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Why George Michael’s life is a movie plus Syd, Kirsty, Gorillaz & the worst album title ever
Episode 928
Digging deep in the icebox of news to choose the following lightly chilled refreshments …
… 500 Miles, Wonderwall, Yes Sir I Can Boogie(?): what does…
3 months, 1 week ago
Peter Frampton – ‘the Face of 1968’ looks back!
Episode 927
Peter Frampton, for goodness sake! Part of our lives at Word In Your Ear since we were teenagers. Played guitar on national telly when he was 14. Joi…
3 months, 1 week ago
Paul Simon’s Graceland and how the masterpiece was made
Episode 927
‘Graceland’ was an almighty gamble for Paul Simon, a costly, high-risk departure from the music he’d been making and a complex international venture.…
3 months, 1 week ago
Kate Mossman has strong feelings about rock stars past their prime
Episode 925
Kate’s an old pal of ours from Word magazine who writes scintillating columns and profiles for the New Statesman and Observer. We loved her book ‘Men…
3 months, 1 week ago
Pop stars’ weddings and why Noel Gallagher’s right about World Cup music
Episode 924
Amid much parping of vuvuzelas, the week’s news stories sprint onto the pitch. And these make it to the quarter-finals …
… Dua Lipa’s mega-wedding an…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Dave Balfe remembers the Teardrops, Blur and a very big house in the country
Episode 923
Dave Balfe was a key player in late ‘70s Liverpool, joined Big In Japan and the Teardrop Explodes, co-founded Zoo Records and, later, Food who signed…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Star Ratings - do we love/hate/need them? Five-star debate here! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Episode 922
Star Ratings are now ubiquitous and inescapable and it’s not just music, films and books. Everything we encounter tends to be rated which colours our…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Brian Epstein & the Beatles - what he did and what he hid
Episode 921
Philip Norman has written books about the Beatles – and John, Paul and George - and now turns the spotlight on the man who launched them and the extr…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Are we nearing Beatles Overload? plus the rock star with the most children (41!)
Episode 920
When the pedalo of perusal cruised the lagoon of news this week, it paused to inspect the following ...
… the particular magic of the late-night DJ
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3 months, 3 weeks ago
The glorious story of Funk from James Brown to Off The Wall
Episode 919
Old friend of the podcast Lloyd Bradley wrote Bass Culture, the defining account of reggae, and he’s now turned his attention to funk, from its deepe…
3 months, 3 weeks ago