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Word In Your Ear

Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

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

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38:45

Phil Manzanera’s enviable life in Roxy Music and beyond

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2024/03/22

Phil Manzanera – whose relatives include a Colombian pirate, a spy and an Italian opera musician - has just published his memoir, Revolución to Roxy, and talked to us about it in front of a packed and enthralled house at London’s 21Soho, a life so fascinating, detailed and colourful we’re releasing the conversation as a two-part podcast. Here’s Part One which looks back at an exotic childhood in Hawaii, Caracas and Cuba – with first-hand memories of Castro’s revolution in 1959 – and then his school

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46:11

Fish is bowing out to become a Hebridean shepherd....

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2024/03/20

Fish has announced a Farewell Tour in 2025. “I’ve been there, done that and sold the t-shirt.” He’s moving to a croft on a remote Scottish island with nesting eagles, a flock of sheep named after the Hibernian FC team of 1972 and part-ownership of what’s just been voted “the best beach in the world”. Getting there is like the journey in Brigadoon. This covers a wide range of bases, among them …… how the fall of the Berlin Wall changed the tour circuit.… his first gig as “a big, gangly, geeky

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The extraordinary story of Steve Harley’s greatest hit

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2024/03/18

Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) was a slow-paced, vicious dirge about the band members who forsook and betrayed him which magically evolved into what appeared to be an optimistic love song, a radio staple that never stopped selling. David and Mark remembered its transformation.Subscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon for early - and ad-free - access to all of our content, plus a whole load more!: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See

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Great divorce albums, Powerpop snobs and dark tales...

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2024/03/17

Various items set off the alarm in the rock and roll bag-check this week and were hauled back for closer inspection, among them …… when did records first try to sound like the past?… why Karl Wallinger and Robbie Williams fell out over She’s the One.... how Marillion and Chuck D changed the digital landscape.… the only word for the sound of Free is “lascivious”.… Blood on the Tracks, Here My Dear, Shoot Out The Lights, Tapestry, Tunnel of Love and other accounts of marital fracture.… proof the

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43:08

Is social media killing pop music? And where have all...

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2024/03/04

Caught in the piercing super-trouper of perusal this week …... the BRITS 2024, a howling embarrassment.… Medieval Beatles! She Came In Through the Privy Window, Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Kestrel, Comely Rita, I’m Happy Just To Joust With You …… the wisdom of Tony Hancock.… The Last Dinner Party and other ‘art concepts’.… the Pattie Boyd/George Harrison/Eric Clapton love triangle.… the days when “forming a band was a conspiracy against the tedium of life”.… is it all over for

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28:40

For Henry Normal comedy is like “sugar and salt”

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2024/03/03

Henry Normal set up Baby Cow Productions with Steve Coogan, co-wrote the Royle Family, Coogan’s Run and Mrs Merton and produced Gavin & Stacy and Red Dwarf. He’s been a central plank in British comedy since the early ‘90s and, throughout it all, developed his own stage show built around poems and stories. He’s touring the UK with Brian Bilston. This podcast is full of hard-won insight into what makes comedy work and how the best poetry connects with “a greater truth”. And much besides including ……

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32:20

Steve Howe of Yes tells a few tales from topographic...

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2024/02/29

Steve Howe talks to us from the old house and studio in Devon where they rehearsed ‘The Yes Album’ in 1970. He’s been recording there for 54 years and is part of the current line-up about to set out around Europe. He looks back here on what he’s learnt from 60 years onstage and mentions …… the effect of seeing Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins and The Animals in 1964.… playing old Shadows tunes at the Barnsbury Boys School in Holloway, aged 14.… how Yes songs evolved and the cover versions they used to play

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59:31

The evergreen record that’s 50 years old & Jeremy...

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2024/02/25

As this week’s rock and roll steeplechase thunders out over the jumps, the following runners and riders make it past the post …… “First he changed music. Then he changed the world!” and other over-cooked biopic sells.… Billy Joel returns by the miracle of Artificial Ignorance.… what you learn from visiting rock stars’ childhood homes.… what’s Malta done to deserve a four-day Liam Gallagher festival?… the one thing that’s never changed about Country Music.… how Hotel California ended up in court.…

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30:44

Richard Coles has faced every audience imaginable,...

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2024/02/23

The Reverend Richard Coles is back on tour with his ‘Borderline National Trinket’ show and talks to us from his home in Sussex where he’s “the only person in the village who hasn’t won a BAFTA”. This looks back at his life – “a CV like the work of a fantasist” - and what he’s learnt from 50 years of watching various types of stage entertainment and playing to audiences ranging from the Wollaston Over-‘60s Methodist Ladies Fellowship to a bunch of delinquent Spanish pop fans with catapults. And he

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35:46

For Jah Wobble driving tube trains was even more...

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2024/02/20

Jah Wobble - aka John Wardle - wrote ‘Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer’ in 2009. It’s just been reworked, expanded and republished and it’s well worth reading, full of detail about growing up in the East End, unexploded bombs, pickling factories, grim schooldays, record shops and clubs, the bands he saw and his arrival at Kingsway College where he met John Lydon and Sid Vicious and became a cornerstone of the punk rock inner circle. And then two challenging years as the bassist of Public Image

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51:19

Steve Wright and other great radioheads, McCartney’s...

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2024/02/19

Pausing occasionally to spark a Senior Service and sink a milk stout, we kick cans down this week’s rock and roll boulevard stopping off at the following hotspots …… the “Grunge Dripdown”: why Pearl Jam can play 60,000 seaters.… the Elton Line, the Dury Line, the Bragg Line, the Kirsty Line …. What the London Overgrounds should have been called and why.... how Steve Wright made radio and sowed the seeds of the Fast Show and Stella Street.… actors who’ve joined the Choir Invisible but live on in

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35:02

Max Décharné reboots the golden age of the Teddy Boys

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2024/02/18

If a film director wanted to flag up incoming violence in the late ‘50s, the camera would fall upon a couple of Teds lurking in the street outside. The teenage Keith Richards remembers razors, bike chains and bloodshed at dance halls and there was an infamous Teddy Boy murder on Clapham Common that plunged the nation into frantic, media-led moral panic. Max Décharné sets out to reclaim the Teds from their “Cro-Magnon, knuckle-dragging cliché” in his new book Teddy Boys and relives this dangerously

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27:03

Guy Garvey remembers the Grumbleweeds in panto,...

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2024/02/14

Guy Garvey and Elbow start touring the UK in May and he looks back here at the first shows he saw growing up in Bury in the ’70s - when his five elders introduced him to punk, prog, folk, soul and Elton John - and proudly admits he still doesn’t know the names of the guitar strings. Look out for …… the secrets of the “Vanity Thrust” and other 21st Century stagecraft.… the time they supported the Stones.… being with the same band members for 34 years and each “wanting to be a different member of

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53:04

Lulu, when Prince did a bad thing and how the Beatles...

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2024/02/12

This week the two-man kayak of curiosity tackles the following rock and roll rapids …… when was the last time there was a truly universal hit?… why Waylon Jennings walked out of We Are The World.... the story of Everybody’s Talkin’ and Midnight Cowboy.… why the Beatles’ 1964 American invasion was the biggest surprise party in the world and how the Maysles Brothers’ doc became the template for A Hard Day’s Night.… the secret haikus of Wes Anderson.… the best moments in Jaws.... why Tracy Chapman

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47:31

Musicians and their mothers and the records we could...

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2024/02/04

We spun the week’s rock and roll roulette wheel and this is where the balls landed …… why all rock biopics are worth seeing once.… ‘demixing’: we spent ages perfecting records. Now we’re unperfecting them.… the adorable hand-drawn flyer the 15 year-old Robert Plant made for his band Blacksnake Moan 60 years ago – “the weirdest, wildest sound in R&B!”… are all musicians driven by the urge to please their mums?… Pyjamarama, Crazy Diamond, Cigarettesnalcohol and other rock and roll racehorses.… why

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46:23

Tom Hibbert (the world’s funniest music writer) and...

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2024/01/28

Our piercing Hubble Telescope Of Truth scans the rock and roll heavens to see what new patterns emerge, among them …… running into Rod Stewart at a friend’s funeral.… the priceless spectacle of rock critics dancing.... Prefab Sprout and the fine art of bathos – “We were songbirds, we were Greek Gods, we were singled out by fate/We were quoted out of context - it was great!”… the best songs about being in a band.… Jackson Browne’s Running On Empty (and its hymn to self-love).… King Kong, the most

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TV's greatest musical moment - and are we still...

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2024/01/22

Applying our patent ACME wheat/chaff separator to the rock and roll cornfield, this week’s podcast reaps the following harvest ….… Stray, Budgie, Fat Mattress, Atomic Rooster … ropey bargain-bin fixtures reborn as costly and collectible vinyl classics.… Neil Or No Neil: Let’s Impeach the President, The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight in Heaven … spot the fake Shakey song title.… what they did with the Beatles’ Twist And Shout in the opening sequence of True Detective 4.… the curious tale of the last

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17:25

Graham Gouldman knows where to alphabetically file...

Word In Your Ear ·

2024/01/21

In March Graham Gouldman and 10cc are coming your way and here he talks to David Hepworth about:- seeing Cliff and the original Shadows at his first live show- playing live in the sixties, when a band would plug all three guitars into the same amp- where he keeps his fifty guitars- what’s going on when it all goes quiet on the 10.c.c. tour bus- the songs you have to play for the audience- the ones you play for yourself- what goes through his head every night when he’s standing in the wings- the

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53:01

Annie Nightingale (“the great goth auntie”), choirs...

Word In Your Ear ·

2024/01/15

We stuck a coin in this week’s jukebox of news and cranked up the volume and these were the tracks that got played …… fond memories of Annie Nightingale at Radio One and Whistle Test.… the delicious melancholy of Sunday night pop radio.… how David Gilmour writes songs.… sex, clothes, gangsters: the eternal allure of Bonnie & Clyde.… how the first Police album (including three hit singles) was recorded by a former doctor in a four-track studio above a dairy in Leatherhead for £1,500, and the band’s

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33:21

Jim Gordon - the supernatural gift and tragic fate of...

Word In Your Ear ·

2024/01/13

Jim Gordon played the drums on Wichita Lineman, Good Vibrations, the Byrds’ Mr Tambourine Man and hundreds of other recordings we all own and worked with pretty much everyone including Steely Dan, Tom Waits, Tom Petty, Randy Newman, John Lennon, Frank Zappa and the Everlys. He toured with Delaney & Bonnie and Joe Cocker’s Mad Dogs And Englishmen package and was a member of Derek & the Dominos. He played with a “bounce, a lilt, a boiling undercurrent” that added a whole new melodic dimension and he

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