{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/6988b9079a20cfbf335cb772?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Racy pulp paperbacks, teenage Joni and the BRIT School versus the age of the amateurs","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/1770567813454-20b63ba2-08de-432b-bde6-2f0c596aeab6.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Unredacted exchanges about the rock and roll underworld this week highlight the following …</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… real or made-up stars’ kids’ names: Speck Wildhorse? Blue Ivy? Everly Bear? Motorhead Michelob?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… man plays drum solo with his head!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… Olivia Dean, Lola Young, FKA Twigs: what do today’s ‘professionals’ learn at the BRIT School and what happened to the age of the amateurs?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… why Joni Mitchell’s life was even more extraordinary before she was famous</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… Three Dog Night, Kiss, Grand Funk Railroad, Linda Ronstadt: American acts that never broke Britain</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… rude, racy, naughty, delightful: our love of old pulp paperbacks&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… “Go to your room, young lady, and play a Nick Drake album in its entirety!”</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… and when Dandelion became Angela.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Plus birthday guest Paul Higham and why most stars’ stories need a lively biographer.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Help us to keep the conversation going: </strong><a href=\"https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear</a></p>","author_name":"Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold"}