So Long, Marianne Faithfull plus the Shipping Forecast as read by Nick Cave

In a courageous stand against AI technology, a pair of old lags communing via two cocoa tins and a piece of string attempt to put the rock and roll world to rights. Which this week involves … … what David saw in the HMV record store in Oxford Street “that shook me to the ground”. ... music that only works played loud. … Marianne Faithfull - there’s no middle ground between Sacred Figure and Outrageous Diva. … why ‘60s fame is like no other fame. … is there a more enduring example of bad press than Sting’s tantric sex? … John Mendelssohn’s West Coast adventure with David Bowie. … which is musically more significant: punk or disco? … Tom Waits reading the weather forecast. … which musicians make convincing actors - Sinatra, Lady Gaga, Elvis, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Costello, Mick Jagger? … Bowie singing Jacques Brel songs on a waterbed in Hollywood. … why we miss the great press ‘hatchet jobs’. … do slogans last longer than music? … what kind of world plays When The Levee Breaks softly and in a Chelsea café? … why rock music is like the Catholic Church before the Reformation. … plus birthday guest Kevin Rose wonders which musicians made the best actors. Order John Mendelssohn’s ‘Peculiar To Mr Bowie’ here:https://www.nortonrecords.com/a4-peculiar-to-mr-bowie-by-john-mendelssohn/Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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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.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. 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 wiyelondon.com. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.