{"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":"The Who, Floyd, Led Zep and the great college circuit that launched 1,000 bands","slug":"the-who-floyd-led-zep-and-the-great-college-circuit-that-launched-1-000-bands","published_at":"2026-05-12T21:42:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-66565/the-who-floyd-led-zep-and-the-great-college-circuit-that-launched-1-000-bands","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/6a039ea9b44336455688ed46/media.mp3","summary":"Cheap tickets, warm beer, draughty halls and refectories, a whole new cobbled-together rock circuit was born in the ‘60s for an audience who watched and listened intently. Which allowed the music to take a different route. Paul Sexton spoke to Mark Knopfler, Nick Mason, Justin Hayward, Phil Manzanera and many others to piece together ‘Rock Goes To College: the Campus Music Scene That Shaped A Generation’ and talks to us here about the fans and amateurs who ran it and the lost world of motorway caffs and Ford Transits, stopping off at …   … Hendrix, Fairport, Free, Queen, Dire Straits: tales of the campus gig foot-soldiers   … no security, no lightshow, no seat, no stage: how the idea of live entertainment changed in 50 years     … Pink Floyd not being allowed front-of house in Top Rank theatres without a tie   … the Stranglers and the Damned refusing to play college shows “unless townies were allowed in”   … the “chart clause” - £50 extra if a band’s in the Top 3!   … the Stones playing an Oxford ball   … bands market-researching songs before recording them   … why Leeds could afford the Who and Leonard Cohen   … what Harvey Goldsmith, Paul Conroy and Chris Wright learnt from booking bands   … why Wings chose the college circuit   … and the arrival of DJs and disco that put a nail in the college gig coffin, “a golden age with nothing like it before or after”.   Order ‘Rock Goes To College’ here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rock-Goes-College-campus-generation/dp/0008722412/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.EWpbXfJjfIq6DOGDGU8HMQMTbZ6fxtMSFJLLqnswcYo.7mGYWOOBglb6F5p42gs88d1lJ0uLxzWS4w3W0vPrwN0&qid=1775764128&sr=1-1 Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conver…","meta_description":"Cheap tickets, warm beer, draughty halls and refectories, a whole new cobbled-together rock circuit was born in the ‘60s for an audience who watched and l…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2995,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/word-in-your-ear-66565/episodes/the-who-floyd-led-zep-and-the-great-college-circuit-that-launched-1-000-bands/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/the-who-floyd-led-zep-and-the-great-college-circuit-that-launched-1-000-bands.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}