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.
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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.
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Paul Young was the bassist in a pub band playing Led Zeppelin and Patto covers ‘til his solo soul and blues slot launched him as a singer. He’s still touring nearly 50 years later, just back from filling Mexican stadiums with Rod Stewart. And next May launching his acoustic ‘Songs & Stories Tour’ in theatres, intercut with film clips and hoary old tales from the battlefield. He looks back here at …
… Smash Hits cover shoots and Rewind package tours: “what a glorious time the ‘80s was”
… the soul phrases he stole from Free and his impression of “the Paul Rodgers moan”
… discovering James Taylor, the Doors, Gregg Allman, Vinegar Joe and Van Morrison
… supporting Bob Marley when the crowd threw a dead duck at Joe Jackson – “and hit him!”
… Mike & Bernie Winters in panto - “I was rolling in the aisles”
… playing Led Zeppelin, Cream and Patto and the Bill Withers and Albert King covers that launched him as a singer
… memories of Live Aid – “I wish I’d thought about it more”
… “What am I, a performing monkey?”
… when Midge Ure told him the opening line of Band Aid had actually been a secret audition – “Simon, Tony Hadley or me”
… the “deafening” Slade at Luton Tech, the night the DJ played Black JuJu by Alice Cooper
… the over-cranked news story that he’d lost his voice
… and the night the Mafia came to Rhode Island.
Tickets for ‘Paul Young – Songs & Stories’ here: https://www.awaywithmedia.com/tours/paul-young-2026
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