# Who’d be a nepo baby? plus the mystery album that outsold the Beatles

An episode of [Word In Your Ear](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1567029088), 25 Jan 2026, 48 min.

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Scanning the baggage carousel of news to see what sets off the alarm, which this week involves … … Springsteen: why is America’s most American American so quiet about his President on home turf? … the Seven Ages of Nepo: in defence of Julian Lennon, Joe Sumner and Brooklyn Beckham … the Robbie Williams story that gets our goat … why do half the UK music venues make no profit? … the onstage ‘act’ that did 104 minutes non-stop … pre-testing EDM singles on the dancefloor … Four Boys in the Wind! What A Night That Day Was! - foreign editions of A Hard Day’s Night … in praise of the Latin Playboys … the mid-‘60s mystery album that outsold the Beatles … and we name the root of all ills in popular music! Help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock'n'Roll going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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