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Word In Your Attic 65 (audio version) – Broadcaster and author Simon Mayo: rare sighting of ceramic Monty Python promotional foot

August 16, 2020 WIYELondon 0

Scala Radio daytime host, podcaster, author – crime thriller Knife Edge just out! – and old pal Simon Mayo on his 1980 copy of Smash […]

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QUIZ LEADERBOARD 14.8.20

August 16, 2020 WIYELondon 0

1. MATT BUTTON (12 points) 2. PHIL KINDERMANN (10) 3. DARAGH O’HALLORAN (9) 4. Andrew Boland (8) 5. Andrew Slattery (7) 6. David Cummings (6) […]

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Word Classic Podcast 010 – ah, the endless joy of rock stars’ kids’ names (Thor, Lux, Jermajesty) …

August 16, 2020 WIYELondon 0

In which David joins a Phil Collins motorcade, a $10m private party secures Aerosmith, Tom Petty, 50 Cent and the Eagles, TV (aka the Sopranos) […]

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Word Podcast 339 – David’s day at Donna Summer’s house

August 13, 2020 WIYELondon 0

In which we applaud the great rock and roll name changes (eg the late Wayne Fontana), get unsettled by ‘Stan’ culture and over-zealous Taylor Swift […]

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Word Podcast 339 (audio-visual version) – David’s day at Donna Summer’s house

August 13, 2020 WIYELondon 0

In which we applaud the great rock and roll name changes (eg the late Wayne Fontana), get unsettled by ‘Stan’ culture and over-zealous Taylor Swift […]

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Word In Your Attic 64 (audio version) – Rob Chapman: and which rock legend sent him this postcard?

August 13, 2020 WIYELondon 0

Music writer Rob Chapman – his fantastic memoir ‘Ad Lib: Repeat To Fade’ just out – flashes back to a world of Guards cigarettes, a […]

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Word In Your Attic 63 (audio version) – Ed Needham: yes it’s Morrissey by Vic Reeves (not for sale)

August 13, 2020 WIYELondon 0

Old pal and one-time Rolling Stone managing editor Ed Needham on his letter from Bono, the magic of ABC’s Lexicon Of Love, mysterious discs hidden […]

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A Word In Your Ear crowdcast event – Joe Banks on Hawkwind: to infinity … and beyond!

August 13, 2020 WIYELondon 0

Word In Your Ear is thrilled to be launching a series of live music author interviews you can join online (and ask questions if you […]

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Word Classic Podcast 009 – the chilling tale of Chrissie Hynde and the paté de foie gras

August 13, 2020 WIYELondon 0

In which we name the best-sounding record on radio, bemoan the irritating new vogue for taking iPhone pictures at gigs, note that global warming is […]

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FRIDAY NIGHT QUIZ LEADERBOARD – 7TH AUGUST 2020

August 13, 2020 WIYELondon 0

1. MATT BUTTON (12 points) 2=. PHIL KINDERMANN, DARAGH O’HALLORAN (9 apiece) 3. ANDREW BOLAND (8) 4. David Cummings (6) 5=. Andrew Slattery, Ian Stewart […]

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Paul Weller – ‘gloriously chippy’ – as seen by friends, family, fans and collaborators
byMark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

Dan Jennings’ podcast ‘Desperately Seeking Paul’ is so successful he’s used 250 of the interviews in a best-selling oral history. ‘Dancing Through The Fire’ has voices from right across the spectrum – family members, band members, writers, pluggers, label bosses, collaborators and famous fans. He talks to us here about …

 

… Weller’s real name and when he changed it by deed poll

 

… a theory about bands formed in towns not cities

 

… the handbrake turn from the Jam to the Style Council – one minute the intense young man cutting out his press clippings, the next espadrilles, singing in French and “nibbling Mick’s ear on the River Cam”

 

… Weller’s “very English” need to be heard and respected – but not loved

 

… the role of his manager father in the Jam’s success, the days when the family phone number was in the Fan Club ads

 

… how Noel Gallagher engineered a Bono/Weller photo op

 

… Paul’s glorious chippiness – Band Aid, the pop press, “offering a journalist out for a fight in Victoria Park”

 

… John and Paul Weller and echoes of Only Fools And Horses

 

… when the Jam played ice rinks and swimming pools

 

… the cab-driver gossip grapevine

 

… cutting 1.5 million words to 250,000 and the book’s biggest revelations and surprises.

 

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