Word In Your Ear

Hearing 45 year-old records you’d never played & the least likely-looking person to become a rock star


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The super-trouper of scrutiny scans this week’s events and lands upon …

 

… the man who’s played on 21,000 records.

 

… how Joni Mitchell is still stirring it up aged 81 and why we love her for it.

 

... the impact of the stadium circuit on rock festivals.

 

… the longest-surviving group in the world – bowing out at Glastonbury after 66 years!

 

… “fake indignation” on social media.

 

… the 40th anniversary of Dead Or Alive’s stunning You Spin Me Round (Like A Record).

 

… the most unlikely looking person to have ever become a rock star. 

 

… the serial winner of the Bass Player Who Most Resembles An Old Testament Prophet contest.

 

… why a record untouched for four decades – eg Day Of Radiance by electronic zither master Laraaji - seems to have matured like a fine wine.

 

… how Donna Summer’s I Feel Love was a new kind of music, one that made you one want endless repetition rather than change.

 

 … “Kevin Ayers drank a pint of Pernod then drove me down a mountain”.

 

Plus birthday guest Avi Chaudhiri on the connection between Buddy Holly, Mike Mills and Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs.


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Word In Your EarBy Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

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