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Word In Your Ear Paul Young – “Big in the ‘80s! What lucky bastards we were!’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...

2025-10-2534 min

Word In Your Ear The Zombies’ Colin Blunstone – a psychedelic showpiece then ‘washed up’ aged 21The Zombies formed before the Stones and had huge hits with She’s Not There and Time Of The Season. Their baroque masterpiece Odessey and Oracle now gets ranked beside Revolver and Pet Sounds. Colin Blunstone has a solo tour in 2026 and looks back here in his wood-panelled den at the first shows he played, the people he met and being No 1 in America aged 19. This too … … when your career starts at 16 “and you think it’s over at 21” … seeing the Beatles at Luton Odeon and the Stones at Studio 51 Leicester Square “sitting...

2025-10-1736 min

Word In Your Ear Maddy Prior of Steeleye Span drove Rev Gary Davis round Britain in a Triumph HeraldMaddy Prior – folk royalty, an absolute hero of ours – is touring with Steeleye Span again this autumn 66 years after they started, a life someone should make into a movie. She talks to us here about her undimmed love of live performance and … … when the height of your ambition is a £3 ticket to Blackpool Pleasure Beach … “Rod Argent, the first boy I ever kissed” … her fox-fur-trimmed Lambretta when a teenage mod … the night Steeleye Span showered their audience with £4,000 … seeing Acker Bilk, Chris Barber, Jos...

2025-09-0337 min

Word In Your Ear Live Aid remembered – from inside and out – on its 40th birthdayA 40th anniversary special with two of its presenters (Hepworth and Ellen) and old pal and TV critic Boyd Hilton who watched on the day aged 18 (“young, pretentious, idiotic”) and reviews the new BBC documentary. We look back at … … the ways Live Aid changed television – “not about music but spectacle and scale”. … would the idea of staging it have ever come about in the world of social media? … being in the room for the Geldof F-Bomb. … Ian Astbury smoking on live TV, the concrete mausoleum of th...

2025-07-0654 min

Word In Your Ear Carol Decker of T’Pau and the ocean-going world of the 80s package tourCarol Decker - another Smash Hits cover star on the podcast! T’Pau are playing dates this summer and autumn and she talks here – hilariously - about life on the ‘80s package tour circuit and the first shows she ever saw and played, which stops off at …. … does any audience beat a Butlin’s Mid-Weeker on their third pint? … from Black Mirror to PG Tips: the afterlife of a hit. … seeing Rod & the Faces in Stoke-On-Trent and Dire Straits in a Wrestling Hall. … “Appearing In An A&E Near...

2025-06-1735 min

Word In Your Ear The Beatles ’64 movie - one of us loves it, the other doesn’t. Plus Rod’s tweets & Trump’s guitarsReversing into tomorrow! This week’s news events given a vigorous once-over include … … what will a Trump guitar be worth in 30 years’ time? … the average age of a Glastonbury goer and how it sells its TV coverage. … “the Beatles in America was like Cortez arriving in South America, the clash of two civilizations. How did this film manage to balls the story up so catastrophically?” … Leonard Bernstein’s daughter’s dreams about George Harrison and the Fabs v the all-American alpha male. … who should be nex...

2024-12-0249 min

Word In Your Ear Danny Baker - the panjandrum of unstoppable anecdote with a taste of his upcoming tourDanny Baker, the act you’ve known for all these years, is kicking his legs up again in 2025 on a thundering new theatre tour, ‘Aye Aye! Ahoy Hoy!’ “Dead men tell no tales,” he points out, “so we might might as well get ‘em all told now.” This will be another barnstorming one-man circus - as, naturally, is this barrelling conversation with the two of us which collides with the following … … being shot, Welsh cake, an olive green Humber, goldfish, when videos were the size of a loaf of bread, why half his Maidstone audience got up and left, stol...

2024-11-2750 min

Word In Your Ear Tom Hibbert (the world’s funniest music writer) and why Madonna should be suedOur 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...

2024-01-2846 min

Word In Your Ear Great albums now 50 years old, the best gag ever & the haircut that launched folk-rockLeaping across puddles, walking between the raindrops, its collar turned to the cold and damp, our weekly podcast builds a defence against the rigours of the rock and roll weather and offers shelter from the storm. Remain warm and dry with the following … … the 11 musicians who turned down a Knighthood, MBE etc. … why Dylan & the Band’s 1974 tour set the template for all tours to follow. … Rod Stewart minus the hair: unimaginable. … the old duffers’ perfect New Year’s Eve. … happy 50th to Jon...

2024-01-0753 min

Word In Your Ear Billy Sloan, the man who interviewed Grace Jones in a bathBilly Sloan, Glaswegian broadcaster and music columnist, has written his memoir, ‘One Love, One Life’, about a career that’s allowed him to point his microphone at an astonishing array of musicians and started back in the old analogue world of tight-deadline newspaper journalism where you hammered out your Chuck Berry interview as the rolls of film were biked back to the office to be processed. This covers a lot of ground including … … the moment that changed his life. … why the London Press Corps were “a pack of hyenas”. … Rod Stewart...

2023-11-0238 min

Word In Your Ear The “gangsterish” charm of Andrew Loog Oldham and Immediate Records, by Simon SpenceThe godfather of British independent labels, Immediate, was started in 1965 by the Stones’ manager Andrew Oldham and Tony Calder, its winning slogan: “happy to be part of the industry of human happiness”. As Simon Spence correctly puts it, “it all got very messy”. Oldham tended to fall out with people and then threaten to kill them. Simon’s excellent book, ‘Immediate: the Rise And Fall of the UK’s First Independent Record Label’ has the details (he also co-authored Oldham’s two memoirs, ‘Stoned’ and ‘2Stoned’). Immediate has been a touchstone ever since and their roster included the Small Faces, PP Arnold, the Nice...

2023-10-2141 min

Word In Your Ear PP Arnold remembers life in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue aged 17Pat “PP” Arnold was hired as an Ikette by Ike & Tina’s Revue in 1965 and set off a 2,000 mile tour of America, coming to London a year later to support the Rolling Stones. Offered a record deal by Andrew Oldham, she lived in England for many years becoming “the First Lady Of Immediate” with a wide circle of friends and collaborators including the Small Faces, Cat Stevens, Hendrix, Rod Stewart, Nick Drake and the Bee Gees, all recorded in her memoir 'Soul Survivor'. Here she looks back at:- … the rigours of the Ike & Tina tours where s...

2023-07-1935 min

Moving Matters Episode 68: Moving Matters with Rod Hepworth of It's Your Move IlkleyIn this episode, Rod Hepworth, Director of It’s Your Move Ilkley, discusses how he began within the industry 23 years ago at the ripe old age of 40, after a life of many careers including a Cow Inseminator and a Professional DJ! Rod founded It’s Your Move Ilkley in 2007, which provides mainly domestic moving, storage and packing services, local and national (although they do International too using forwarding agents), running 2 HGV’s, 4 low loaders, a panel van, and 7 members of staff. It’s Your Move Ilkley have been members of Move Assured for the last 3 years bu...

2023-05-2540 min

Word In Your Ear How a nine-year-old boy kick-started Rock’n’Roll (and other stories)Where the Gold Bracelets of Sincerity and Wisdom and the Rod of Equity and Mercy meet the piping hot music news agenda in a weekly podcast and alight upon the following …. … the greatest singer of sad songs we’ve ever heard. … the extraordinary tale of the B-side of ‘13 Women And Only One Man’. … songs you couldn’t record these days. … Rufus Wainwright’s re-recording of Neil Young’s Harvest – but CAN modern technology possibly make it sound any better? … Noel Coward in the Italian Job...

2023-05-0947 min

Word In Your Ear Trevor Horn’s adventures in modern recording with ABC, Frankie, Yes and Rod StewartThe teenage Trevor Horn could be found playing bass in dance bands on the Top Rank circuit supporting acts like Tommy Cooper (and singing Long-Haired Lover From Liverpool and Hi-Ho Silver Lining). He began writing songs for Tina Charles, had a worldwide hit with Buggles and went on to produce Dollar, ABC, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Malcolm McLaren, Grace Jones, Pet Shop Boys and countless others. In this terrific exchange he talks about life in covers bands (“big money, £150 a week”), how the Fairlight changed the landscape, the diplomacy all producers require, his “pictorial sense” of how ABC should sound, hi...

2022-11-0433 min

Word In Your Ear How did ‘New Boots And Panties!!’ get released without a parental advisory sticker?Entertaining things subjected to wry and rigorous scrutiny this week include:- * The most bizarre and tenuous rock autobiographies – eg the tell-all revelations of Elvis Presley’s nurse, Primal Scream’s tambourine player, Sinatra’s valet and the girl who made John Lennon a cheese sandwich.* How Roger Daltrey wound up living in a van.* Aimee Mann v Steely Dan and the curious world of support acts.* Would you rather see a “legend” or the next big thing? * The noble tradition of song stealing...

2022-03-2441 min

Word In Your Ear Favourite critics and pop star stampsIn which we salute some much-loved writers (Clive James on Rod Stewart: "he was hopping about like a bifurcated marrow"), investigate the Friends Reunion, predict the next pop acts on postage stamps (a round of Stamp Waddy, anyone?) and tackle the burning issues of the day - aka What's the longest you've ever waited for a band to appear? And who's best: Britney Spears or Taylor Swift (and which would you want to organise your bungee jump)?Tickets for Word In The Park on July 17th here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-word-in-the-park-a-summer-afternoon-of-socially-distanced-storytelling-tickets-152091141699

2021-05-3141 min

Don’t Miss Your Ears To A High-Impact Full Audiobook.1971 - Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year by David HepworthPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268721to listen full audiobooks. Title: 1971 - Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year Author: David Hepworth Narrator: David Hepworth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 14, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The Sixties ended a year late – on New Year's Eve 1970, when Paul McCartney initiated proceedings to wind up The Beatles. Music would never be the same again. The next day would see the dawning of a new era. 1971 saw the release of more monumental albums than any year before or since an...

2016-07-1411h 44

Download Best Full-Length Audiobooks in History, World 1971 - Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year by David HepworthPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268721to listen full audiobooks. Title: 1971 - Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year Author: David Hepworth Narrator: David Hepworth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 14, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The Sixties ended a year late – on New Year's Eve 1970, when Paul McCartney initiated proceedings to wind up The Beatles. Music would never be the same again. The next day would see the dawning of a new era. 1971 saw the release of more monumental albums than any year before or since an...

2016-07-1411h 44

Ignite A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Captivating.Never a Dull Moment: 1971—The Year That Rock Exploded by David HepworthPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/321442to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never a Dull Moment: 1971—The Year That Rock Exploded Author: David Hepworth Narrator: David Hepworth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 39 minutes Release date: June 7, 2016 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: A rollicking look at 1971 - the busiest, most innovative and resonant year of the 70s, defined by the musical arrival of such stars as David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Joni Mitchell On New Year's Eve, 1970, Paul McCartney told his lawyers to issue the writ at the High Court in London, effectively ending The Beatles. You might say this wa...

2016-06-0711h 39

Discover Top Full Audiobooks in History, The Americas Never a Dull Moment: 1971—The Year That Rock Exploded by David HepworthPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/321442to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never a Dull Moment: 1971—The Year That Rock Exploded Author: David Hepworth Narrator: David Hepworth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 39 minutes Release date: June 7, 2016 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: A rollicking look at 1971 - the busiest, most innovative and resonant year of the 70s, defined by the musical arrival of such stars as David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Joni Mitchell On New Year's Eve, 1970, Paul McCartney told his lawyers to issue the writ at the High Court in London, effectively ending The Beatles. You might say this wa...

2016-06-0711h 39

Word In Your Ear Word Podcast 99: it's question timeWe answer your questions (when is Rod Liddle's column starting?) and you answer ours (can any fictional hero talk about a record without sounding like a knob?). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2009-05-2842 min