There’s only been one truly original group and we know who they are

By Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

Word In Your Ear

14/03/22·49m 55s

Have you ever heard a band but couldn’t work out where their sound came from? We’re saying: only once. What connects the Sweet’s Blockbuster! to Willie Dixon’s Hoochie Coochie Man? How can Noel Gallagher complain that musicians can’t afford instruments when instruments have never been cheaper? Why is songwriting now like VAR? Has anyone had more preposterous names than the offspring of Grimes and Elon Musk? How did Nile Rodgers transform Let’s Dance? … plus literary theft, smoking in films, Eno’s Music For Airports, Dylan’s new book, NordVPN and the movies you can watch endless times and why (Master And Commander and Brief Encounter among them).

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And it’s our anniversary! We started our Word In Your Attic Zoomcasts exactly two years ago and we’ve now done 159 of them. Here’s a little taste of what you might have been missing …

Edgar Wright

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUePw4TUvEY

Andy Partridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvQiDJ3vwi0

Shamira Ahmed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6nLk50vR6Y

Bob Geldof

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ssIPRMrYzU

Ian Rankin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pawySOxKUAk

Stewart Lee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7lOJUYSY9c&list=PL4BuS5rDGKiPB8-eIUxSPTbajC-l2FyuE&index=141

Laura Barton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD7815zq9yc&list=PL4BuS5rDGKiPB8-eIUxSPTbajC-l2FyuE&index=93

Alexis Petridis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsKuIjlMBrs

Jon Ronson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqiMN2QKVZE&list=PL4BuS5rDGKiPB8-eIUxSPTbajC-l2FyuE&index=159

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