Paul Simon, Bad Bunny, how songwriting changed & the scourge of Blue Dot Fever!
It’s polling day for this week’s news and these are the stories that got our vote … ... Pussycat Dolls, Meghan Trainor and how ‘Blue Dot Fev...
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Listen to Word Podcast, a Music podcast by Word In Your Ear. Stream 951 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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Pleasure Gardens, cabaret, nightclubs, rave & 350 years of the Big Night Out
Mass commercial nightlife began in a Japanese Pleasure Garden in 1657 and it’s blossomed ever since – via Victorian Vauxhall, cabaret Paris,...
Andy Earl’s memories of photographing Prince, Madonna and Johnny Cash
Andy Earl helped create the new dawn of colour photography in the ‘80s pop video age and went on to shoot a series of unforgettable portrait...
Talk Talk, a deep-dive tale of mystery and imagination
Talk Talk made just five albums, all written and recorded unconventionally and no-one’s entirely sure how they did it. And in the last two d...
The Clash, the Cramps and Penny Kiley’s teenage punk diaries
Penny Kiley moved to Liverpool in 1976, ran into punk rock and “became the person I’d never been allowed to be”, as vividly remembered in he...
Van Morrison’s agent writes crime fiction as the music business sleeps
In the 70s Paul Charles wrote lyrics for an Irish prog band. Now he writes mystery novels. Inbetween he’s been agent for Tom Waits, Nick Low...
Can the Michael movie reboot Jacko? & how social media changed festivals
This week’s news stories charge out onto the pitch but which are heading for promotion? In the running at the final whistle … … “a ghoulish,...
Andy Kershaw & Dylan’s jar of jam plus the things people do to get gigs
Be glad for the pod has no ending! Now in our 20th year and, this week, ruminating fondly on the following … … the “underhand” selling of Ge...
The story of Wild Thing and whatever happened to World Cup songs?
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on as we voyage to the far side this week to take a picture of … … the Kanye West & Wireless din...
No Sex Pistols in Manchester? ‘No Smiths, Nirvana, indie rock.’ Discuss!
Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley read a review of the Sex Pistols in February 1976, borrowed a car, drove to London, asked the NME where they’...
The Keith Moon story is a movie in waiting, both a comedy and a tragedy
The life of Keith Moon can be seen as Animal from the Muppets or as a dark, psychological odyssey. And the two co-exist in Tony Fletcher’s m...
The shameless age of Britpop in ‘the wildest year of the 90s’
Dominic Mohan saw Britpop on the inside from the showbiz desk of the Sun in the days when it sold 4.5m copies, a series of heated memories r...
Who hasn’t had ‘work done’, how to spot AI and the stupidest thing we ever did
A seasonal egg-hunt in the rock and roll backyard finds the following conversational confectionary … .. Wild Bill Hickok? Valentino? Bob Dyl...
How Tony Visconti keeps the Bowie flag flying
Tony Visconti left Brooklyn for London in 1967, began working with the Move and Marc Bolan and formed a life-long friendship with the teenag...
Matt Johnson & the unique story of The The plus George Michael and the sunbed
Matt Johnson’s life story has been mapped out as one long Q&A conversation from meetings with old friend, fan and BFI director Jason Wood. ‘...
At home with Nick Drake, Sandy Denny & John Martyn in the golden year of 1970
When he was 19, New Yorker Brian Cullman covered the London music scene for Crawdaddy, landing at the birth of folk-rock and the singer-song...
The Jarrett movie, Macca’s secret & when did standing at gigs start?
Whooping, whistling, punching the air, standing on the arm-rests and generally adding our voice to the sound of the crowd this week involves...
The Clash story mapped by the places they lived, played, evolved … and shot pigeons
Paul Gorman, author and curator, has put together fascinating maps of the London haunts of Bowie and the Stones and just published one about...
Mustn’t grumble! Songs with the essence of Englishness
A milky tea, a jam sponge and this week’s news served on a tin tray with a steam train painted on it points our very English conversation to...
Neil Tennant revisits songs he’s written since the age of nine
Neil Tennant co-wrote a musical at Primary School and soon decided that “learning other people’s songs was hard work compared with making up...
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