Ep. 489 - David Hepworth
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
David Hepworth co-presented Live Aid on the BBC in 1985. He was also one of the presenters of the BBC rock music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test. David launched and edited magazines such as Smash Hits, Q, Mojo, Just Seventeen, Heat and The Word, among many others. 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’s written books about the recording studio Abbey Road, with a foreword by Paul McCartney, the British Invasion of the US charts called Overpaid, Over sexed and Over There, how the LP saved our lives, A Fabulous Creation and his latest book, Hope I Get Old Before I Die, why rock stars never retire, is out now, It looks at the time since Live Aid, when, according to David, live performance took over from record sales .
David Hepworth is our guest in episode 489 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
But David’s new book, Hope I Get Old Before I Die, here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-David-Hepworth/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ADavid%2BHepworth .
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again, I hope, and welcome to My Time Capsule. I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens, and this podcast is called My Time Capsule, |
| 0:18.6 | because it's where people tell me five things from their life |
| 0:21.5 | they wish they had in a time capsule. They pick four things that they cherish and one thing |
| 0:26.4 | they'd like to bury and forget. My guest in this episode is the journalist and broadcaster |
| 0:31.9 | David Hepworth. David has been writing, broadcasting and speaking about music and media since the 70s. |
| 0:40.0 | He was involved in the launch and editing of magazines such as smash hits, |
| 0:44.3 | Q, Mojo and The Word, among many others. |
| 0:48.2 | He was one of the presenters of the BBC rock music program, The Old Grey Whistle Test, |
| 0:52.3 | and one of the anchors of the corporation's coverage |
| 0:55.0 | of live aid in 1985 he's won the editor of the year and writer of the year awards from the professional |
| 1:02.5 | publishers association and the mark boxer award from the british society of magazine editors |
| 1:08.6 | he's written books about the recording studio Abbey Road, |
| 1:12.4 | with a forward by Paul McCartney, the British invasion of the US charts called |
| 1:16.6 | Overpaid, Over Sex and Over There, How the LPs Saved Our Lives, A Fabulous Creation, |
| 1:23.0 | and his latest book, Hope I Get Old Before I Die, Why Rockstars Never Retire, is out now. It looks at the time |
| 1:30.0 | since Live Aid, when, according to David, live performance took over from record sales. |
| 1:35.7 | But I'll let him tell you more, as he chooses the five things he'd like in his time capsule. |
| 1:41.3 | Here is David Hepworth. |
| 1:47.8 | So, time capsule. Here is David Hepworth. So let's talk about your new book. |
| 1:50.5 | Oh, right. |
| 1:51.1 | It's not right at the important thing. |
| 1:52.8 | Come on. |
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