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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Shifting the pass-the-parcel of news and removing the wrapping when the music stops. Which this week happens here …
… will rock bands get offered the Saudi money?
… “there could be no British nightclubs in 2030”
… Diane Keaton and why all men were besotted
… the day Led Zeppelin played an Aqua Theatre for an audience swimming and in boats
… “the optimum number of band members is either three or loads”
… did Easy Rider invent the music video?
… Trainspotting, Reservoir Dogs, Midnight Cowboy, Almost Famous – soundtrack moments that made their movies
… 12 million more UK tickets were sold than in 2019 yet 150 small venues closed in two years: “scale is now part of the appeal”
… the genius of John Sebastian
… the end of MTV UK and how video changed the landscape
… “Here’s to you Mrs Roosevelt”: how Simon & Garfunkel got into the Graduate
… can anyone fathom Ghost Town Blues by Prefab Sprout?
Plus Tim Hardin, Harry Nilsson and birthday guest Matthew Elliott on why three is the magic number.
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