March 2015

Great press for next Tuesday’s guests

March 28, 2015 David Hepworth 0

In next Tuesday’s show at The Islington Mark Ellen and I are talking to a couple of veterans of music writing in the sixties, both of […]

Last few tickets for Tuesday: rubbing shoulders with Beatles, Stones, Jim, Jimi & Janis

March 27, 2015 Alex Gold 0

Still a few tickets left for Tuesday’s Word In Your Ear at The Islington where Mark Ellen and David Hepworth will be talking to two […]

Talking Sandy Denny with Ashley Hutchings, Simon Nicol and Mick Houghton

March 14, 2015 David Hepworth 0

Thanks to everyone who came to Monday’s recording at the Slaughtered Lamb where we talked to Mick Houghton about his excellent new biography of Sandy […]

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.

Another over-heated week put through the conversational air-conditioner, which involves …

… the man who got rich writing words that could never be sung

… Anna Bullock? Stefani Germanotta? People who’d never have made it if they hadn’t changed their names

… and the best stage name ever!

… Marco Pirroni’s jukebox

… when the Rock’n’Roll rulebook declared ‘Thou Shalt Not Dance!’

… how David Dundas made a fortune from just four notes

… Ringo, Dylan, Hank Marvin, Bill Wyman and the magic of cowboy culture

… who lost out on ‘It’s Only Rock’n’Roll’ and ‘Jessica’?

… and the biggest star of the 20th Century and how he got his name

Plus the Bingville Bugle and birthday guest Gianluca Tramontana looks back at when dance music came in for a kicking.

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