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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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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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Rock Goes to College
- The campus music scene that shaped a generation
- By: Paul Sexton, Mark Knopfler - introduction
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The hectic, hugely entertaining, and definitive story of the wonderful and entirely amateurish British university gig scene that launched the career of some of the world’s most famous bands As rock exploded around the world, so young bands would sling their gear into their trusty Ford Transits...
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Rock Goes to College
- The campus music scene that shaped a generation
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 21-05-26
- 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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Talkin' Greenwich Village
- The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital
- By: David Browne
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers Although Greenwich Village encompasses less than a square mile in downtown New York, rarely has such a concise...
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Talkin' Greenwich Village
- The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 17-09-24
- Language: English
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The Indispensable Composers
- A Personal Guide
- By: Anthony Tommasini
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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An exploration into the question of greatness from the Chief Classical Music Critic of the New York Times When he began to listen to the great works of classical music as a child, Anthony Tommasini had many questions. Why did a particular piece move him? How did the music work? Over time, he...
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The Indispensable Composers
- A Personal Guide
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 06-11-18
- Language: English
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Metallica: Enter Night
- The Biography
- By: Mick Wall
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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'A flaming juggernaut of heavy-metal biog' GUARDIAN 'This is the definitive account of heavy metal's biggest band of all' CLASSIC ROCK 'Truly enlightening' ROCK SOUND 'ENTER NIGHT, Mick Wall's biography of Metallica confirms this grizzled veteran to be as engaged and waspishly authoritative a...
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Metallica: Enter Night
- The Biography
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 31-12-25
- Language: English
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Long Road
- Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation
- By: Steven Hyden
- Narrated by: Ron Hippe
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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A leading music journalist’s riveting chronicle of how beloved band Pearl Jam shaped the times, and how their legacy and longevity have transcended generations. Ever since Pearl Jam first blasted onto the Seattle grunge scene three decades ago with their debut album, Ten, they have sold 85M+...
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Awesome Memories
- By Michael L. on 19-02-26
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Play It Loud
- An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar
- By: Brad Tolinski, Alan di Perna, Carlos Santana - introduction
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The inspiration for the Play It Loud exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art "Every guitar player will want to read this book twice. And even the casual music fan will find a thrilling narrative that weaves together cultural history, musical history, race, politics, business case studies...
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Keep up with the rest.....
- By LJLC on 12-02-17
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Play It Loud
- An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 25-10-16
- Language: English
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Hit Girls
- Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the Women Who Built Pop's Shiniest Decade
- By: Nora Princiotti
- Narrated by: Nora Princiotti
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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An entertaining and deeply nostalgic dive into how female pop stars broke through the music industry in the 2000s and altered the cultural landscape forever, from the Ringer writer and Every Single Album podcast cohost “Hit Girls bridges our butterfly-clipped, bedazzled past with today’s...
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Fluffy and dull
- By N on 10-09-25
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Hit Girls
- Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the Women Who Built Pop's Shiniest Decade
- Narrated by: Nora Princiotti
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 17-06-25
- Language: English
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Vocal Break
- On Women, Music and Power
- By: Lauren Elkin
- Narrated by: Lauren Elkin
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A dazzlingly original reassessment of the power and plurality of women's singing voices by the critically acclaimed author of Art Monsters and Scaffolding For millennia, women’s raised voices have been heard as unruly, uncivilized, dangerous. Women singing were cast...
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Vocal Break
- On Women, Music and Power
- Narrated by: Lauren Elkin
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 21-05-26
- Language: English
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Fornication
- The Red Hot Chili Peppers Story
- By: Jeff Apter
- Narrated by: Adrian Mulraney
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is the extreme story of the indestructible LA group, from their early funk days to eventual success as one of America's top-selling bands. Despite an epic reputation for exhibitionism, drug taking and drunkenness, through it all the Chili Peppers have continued to produce records that shock, challenge and intrigue their fans.
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Must read if papers fan
- By Amazon Customer on 09-03-23
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Fornication
- The Red Hot Chili Peppers Story
- Narrated by: Adrian Mulraney
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 14-05-12
- Language: English
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The Cello Suites
- J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
- By: Eric Siblin
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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One fateful evening, journalist Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites and began an epic quest that would unravel three centuries of intrigue, politics, and passion. Winner of the Mavis Gallant Prize for Nonfiction and the McAuslan First Book Prize, The Cello Suites weaves together three dramatic narratives: the disappearance of Bach's manuscript in the 18th century; Pablo Casals's discovery and popularization of the music in Spain in the late-19th century; and Siblin's infatuation with the suites in the present day.
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Great concept nicely executed
- By Anonymous on 14-02-26
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The Cello Suites
- J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 06-08-19
- Language: English
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
- By: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown's grave, or discussing public displays of affection at a Carly Rae Jepsen show, he writes with a poignancy that resonates profoundly. In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others—Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times.
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Poetic and Personal in the greatest way ever
- By Spike Solo Aitchison on 27-12-24
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
- Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 15-11-22
- Language: English
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Musical Theatre for Dummies
- By: Seth Rudetsky
- Narrated by: Seth Rudetsky
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Do you want to know more about the fascinating history of Broadway musicals, the stars of yesterday and today, and what goes on behind the curtain of a musical production? In Musical Theatre For Dummies, Broadway insider Seth Rudetsky takes you backstage and reveals everything you want to know about life in the theatre.
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Works on 10-08-23
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Musical Theatre for Dummies
- Narrated by: Seth Rudetsky
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 30-05-23
- Language: English
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Faster Than A Cannonball
- 1995 and All That
- By: Dylan Jones
- Narrated by: Jessica Preddy, Kris Dyer, Leighton Pugh, and others
- Length: 20 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Decades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was the year of the Nineties: peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), peak YBA (Tracey Emin's tent), peak New Lad (when Nick Hornby published High Fidelity, when James Brown's Loaded detonated the publishing industry, and when pubs were finally allowed to...
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Reams of quotes do not a satisfying book make
- By Alex Marsh on 14-12-25
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Faster Than A Cannonball
- 1995 and All That
- Narrated by: Jessica Preddy, Kris Dyer, Leighton Pugh, Russell Bentley
- Length: 20 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 13-10-22
- Language: English
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The Story of Motown
- By: Peter Benjaminson, Greil Macus - foreword
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In January 1959, Berry Gordy borrowed $800 from his family and founded the Detroit-based record company that in less than a decade was to become the largest Black-owned business in the United States. It also became one of the most productive and influential producers of popular music anywhere in the world. The Story of Motown is the story of Berry Gordy's triumph over powerful, established financial interests, entrenched popular taste, bigotry, and racism.
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Never give up on a dream
- By Anonymous on 21-08-24
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The Story of Motown
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 16-10-18
- Language: English
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George Frideric Handel
- A Life with Friends
- By: Ellen T. Harris
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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An intimate portrait of Handel’s life and inner circle, modeled after one of the composer’s favorite forms: the fugue. During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel’s music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself - known to most as the composer of Messiah - is a bit of a mystery. Though he took meticulous care of his musical manuscripts and even provided for their preservation on his death, very little of an intimate nature survives.
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George Frideric Handel
- A Life with Friends
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 09-10-14
- Language: English
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Schumann
- The Faces and the Masks
- By: Judith Chernaik
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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Schumann: The Faces and the Masks is a groundbreaking account of a major composer whose life and works have been the subject of intense controversy ever since his attempted suicide and early death in an insane asylum. Schumann was a key figure in the Romanticism which swept Europe and America in the 19th century, inspiring writers, musicians and painters, delighting their enthralled audiences and reaching to the furthest corners of the world.
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Schumann
- The Faces and the Masks
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 04-10-18
- Language: English
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There Goes Gravity
- A Life in Rock and Roll
- By: Lisa Robinson
- Narrated by: Lisa Robinson
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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From a legendary journalist with four decades of unprecedented access and untold stories, an insider’s behind-the-scenes look at the major personalities of rock and roll. Lisa Robinson has interviewed everyone from John Lennon to Bono to Patti Smith, Eminem to Lady Gaga to Jay-Z and Kanye West...
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There Goes Gravity
- A Life in Rock and Roll
- Narrated by: Lisa Robinson
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 22-04-14
- Language: English
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