Press wrangler and wingman to the stars, Glen Colson on his Mackeson-flavoured memories of life at Charisma Records, preserving the bullet holes in his parents' pub, drumming for the Bonzos at the Leicester Top Rank, a teenage Kate Bush auditioning in a doctor's waiting room, the 'three-sided' Monty Python album, the malodorous Stiff Records office ("people used to sleep there"), Graham Parker and his albino ferret, Larry Wallis and his pet snake, Ian Dury and his violent roadies, John Arlott, Deke Leonard, Beatles drug-dealer Terry The Pill, the Don Ellis Orchestra, the Swinging Medallions and legendary bird-impersonator Big Jake.  Glen's memoir 'Nefarious' is available here ...  <a href="https://glencolson.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://glencolson.com</a> <a target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href="https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/4234399">Get bonus content on Patreon</a> <hr> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

Word In Your Ear

Word In Your Attic 88 (audio version) - Glen Colson: sake and whelks with Viv Stanshall, anyone?

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 an...