{"podcast":{"title":"Word In Your Ear","slug":"word-in-your-ear-4162240","podcast_index_feed_id":4162240,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/5ff0586154e2a73589267809","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":"2026-07-24T06:20:01.393127+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-4162240"},"episode":{"title":"Kate Mossman has strong feelings about rock stars past their prime","slug":"kate-mossman-has-strong-feelings-about-rock-stars-past-their-prime","published_at":"2026-06-16T17:31:27+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-4162240/kate-mossman-has-strong-feelings-about-rock-stars-past-their-prime","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-4162240","url":"https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a31886fc26a46aaa571abae/media.mp3","summary":"Kate’s an old pal of ours from Word magazine who writes scintillating columns and profiles for the New Statesman and Observer. We loved her book ‘Men Of A Certain Age: My Encounters With Rock Royalty’ – just out in paperback! – where she relives her meetings with a variety of legends, eccentrics and old lags whose music she finds particularly compelling and wonders what they all have in common. This typically funny and colourful conversation stops off at …   … the attractive fallibility of rock stars past their peak   … a lifetime’s devotion to Paul Simon   … “Olivia Dean is the Carole King of her generation”   … the ridiculous expectations we heap on musicians’ creativity   … why Arts Criticism is under threat   … when the first record you buy (aged five) is the Chicken Song   … “One-Hit Wonders have achieved infinitely more than most of us”   … Ray Davies and his “eternal sense of apartness”   … why George Michael is under-appreciated and the time he found someone living under his floorboards   … the days when Jeff Beck modelled PVC jackets for Rave  … the genius of Pat Metheny’s Orchestrion   … and the new acts who’ll still be huge in ten years’ time.   Order copies of ‘Men Of A Certain Age’ here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Men-Certain-Age-Encounters-Royalty/dp/1788705645 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":"Kate’s an old pal of ours from Word magazine who writes scintillating columns and profiles for the New Statesman and Observer. We loved her book ‘Men Of A…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2937,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/word-in-your-ear-4162240/episodes/kate-mossman-has-strong-feelings-about-rock-stars-past-their-prime/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-4162240/kate-mossman-has-strong-feelings-about-rock-stars-past-their-prime.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}