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Rock & Roll Nightmares
- True Stories, Volume 1
- By: Staci Layne Wilson
- Narrated by: Andy Garrison
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Kurt Cobain. GG Allin. Wendy O. Williams. Duane Allman. Travis Barker. Jimmy Page. Janis Joplin. Ozzy Osbourne. Chrissie Hynde. Dee Dee Ramone. Chris Cornell. Marc Bolan. Tommy Lee. Amy Winehouse. Jimi Hendrix. What do these artists all have in common? They’re rowdy rock stars whose over-the-top lifestyles spun out of control, landing them deep in Rock & Roll Nightmare territory. Rock & Roll Nightmares: True Stories, Volume 1 is a meticulously-researched, up-to-date, entertaining, and shocking book that rounds up the tragic tales from the 1960s to the present day.
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Rock & Roll Nightmares
- True Stories, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Andy Garrison
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 08-09-22
- Language: English
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The Faith No More & Mr. Bungle Companion
- By: Greg Prato
- Narrated by: Greg Prato
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Place any musical style in front of Faith No More, and seemingly, a timeless song of their own would soon be created. Between 1985-1997, Faith No More issued six full-length recordings (including such classic titles as "The Real Thing" and "Angel Dust") and in the process, influenced countless musicians throughout the world.
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Great Stories, bad writing.
- By Stuart Walton Jr on 30-12-23
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The Faith No More & Mr. Bungle Companion
- Narrated by: Greg Prato
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 08-01-21
- Language: English
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No Limit (German edition)
- Die Neunziger das Jahrzehnt der Freiheit
- By: Jens Balzer
- Narrated by: Sebastian Dunkelberg
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Es gibt keine Grenzen mehr: Das glaubt man jedenfalls am Beginn der Neunzigerjahre. Die Berliner Mauer fällt, die Welt rückt zusammen, und sie vernetzt sich. Die ersten Knoten des World Wide Web werden geknüpft, die ersten Suchmaschinen programmiert. In Berlin wird Techno zum Soundtrack der Wiedervereinigung, Neonfarben beherrschen das Bild, Piercings und Tätowierungen erobern den Mainstream, das Arschgeweih gerät zum stilistischen Symbol der Dekade. Aber unter der heiteren Oberfläche brechen alte Konflikte auf, Gespenster aus der Vergangenheit kehren zurück.
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No Limit (German edition)
- Die Neunziger das Jahrzehnt der Freiheit
- Narrated by: Sebastian Dunkelberg
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 20-06-23
- Language: German
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From the Basement
- A History of Emo Music and How It Changed Society
- By: Taylor Markarian
- Narrated by: Laura Darrell
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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A Look at the History of the Emo and Indie Music Era. Explore the cultural, social, and psychological factors surrounding the genres.
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From the Basement
- A History of Emo Music and How It Changed Society
- Narrated by: Laura Darrell
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 18-07-23
- Language: English
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The Clash's Sandinista!
- 33 1/3
- By: Micajah Henley
- Narrated by: John Pirhalla
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Despite its polarizing reception from critics at the time of its release, Sandinista! is often considered one of the greatest albums of all time. Nevertheless, critics and fans have spent over 40 years debating whether the album would be better as a 12-track LP. This book entertains that idea and considers what is lost or gained in the process.
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The Clash's Sandinista!
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: John Pirhalla
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Children of the Stone
- The Power of Music in a Hard Land
- By: Sandy Tolan
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Children of the Stone chronicles Ramzi's journey - from stone thrower to music student to school founder - and shows how through his love of music he created something lasting and beautiful in a land torn by violence and war. This is a story about the power of music, but also about freedom and conflict, determination and vision.
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Amazingly engaging and eye-opening!!
- By Maria Antoraz-Alonso on 09-06-21
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Children of the Stone
- The Power of Music in a Hard Land
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 16-06-15
- Language: English
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Depeche Mode's 101
- 33 1/3
- By: Mary Valle
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Eight years after its founding in Basildon, Essex, Depeche Mode, rooted in 1970s Krautrock, combined old-fashioned touring, well-crafted songs, and the steadfast support of KROQ to dominate Southern California, the United States, and then the world, kicking open the doors for the likes of Nirvana in the process. 101 is the hidden-in-plain-sight hinge of modern music history.
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Depeche Mode's 101
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Biography of a Phantom
- A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey
- By: Robert Mack McCormick, John Troutman - editor
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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When blues master Robert Johnson's recordings were rereleased to great fanfare in the 1960s, little was known about his life, giving rise to legends that he gained success by selling his soul to the devil. Biography of a Phantom is musicologist Mack McCormick's search, from the late 1960s until McCormick's death in 2015, to uncover Johnson's life story. McCormick spent decades reconstructing Johnson's mysterious life and developing theories about his untimely death at the age of 27, but never made public his discoveries. Biography of a Phantom publishes his compelling work for the first time.
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The fickleness of blues history.
- By Hoops on 12-02-24
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Biography of a Phantom
- A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 04-04-23
- Language: English
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Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
- 33 1/3, Book 52
- By: Carl Wilson
- Narrated by: Trenton Bennett
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Non-fans regard Céline Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband's struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. There's nothing cool about Céline Dion, and nothing clever. That's part of her appeal as an object of love or hatred — with most critics and committed music fans taking pleasure (or at least geeky solace) in their lofty contempt.
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Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
- 33 1/3, Book 52
- Narrated by: Trenton Bennett
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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The Beatles
- Image and the Media
- By: Michael R. Frontani
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The Beatles: Image and the Media charts the transformation of the Beatles from teen idols to leaders of the youth movement and powerful cultural agents. Drawing upon American mainstream print media, broadcasts, albums, films, and videos, the study covers the band's career in the United States. Michael R. Frontani explores how the Beatles' media image evolved and how this transformation related to cultural and historical events.
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The Beatles
- Image and the Media
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 16-03-12
- Language: English
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Quit Your Band! Musical Notes from the Japanese Underground
- By: Ian F. Martin
- Narrated by: Ian F. Martin
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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From the sugar rush of Tokyo’s idol subculture to the discordant polyrhythms of its experimental punk and indie scenes, this audiobook by Japan Times music columnist Ian F. Martin offers a witty and tender look at the issues that shape Japanese music today. With insights into the evolution of J-pop as well as its history, infrastructure, and (sub)cultures, Martin deconstructs an industry that operates very differently from counterparts overseas.
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Quit Your Band! Musical Notes from the Japanese Underground
- Narrated by: Ian F. Martin
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 23-08-18
- Language: English
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Simply Stravinsky
- Great Lives, Book 19
- By: Pieter van den Toorn
- Narrated by: Angus Freathy
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In Simply Stravinsky, Professor Pieter van den Toorn takes a fresh look at the composer and his legacy, providing a compact, exciting, and accessible introduction to the 20th century’s most celebrated composer and his timeless music. From Stravinsky’s apprenticeship in St. Petersburg to his life among the émigré community in Southern California, Professor van den Toorn shows how the composer’s music was tied to his personality and how it came to influence artists from Aaron Copland to Philip Glass.
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Woke
- By DiegoSantiago on 30-01-23
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Simply Stravinsky
- Great Lives, Book 19
- Narrated by: Angus Freathy
- Series: Great Lives, Book 19
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 02-12-21
- Language: English
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The Sound of Freedom
- Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America
- By: Raymond Arsenault
- Narrated by: David Crommett
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Award-winning civil rights historian Ray Arsenault describes the dramatic story behind Marian Anderson’s concert at the Lincoln Memorial - an early milestone in civil rights history - on the 70th anniversary of her performance. On Easter Sunday 1939, the brilliant vocalist Marian Anderson sang before a throng of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington - an electrifying moment and an underappreciated milestone in civil rights history.
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The Sound of Freedom
- Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America
- Narrated by: David Crommett
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-03-13
- Language: English
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Nirvana's In Utero
- 33 1/3, Book 34
- By: Gillian G Gaar
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Though Nevermind was Nirvana's most commercially successful album, and the record that broke them—and the grunge phenomenon—internationally, In Utero has increasingly become regarded as the band's best album, both by the critics and the band members themselves. Instead of sticking to the "grunge pop" formula that made Nevermind so palatable to the mainstream, Nirvana chose instead to challenge their audience, producing an album that the band's creative force, Kurt Cobain, said truly matched his vision of what he had always wanted his band to sound like.
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Nirvana's In Utero
- 33 1/3, Book 34
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA
- 33 1/3
- By: Geoffrey Himes
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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When Bruce Springsteen went back on the road in 1984, he opened every show by shouting out, "one, two, one, two, three, four," followed by the droning synth chords of "Born in the U.S.A." Max Weinberg hit his drums with a two-fisted physicality that cut through the swelling chords. With a rolled-up red kerchief around his head and heavy black boots under his faded jeans, Springsteen looked like the character of the song, and from the very first line ("Born down in a dead man's town") he sang with the throat-scraping desperation of a man with his back against the wall.
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Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 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
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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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Mysteries in the Music: Case Closed
- By: Jim Berkenstadt
- Narrated by: Matt Hurwitz
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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Mysteries in the Music: Case Closed examines some of the secrets, myths, legends, hoaxes, conspiracies, and wildly inexplicable events that are such an intriguing part of rock and roll history. Travel back to the 1950s to uncover "Who Really Discovered Elvis Presley?" Revisit the 1960s when a folk troubadour tried forming a supergroup with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Transport back to Jamaica 1976 to discover whether the CIA tried to assassinate reggae superstar Bob Marley. Discover whether The Beach Boys actually stole a song from cult leader Charles Manson.
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Mysteries in the Music: Case Closed
- Narrated by: Matt Hurwitz
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 28-10-22
- Language: English
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Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime
- By: Jeffrey Boakye
- Narrated by: Ben Bailey Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Hold Tight is the book that kick-started the 'Grime Library'. Bursting into bookshops in July 2017 to rave reviews and a sold-out event at Rough Trade East, Hold Tight paved the way for Grime-related books such as Wiley's Eskiboy, Dan Hancox's Inner City Pressure and DJ Target’s Grime Kids. Celebrating more than 60 key songs that make up Grime’s DNA, Jeffrey Boakye explores the meaning of the music and why it has such resonance in the UK.
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- By Mr. Tge White on 17-07-23
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Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime
- Narrated by: Ben Bailey Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 30-07-20
- Language: English
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MTV Ruled the World
- The Early Years of Music Video
- By: Greg Prato
- Narrated by: Greg Prato
- Length: 23 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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There have been few times in modern music history that an instant shift in how we listen to - and view - music has occurred. However, the launch of MTV on August 1, 1981, was certainly one such occurrence. Instantly, music fans were now “listening with their eyes” rather than relying solely on their ears.
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MTV Ruled the World
- The Early Years of Music Video
- Narrated by: Greg Prato
- Length: 23 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 20-01-21
- Language: English
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Turn It Up!
- My Time Making Hit Records in the Glory Days of Rock Music
- By: Tom Werman
- Narrated by: Tom Werman
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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As an A&R man at Epic Records, Tom Werman helped introduce the world to REO Speedwagon, Boston, Ted Nugent, and Cheap Trick; he also discovered KISS, Rush, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, but his record label passed on all of them. Then, as an independent producer, he oversaw landmark albums by Mötley Crüe, Twisted Sister, Lita Ford, Jeff Beck, Poison, and many more. All in all, his record-making resume includes twenty-three gold- or platinum-selling albums and cumulative sales of more than fifty-two million copies.
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Tommy Werman
- By Ray Bateman on 16-09-24
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Turn It Up!
- My Time Making Hit Records in the Glory Days of Rock Music
- Narrated by: Tom Werman
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 26-03-24
- Language: English
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