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YT 21 minutes 34 seconds Word In Your Ear Mark Billingham's lockdown doing Beatles jigsaws, writing thrillers & playing Elvis Costello albums YT 25 minutes 11 seconds Word In Your Ear Malcolm McLaren biographer Paul Gorman gives us his life in 10 objects YT 23 minutes 58 seconds Word In Your Ear Sid Griffin performs the hits of yesteryear on banjo

YT 42 minutes 24 seconds Word In Your Ear Jim Irvin tells the curious tale of Charles Aznavour at Tower Records YT 36 minutes 34 seconds Word In Your Ear Lockdown won't stop Mark Lewisohn making new Beatles discoveries YT 21 minutes 19 seconds Word In Your Ear Zoë Howe keeps lockdown blues at bay with "Minder" and 1920s radio

YT 23 minutes 42 seconds Word In Your Ear Barney Hoskyns ponders the homoerotic appeal of longhaired blokes with guitars YT 41 minutes 57 seconds Word In Your Ear Ah, the divine tension of watching the Sweet on Top Of The Pops with your Gran - by Andrew Collins YT 27 minutes 26 seconds Word In Your Ear Guy Pratt delivers the world's leading Madonna impression

YT 25 minutes 11 seconds Word In Your Ear There are 78 factual errors in the Bohemian Rhapsody film and they didn't escape Lesley Ann-Jones YT 25 minutes 29 seconds Word In Your Ear Clare Grogan in Return Of The Smash Hits Poll Winner! (be gone, Debbie Harry and Olivia Newton-John) YT 37 minutes 22 seconds Word In Your Ear Who dumped a 60-year-old can of 'ice cream ready-mix' in Pete Paphides' skip?

YT 39 minutes 50 seconds Word In Your Ear Paul Du Noyer has built a replica heavy metal pub in his basement YT 50 minutes 16 seconds Word In Your Ear Danny Baker reveals the link between Diana Dors and Hapsash & the Coloured Coat YT 29 minutes 36 seconds Word In Your Ear Dylan Jones: one man and his Beatle wig (package unopened)

YT 46 minutes 4 seconds Word In Your Ear John Wilson literally flies the flag for Arsenal YT 38 minutes 22 seconds Word In Your Ear Sylvie Simmons: you're never alone with a Beatles rug YT 41 minutes 51 seconds Word In Your Ear Ian Rankin's tour rider? "One uncooked haggis".

YT 39 minutes 54 seconds Word In Your Ear Tony Fletcher - or "dear boy" as Keith Moon called him (aged 14) ... YT 35 minutes 30 seconds Word In Your Ear Nige Tassell: never add antlers to a photo of Massive Attack. YT 38 minutes 26 seconds Word In Your Ear Daniel Rachel: kick-started by the Beatles on quarter-inch tape

YT 39 minutes 38 seconds Word In Your Ear Graeme Thomson on John Martyn's "lifelong grudges and huge, messy explosion of records" YT 54 minutes 13 seconds Word In Your Ear Will Birch: "Keith Moon wrecked my drum kit" plus a "tie swap"with Billy Joel YT 40 minutes 35 seconds Word In Your Ear Bruce Lindsay: a pre-vinyl special! Jazz, swing, comedy - and the Beatles - at 78rpm

YT 45 minutes 35 seconds Word In Your Ear David Mitchell on why writing about the rock boom of 1967 is "an open goal" YT 43 minutes 5 seconds Word In Your Ear Rob Chapman: and which rock legend sent him this postcard? YT 47 minutes 10 seconds Word In Your Ear Broadcaster and author Simon Mayo: rare sighting of ceramic Monty Python promotional foot

YT 38 minutes 2 seconds Word In Your Ear Author Joe Banks on Hawkwind: to infinity ... and beyond! YT 38 minutes 45 seconds Word In Your Ear Beatles supremo Kenneth Womack on the mysteries of Lennon's last year YT 41 minutes 18 seconds Word In Your Ear Author Justin Quirk on ‘the direct link between Kiss and Trump’.

YT 41 minutes 39 seconds Word In Your Ear Author Jenny Colgan: is John Taylor's memoir "the world's dullest book"? YT 46 minutes 39 seconds Word In Your Ear David Hepworth on the complicated affair between the US & the UK which drove rock music for 20 years YT 45 minutes 20 seconds Word In Your Ear Author and revered vinyl addict Steve Carr: includes AC/DC film cameo!

YT 33 minutes 53 seconds Word In Your Ear DJ and author Dave Fanning: he's "open to offers" for his U2 demo YT 33 minutes 52 seconds Word In Your Ear Author Dylan Jones on the unsung age of the New Romantics YT 44 minutes 30 seconds Word In Your Ear Doctor Business Eamonn Forde on the music business in "these uncertain times"

YT 35 minutes 28 seconds Word In Your Ear Rob Halford: when the Judas Priest commandant met Andy Warhol and the Queen YT 36 minutes 48 seconds Word In Your Ear Andy Neill on the fabulous reign of Ready Steady Go! YT 50 minutes Word In Your Ear Billy Bragg: it's the lamp from the Spy Vs Spy sleeve!

YT 48 minutes 13 seconds Word In Your Ear Chris Difford on his teenage diaries: "Drank rum, bought Quadrophenia, covered ourselves in glitter" YT 27 minutes 49 seconds Word In Your Ear Stuart Bailie and his Van Morrison lockdown book YT 35 minutes 40 seconds Word In Your Ear Liam Newton on the unsung genius of 10cc

YT 58 minutes 25 seconds Word In Your Ear Laura Barton's first record - "50p off with a Smash Hits voucher” YT 53 minutes 25 seconds Word In Your Ear Sir Tim Rice: one man and his picture disc 78 YT 1 hour 1 minute 27 seconds Word In Your Ear Peter Ames Carlin on how Warner Bros became “the first hip record label”

YT 50 minutes 44 seconds Word In Your Ear Historian Tom Holland: "the Beatles are the perfect story." YT 1 hour 11 minutes 6 seconds Word In Your Ear Writer/podcaster Andy Miller: "we’re gonna need a bigger board game." YT 57 minutes 55 seconds Word In Your Ear Samira Ahmed – unseen Beatles photo found in charity shop!

YT 56 minutes 31 seconds Word In Your Ear Simon Day on teenage life: "I looked like a Morris Dancer that's been treading grapes" YT 47 minutes 51 seconds Word In Your Ear Jonathan Coe: Prog Rock, Billy Wilder and Bolan splitting his trousers ... YT 1 hour 12 minutes 43 seconds Word In Your Ear Charlie Higson: writer, actor, former East Anglian funk-punk entertainer!

YT 57 minutes 15 seconds Word In Your Ear Kate Flett: when your Dad writes hits for Elvis ... YT 34 minutes 32 seconds Word In Your Ear Darryl W. Bullock on the gay men who ran the Swinging Sixties YT 1 hour 6 minutes 2 seconds Word In Your Ear Thriller-writer Martyn Waites plus lovingly home-crafted Sparks sleeve

YT 47 minutes 57 seconds Word In Your Ear Simon Spence tells the "sad, funny and heroic story" of Steve Marriott YT 45 minutes 8 seconds Word In Your Ear Craig Brown - paperback writer YT 1 hour 11 minutes 48 seconds Word In Your Ear Lloyd Bradley plus laser-etched solid-brass Michael Jackson party invite

YT 37 minutes 49 seconds Word In Your Ear Tessa Norton and Bob Stanley on the folklore of the Fall YT 53 minutes 39 seconds Word In Your Ear Ian McMillan: "Greatest Record? Trout Mask Replica or Birthday by the Peddlers" YT 36 minutes 30 seconds Word In Your Ear Joel Selvin on "a sylvan moment in Hollywood history"

YT 1 hour 5 minutes 24 seconds Word In Your Ear Simon Garfield: on a Clash obsession and popping corks through U2's limousine roof YT 41 minutes 42 seconds Word In Your Ear Catherine Mayer on Syd Rumpo, the Nosebleeds and a celebration of the Gang of Four YT 51 minutes 14 seconds Word In Your Ear Marcus Berkmann: "Tina Turner gave me tinnitus!"

YT 1 hour 36 seconds Word In Your Ear Bill Flanagan has interviewed "everyone" YT 58 minutes 18 seconds Word In Your Ear Chris Welch: the man who invented "progressive rock"! YT 52 minutes 10 seconds Word In Your Ear David Quantick: that Emmy Award winners' party in full!

YT 1 hour 20 minutes 10 seconds Word In Your Ear John Aizlewood - 16 year-old boy joins Dexys tour: a funny and very touching story YT 1 hour 22 seconds Word In Your Ear Ian Leslie: in praise of “intelligent, literate and very pretentious pop” YT 58 minutes 34 seconds Word In Your Ear Robin Ince: the life-tilting story of a record collection and a sewage flood

YT 1 hour 11 seconds Word In Your Ear John Mitchinson was once told to stop singing at a Van Morrison concert by Charlize Theron YT 45 minutes 59 seconds Word In Your Ear Eamonn Forde: life after death in the music business YT 39 minutes 16 seconds Word In Your Ear John Cooper Clarke’s wonderfully unvarnished memories of real life in the ‘50s and 60s

YT 38 minutes 59 seconds Word In Your Ear Luke Meddings: the Beatles, Beach Boys and Dylan, a tale of love, theft and intense rivalry YT 39 minutes 46 seconds Word In Your Ear Tony Fletcher and a rock press version of “the Beano Christmas Annual” YT 46 minutes 31 seconds Word In Your Ear Richard Balls: the intoxicating songs and chaotic life of Shane MacGowan

YT 43 minutes Word In Your Ear Viv Groskop: confessions of “a violently keen karaoke singer” YT 49 minutes 53 seconds Word In Your Ear Daniel Rachel hears 100 hours of Beatles audio – “it’s like the DNA in a crime scene” YT 42 minutes 5 seconds Word In Your Ear Simon Napier-Bell – “Marc Bolan, the Who, chains, feathers and German police”

YT 36 minutes 25 seconds Word In Your Ear Lenny Kaye nails some moments “when the universe shifted” YT 56 minutes 19 seconds Word In Your Ear Tom Hodgkinson, editor of the Idler, where Dr Johnson meets the Pistols YT 53 minutes 53 seconds Word In Your Ear Richard Williams reveals “the peak moment of Western civilisation”

YT 59 minutes 39 seconds Word In Your Ear Chris Heath – does anyone know more about pop journalism or New Order’s “magic 8-ball”? YT 51 minutes 45 seconds Word In Your Ear Bob Stanley, a Jet Harris hand-print and the curious tale of Mr Pilditch YT 54 minutes 23 seconds Word In Your Ear Will Hodgkinson: what happens when the wedding DJ plays THAT Stones song for your wife...

YT 1 hour 17 minutes 6 seconds Word In Your Ear Who's the BRITS for these days? Alexis Petridis on what teenagers think about music YT 56 minutes 3 seconds Word In Your Ear ‘That's Aunt Mavis with the Rolling Stones!' The brilliant life and opinions of Jon Ronson YT 36 minutes 48 seconds Word In Your Ear Which band got a ‘bomb-board’ through customs? Michael Hann relives British Heavy Metal's New Wave

YT 44 minutes 13 seconds Word In Your Ear Cardew 'The Cad' Robinson? Comedy's great lost heroes remembered by Robert Ross YT 54 minutes 50 seconds Word In Your Ear Andrew Male has records that “make you feel you’re walking home on clouds” YT 30 minutes 25 seconds Word In Your Ear It’s the Jude Rogers’ Guided Tour of pop’s “dopamine pathway” …

YT 55 minutes 26 seconds Word In Your Ear Nick Duerden’s talked to 50 pop stars about life when the big time’s behind you YT 57 minutes 47 seconds Word In Your Ear Mick Wall knows things about Don Arden and Jimi Hendrix that will make your hair curl YT 51 minutes 49 seconds Word In Your Ear Tom Cox: “How David Byrne saved me from professional golf” and other tales of the unexpected

YT 39 minutes Word In Your Ear Radiohead – adventurous, allegedly “scandal-free” – as seen by their biographer John Aizlewood YT 40 minutes 23 seconds Word In Your Ear Jon Hotten and the poignant parallels between heavy metal and cricket YT 39 minutes 46 seconds Word In Your Ear Mark Paytress - glorious camp, delicious irony and why Glam Rock could have only happened in Britain

YT 40 minutes 15 seconds Word In Your Ear Paul Gorman on why the revolutionary sleeve designer Barney Bubbles should be canonised YT 36 minutes 11 seconds Word In Your Ear Barbara Charone, ‘70s-music-writer-turned-pop-PR. Motto: “you’ve got to be tenacious!” YT 27 minutes 57 seconds Word In Your Ear Nige Tassell tracks down all 22 bands on the NME’s C86 cassette – “regional Britain revisited!”

YT 59 minutes 29 seconds Word In Your Ear Paul Gorman, the rise and fall of the music press and why we miss it YT 30 minutes 53 seconds Word In Your Ear Dave Rimmer’s classic Culture Club book is republished. Boy George hated it “as it was all true” YT 34 minutes 44 seconds Word In Your Ear Mark Cooper produced ‘Later…’ for 30 years. What did he learn about rock stars and the magic of TV?

YT 26 minutes 10 seconds Word In Your Ear Dylan Jones: were the ‘90s the last great Golden Age? YT 25 minutes 21 seconds Word In Your Ear Simon Sebag Montefiore knows the five best songs about history ever written YT 28 minutes 41 seconds Word In Your Ear Craig Brown - our greatest living satirist – has a theory about Keith Richards

YT 51 minutes 31 seconds Word In Your Ear Pat Nevin has musical memories “even better than scoring a diving header against Arsenal” YT 39 minutes 42 seconds Word In Your Ear Kenneth Womack – author of 12 Beatles books – dives “back through the looking glass” YT 37 minutes 27 seconds Word In Your Ear Hooray! Tim Riley has a theory about everything in rock!

YT 30 minutes 40 seconds Word In Your Ear The deliciously eccentric life and art of Ivor Cutler by his biographer Bruce Lindsay YT 31 minutes 12 seconds Word In Your Ear Tony King: why the Beatles & Stones thought he was the best company imaginable YT 29 minutes 39 seconds Word In Your Ear Was Chuck Berry the strangest man in the history of rock?

YT 38 minutes 8 seconds Word In Your Ear Was the pop boom of 1996-2006 a comedy or a tragedy? YT 29 minutes 13 seconds Word In Your Ear Is Karen Carpenter pop music’s saddest story? YT 31 minutes 35 seconds Word In Your Ear Paul Weller as a songwriter? Dylan Jones unpacks his “Imperial Phase"

YT 29 minutes 49 seconds Word In Your Ear Word Down Your Way: John Cooper Clarke reveals “the performing poet’s worst enemy” YT 33 minutes 21 seconds Word In Your Ear Cathi Unsworth was a teenage goth. Think “Robert Smith’s tarantula hair” and “cider like turps” YT 49 minutes 38 seconds Word In Your Ear Nick Drake - and what Richard Morton Jack learnt from 200 people who knew him

YT 45 minutes 11 seconds Word In Your Ear How Ray Connolly invented rock nostalgia with That’ll Be The Day and Stardust YT 25 minutes 11 seconds Word In Your Ear Bob Dylan - why he signs autographs left-handed and other mysteries solved by Ray Padgett YT 30 minutes 37 seconds Word In Your Ear What Kevin Armstrong learnt as the sideman for Bowie, McCartney, Morrissey, Sinead and Iggy Pop

YT 32 minutes 13 seconds Word In Your Ear Plaid shirts? Brown ale? A smoke-stained pub rock special with Simon Matthews YT 29 minutes 34 seconds Word In Your Ear Pulitzer Prize winner David Remnick takes the long view of Springsteen, Aretha, Macca & more YT 38 minutes 22 seconds Word In Your Ear Why a sumptuous new book about the Island label is “like entering the record shop of your dreams”

YT 27 minutes 7 seconds Word In Your Ear Denmark Street, London's Tin Pan Alley, where the Sex Pistols met Pink Floyd, by Peter Watts YT 41 minutes 14 seconds Word In Your Ear The “gangsterish” charm of Andrew Loog Oldham and Immediate Records, by Simon Spence YT 37 minutes 44 seconds Word In Your Ear Billy Sloan, the man who interviewed Grace Jones in a bath

YT 37 minutes 11 seconds Word In Your Ear Nick Drake – a whole new perspective by Richard Morton Jack YT 32 minutes 46 seconds Word In Your Ear Slade, a rambunctious reminder of a vanished world by Daryl Easlea YT 27 minutes 30 seconds Word In Your Ear Why Kirsty MacColl was so funny, honest, original and impossible to sell – by Jude Rogers

YT 44 minutes 9 seconds Word In Your Ear The 2-Tone story - Daniel Rachel remembers the school playground “turning black and white” YT 45 minutes 31 seconds Word In Your Ear Does anyone know more about rock stars than Jenny Boyd? YT 43 minutes 18 seconds Word In Your Ear The Beatles as seen by their roadie, co-conspirator & friend Mal Evans – and Kenneth Womack

YT 33 minutes 6 seconds Word In Your Ear Jim Gordon - the supernatural gift and tragic fate of “the greatest rock drummer” with Joel Selvin YT 34 minutes 50 seconds Word In Your Ear Max Décharné reboots the golden age of the Teddy Boys YT 37 minutes 52 seconds Word In Your Ear Suzi Ronson - Bowie’s stylist - knows why rock and roll is all about hair

YT 22 minutes 41 seconds Word In Your Ear Stephen Fall’s reviewed 3,333 of his albums. Buy the book! YT 39 minutes 58 seconds Word In Your Ear Harold Bronson of Rhino Records kept a 40-year rock and roll diary … YT 35 minutes 22 seconds Word In Your Ear Nige Tassell was so obsessed with Dexys he’s tracked down all 24 ex-members

YT 42 minutes 19 seconds Word In Your Ear Alan Edwards, pop PR – ‘Bowie was like King Arthur and the Spice Girls like the Pistols’ YT 40 minutes 7 seconds Word In Your Ear The Architect of Mod: how Peter Meaden restyled and launched the Who - by Steve Turner YT 37 minutes 56 seconds Word In Your Ear “Abba’s success is more about us than them”: Giles Smith looks back at a 50-year love affair

YT 34 minutes 23 seconds Word In Your Ear Jon Savage - Dusty’s wig, Bowie’s bombshell and how gay pop culture changed music YT 44 minutes 4 seconds Word In Your Ear The wit and charisma of Kate Bush by Graeme Thomson: going too far makes you what you are YT 37 minutes 53 seconds Word In Your Ear Dylan Jones – Clegg’s women, Hague’s pints and “the wiring behind celebrity culture”

YT 39 minutes 9 seconds Word In Your Ear Twist And Shout? Spiral Scratch? Corey duBrowa celebrates the best and rarest EPs ever made YT 46 minutes 39 seconds Word In Your Ear How Joni Mitchell joined the boys’ club and why we don’t need a comeback – by Ann Powers YT 38 minutes 57 seconds Word In Your Ear Who is Lawrence and why did Will Hodgkinson write a whole book about him?

YT 46 minutes 5 seconds Word In Your Ear 57 years of Fleetwood Mac: author Mark Blake's fond encounters and fresh revelations YT 32 minutes 23 seconds Word In Your Ear Queen, Bowie and other residents of Rockfield Studios remembered by the cook’s daughter YT 53 minutes 57 seconds Word In Your Ear David Hepworth on the glory, comedy and tragedy of rock stars who can't retire.

YT 39 minutes 24 seconds Word In Your Ear The Buskers’ Hall of Fame – from Moondog and Billy Bragg to Don Partridge and “the skating Sikh” YT 35 minutes 35 seconds Word In Your Ear One Day author David Nicholls – prog rock, Live Aid and making tapes for girls YT 48 minutes 39 seconds Word In Your Ear Joe Boyd – Little Richard, Nick Drake, Tight Fit and why everything sounds the way it does

YT 38 minutes 16 seconds Word In Your Ear How Christine McVie saw Fleetwood Mac and the real reason she left them – by Lesley-Ann Jones YT 42 minutes 3 seconds Word In Your Ear Britpop, its peaks and its spiritual godfather: a Golden Age rebooted by Miranda Sawyer YT 44 minutes Word In Your Ear Life with the Lennons, fame, friendship, the FBI and the Lost Weekend – by Elliot Mintz

YT 40 minutes 16 seconds Word In Your Ear The genius of George Harrison and why he’s still underrated YT 30 minutes 42 seconds Word In Your Ear Robert Hilburn on the lifetime achievement of Randy Newman YT 33 minutes 21 seconds Word In Your Ear Fairport, Nick Drake, Traffic and why Island Records was a sumptuous visual delight

YT 36 minutes 45 seconds Word In Your Ear How R.E.M. changed the game and why there’ll never be another band like them YT 45 minutes 39 seconds Word In Your Ear How ‘60s pop was sold and the first news stories launching the hits