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Word In Your Ear
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…
Episodes
- Word In Your Ear
Word Podcast 361 - & when did YOU last listen to Apple Jam?
In which we look at pop conspiracy theories (eg Britney Spears), the Christmas songs that work for 2020, the 36 different versions of the new McCartney album…
- Word In Your Ear
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 361 - and when did YOU last listen to 'Apple Jam'?
In which we look at pop conspiracy theories (Britney Spears!), the Christmas songs that work for 2020, the 36 versions of the new McCartney album, the howling…
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Word Podcast 360 - George Clooney's $14m hand-out: the Movie
In which we fantasise about what happened after Clooney gave 14 friends $1m in cash, note the sale of Dylan's private letters, miss the great North London…
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*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 360 - 'George Clooney's $14m hand-out: the Movie!'
In which we fantasise about what happened after Clooney gave 14 friends $1m in cash, note the sale of Dylan's private letters, miss the great North London…
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Word Podcast 359 - for the love of Bo Diddley
Acts that wrote songs about themselves (Animals, Monkees, Manfreds, Devo, NWA, Ants etc), Lloyd Cole does handwritten lyrics to order, the welding of Bob…
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*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 359 - for the love of Bo Diddley
Acts that wrote songs about themselves (Animals, Monkees, Manfreds, Devo, NWA, Ants etc), Lloyd Cole does handwritten lyrics to order, the welding of Bob…
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Word Podcast 358 - best track on the Beatles' #1 revealed!
On the menu this week - the genius of the late Geoffrey Palmer in the Kipper And The Corpse and Reginald Perrin ('rum cove, Johnny Woman' etc), four…
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*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 358 - best track on the Beatles' #1 revealed!
On the menu this week - the genius of the late Geoffrey Palmer in the Kipper And The Corpse and Reginald Perrin ('rum cove, Johnny Woman' etc), four…
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Word Podcast 357 - Andy Neill on Ready, Steady, Go!
In which the author of 'Ready Steady Go!: the Weekend Starts Here' talks about the show that revolutionised pop TV - the people who made it, the acts that…
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Word Podcast 356 - when Sean Connery met Carly Simon
In which we tell the real story of Stardust (the new Bowie biopic), lampoon Kanye West's Kardashian hologram, brace ourselves for the arrival of 'synthetic…
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*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 356 - when Sean Connery met Carly Simon and her sister ...
In which we tell the real story of Stardust (the new Bowie biopic), lampoon Kanye West's Kardashian hologram, brace ourselves for the arrival of 'synthetic…
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Word Podcast 355 - it was 40 years ago today ...
In which we salute Jerry Jeff 'Mr Bojangles' Walker and Spencer Davis (at the ABC in Wakefield!), comedians with catchphrase singles, the marketing genius of…
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*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 355 - it was 40 years ago today...
In which we salute Jerry Jeff 'Mr Bojangles' Walker and Spencer Davis (at the ABC in Wakefield!), comedians with catchphrase singles, the marketing genius of…
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Word Podcast 354 - Rob Halford
Rob Halford - still proudly "a big daft kid" - remembers old music hall acts at the Wolverhampton Grand, wearing polyester suits and kipper ties when the…
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Word Podcast 353 - can you be too handsome for rock & roll?
In which we remember Peter Frampton and the second golden age of the Scream Idols (and his hard-nosed manager Dee Anthony), are weirdly gripped by the recent…
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EARLY ACCESS: Word Podcast 353 - can you be too good looking for rock and roll?
In which we remember Peter Frampton and the second golden age of the Scream Idols (and his hard-nosed manager Dee Anthony), are weirdly gripped by the recent…
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Word Podcast 352 - our favourite '80s albums
In which we salute National Album Day by digging out some much loved '80s LPs, the Telegraph’s Neil McCormick tells us about the tyranny critics now endure…
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EARLY ACCESS: Word Podcast 352 - our favourite '80s albums
In which we salute National Album Day by digging out some much loved '80s LPs, the Telegraph’s Neil McCormick tells us about the tyranny critics now endure…
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Word Podcast 351 - Lennon at 80
In which we unearth NME's best albums and singles polls from the '70s (Jethro Tull? Spirit? Country Joe?), invent fictitious Calypso and Blues stars, rave…
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Word Podcast 351 - Lennon at 80 and the mystifying mysteries of the mysterious Marvel movies
In which we unearth NME's best albums and singles polls from the '70s (Jethro Tull? Spirit? Country Joe?), invent fictitious Calypso and Blues stars, rave…
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Word Podcast 350 - do we still need Greatest Album lists?
We look at Rolling Stone's new Best 500 Albums update and think ... where's the 80s? Where's the British stuff? Where's the jazz, country, dance music…
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Word Podcast 350 - do we still need these Greatest Album lists?
We look at Rolling Stone's new Best 500 Albums update and think ... where's the 80s? Where's the British stuff? Where's the jazz, country, dance music…
- Word In Your Ear
Word Podcast 349 - famous records whose timing speeds up
Old pal Owen Parker on Street Life, Message In A Bottle, Superstition and other recordings that accelerate and the nightmarish complexity of playing stadiums…
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Word Podcast 349 - famous records whose timing speeds up
Old pal Owen Parker on Street Life, Message In A Bottle, Superstition and other recordings that accelerate and the nightmarish complexity of playing stadiums…
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Word Podcast 348 - David Hepworth book launch Crowdcast
Mark Ellen talks to David Hepworth about his new book "Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There" which describes how British imitations came out from under the…
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Word Podcast 347 - ‘Emma Peel’, ‘Sandie Shaw’ and other puns
In which we rope in a real musician – aka our producer Magic Alex – to discover why bands always play their big hits too fast (‘are you a dragger or a…
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Word Podcast 347 - ‘Emma Peel’, ‘Sandie Shaw’ and other puns we missed
In which we rope in a real musician – aka our producer Magic Alex – to discover why bands always play their big hits too fast (‘are you a dragger or a…
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Word Podcast 346 - when punk rock stars are pensioners
In which we dig out a Smash Hits from ‘79 (entirely written by D Hepworth), wonder if Ian Brown’s gone stir crazy, watch it kick off between Dylan and the…
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Word Podcast 346 - when punk rock stars are pensioners
In which we dig out a Smash Hits from ‘79 (entirely written by D Hepworth), wonder if Ian Brown’s gone stir crazy, watch it kick off between Dylan and the…
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Word Podcast 345 - Justin Quirk on glam metal
Author Justin Quirk on ‘the direct link between Kiss and Trump’. Writer and highly entertaining metal connoisseur Justin Quirk – the man behind Nothin’ But A…
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Born To Run's 45th birthday starts here
In which we're joined by our producer Magic Alex for a scenic tour of 'Landfill Indie' ("the Libertines were our Beatles!"), check the musicians incensed by…
- Word In Your Ear
Word Podcast 344: Born To Run's 45th birthday starts here
In which we're joined by our producer Magic Alex for a scenic tour of 'Landfill Indie' ("the Libertines were our Beatles!"), check the musicians incensed by…
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Word Podcast 343 - Kenneth Womack on Lennon's last days
Author, renowned Beatles authority, 'Pop Professor' and old pal of the pod Kenneth Womack talks about 'John Lennon 1980: the Last Days In The Life', his…
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Word Podcast 342 - a close inspection of Bowie's dentalwork
In which we look at Chris Frantz's memoir and its exasperated take on David Byrne (bang goes the Talking Heads reunion), revisit late '60s Laurel Canyon…
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Word Podcast 342 - a close inspection of David Bowie's dentalwork
In which we look at Chris Frantz's memoir and its exasperated take on David Byrne (bang goes the Talking Heads reunion), revisit late '60s Laurel Canyon…
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Word Podcast 341 - Joe Banks
Writer and counter-cultural connoisseur Joe Banks joins us to talk about Hawkwind: Days Of The Underground, his sparkling account of the rise and 51 year…
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Word Podcast 340 - power shift in favour of rock audience!
In which we salute the game-changing inventions of the Stones, Kinks and Louis Armstrong, watch the song catalogue sales boom, wonder if the age of spectacle…
- Word In Your Ear
Word Podcast 340 - the power shift in favour of the rock audience has begun!
In which we salute the game-changing inventions of the Stones, Kinks and Louis Armstrong, watch the song catalogue sales boom, wonder if the age of spectacle…
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Word Podcast 339 - David's day at Donna Summer's house
In which we applaud the great rock and roll name changes (eg the late Wayne Fontana), get unsettled by 'Stan' culture and over-zealous Taylor Swift supporters…
- Word In Your Ear
Word Podcast 339 - David's day at Donna Summer's house
In which we applaud the great rock and roll name changes (eg the late Wayne Fontana), get unsettled by 'Stan' culture and over-zealous Taylor Swift supporters…
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Word Podcast 338 - Shea Stadium revisited
In which we we marvel at the Beatles' 12-song set 55 years ago (four of them covers), applaud a virtual gig in the Natural History Museum, ponder Alan Bennett…
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Word Podcast 338 - Shea Stadium revisited
In which we we marvel at the Beatles' 12-song set 55 years ago (four of them covers), applaud a virtual gig in the Natural History Museum, ponder Alan Bennett…
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Word Podcast 337 - David Mitchell
Novelist David Mitchell on Utopia Avenue, his fictional account of life in a band (Sunday Times No 1 best-seller!) - plus Bucks Fizz at the Malvern Winter…
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Word Podcast 337 - David Mitchell on why writing about the rock boom of 1967 is "an open goal"
Novelist David Mitchell on Utopia Avenue, his fictional account of life in a band (Sunday Times No 1 best-seller!) - plus Bucks Fizz at the Malvern Winter…
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Word Podcast 336 - Happy Anniversary...
... 50 and 40 years ago this week! In which we salute the magnificent Peter Green (and hear Owen Parker's memories of recording with him in the '90s), look…
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Word Podcast 336 - Happy Anniversary: 50 and 40 years ago this week!
In which we salute the magnificent Peter Green (and hear Owen Parker's memories of recording with him in the '90s), look back at the great Q headlines -…
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Word Podcast 335
Live Aid's "2,000 million global audience": surely some mistake? In which we remember Lady Di rollerskating in Kensington Palace with Duran Duran on her…
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Word Podcast 335 - Live Aid's "2,000 million global audience": surely some mistake?
In which we remember Lady Di rollerskating in Kensington Palace with Duran Duran on her Walkman, invent fake rap stars and Mod Revival bands, applaud the…
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Word Podcast 334 - Graeme Thomson on John Martyn
Graeme Thomson on John Martyn's "lifelong grudges and huge, messy explosion of records"Music writer, author and old pal from Word magazine, Graeme Thomson on…
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Word Podcast 334 - Graeme Thomson on John Martyn's "lifelong grudges and huge, messy explosion of records"
Music writer, author and old pal from Word magazine, Graeme Thomson on his spledid new book, "Small Hours: the Long Night of John Martyn", a tale involving…
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Word Podcast 333: when band members go "off brand"
In which we shudder to imagine life in a group with Brian Jones, David Crosby, Dennis Wilson etc, chew tobacco with Charlie Daniels, invent reggae acts, ponder…
- Word In Your Ear
Word Podcast 333: when band members go "off brand"
In which we shudder to imagine life in a group with Brian Jones, David Crosby, Dennis Wilson etc, chew tobacco with Charlie Daniels, invent reggae acts, ponder…
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Word Podcast 332: what makes an album cover 'classic'?
In which we ponder American pop showbiz v shambling British charm, bands v solos acts, Will Farrell's Eurovision movie, Ed Sheeran's bank balance, Beyoncé at…
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Word Podcast 332: what makes an album cover 'classic'?
In which we ponder American pop showbiz v shambling British charm, bands v solos acts, Will Farrell's Eurovision movie, Ed Sheeran's bank balance, Beyoncé at…
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Word Podcast 331 - It's the Bob Dylan Lyric Generator!
In which we ponder rock and roll stage names, the immortal gag that launched Billy Connolly, KT Tunstall versus the streaming system and best guests on chat…
- Word In Your Ear
Word Podcast 331 - It's the Bob Dylan Lyric Generator!
In which we ponder rock and roll stage names, the immortal gag that launched Billy Connolly, KT Tunstall versus the streaming system and best guests on chat…
- Word In Your Ear
Word Podcast 330
In which we contemplate pop stars' statues, 50th anniversary albums, excruciating things actors do in Lockdown, fictitious Monsters of Rock, the curious tale…
- Word In Your Ear
Word Podcast 330
In which we contemplate pop stars' statues, 50th anniversary albums, excruciating things actors do in Lockdown, fictitious Monsters of Rock, the curious tale…
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Word Podcast 329
In which we spot the fake Country & Western song titles and ponder the man who launched the Undertones, Classics that leave us cold, eternally comforting…
- Word In Your Ear
Word Podcast 329
In which we spot the fake Country & Western song titles and ponder the man who launched the Undertones, Classics that leave us cold, eternally comforting…