September 2014

One small step for Word In Your Ear, one giant stride for Monday nights in the pub

September 23, 2014 David Hepworth 0

Last night’s show was our best yet. Thanks to the people at the Islington we managed to get the visuals working and so we we could put on […]

Stevie Nicks biographer Zoe Howe added to our Ben Watt live podcast recording

September 13, 2014 David Hepworth 0

We’re delighted to say that Zoe Howe‘s joining us at our next Word In Your Ear Podcast recording at the Islington on September 22nd. She’ll be […]

A Quiet Word with Ben Watt at the Islington

September 8, 2014 David Hepworth 0

Ben Watt’s worn a variety of hats in the last thirty years: half of Everything But The Girl, solo artist, deejay, producer, club owner and […]

Word In Your Ear

David Hepworth, Mark Ellen and chums cast an occasionally jaundiced eye over the goings-on in the worlds of music and entertainment.

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. Joined the Herd at 16 and Humble Pie two years later. Had the biggest-selling album in American history in 1976 and now releasing his first new record in 16 years. From his home in Nashville, he looks back here – with great modesty, humour and affection – at how he adjusted to such mountainous success and to “when it all came crashing down” while throwing in a winning impression of George Harrison. This too …

… the Herd pursued by screaming girls across Streatham Ice Rink

… when “the Face of 1968” (Frampton) joined “the Face of 1967” (Marriott)

… recording with George, Ringo, Billy Preston, Steve Stills and Phil Spector (aged 20) – “where the hell am I and how did I get here?”

… “I’d fallen off the radar and Bowie gave me the biggest gift anyone could give me”

… the petrifying success of Frampton Comes Alive! – “I felt I’d be like a Rubik’s Cube, here today, gone tomorrow”

… the Scout Club gig (aged 12) that lit the fuse and playing Ready Steady Go! when he was 14 (same show as the Stones)

… when his father met Mick Jagger

… making the doomed Sgt Pepper film with the Bee Gees

… working with Sheryl Crow who’d had a poster of him when she was 14

… and revisiting his childhood home in Beckenham.

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