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The McCartney Legacy
- Volume 1: 1969 – 73
- By: Allan Kozinn, Adrian Sinclair
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 29 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in the years immediately following the dissolution of the Beatles, a period in which McCartney recreated himself as both a man and a musician. Informed by hundreds of...
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Stunning book beautifully read
- By Peter and The on 17-12-22
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The McCartney Legacy
- Volume 1: 1969 – 73
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Series: The McCartney Legacy, Book 1
- Length: 29 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 13-12-22
- Language: English
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Delta Blues
- The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
- By: Ted Gioia
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The blues grew out of the plantations and prisons, the swampy marshes and fertile cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta. With original research and keen insights, Ted Gioia - the author of a landmark study of West Coast jazz and the critically acclaimed The History of Jazz - brings to life the stirring music of the Delta, evoking the legendary figures who shaped its sound and ethos: Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King, and others.
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If you love blues music, it's a well worth read.
- By Anonymous on 09-06-21
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Delta Blues
- The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 16-03-21
- Language: English
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Huey Morgan's Rebel Heroes
- The Renegades of Music & Why We Still Need Them
- By: Huey Morgan
- Narrated by: Huey Morgan
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Huey Morgan - Fun Lovin' Criminals' frontman and award-winning BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 6 Music broadcaster - celebrates the unpredictable personalities and talents of popular music's rebel heroes and explains why we need them more than ever before. The defining sounds of popular music - blues, rock 'n' roll, punk, hip-hop - were shaped and driven by rebel voices: whether that was Robert Johnson and Billie Holiday in the 1920s-40s or the likes of Jimi Hendrix.
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historical perspective
- By Stefan Mapp on 07-05-17
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Huey Morgan's Rebel Heroes
- The Renegades of Music & Why We Still Need Them
- Narrated by: Huey Morgan
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 12-11-15
- Language: English
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The Making of Music
- The Complete Landmark BBC Radio 4 Series
- By: James Naughtie
- Narrated by: James Naughtie
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In this major BBC Radio 4 series, James Naughtie uncovers the roots of our music and reveals the soundtrack to our own history. The history of classical music is inextricably linked with the places it was written, its purpose and its patrons as well as with politics, war and social change. From the earliest music of the monasteries to the court and church music of the Renaissance and Reformation and beyond, composers have always changed with the times.
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exceptional audio book... highly recommended
- By grateful reader on 24-08-18
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The Making of Music
- The Complete Landmark BBC Radio 4 Series
- Narrated by: James Naughtie
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 10-08-17
- Language: English
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Smash!
- Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the '90s Punk Explosion
- By: Ian Winwood
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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A group biography of '90s punk rock told through the prism of Green Day, The Offspring, NOFX, Rancid, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, and more Two decades after the Sex Pistols and the Ramones birthed punk music into the world, their artistic heirs burst onto the scene and changed the genre...
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You're not punk and I'm telling everyone.
- By MR on 19-02-19
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Smash!
- Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the '90s Punk Explosion
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 20-11-18
- Language: English
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Time's Echo
- The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
- By: Jeremy Eichler
- Narrated by: Jeremy Eichler, Sherrill Milnes
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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When it comes to how societies commemorate their own distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of books, archives, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time's Echo, Jeremy Eichler makes a revelatory case for the power of music as culture's memory, an art form uniquely capable of carrying forward meaning from the past. Eichler shows how four towering composers - Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich - lived through the era of the Second World War and the Holocaust and later transformed their experiences into deeply moving works of music.
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A a beautifully written and moving book.
- By Elizabeth on 02-11-23
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Time's Echo
- The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
- Narrated by: Jeremy Eichler, Sherrill Milnes
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 05-09-23
- Language: English
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Kraftwerk
- Future Music from Germany
- By: Uwe Schütte
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall61
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Performance52
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Brought to you by Penguin. The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape 'We are not artists nor musicians. We are workers.' Ignoring nearly all rock traditions, experimenting in near-total secrecy in their Düsseldorf studio, Kraftwerk fused...
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Interesting enough if a little dry
- By Stephen George on 19-06-20
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Kraftwerk
- Future Music from Germany
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 27-02-20
- Language: English
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Alterlatino
- By: Javier A. Rodríguez-Camacho
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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This book chronicles the movement's origins with the advent of punk in the 1980s, its commercial and creative pinnacle in the 1990s, and the transformations it faced due to the music industry crisis in the 2000s. It connects Alterlatino with the pioneering mixture of rock and traditional music in the 1970s and projects its influence into the indie scene that emerged in the 2010s, opening a door to the last great Latin American revolt.
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Alterlatino
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 12-11-26
- Language: English
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Whatever You Say I Am
- The Life and Times of Eminem
- By: Anthony Bozza
- Narrated by: Josh Hamilton
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Abridged
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does eminem matter? On assignment for his first cover story for Rolling Stone, the very first national cover story on Eminem, Anthony Bozza met a young blond kid, a rapper who would soon take the country by storm. But back in 1999, Eminem was just beginning to make waves among suburban white...
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Whatever You Say I Am
- The Life and Times of Eminem
- Narrated by: Josh Hamilton
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 21-10-03
- Language: English
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The Ninth
- Beethoven and the World in 1824
- By: Harvey Sachs
- Narrated by: Patrick Egan
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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“All men become brothers . . . Be embraced, ye millions!” The Ninth Symphony, a symbol of freedom and joy, was Beethoven’s mightiest attempt to help humanity find its way from darkness to light, from chaos to peace. Yet the work was born in a repressive era, with terrified Bourbons...
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The Ninth
- Beethoven and the World in 1824
- Narrated by: Patrick Egan
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 15-06-10
- Language: English
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Major Labels
- A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
- By: Kelefa Sanneh
- Narrated by: Kelefa Sanneh
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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One of Oprah Daily's 20 Favorite Books of 2021 Selected as one of Pitchfork's Best Music Books of the Year “One of the best books of its kind in decades.” —The Wall Street Journal An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty years...
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Major Labels
- A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
- Narrated by: Kelefa Sanneh
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 05-10-21
- Language: English
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The History of Classical Music
- By: Richard Fawkes
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance52
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From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music and the composers who have sought to express in music the deepest of human feelings and emotions. Polyphony, sonata form, serial music - many musical expressions are also explained - with the text illustrated by performances from some of the most highly praised recordings of recent years.
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Very pleasant way to read a book !
- By Kindle Customer on 23-12-12
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The History of Classical Music
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 06-07-00
- Language: English
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Too Late to Stop Now
- More Rock’n'Roll War Stories
- By: Allan Jones
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In more than 40 stories from the glory days of rock’n’roll, featuring Lou Reed, Elton John, Sting and The Clash, Allan Jones remembers a world that once was – one of dark excess and excitement, outrageous deeds and extraordinary talent, featuring legends at both the beginnings and ends of their careers.
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Memories
- By Tom O'Rourke on 29-09-24
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Too Late to Stop Now
- More Rock’n'Roll War Stories
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 25-05-23
- Language: English
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And the Roots of Rhythm Remain
- A Journey Through Global Music
- By: Joe Boyd
- Narrated by: Joe Boyd
- Length: 40 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance15
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And the Roots of the Rhythm Remain is like no other. It shows how personalities, events and politics in Havana, Lagos, Buenos Aires, Soweto, Rio and Seville are as colourful and fascinating as anything that took place in Storyville, Harlem, Laurel Canyon or Liverpool. And, moreover, how jazz, r&b and rock 'n' roll would never have happened if it wasn't for sounds emanating from over the horizon and below the equator.
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Excellent overview of ‘world music’
- By A R Jeanes on 31-12-24
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And the Roots of Rhythm Remain
- A Journey Through Global Music
- Narrated by: Joe Boyd
- Length: 40 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 17-12-24
- Language: English
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Corporate Rock Sucks
- The Rise and Fall of SST Records
- By: Jim Ruland
- Narrated by: Jim Ruland
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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A no-holds-barred narrative history of the iconic label that brought the world Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, and more, by the co-author of Do What You Want and My Damage. Greg Ginn started SST Records in the sleepy beach town of Hermosa Beach, CA, to supply ham radio...
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Corporate Rock Sucks
- The Rise and Fall of SST Records
- Narrated by: Jim Ruland
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 12-04-22
- Language: English
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Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
- The History of the Disc Jockey
- By: Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton, James Murphy - introduction
- Narrated by: Theo Solomon
- Length: 29 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance27
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FOREWORD BY JAMES MURPHY 'Literally changed the course of my life' James Murphy When someone says, 'You have to know your history...' this is it. A pop culture classic for over two decades, now fully refreshed and updated as part of White Rabbit's Deep Cuts series, Last Night a DJ ... is the...
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Loved it
- By Ant on 21-02-23
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Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
- The History of the Disc Jockey
- Narrated by: Theo Solomon
- Length: 29 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 25-08-22
- Language: English
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Strange Things Are Happening
- Adventures in Music
- By: Richard Norris
- Narrated by: Richard Norris
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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'A revelation. Richard Norris lived the twentieth century and beyond like no one else . . . this is one of the truly great eyewitness accounts of the counterculture' DAVID KEENAN 'A dazzling psychedelic memoir' CAUGHT BY THE RIVER 'Makes you feel like getting up and doing something!' WENDY...
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Incredibly narrated and brilliant stories
- By Phil Lucas on 14-09-25
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Strange Things Are Happening
- Adventures in Music
- Narrated by: Richard Norris
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 21-03-24
- Language: English
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White Bicycles
- Making Music in the 1960s
- By: Joe Boyd
- Narrated by: Joe Boyd
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall121
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Performance105
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Joe Boyd tells of his journey through Sixties music, from tour managing Muddy Waters and Coleman Hawkins, to plugging in Bob Dylan's electric guitar while working as production manager at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, to becoming a leading record producer. His first session was Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood's "Crossroads" followed by Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, the Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny and many more.
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A Truly Excellent Book
- By Colin on 02-05-13
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White Bicycles
- Making Music in the 1960s
- Narrated by: Joe Boyd
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 19-03-13
- Language: English
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Fire and Rain
- The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY and the Lost Story of 1970
- By: David Browne
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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January 1970: the Beatles assemble one more time to put the finishing touches on Let It Be; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young are wrapping up Déjà Vu; Simon and Garfunkel are unveiling Bridge Over Troubled Water; James Taylor is an upstart singer-songwriter who's just completed Sweet Baby James. Over the course of the next twelve months, their lives---and the world around them---will change irrevocably.
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Very interesting and informative
- By Jackie on 25-06-24
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Fire and Rain
- The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY and the Lost Story of 1970
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 19-07-11
- Language: English
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The Story of Music
- By: Howard Goodall
- Narrated by: Howard Goodall
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall105
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Accompanies BBC2's major new TV series and The Story of Music in 50 Pieces on Radio 3. Music is an intrinsic part of everyday life, and yet the history of its development from single notes to multi-layered orchestration can seem bewilderingly specialised and complex. In his dynamic tour through 40,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop, Howard Goodall does away with stuffy biographies, unhelpful labels and tired terminology.
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Good book, shame about the lack of music.
- By cattyish on 23-08-14
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The Story of Music
- Narrated by: Howard Goodall
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 21-03-13
- Language: English
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