About this episode
The week’s rock and roll luggage was put through the scanner by our sharp-eyed security chiefs and the following items kept back for scrutiny … … 82 year-old jazzer in lucrative samples windfall! … is there a more excruciating ‘mum’ moment than the 12 year-old Elijah Blue Allman’s in the Cher video If I Could Turn Back Time? …. the staggering sum total of what the Beatles did on 30 July 1963. … “Mailbox money”: how Phil Manzanera made more from a hip hop record than from 15 years of Roxy Music … why would anyone be a pop star these days? … further proof that in the world of the internet nothing is forgotten. … why the quantity of cash Kanye West pulled from the “athleisure” shoe market makes the music business look like toytown. And are “vintage trainers” the new rare vinyl? … when was the first sample? … and Christmas with David’s Uncle Stan. Tickets for Word In Your Ear live at 21Soho on November 27th: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/ZOthfatjxi Subscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon for early - and ad-free! - access to all of our content: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.