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Why Karen Carpenter Matters
- By: Karen Tongson
- Narrated by: Karen Tongson
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
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In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. At the same time, the uplifting harmonies and sunny lyrics that propelled Karen Carpenter and her brother, Richard, to international fame belied a different sort of tragedy - the underconsumption that led to Karen's death at age 32 from the effects of an eating disorder.
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Fantastic
- By Richard Wyatt on 12-11-20
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Why Karen Carpenter Matters
- Narrated by: Karen Tongson
- Series: Music Matters
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 26-11-19
- Language: English
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A Sound Mind
- How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite Its Entire History)
- By: Paul Morley
- Narrated by: Paul Morley
- Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
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Paul Morley had stopped being surprised by modern pop music and found himself retreating into the sounds of artists he loved when, as an emerging music journalist in the '70s, he wrote for NME. But not wishing to give in to dreary nostalgia, endlessly circling back to the bands he wrote about in the past, he went searching for something new, rare and wondrous - and found it in classical music.
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..he fell in love with late 20th C Classical Music
- By Bob Knowles on 30-11-20
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A Sound Mind
- How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite Its Entire History)
- Narrated by: Paul Morley
- Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 01-10-20
- Language: English
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The Rejects
- An Alternative History of Popular Music
- By: Jamie Collinson
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Featuring a player rejected by both Nirvana and Soundgarden who became a decorated special forces soldier, Britpoppers who spiralled into addiction before becoming novelists and missionaries, the terrifying story of Guns N' Roses' first drummer, super-rejecting band leaders, self-destroying rappers, troubled hard rock bassists and girl-band burnouts, The Rejects takes an intimate, thoughtful look at people who've been kicked out of bands, what they experienced and what came afterwards.
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The Rejects
- An Alternative History of Popular Music
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 22-02-24
- Language: English
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The Rolling Stones' Some Girls
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- By: Cyrus R.K. Patell
- Narrated by: GM Hakim
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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It’s October 1977, and the Rolling Stones are in a Paris recording studio. They’re under siege. Keith Richards’s legal troubles after his arrest for heroin possession threaten the band’s future, and the broad consensus among rock aficionados is that the band will never again reach the heights of Exile on Main Street.
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The Rolling Stones' Some Girls
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: GM Hakim
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 09-05-25
- Language: English
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Sympathy for the Drummer
- Why Charlie Watts Matters
- By: Mike Edison
- Narrated by: Mike Edison
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters is both a gonzo rush - capturing the bristling energy of the Rolling Stones and the times in which they lived - and a wide-eyed reflection on why the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World needed the world's greatest rock 'n' roll drummer. Across five decades, Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has had the best seat in the house.
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Unexpectedly Great!
- By Anonymous on 09-06-21
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Sympathy for the Drummer
- Why Charlie Watts Matters
- Narrated by: Mike Edison
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-01-20
- Language: English
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Elvis in Vegas
- How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show
- By: Richard Zoglin
- Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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*The inspiration for the CNN original series Vegas: The Story of Sin City* “Outstanding pop-culture history.” —Newsday The “smart and zippy account” (The Wall Street Journal) of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time. Elvis’s...
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Elvis in Vegas
- How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show
- Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 23-07-19
- Language: English
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Britney Spears's Blackout
- 33 1/3
- By: Natasha Lasky
- Narrated by: Rachel Jacobs
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Britney Spears barely survived 2007. She divorced her husband, lost custody of her kids, went to rehab, shaved her head and assaulted a paparazzo. In the midst of her public breakdown, she managed to record an album, Blackout. Critics thought it spelled the end for Britney Spears’ career.
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Britney Spears's Blackout
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Rachel Jacobs
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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R.E.M.'s Murmur
- 33 1/3
- By: J Niimi
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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R.E.M.'s debut album, released in 1983, was so far removed from the prevailing trends of American popular music that it still sounds miraculous and out of time today. J. Niimi tells the story of the album's genesis—with fascinating input from Don Dixon and Mitch Easter. He also investigates Michael Stipe's hypnotic, mysterious lyrics, and makes the case for Murmur as a work of Southern Gothic art.
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R.E.M.'s Murmur
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Here Comes the Night
- The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues
- By: Joel Selvin
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Here Comes the Night: Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues is both a definitive account of the New York rhythm and blues world of the early '60s, and the harrowing, ultimately tragic story of songwriter and record producer Bert Berns, whose meteoric career was fueled by his pending doom. His heart damaged by rheumatic fever as a youth, doctors told Berns he would not live to see 21. Although his name is little remembered today, Berns worked alongside all the greats of the era.
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More like this
- By keith on 28-10-17
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Here Comes the Night
- The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 23-12-14
- Language: English
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The Walrus Was Paul: The Great Beatle Death Clues
- By: R. Gary Patterson
- Narrated by: Mike Dawson
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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“Paul is dead.” It was the late 1960's, the Beatles hadn’t toured since 1966, and some truly bizarre indications began appearing, pointing to the unthinkable: Paul McCartney had been killed in a car accident and replaced by a look-alike. The Walrus Was Paul unearths every single clue from one of rock ’n’ roll’s most enduring puzzles and takes you on a magical mystery tour of baffling, yet fascinating, hints for solving this mystery.
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The Walrus Was Paul: The Great Beatle Death Clues
- Narrated by: Mike Dawson
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 20-03-20
- Language: English
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Cocaine and Rhinestones
- A History of George Jones and Tammy Wynette
- By: Tyler Mahan Coe
- Narrated by: Tyler Mahan Coe
- Length: 26 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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From the creator of the acclaimed country music history podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones, comes the epic American saga of country music’s legendary royal couple—George Jones and Tammy Wynette. By the early 1960s nearly everybody paying attention to country music agreed that George Jones was the...
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George and Tammy
- By Linda T on 29-08-25
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Cocaine and Rhinestones
- A History of George Jones and Tammy Wynette
- Narrated by: Tyler Mahan Coe
- Length: 26 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 03-09-24
- Language: English
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Jeff Buckley's Grace
- 33 1/3
- By: Daphne A Brooks
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
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The power and influence of Grace increases with each passing year. Here, Daphne Brooks traces Jeff Buckley's fascinating musical development through the earliest stages of his career, up to the release of the album. With access to rare archival material, Brooks illustrates Buckley's passion for life and hunger for musical knowledge, and shows just why he was such a crucial figure in the American music scene of the 1990s.
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Jeff Buckley's Grace
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Black and Blur
- Consent Not to Be a Single Being, Book 1
- By: Fred Moten
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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In Black and Blur - the first volume in his sublime and compelling trilogy Consent Not to Be a Single Being - Fred Moten engages in a capacious consideration of the place and force of Blackness in African diaspora arts, politics, and life. In these interrelated essays, Moten attends to entanglement, the blurring of borders, and other practices that trouble notions of self-determination and sovereignty within political and aesthetic realms.
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Black and Blur
- Consent Not to Be a Single Being, Book 1
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 08-02-22
- Language: English
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All Shook Up
- How Rock ‘n’ Roll Changed America
- By: Glenn C. Altschuler
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise of rock 'n roll--and the outraged reception to it--in fact can tell us a lot about the values of the United States in the 1950s, a decade that saw a great struggle for the control of popular culture. Altschuler shows, in particular, how rock's "switchblade beat" opened up wide fissures in American society along the fault-lines of family, sexuality, and race.
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learned so much! brilliant.
- By David on 27-07-18
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All Shook Up
- How Rock ‘n’ Roll Changed America
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 15-03-11
- Language: English
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Elvis Presley's From Elvis in Memphis
- 33 1/3
- By: Eric Wolfson
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Like a killer returning to the scene of the crime, Elvis came back home to Memphis, where it had all begun. Eschewing the fancier studios of Nashville and Hollywood, he set up shop at the ramshackle American Sound Studio, run by a maverick named Chips Moman with an in-house backing band now known as "The Memphis Boys,"" and made the music of his life. The resulting work, From Elvis in Memphis, would be the finest studio album of his career, an explosion of mature confidence and fiery inspiration.
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Elvis Presley's From Elvis in Memphis
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- 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
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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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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
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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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How Belfast Got the Blues
- A Cultural History of Popular Music in the 1960s
- By: Noel McLaughlin, Joanna Braniff
- Narrated by: Noel McLaughlin
- Length: 24 hrs and 6 mins
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Highly original and fascinating cultural and political history told through Belfast’s popular music scene in the 1960s in the context of Northern Ireland’s sociopolitical milieu. With particular emphasis on Van Morrison, Them, and Ottilie Patterson; also features the Peter Whitehead film of The Rolling Stones.
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How Belfast Got the Blues
- A Cultural History of Popular Music in the 1960s
- Narrated by: Noel McLaughlin
- Length: 24 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 13-11-25
- Language: English
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Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland
- 33 1/3
- By: John Perry
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
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Electric Ladyland is one of the greatest guitar albums ever made. During the recording process, Jimi Hendrix at last had time and creative freedom to pursue the sounds he was looking for. In this remarkable and entertaining book, John Perry gets to the heart of Hendrix's unique talent—guiding the listener through each song on the album, writing vividly about Hendrix's live performances, and talking to several of Hendrix's peers and contemporaries.
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Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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In Search of the Lost Chord
- 1967 and the Hippie Idea
- By: Danny Goldberg
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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Danny Goldberg's new book is a subjective history of 1967, the year he graduated from high school. It is, he writes, "an attempt at trying to remember the culture that mesmerized me, to visit the places and conversations I was not cool enough to have been a part of." It is also a refreshing and new analysis of the era; by looking at not only the political causes, but also the spiritual, musical, and psychedelic movements, Goldberg provides a unique perspective on how and why the legacy of 1967 lives on today.
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In Search of the Lost Chord
- 1967 and the Hippie Idea
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 06-06-17
- Language: English
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