Word In Your Ear | Podcast Guru

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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Recent Episodes

Danny Kelly remembered – Q & NME editor, broadcast genius, raiser of the sum of human happiness

n honour this week of an old pal, one of the greatest storytellers we ever met. In pursuit of at least two “genuine ripples”, we alight upon … … his priceless Q coverlines - ‘Kate Bush: booze, fags, blokes and me!’ ‘R.E.M.: boffin bongo weirdy and beardy’ … drinking ink while chewing paper … why he had 17 copies of Marquee Moon … the Helmet of Destiny in the Room of Shame! … the magic of old office life … his Russian hat and his tribute to Moscow … to Amsterdam with Danny Baker to learn how to smoke dope … ‘Love working with you, man. Sorry you didn’t get a chance to speak' … dictating columns in the Total Sport office … “I’ll be back and we’ll go for a drive in my Bentley’ … and Football365, talkSPORT and the value of finding everything interesting. And this is the wonderful podcast with him six years ago when he’d just moved back to Ireland with 20,000 records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPXFThuuIiU Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock'n'Roll going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

29 MIN

Mary Gauthier, hardcore troubadour – ‘you got 30 seconds to get their attention!’

Word Down Your Way

31 MIN

Nick Heyward, Haircut 100 and life as a 15 year-old father

Haircut 100’s moment in the sun was brief but dramatic and as vividly remembered as his childhood in Nick Heyward’s memoir Fantastic Days. The boy in marmalade corduroy shoes becomes the pop star in the sou’wester and, 45 years later, he’s finally made sense of the peaks and troughs along the way. He’s not bitter but has every right to be. It’s beautifully written, full of moments where time stands still, and this extraordinary and emotional conversation weaves its way through the following … … early ‘60s life with an old-school father – “beer, pubs, jazz, meat” … mid- ‘70s discos – “buck teeth, triple denim, imagining you’re Rick Parfitt” - and memories of Monster Mash, Tiger Feet, Monty Python, Stardust and That’ll Be The Day … the look the bank girl gave him when he paid in his first royalty cheque … the “hostile takeover” that expelled him from the band and has never been discussed since … being a father aged 15 and eventually meeting his long-lost daughter … is it a gift or a burden to have an over-active imagination? … the band blowing their earnings in some kind of Simon Tamplar fantasy … familiar tensions in the Beatles’ Get Back movie … “for me it was leadership, for them resentment”. Order copies of ‘Fantastic Days’ here: https://tr.ee/ITZXRHj-Ia Book tour here: https://tr.ee/4r1Kj_oNVj Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock'n'Roll going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

46 MIN

Dylan and the Pope, the drummer on 42 Number 1s & rock stars who were teenage crims

Seeking another landslide victory in our 20-year conversational campaign, this week’s vote-winners include … … did Bob Dylan take the Pope a jigsaw and some Lucozade? … the drummer whose first session was a Number One … did John Lennon mug a sailor? … albums by Duffy, Frankie, ABC and the Darkness that “died like a louse in a Russian's beard” … another cover that’s better than the Beatles’ original … Hal Blaine, the Knack, Joe Meek and the Stones Roses … why Ozzy Osbourne is ‘the Norman Wisdom of Crime’ … and Tuppy Glossop, Bingo Little, ‘Catsmeat’ Potter-Pirbright and Freddie & the Nutters. Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock'n'Roll going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

50 MIN

Richard Jobson on the Skids and the day Steve Jones burgled Francis Bacon

Word Down Your Way

35 MIN