The Earl Grey Whistle Test: It's All About the Drummer, Stupid

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In a week of Essays, David Hepworth and Mark Ellen reflect on their nearly 40-year partnership as music journalists and TV presenters and what they've learned along the way. On the legendary BBC music show The Old Grey Whistle Test and on numerous magazines from Smash Hits in the 1980s to Q to The Word Hepworth and Ellen worked so closely together that they still get mistaken for each other. Today - David Hepworth on the only member of bands who matters: It's all about the Drummer, Stupid!