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Pete Townshend: Who I Am

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Pete Townshend
• Narrated By Pete Townshend
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He is one of the greatest musical talents Britain has ever produced. But even as the principle songwriter and lead guitarist for The Who, it would be unjust to define Pete Townshend's life simply through his achievements with bandmates Daltrey, Moon, and Entwistle. Noting that he has sold over 100 million records over a 50-year period goes some way to quantifying his accomplishments, but numbers only scratch the surface of his contribution to popular culture.

Paul McCartney: The Biography

• UNABRIDGED (30 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Philip Norman
• Narrated By Jonathan Keeble
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Since the age of 20, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock 'n' roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now Paul's story is told by rock music's foremost biographer, with McCartney's consent and access to family members and close friends who have never spoken on the record before. Paul McCartney reveals the complex character behind the façade and sheds new light on his childhood - blighted by his mother's death but redeemed by the father who introduced him to music.

John Lennon: The Life

• UNABRIDGED (32 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Phillip Norman
• Narrated By Russell Boulter

For more than a quarter of a century, Philip Norman's internationally best-selling Shout! has been unchallenged as the definitive biography of the Beatles. Now, at last, Norman turns his formidable talent to the Beatle for whom belonging to the world's most beloved pop group was never enough. Drawing on previously untapped sources, and with unprecedented access to all the major characters, here is the most complete and revealing portrait of John Lennon that is ever likely to be published.

Play On: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Mick Fleetwood
• Narrated By Martin Dew
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'After forty-six years of being on the road, now is the right time to look back in a way I've never done before: now and then. I'm looking forward to sharing it with you.' Mick Fleetwood has been part of one of the world's most successful and adored bands for over four decades. Here he tells the full and candid story of that life, and what it is to be part of the ever evolving Fleetwood Mac.

Grumpy Old Rockstar and Other Wonderous Stories

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Rick Wakeman
• Narrated By Rick Wakeman

Around about September of 1948, Mr and Mrs Cyril Wakeman had an early night. And some time later, at Perivale in Middlesex, Mrs Wakeman produced a bonny baby son. They named him Richard, but he quickly became known as Rick.

Rick was a likable little fellow who had a talent for the piano (and for making trouble), and music became his life. Later, he joined a popular music group called Yes and became a legend.

Not Dead Yet

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Phil Collins
• Narrated By Phil Collins
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Phil Collins gained fame as both the drummer and the lead singer for Genesis and continues to enjoy worldwide success today. He's one of only three recording artists who have sold over 100 million albums both as solo artists and separately as principal members of bands - the other two being Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson.

Set the Boy Free

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Johnny Marr
• Narrated By Johnny Marr
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Johnny Marr was born in 1960s Manchester to Irish immigrant parents and knew from an early age that he would be a musician. Forming his first band at 13, Marr spent his teenage years on the council estates of Wythenshawe playing guitar, devouring pop culture and inventing his own musical style. It wasn't until the early '80s, when Marr turned up on the doorstep of a singer named Steven Patrick Morrissey, that both a unique songwriting partnership and the group recognised as one of the most iconic bands of all time were formed.

That Close

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Suggs
• Narrated By Suggs
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Suggs is one of pop music's most enduring and likeable figures. Read by the author himself with the assured style and wit of a natural raconteur, this hugely entertaining and insightful autobiography takes you from his colourful early life on a North London council estate, through the heady early days of Punk and 2-Tone, to the eighties, where Madness became the biggest selling singles band of the decade.

Dancing with Myself

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Billy Idol
• Narrated By Billy Idol

An early architect of punk rock's sound, style, and fury, whose lip-curling sneer and fist-pumping persona vaulted him into pop's mainstream as one of MTV's first megastars, Billy Idol remains, to this day, a true rock 'n' roll icon. Now, in his long-awaited autobiography, Dancing with Myself, Idol delivers an electric, searingly honest account of his journey to fame - from his early days as front man of the pioneering UK punk band Generation X to the decadent life atop the dance-rock kingdom he ruled.

Essex Boys: The Final Word: No More Myths, No More Lies - The Definitive Story

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Bernard O'Mahoney
• Narrated By Karl Jenkinson

On December 6, 1995, three key members of the infamous Essex Boys gang were lured to a deserted farm track on the pretense of planning a robbery. As the trio sat in their Range Rover, two gunmen approached the open rear door of the vehicle. Moments later, the first shots rang out signaling the start of a swift, yet bloody massacre. When the weapons fell silent, the three men lay dead.

Oasis: The Truth - My Life as Oasis's Drummer

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Tony McCarroll
• Narrated By Stephen Ballantyne

In 1991, five wannabe Mancunian musicians came together and cracked the spark that ignited the explosion which became Oasis. The band went from obscurity to a global phenomenon in the space of a year, achieving world-wide recognition and selling over 70 million records. What started out as five young lads with a common dream of becoming rock stars eventually disintegrated into in-fighting, clashes of egos, and financial disputes.

What Fresh Lunacy Is This?: The Authorised Biography of Oliver Reed

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Robert Sellers
• Narrated By Sean Barrett
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Oliver Reed may not have been Britain's biggest film star - for a period in the early 70s he came within a hairsbreadth of replacing Sean Connery as James Bond - but he is an august member of that small band of people, like George Best and Eric Morecambe, who transcended their chosen medium, became too big for it even, and grew into cultural icons. For the first time Reed's close family has agreed to collaborate on a project about the man himself.

Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Elvis Costello
• Narrated By Elvis Costello

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink, written and read by Elvis Costello. In a career spanning four decades, Elvis Costello (born Declan MacManus) has made himself a huge reputation through his tunes, lyrics and occasional bad behaviour. Now, for the first time, he is telling his story.

The Beatles: The Authorised Biography

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Hunter Davies
• Narrated By John Telfer
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There's only one book that ever truly got inside the Beatles, and this is it. During 1967 and 1968, Hunter Davies spent 18 months with the Beatles at the peak of their powers as they defined a generation and rewrote popular music. As their only-ever authorised biographer, he had unparalleled access - not just to John, Paul, George, and Ringo, but to friends, family, and colleagues. He collected a wealth of intimate and revealing material that makes this the classic Beatles book - the one all other biographers look to.

Becoming Johnny Vegas

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Johnny Vegas
• Narrated By Johnny Vegas
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'My name is Michael Pennington, and I am not a comic character. I'm often mistaken for one though. You might know him by another name. Johnny Vegas.' From BBC Dickens adaptations to Benidorm and Ideal to the PG Tips ads, Johnny Vegas has become one of Britain's best-loved comic actors.

Built for Speed

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 8 mins)
• By John McGuinness
• Narrated By Joe McGann
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John McGuinness is one of the all-time giants of road racing, with a huge host of victories to his name. But his easy humour and down-to-earth attitude off the bike have always kept people guessing: what's the truth about the man inside the helmet that has kept him at the top of such a sport for over 20 years? His autobiography tells the whole story, from his humble beginnings in Morecambe and getting his first bike at the age of three, to working as a bricklayer and cockle fisherman before deciding to follow his dream, and finally to his many victories in the most dangerous sporting event on the planet.

Life

• UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Keith Richards
• Narrated By Keith Richards, Johnny Depp, Joe Hurley
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With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world, and over four decades he lived the original rock-and-roll life: taking the chances he wanted, speaking his mind, and making it all work in a way that no one before him had ever done. Now, at last, the man himself tells us the story of life in the crossfire hurricane. And what a life....

Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires

• UNABRIDGED (33 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Selwyn Raab
• Narrated By Paul Costanzo

Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo, and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) into an underworld empire. Today, the Mafia is an endangered species, battered and beleaguered by aggressive investigators, incompetent leadership, betrayals, and generational changes that produced violent, unreliable leaders and recruits.

Mick Jagger

• UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Philip Norman
• Narrated By Cameron Stewart

Bestselling biographer Philip Norman offers an unparalleled account of the life of a living legend, Mick Jagger. From Home Counties schoolboy, to rebel without a cause, to Sixties sensation and global idol, Norman unravels the myth of the inimitable frontman of The Rolling Stones.

1971 - Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 43 mins)
• By David Hepworth
• Narrated By David Hepworth
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The '60s ended a year late - on New Year's Eve 1970, when Paul McCartney initiated proceedings to wind up The Beatles. Music would never be the same again. The next day would see the dawning of a new era. Nineteen seventy-one saw the release of more monumental albums than any year before or since and the establishment of a pantheon of stars to dominate the next 40 years - Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Marvin Gaye, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Rod Stewart, the solo Beatles and more.

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Ian Mortimer
• Narrated By Jonathan Keeble
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Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? And what are you going to eat? Ian Mortimer shows us that the past is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived. He sets out to explain what life was like in the most immediate way, through taking you to the Middle Ages. The result is the most astonishing social history book you are ever likely to read: evolutionary in its concept, informative and entertaining in its detail.

Hero: David Bowie

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Lesley-Ann Jones
• Narrated By Lesley-Ann Jones, Gina Murray
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His music thrilled the generation it was written for and has entertained and inspired every generation since. Hero: David Bowie is an exploration of the man behind the myths and the makeup told from the very beginning. Respected music journalist and biographer Lesley-Ann Jones knew David Jones from the days before fame, when he was a young musician starting out, frustrated by an industry that wouldn't give him a break and determined to succeed at whatever cost.

Sweet Dreams Are Made of This: A Life in Music

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Dave Stewart
• Narrated By Dave Stewart, Mick Jagger
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Dave Stewart's life has been a wild ride - one filled with music, constant reinvention, and the never-ending drive to create. Growing up in industrial Northern England, he left home for the gritty London streets of the '70s, where he began collaborating and performing with various musicians, including a young waitress named Annie Lennox.

Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Peter Hook
• Narrated By Peter Hook
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Inspired by the attitude and energy of punk, Peter Hook and school friend Bernard Sumner joined lead-singer and lyricist Ian Curtis and drummer Stephen Morris, and with some cobbled-together instruments, they created their own unique sound. In 1980 they had released two albums and were on the cusp of touring America when Ian Curtis committed suicide. In this no-holds-barred account, Peter Hook gives us the inside story of life with Joy Division. He talks with candour and reflection about Curtis's suicide and covers the band's friendships and fall-outs....