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Clubland
- How the working men’s club shaped Britain
- By: Pete Brown
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The untold story of a British institution ‘Brilliant.’ Alan Johnson ‘Compelling.’ David Kynaston ‘The beer drinkers’ Bill Bryson.’ Times Literary Supplement Ferment Magazine’s Best Beer Book of the Year Pete Brown is a convivial guide on this journey through the intoxicating...
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A beautiful historical work of art.
- By Dr on 03-02-23
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Clubland
- How the working men’s club shaped Britain
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 09-06-22
- Language: English
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Rock & Roll Nightmares
- True Stories, Volume 2: True Crime & Strange Stories About Rock Stars
- By: Staci Layne Wilson
- Narrated by: Andy Garrison
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Rock & Roll Nightmares, Volume 1 scratched the sinister surface with tales of the 27 Club, rock ‘n’ roll suicides, plane crashes, curses, and more. Now the award-winning series continues with concert mayhem, a look at the “baby groupie” trend of the 1970s, Satanic panic, horrific home invasions, musicians who’ve died on stage, rockers who lived on borrowed time, gun-toting music producers, deadly DJs, and much more.
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the best rock book I've listened to for a while
- By Katie on 14-04-26
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Rock & Roll Nightmares
- True Stories, Volume 2: True Crime & Strange Stories About Rock Stars
- Narrated by: Andy Garrison
- Series: Rock & Roll Nightmares, Book 4
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 15-05-23
- Language: English
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Maximum Volume: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin
- The Early Years, 1926-1966
- By: Kenneth Womack
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Maximum Volume offers a glimpse into the mind, the music, and the man behind the sound of the Beatles. George Martin's working-class childhood and musical influences profoundly shaped his early career in the BBC's Classical Music department and as head of the EMI Group's Parlophone Records. Out of them flowed the genius behind his seven years producing the Beatles' incredible body of work, including such albums as Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Abbey Road.
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A legend
- By keith on 03-09-17
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Maximum Volume: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin
- The Early Years, 1926-1966
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 01-09-17
- Language: English
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This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll
- Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich
- By: Daniel Rachel
- Narrated by: Billy Bragg, Daniel Rachel
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BILLY BRAGG Over the last seven decades, some of rock 'n' roll's most celebrated figureheads have flirted with the imagery and theatre of the Third Reich. From Keith Moon and Vivian Stanshall kitting themselves out in Nazi uniforms to Siouxsie Sioux and Sid Vicious...
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This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll
- Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich
- Narrated by: Billy Bragg, Daniel Rachel
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 06-11-25
- Language: English
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Composers
- Their Lives and Works
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Profiles offer revealing insights into what drove each individual to create the musical masterpieces - symphonies, concertos and operatic scores - that changed the direction of classical music and are still celebrated as masterpieces today. The audiobook introduces the key influences, themes and working methods of each individual, setting their works within a wider historical and cultural context.
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Composers
- Their Lives and Works
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 16-07-20
- Language: English
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Inside Out
- A Personal History of Pink Floyd
- By: Nick Mason
- Narrated by: Nick Mason
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Abridged
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Nick has been fantastically involved throughout the production of this download, so that it has become something far more than simply an author reading his work. For once, we can genuinely say this audiobook comes complete with bells and whistles, not to mention some Arctic winds, Venetian canals, telephones, aeroplanes, and a squealing pig or two!
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Strangely Fascinating
- By Ben on 14-02-09
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Inside Out
- A Personal History of Pink Floyd
- Narrated by: Nick Mason
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 15-08-06
- Language: English
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Original Gangstas
- The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
- By: Ben Westhoff
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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"Raw, authoritative, and unflinching ... An elaborately detailed, darkly surprising, definitive history of the LA gangsta rap era." -- Kirkus, starred review A monumental, revealing narrative history about the legendary group of artists at the forefront of West Coast hip-hop: Eazy-E, Dr. Dre...
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Possibily the most well-researched book I've read
- By PMeehan on 25-09-18
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Original Gangstas
- The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 15-09-16
- Language: English
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Opera Wars
- Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for Its Future
- By: Caitlin Vincent
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Blunt, irreverent, and at times wittily subversive, Opera Wars spotlights opera’s colorful and sometimes warring personalities, increasingly fierce controversies over content, and the battles being waged for its economic future. Drawing on interviews with dozens of opera insiders—as well as...
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Opera Wars
- Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for Its Future
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 13-01-26
- Language: English
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A Little History of Music
- By: Robert Philip
- Narrated by: Zeb Soanes
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or love. It is common to all cultures across the world. But how has it changed over the millennia? Robert Philip explores the extraordinary history of music in all its forms, from our earliest ancestors to today’s mass-produced songs. This is a truly global story. Looking to Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, and beyond, Philip reveals how musicians have been brought together by trade and migration and examines the vast impact of colonialism.
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A Little History of Music
- Narrated by: Zeb Soanes
- Series: Little Histories Series
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 23-05-23
- Language: English
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The Devil Is in It
- A History of the American Acoustic Guitar
- By: John Stubbings
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2020, guitar expert John Stubbings released a limited-edition book on the American acoustic guitar that sold out in days. Now, The Devil Is in It returns with additional research and subject matter for a new generation of listeners. Stubbings traveled the country and met with guitar makers, players, collectors, and historians to unravel the long and rich history of the acoustic guitar, its evolution, and the music it has made over the last hundred years.
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The Devil Is in It
- A History of the American Acoustic Guitar
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 20-01-26
- Language: English
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Great Piano Works Explained
- By: Catherine Kautsky, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Catherine Kautsky
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Original Recording
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The glorious repertoire for solo piano includes many of classical music’s most beloved masterpieces. In these 24 musically rich lectures, you’ll dig deeply into this magnificent tradition, in an in-depth exploration of the art of listening. With Professor Kautsky’s inspired guidance and expert playing, you’ll highlight key works of each composer, and unpack their structure, the musical materials that drive them, and the specific features that affect listeners so strongly, giving you a clear grounding in how to approach and hear this great music.
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Wonderful course
- By ML on 07-12-22
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Great Piano Works Explained
- Narrated by: Catherine Kautsky
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 07-10-22
- Language: English
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Please Please Tell Me Now
- The Duran Duran Story
- By: Stephen Davis
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Lifelong fans and interested newcomers will love this stunning biography of Duran Duran by the bestselling author of Gold Dust Woman and Hammer of the Gods. In Please Please Tell Me Now, bestselling rock biographer Stephen Davis tells the story of Duran Duran, the quintessential band of the...
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The very worst voice artist EVER
- By laurence cosnett on 27-10-22
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Please Please Tell Me Now
- The Duran Duran Story
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 03-07-21
- Language: English
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David Bowie's Low
- 33 1/3, Book 26
- By: Hugo Wilcken
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Bowie has long been haunted by the angst-ridden, emotional work of the Die Brucke movement and the Expressionists. Berlin is their spiritual home, and after a chaotic world tour, Bowie adopts this city as his new sanctuary. Immediately he sets to work on Low, his own expressionist mood-piece.
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David Bowie's Low
- 33 1/3, Book 26
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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The Story of Us
- How the Taylor Swift Fandom Changed Our Lives
- By: Olivia Levin
- Narrated by: Olivia Levin
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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We've had the time of our lives as Swifties, and now that story-full of boundless joy, unexpected friendships, cherished memories, and wild theories-lives in this celebration of our fandom and the reason were all here: Taylor Swift. We all know how it started: A teenage girl from Pennsylvania...
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The Story of Us
- How the Taylor Swift Fandom Changed Our Lives
- Narrated by: Olivia Levin
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 14-04-26
- Language: English
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Medical Grade Music
- By: Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi
- Narrated by: Kavus Torabi, Steve Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of two outsiders and obsessives whose collision prompted an evangelistic alliance on the furthest frontiers of underground music. Steve Davis first met Kavus Torabi - guitarist with Gong, Guapo, Cardiacs and Knifeworld - in the mid-2000s at a gig by French underground rock legends Magma. Over the next few years, this unlikely duo's shared affinity for visionary psychedelic music would become the foundation of not only a firm friendship, but also the most infectiously inclusive broadcasting style since the much-mourned death of John Peel.
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This is a joyous book - wonderful musical memories and a stackful of new music recommendations ...
- By Zzorchering on 16-04-21
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Medical Grade Music
- Narrated by: Kavus Torabi, Steve Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 15-04-21
- Language: English
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Silhouettes and Shadows
- The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
- By: Adam Steiner
- Narrated by: Dom Coyote
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Standing at the bleeding edge of the new decade between the experimental Berlin Trilogy (Low, Heroes, and Lodger) and 1983’s wildly successful Let’s Dance, it was here Bowie sought to bury the ghosts of his past and the golden decade of the 1970s to become a global superstar reaching millions of new fans. Featuring fresh insights and exclusive interviews with close collaborators, Adam Steiner’s Silhouettes and Shadows uncovers the studio stories, meanings behind, and secret history of Scary Monsters...
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Silhouettes and Shadows
- The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
- Narrated by: Dom Coyote
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 03-03-26
- Language: English
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40-Foot Lemon
- The Complete Story of U2's Pop & PopMart
- By: Geoff Harkness
- Narrated by: Geoff Harkness
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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40-Foot Lemon: The Complete Story of U2's Pop & PopMart takes listeners into the studio and onto the stage during U2’s most experimental and ambitious era. It chronicles the difficult and expensive yearlong recording of Pop, where the band worked with five producers in multiple studios on two continents, striving to create a masterpiece. Instead, with tour dates already booked, U2 handed in an unfinished album.
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Great read, well researched and entertaining.
- By Gary O'Farrell on 14-08-24
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40-Foot Lemon
- The Complete Story of U2's Pop & PopMart
- Narrated by: Geoff Harkness
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 26-03-24
- Language: English
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Kiss and Make-Up
- By: Gene Simmons
- Narrated by: Gene Simmons
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Exploding on the music scene in the early 1970s, the rock group KISS combined raw energy with theatrical showmanship—not to mention face painting! Founding member Gene Simmons—an outrageous star whose superlong tongue, legendary sexual exploits, and demonic makeup have made him a rock icon—recounts his own story as well as the history of the band. In KISS and Make-Up, Simmons shares a wild, shocking, and unbelievable tale about an immigrant boy from Israel who studied to be a rabbi but was saved by rock and roll and became one of the most notorious rock stars in the world.
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Kiss and Make-Up
- Narrated by: Gene Simmons
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 22-12-25
- Language: English
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A History of the World in 50 Pieces
- An Official Radio 3 book
- By: Tom Service
- Narrated by: Tom Service
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Explore how music has changed our world through 50 pieces across classical, folk and world traditions with BBC presenter Tom Service, in this official Radio 3 compendium. Music transports us and defines us. As a form of expression, it has been passed down through oral...
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A History of the World in 50 Pieces
- An Official Radio 3 book
- Narrated by: Tom Service
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 13-11-25
- Language: English
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Beatleness
- How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World
- By: Candy Leonard
- Narrated by: Tamara Marston
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Beatleness explains how the band became a source of emotional, intellectual, aesthetic, and spiritual nurturance in fans’ lives, creating a relationship that was historically unique. Looking at that relationship against the backdrop of the sexual revolution, the Vietnam War, political assassinations, and other events of those tumultuous years, the audiobook critically examines the often-heard assertion that the Beatles changed everything.
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Good as an introduction to the Beatles. Maybe not for fans.
- By Martin Fitzgerald on 28-08-24
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Beatleness
- How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World
- Narrated by: Tamara Marston
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 31-10-14
- Language: English
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