New Nick Drake tapes, Bob Marley’s masterpiece and the Coldplay ‘kiss-cam’.

A rain-splashed, dub-filled, cash-scattering foray into this week’s news and events which happily lands upon …

 

… meeting Maddy Prior – a Prior engagement? – and the time Steeleye Span showered their audience with £8,000.

 

… hearing Nick Drake’s demos on a narrowboat in the pitch dark a few hundred feet below London.

 

… Steve Miller’s cancelled tour, absurdly blamed on the weather.  

 

… who’s older, Lulu or the King? Kim Wilde or William Hague? Neil Tennant or Andy Fraser of Free?

 

… Bob Marley at the Lyceum in 1975 – the confidence of their pace, the heft of their sound, what the audience wore. And David’s backing vocal on No Woman No Cry.

 

… the ugliest group in history – “they make Crabby Appleton look like the Walker Brothers”.

 

… an imagined duet by Rick Astley and David Cameron.

 

… is Bob Dylan the Tommy Cooper of rock and roll?

 

… David Ackles and the curse of “the greatest album ever made”.

 

… the Coldplay ‘Kiss-cam’ clip – “either they’re having an affair or just very shy”.

 

… the crackle of crime at ‘70s gigs.

 

 … how someone could have seen the opening night of Charlie Chaplin’s Gold Rush and – 50 years later - Bob Marley at the Lyceum.

 

… why aren’t there still fanzines with names like Ptolemaic Terrascope?

 

… and birthday guest Gianluca Tramontagna claims Bob Dylan is neither sage, seer or prophet but an immensely comic “song and dance man”.

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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.

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