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David Hepworth

David Hepworth has been writing, broadcasting and speaking about music and media since the seventies. He was one of the presenters of the BBC rock music program The Old Grey Whistle Test and one of the anchors of the corporation’s coverage of Live Aid in 1985. He has won the Editor of the Year and Writer of the Year awards from the Professional Publishers Association and the Mark Boxer award from the British Society of Magazine Editors. He lives in London and podcasts at www.wordpodcast.co.uk and blogs at www.whatsheonaboutnow.blogspot.co.uk.


It Conveyed Them: When The Beatles Recorded “Twist and Shout”

David Hepworth on the Moment When the Band Found Its Voice at Abbey Road
August 2, 2023  By David Hepworth
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