Word In Your Ear

In March Graham Gouldman and 10cc are coming your way and here he talks to David Hepworth about:

- seeing Cliff and the original Shadows at his first live show

- playing live in the sixties, when a ban…

We stuck a coin in this week’s jukebox of news and cranked up the volume and these were the tracks that got played …

… fond memories of Annie Nightingale at Radio One and Whistle Test.

… the deliciou…

Jim Gordon played the drums on Wichita Lineman, Good Vibrations, the Byrds’ Mr Tambourine Man and hundreds of other recordings we all own and worked with pretty much everyone including Steely Dan, To…

Leaping 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 …

Amid the detritus of tangerine peel, half-eaten chocolates, broken toys and jars of home-brewed chutney beneath the rock and roll Christmas tree we found various items still unwrapped and awaiting th…

We check this week’s luggage on the rock and roll baggage carousel and remove the following items for inspection … 

… The People v OJ Simpson and why it’s worth re-watching.

… the only two convincing…

This week’s wheat/chaff separation process sifts the following from the rock and roll cornfield …

… Tony Secunda, his gangsterish suits and the publicity stunt that backfired spectacularly.

… our old…

Mal Evans was the Beatles’ right-hand man, their bouncer, bodyguard, gofer, chauffeur, drug-runner, roadie, fellow party animal, confidante and friend. Along with Neil Aspinall he was the man who all…

Belfast author and old pal of the pod Stuart Bailie joins us to remember the lost captain of the good ship Pogues and we touch on Shane’s “feral” early life and the character he constructed to keep t…

Pauline Murray kept a diary when she and Penetration were on the punk rock frontline and her vivid and emotional memories appear in a new memoir, Life’s A Gamble, beautifully illustrated with persona…

Glen Matlock came to our live podcast recording at London’s 21Soho at the end of November and lit up the audience with tales from his new memoir ‘Triggers’, stories of his early life in the late ‘50s…

You wonder why her life hasn’t been made into a movie. Jenny Boyd’s mother had so many children she didn’t realise her daughter had quit school and become a model. The world of London clubs and fashi…

We ran our metal detector over this week’s rugged rock and roll terrain and dug deep when it beeped. Among those prime locations …

… the secret of Top Gear’s golden age.

… is Bob Dylan a “cold weathe…

The week’s rock and roll luggage was put through the scanner by our sharp-eyed security chiefs and the following items kept back for scrutiny …

… 82 year-old jazzer in lucrative samples windfall!

… is …

As if by some magical alignment of the planets, the  Specials, Madness and the Beat were all listening to the same music and developing the same look at precisely the same time, though completely una…

Jude Rogers – writer, broadcaster, old pal of the pod - first heard Kirsty MacColl when she was nine and felt a connection ever since. She’s just written the sleevenotes for ‘See That Girl’, the best…

This week’s winning hand from the rock and roll card deck includes …

… a silver salute to musicians who don’t dye their hair.

… did Al Pacino play Phil Spector? Roger Daltrey as Franz Liszt? Was Gary…

Slade were as revolutionary as T. Rex or Roxy Music, Daryl Easlea points out. At one stage they were outselling Bowie and Bolan. They were the band that hauled the sedentary early ‘70s audience to it…

John Higgs' brilliant and wide-ranging book 'The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned A Million Pounds' came out ten years ago and just keeps on selling. It sold initially to the fans who bought…

"The Beatles gave us a continuing soundtrack of unparalleled charm and reassurance", Derek Taylor said. "As long as they kept on delivering fresh songs along with the morning milk, everything was rig…