zeppelin?
Published: 29/07/2024 -
Best album sleeves, what’s ruined singing and pop as ‘empowerment porn’
Published: 21/07/2024 -
Who is Lawrence and why did Will Hodgkinson write a whole book about him?
Published: 18/07/2024 -
Backstage at Live Aid, the first Knebworth and bands that don’t get on
Published: 15/07/2024 -
How Joni Mitchell joined the boys’ club and why we don’t need a comeback – by Ann Powers
Published: 12/07/2024 -
Twist And Shout? Spiral Scratch? Corey duBrowa celebrates the best and rarest EPs ever made
Published: 08/07/2024 -
What songs should be longer or shorter?
Published: 07/07/2024 -
Dylan Jones – Clegg’s women, Hague’s pints and “the wiring behind celebrity culture”
Published: 03/07/2024 -
Happy accidents, whooping at gigs and why the album review star system doesn’t work anymore
Published: 30/06/2024 -
Pop football chants, Reg ‘Reg’ Snipton sings Joni Mitchell & the tale of John Lennon’s watch
Published: 24/06/2024 -
Only Clare Grogan knows how it feels to burst onstage from a giant birthday cake
Published: 21/06/2024 -
The wit and charisma of Kate Bush by Graeme Thomson: going too far makes you what you are
Published: 18/06/2024 -
For the love of Françoise Hardy, Ben Sidran and the TV comedy Twenty Twelve
Published: 17/06/2024 -
Stewart Lee knows the rigours of ‘animal costume work’ and why great comedy is about shock
Published: 15/06/2024 -
How Springsteen went “six deep”, fictional rock hacks and who’s more conservative than Liam Gallagher?
Published: 11/06/2024 -
Jon Savage - Dusty’s wig, Bowie’s bombshell and how gay pop culture changed music
Published: 09/06/2024 -
“Abba’s success is more about us than them”: Giles Smith looks back at a 50-year love affair
Published: 08/06/2024 -
the Architect of Mod: how Peter Meaden restyled and launched the Who - by Steve Turner
Published: 06/06/2024 -
Great album trilogies, suing Madonna and "the pantheon of psychedelic heaviosity"
Published: 03/06/2024 -
The spectacular Dead & Co, songs performed backwards & happy birthday Diamond Dogs!
Published: 26/05/2024
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.
