{"podcast":{"title":"Word In Your Ear","slug":"word-in-your-ear-3755187","podcast_index_feed_id":3755187,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/5ff0586154e2a73589267809?cache=false","website_url":"https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/1620937674526-4e6eb29c967e869bd9d5a9d205d55599.jpeg","author":"Word In Your Ear","episode_count":986,"summary":"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 . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T06:19:56.425854+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-3755187"},"episode":{"title":"All music is dance music! – and the best stage name ever","slug":"all-music-is-dance-music-and-the-best-stage-name-ever","published_at":"2026-07-20T13:36:31+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-3755187/all-music-is-dance-music-and-the-best-stage-name-ever","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-3755187","url":"https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a5e245f46407ff54ea47dfd/media.mp3","summary":"Another over-heated week put through the conversational air-conditioner, which involves …   … the man who got rich writing words that could never be sung   … Anna Bullock? Stefani Germanotta? People who’d never have made it if they hadn’t changed their names   … and the best stage name ever!   … Marco Pirroni’s jukebox   … when the Rock'n’Roll rulebook declared ‘Thou Shalt Not Dance!’   … how David Dundas made a fortune from just four notes   … Ringo, Dylan, Hank Marvin, Bill Wyman and the magic of cowboy culture   … who lost out on ‘It’s Only Rock’n’Roll’ and ‘Jessica’?   … and the biggest star of the 20th Century and how he got his name   Plus the Bingville Bugle and birthday guest Gianluca Tramontana looks back at when dance music came in for a kicking. Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock'n'Roll going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Another over-heated week put through the conversational air-conditioner, which involves … … the man who got rich writing words that could never be…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3172,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/word-in-your-ear-3755187/episodes/all-music-is-dance-music-and-the-best-stage-name-ever/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-3755187/all-music-is-dance-music-and-the-best-stage-name-ever.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}