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Me and Mr Jones
- My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars
- By: Suzi Ronson
- Narrated by: Suzi Ronson
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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Suzi Ronson was working in a Beckenham hair salon in the early seventies when Mrs Jones came in for her weekly shampoo and set. After being introduced to her son David and his wife Angie, Suzi finds herself at the Bowies' bohemian apartment and is soon embroiled in their raucous world. Having crafted his iconic Ziggy Stardust hairstyle, Suzi becomes the only working woman in David's touring party and joins the Spiders from Mars as they perform around the globe.
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Me and Mr Jones
- My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars
- Narrated by: Suzi Ronson
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 02-04-24
- Language: English
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Tales from the Dancefloor
- Manchester, The Warehouse Project, Parklife, Sankeys, The Haçienda
- By: Sacha Lord
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Sacha Lord's journey is interwoven with the history and culture of the city of Manchester. Listeners will discover Manchester’s vibrant music scene(s) and the challenges it has faced over the decades. The book takes the listener behind the scenes of Sacha's groundbreaking events, including his early nights at the legendary Haçienda club, the establishment of Warehouse Project and Parklife. Sacha's never-told stories are fascinating and entertaining, covering a three-decade structure through 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.
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Tales from the Dancefloor
- Manchester, The Warehouse Project, Parklife, Sankeys, The Haçienda
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 11-04-24
- Language: English
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Rip It up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
- By: Simon Reynolds
- Narrated by: Liam Wheatley
- Length: 20 hrs
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In this, the first book to take a big-picture view of the entire post punk period, acclaimed author and music journalist Simon Reynolds recreates a time of tremendous urgency and idealism in pop music. Full of anecdote and insight, and featuring the likes of Joy Division, The Fall, Pere Ubu, PiL and Talking Heads, Rip It Up And Start Again stands as one of the most inspired and inspiring books on popular music ever written.
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Rip It up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
- Narrated by: Liam Wheatley
- Length: 20 hrs
- Release date: 09-05-24
- Language: English
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Playin' Possum
- My Memories of George Jones
- By: Nancy Jones, Ken Abraham
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Married for more than thirty years to the greatest country music singer who ever lived, the man Frank Sinatra had whimsically referred to as “the second-greatest singer in America,” Nancy Jones knew George Jones better than anyone else on earth—the good George and the bad George, the horrendous, and the hilarious. George and Nancy married March 4, 1983, and with her help and encouragement, he quit his wild and wicked ways—for a while. Nancy soon learned, however, that the demons held a strong grip on the man she loved, and they were not about to release him without a fight.
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Playin' Possum
- My Memories of George Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 16-07-24
- Language: English
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Hip-Hop Is History
- By: Questlove
- Length: 12 hrs
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In Hip-Hop Is History, Questlove skillfully traces the creative and cultural forces that made and shaped hip-hop, highlighting both the forgotten but influential gems and the undeniable chart-topping hits--and weaves it all together with the stories no one else knows. It is at once an intimate, sharply observed story of a cultural revolution and a sweeping, grand theory of the evolution of the great artistic movement of our time. And Questlove, of course, approaches it with not only the encyclopaedic fluency and passion of an obsessive fan but also the expertise of an innovative participant.
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Hip-Hop Is History
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 11-06-24
- Language: English
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Travelling
- On the Path of Joni Mitchell
- By: Ann Powers
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
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One of the most celebrated artists of her generation, Joni Mitchell has inspired countless musicians and authors, while never stopping still herself. In Traveling, Ann Powers seeks to understand the paradox of Mitchell – at once both elusive and inviting – through her myriad journeys. Drawing on extensive interviews with Mitchell’s peers and deep archival research, Powers takes readers to rural Canada, charts the course of Mitchell's musical evolution, follows the winding road of Mitchell's collaborations with other greats and explores her loves along the way.
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Travelling
- On the Path of Joni Mitchell
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 20-06-24
- Language: English
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Can't Be Satisfied
- The Life and Times of Muddy Waters
- By: Robert Gordon
- Narrated by: Keb' Mo'
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
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The epic, rollicking, up-and-down life of Muddy Waters—who went from Mississippi farmhand to musical legend, invented electric blues, and created the template for the rock-and- roll band and its wild lifestyle—is chronicled with rare vividness in Robert Gordon’s widely praised biography.
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Can't Be Satisfied
- The Life and Times of Muddy Waters
- Narrated by: Keb' Mo'
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 16-04-24
- Language: English
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There Was Nothing You Could Do
- Bruce Springsteen's “Born in the U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland
- By: Steven Hyden
- Narrated by: Steven Hyden
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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On June 4, 1984, Columbia Records issued what would become one of the best-selling and most impactful rock albums of all time. An instant classic, Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. would prove itself to be a landmark not only for the man who made it, but rock music in general and even the larger American culture over the next 40 years. In There Was Nothing You Could Do, veteran rock critic Steven Hyden shows exactly how this record became such a pivotal part of the American tapestry.
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There Was Nothing You Could Do
- Bruce Springsteen's “Born in the U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland
- Narrated by: Steven Hyden
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 28-05-24
- Language: English
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Crying in the Rain
- The Perfect Harmony and Imperfect Lives of the Everly Brothers
- By: Mark Ribowsky
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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The Everly Brothers—aka Don and Phil to fans with an intimate appreciation for them—seemed to exist almost as an apparition. Emerging within the formative era for young Baby Boomers during the blandly regimented '50s, they were a ubiquitous presence, clad in snug suits and skinny ties, hair neatly Brylcreemed, never raising their voices when they sang. The two prim-looking country boys with dark, curiously penetrating eyes and perfectly merged, honey-dipped harmonies, were oddly but comfortably settled as sentimental, soothing, sometimes lovelorn voices of a still-uncharted cultural turf.
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Crying in the Rain
- The Perfect Harmony and Imperfect Lives of the Everly Brothers
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 02-04-24
- Language: English
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Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters
- By: Lynnée Denise
- Narrated by: m
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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Born in Alabama in 1926, raised in the church, appropriated by white performers, buried in an indigent’s grave—Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton's life events epitomize the blues—but Lynnée Denise pushes past the stereotypes to read Thornton’s life through a Black, queer, feminist lens and reveals an artist who was an innovator across her four-decade-long career. Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters “samples” elements of Thornton’s art—and, occasionally, the author’s own story—to create “a biography in essays” that explores the life of its subject as a DJ might dig through a crate of records.
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Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters
- Narrated by: m
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 31-12-24
- Language: English
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After Daft
- Daft Punk & the Rewiring of 21st Century Culture
- By: Gabriel Szatan
- Length: 10 hrs
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From 1993 to 2021, Daft Punk were the world's most influential electronic group. But how much of the cultural landscape did they change, and how much changed around them? After Daft draws on new interviews with over 100 groundbreaking and commercially dominant artists, creative teams, record labels and concert promoters to illustrate how dance & electronic music transformed from a fringe concern to the indispensable pulse of 21st century culture.
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After Daft
- Daft Punk & the Rewiring of 21st Century Culture
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 12-03-25
- Language: English
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Sound Tracks
- Uncovering Our Musical Past
- By: Graeme Lawson
- Narrated by: Graeme Lawson
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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Taking us from the present day back to the dawn of time, long-lost music is here reconstructed as we enter the worlds of its makers. We feel a child's delight at playing with a water-filled pot that chirps like a bird in Peru in 700 AD; we appreciate the challenge of a soldier sending signals by trumpet along Hadrian's Wall; we hear the chiming of 64 bells buried in a tomb in 5th century China. Graeme Lawson leads us on a grand tour of the world's greatest musical discoveries, revealing that music is part of our DNA.
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Sound Tracks
- Uncovering Our Musical Past
- Narrated by: Graeme Lawson
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 04-04-24
- Language: English
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Cocaine and Rhinestones
- A History of George Jones and Tammy Wynette
- By: Tyler Mahan Coe, Wayne White
- Length: 25 hrs
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By the early 1960s nearly everybody paying attention to country music agreed that George Jones was the greatest country singer of all time. After taking honky-tonk rockers like “White Lightning” all the way up the country charts, he revealed himself to be an unmatched virtuoso on “She Thinks I Still Care,” thus cementing his status as a living legend. That’s where the trouble started.
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Cocaine and Rhinestones
- A History of George Jones and Tammy Wynette
- Length: 25 hrs
- Release date: 03-09-24
- Language: English
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Elvis Is King
- Costello's My Aim Is True (Pop Classics)
- By: Richard Crouse
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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In 1976, under the guidance of legendary label Stiff Records, he transformed himself into the snarling, spectacled artist who defied the musical status quo to blaze the trail for a new kind of rock star with his debut album, My Aim Is True. In Elvis Is King, Richard Crouse examines how the man, the myth, and the music of this arrestingly original album smashed the trends of the era to bridge the gap between punk and rock ’n’ roll.
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Elvis Is King
- Costello's My Aim Is True (Pop Classics)
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 16-04-24
- Language: English
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Jelly Roll Blues
- Censored Songs and Hidden Histories
- By: Elijah Wald
- Narrated by: Mela Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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New York Times-bestselling author Elijah Wald, one of the most wide-ranging and respected writers on blues and popular music, traces the beginnings of the music that became our national soundtrack. Using Morton’s life and songs as a connecting thread, Jelly Roll Blues suggests an alternate history of blues and jazz, surveying a world of Black and working class culture that at times seems startlingly modern.
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Jelly Roll Blues
- Censored Songs and Hidden Histories
- Narrated by: Mela Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 02-04-24
- Language: English
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How Women Made Music
- A Revolutionary History from NPR Music
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 01-10-24
- Language: English
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Willie, Waylon, and the Boys
- How Nashville Outsiders Changed Country Music Forever
- By: Brian Fairbanks
- Narrated by: Tyler Darby
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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The tragic and inspiring story of the leaders of Outlaw country and their influence on today’s Alt-Country and Americana superstars, tracing a path from Waylon Jennings’ survival on the Day the Music Died through to the Highwaymen and on to the current creative and commercial explosion of Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, Zach Bryan, Jason Isbell, and the Highwomen.
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Willie, Waylon, and the Boys
- How Nashville Outsiders Changed Country Music Forever
- Narrated by: Tyler Darby
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 04-06-24
- Language: English
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Talkin' Greenwich Village
- The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital
- By: David Browne
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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Although Greenwich Village takes up less than a square mile in downtown New York, rarely has such a concise area supported and nurtured so many groundbreaking artists and genres. Musician used the Village’s smokey coffeehouses and clubs to chronicle the tumultuous Sixties, rewrite jazz history, and take rock & roll into eclectic places it hadn’t been before. Based on new interviews with surviving participants, previously unseen and unheard archives, and author David Browne's years immersed in the scene, Talkin’ Greenwich Village lends the saga the epic, panoramic scope it has long deserved.
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Talkin' Greenwich Village
- The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 17-09-24
- Language: English
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Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 2
- By: Eric Krasno
- Length: 10 hrs
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Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians. After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists—and these conversations have become some of his most cherished memories. In Eric Krasno Plus One, the audience is invited to join moments like these in podcast form—topics range from early inspirations to discussions about the state of the music industry, to the challenges of life on the road, backstage shenanigans, and much more.
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Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 2
- Series: Eric Krasno Plus One, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 07-05-24
- Language: English
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Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 5
- By: Eric Krasno
- Length: 10 hrs
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Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians. After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists—and these conversations have become some of his most cherished memories. In Eric Krasno Plus One, the audience is invited to join moments like these in podcast form—topics range from early inspirations to discussions about the state of the music industry, to the challenges of life on the road, backstage shenanigans, and much more.
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Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 5
- Series: Eric Krasno Plus One, Book 5
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 07-05-24
- Language: English
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