by Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold
<p>Mark Ellen and David Hepworth have been talking about and writing about music together and individually for a collective eighty years in magazines like Smash Hits, Mojo and The Word and on radio and TV programmes like "Rock On", "Whistle Test" and VH-1.</p><br><p>Over thirteen years ago, when working on the late magazine The Word, they began producing podcasts. Some listeners have been kind enough to say these have been very special to them. When the magazine folded in 2012 they kept the spirit of those podcasts alive in regular Word In Your Ear evenings in which they spoke to musicians and authors in front of an audience. </p><br><p>Over these years they've produced hundreds of hours of material. As of the Current Unpleasantness of 2020, they've produced yet hundreds of hours more with a little help from guests kind enough to digitally show them around their attics such as Danny Baker, Andy Partridge, Sir Tim Rice and Mark Lewisohn. For the full span of the Word In Your Ear world, visit <a href="http://www.wiyelondon.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wiyelondon.com</a>.</p> <a target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href="https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/4234399">Get bonus content on Patreon</a><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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April 29, 2025
<p>While Mark Ellen is hanging out with the other old ruins in Athens, David Hepworth and Alex Gold compare and contrast the organisation of the London Marathon with the Travellodge in Frimley and wonder…</p><br><p>…Rolling Stone cover stars or members of Trump’s clown cabinet?</p><p>…if you were interviewed as often as a rock star would you too make stuff up?</p><p>…was Max Romeo’s innocent explanation of “Wet Dream" convincing?</p><p>…where do you listen to the Word In Your Ear Podcast?</p><br><p>All this and more in your favourite podcast.</p><br><p><strong>Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: </strong><a href="https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear</a></p> <a target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href="https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/4234399">Get bonus content on Patreon</a><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
April 23, 2025
<p>Moon Zappa grew up in what appeared, on the outside, to be an enviably free-wheeling and creative household in Laurel Canyon. On the inside, not so much. Her extremely funny, soul-baring and colourful account of dysfunctional family life in her memoir Earth To Moon is as gripping as it’s unsettling. A typical day: “Your mother’s on the rampage, I need you to hide the gun!” Only other children with famous parents can fully gauge the emotional turmoil. She talks here about her memoir Earth To Moon – just out in paperback – and the impact of Frank’s work and tours on the frail domestic set-up and the years they all spent “stewarding his genius”. Along with …</p><p> </p><p>… “is genius worth the collateral damage?”</p><p> </p><p>… fond memories of rare moments with her workaholic father.</p><p> </p><p>… the Zappa family’s perilous finances: “Could he write a pop song or did he just choose not to?”</p><p> </p><p>... how she was shut out of the control of Frank’s estate “plus a clause saying if I found religion I’d get no money at all”.</p><p> </p><p>… the nurses’ reaction when they discovered her new-born brother was named ‘Dweezil’.</p><p> </p><p>... recording Valley Girl, the song that made her a teenage star and changed the family fortunes but got no gratitude from her parents.</p><p> </p><p>… why Frank found Valley Girl’s success “mortifying”. And how her one catastrophic live version put her off stage performance for life.</p><p> </p><p>… and that unique bond you have with other celebrity offspring: “Jakob Dylan and I just cackle with laughter. ‘That happened to you too?’”</p><p> </p><p><strong>Order ‘Earth To Moon’ in paperback here:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Earth-Moon-Unit-Zappa/dp/1474623859/ref=asc_df_1474623859?mcid=ae11e321cea83f4486c71a35dd95a9ea&th=1&psc=1&hvocijid=15982814295882496701-1474623859-&hvexpln=74&tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=696285193871&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15982814295882496701&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9072502&hvtargid=pla-2281435176458&psc=1&gad_source=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Earth-Moon-Unit-Zappa/dp/1474623859/ref=asc_df_1474623859?mcid=ae11e321cea83f4486c71a35dd95a9ea&th=1&psc=1&hvocijid=15982814295882496701-1474623859-&hvexpln=74&tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=696285193871&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15982814295882496701&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9072502&hvtargid=pla-2281435176458&psc=1&gad_source=1</a></p><br><p><strong>Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: </strong><a href="https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear</a></p> <a target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href="https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/4234399">Get bonus content on Patreon</a><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
April 21, 2025
<p>We like to think of Daryl Hall as a kindred spirit, his home-recorded Live At Daryl’s House series with its magnificent roster of guests now racking up 90 episodes. He’s about to tour in May and talks to us here from his house in the Bahamas – straw hat, roosters crowing! – looking back at the first gigs he ever saw and played and other delights such as … </p><p> </p><p>… travelling with his mother’s Broadway dance band when he was three.</p><p> </p><p>… seeing the Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Patti LaBelle and the Bluetones in the Uptown Theater, Philadelphia, in the early ‘60s.</p><p> </p><p>… Three Men In A Boat: a barge trip through London with Dave Stewart and Bob Dylan.</p><p> </p><p>… “My teenage rule: I will only wear dark green or black and needlepoint shoes. I had balls in those days!”</p><p> </p><p>… why Hall & Oates is “in the past” - “He initiated the split and neither of us want to resolve it”.</p><p> </p><p>… songs he always plays - Sara Smile, I Can't Go for That (No Can Do) – and why you’ll never hear She’s Gone again.</p><p> </p><p>… making his first records on a four-track in Virtue Studios, Philadelphia, and recording with MFSB. “I still like to keep it lean and mean.”</p><p> </p><p>… playing session piano with the Delfonics and making a single with Chubby Checker.</p><p> </p><p>… his first cheque for songwriting - $15.</p><p> </p><p>… “I brought rock and roll to my High School!”</p><p> </p><p>… the success of Live At Daryl’s House and the episodes with Todd Rundgren, Smokey Robinson and Glenn Tilbrook. </p><p> </p><p>… his sideline in restoring 18th Century houses.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Live From Daryl’s House here: </strong><a href="https://livefromdarylshouse.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://livefromdarylshouse.com/</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Daryl Hall tour dates and tickets here: </strong><a href="https://hallandoates.com/tour/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://hallandoates.com/tour/</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Buy/stream the ‘D’ album here: </strong><a href="https://ingrv.es/DarylHallD" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ingrv.es/DarylHallD</a></p><br><p><strong>Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: </strong><a href="https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear</a></p> <a target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href="https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/4234399">Get bonus content on Patreon</a><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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