The evergreen record that’s 50 years old & Jeremy Thorpe at a hippie commune

As this week’s rock and roll steeplechase thunders out over the jumps, the following runners and riders make it past the post … … “First he changed music. Then he changed the world!” and other over-cooked biopic sells. … Billy Joel returns by the miracle of Artificial Ignorance. … what you learn from visiting rock stars’ childhood homes. … what’s Malta done to deserve a four-day Liam Gallagher festival? … the one thing that’s never changed about Country Music. … how Hotel California ended up in court.   … Sam Mendes’ Beatles project and the problem with actors playing very famous people. … Beyoncé’s ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’: sampled banjo and other misdemeanours. … from Watergate to Putin: the 50 year-old record so lean, smart and cynical that the world’s only just catching up. … Don Henley on Irving Azoff: “He may be Satan but he’s OUR Satan.” … Rock sea-cruises: “get your marital vows renewed by a member of Weezer!” ... why CD has ruined Jackson Browne’s For Everyman. … what Hugh Grant superimposed on the character of Jeremy Thorpe.   … and birthday guest Adrian Ainsworth - Arse Curtains and other career-limiting band names.Subscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon for early - and ad-free - access to all of our content: 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.