{"podcast":{"title":"Word In Your Ear","slug":"word-in-your-ear-66565","podcast_index_feed_id":66565,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/5fe229a1f896715ee8319608","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":"2026-07-24T06:19:52.971578+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-66565"},"episode":{"title":"Blondie and Clem Burke remembered by devoted pal Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go’s","slug":"blondie-and-clem-burke-remembered-by-devoted-pal-kathy-valentine-of-the-go-go-s","published_at":"2026-05-27T14:40:18+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-66565/blondie-and-clem-burke-remembered-by-devoted-pal-kathy-valentine-of-the-go-go-s","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-66565","url":"https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a170252942fd18754b43d08/media.mp3","summary":"Clem Burke joined Blondie in 1975. He started writing his memoir 20 years ago and just managed to finish it before he died in 2025, encouraged and assisted by his old friend Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go’s, “a chance to reflect on all he’d achieved”. We’re thrilled she’s joined us here to talk about his dramatic life and ‘The Other Side of the Dream’, a conversation stopping off at …   … falling for her “teenage crush” when she saw Blondie on TV, the man who wore red shoes at his audition   … Clem Burke, eternal fan who idolised the Beatles, Bowie and the Stooges, and the brief moment he became Elvis Ramone   ... do bands talk to each other? … Blondie was not a democracy … “in fact bands are an example of how democracy doesn’t work”   … Clem’s powerhouse drumming and showmanship: “you couldn’t take your eyes off him”   … “the night we met we each had a limo and he introduced me to Andy Warhol”   … how it felt to hear Blondie record one of her songs   … how their lives connected: “we both achieved a dream and had it taken away from us”   … why drummers tend to see groups differently   … and life in the Go-Go’s - “married to four girls!”   Order copies of Clem Burke’s ‘The Other Side of the Dream: My Life in And Out of Blondie’ here: https://lnk.to/theothersideofthedream Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear 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":"Clem Burke joined Blondie in 1975. He started writing his memoir 20 years ago and just managed to finish it before he died in 2025, encouraged and assiste…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2067,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/word-in-your-ear-66565/episodes/blondie-and-clem-burke-remembered-by-devoted-pal-kathy-valentine-of-the-go-go-s/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-66565/blondie-and-clem-burke-remembered-by-devoted-pal-kathy-valentine-of-the-go-go-s.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}