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The Musical Human
- A History of Life on Earth – A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'
- By: Michael Spitzer
- Narrated by: Daniel Levitin
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance15
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Bloomsbury presents The Musical Human by Michael Spitzer, read by Daniel Levitin. A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online 'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ... An essential read' All About History 'Extraordinary range ... All the world and more is here'...
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Terrible narration
- By Sarah on 20-05-21
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The Musical Human
- A History of Life on Earth – A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'
- Narrated by: Daniel Levitin
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 01-04-21
- Language: English
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The Tastemaker
- My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music
- By: Tony King
- Narrated by: Ben Higgins
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance28
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Leaving school and starting his career at Decca Records in 1958 at the age of sixteen, Tony King would soon find himself becoming close friends with Elton John, rekindling John Lennon and Yoko Ono's relationship, mediating a quarrelsome Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and spending time with Freddie Mercury in his final days - a far cry from his childhood days in Eastbourne. Living in an era of seismic social, technological and cultural transformation, King experienced these defining moments as a stalwart in London and New York's gay scenes.
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Interesting Insight
- By Steve K on 05-05-24
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The Tastemaker
- My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music
- Narrated by: Ben Higgins
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 31-01-23
- 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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No-One’s Dad’s a Plumber
- Musical Truth, Volume 4
- By: Mark Devlin
- Narrated by: Mark Devlin
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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When we think of rock stars, we are entrained to think of them as having come from regular, working-class backgrounds, and having worked their way up the slippery pole to success through hard work and talent alone. The reality is that all household name musicians are selected for success. Barely a plumber in sight. But no shortage of generals, admirals, politicians, civil servants and spies. Mark Devlin offers further evidence to show how the corporate music industry exists solely for the mind-control of the masses, with artists becoming little more than hand-picked puppets.
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Mind altering
- By BlueZen99 on 01-04-26
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No-One’s Dad’s a Plumber
- Musical Truth, Volume 4
- Narrated by: Mark Devlin
- Series: Musical Truth, Book 4
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 19-12-25
- Language: English
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Huey Morgan's Rebel Heroes
- The Renegades of Music & Why We Still Need Them
- By: Huey Morgan
- Narrated by: Huey Morgan
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance22
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The defining sounds of popular music - blues, rock 'n' roll, punk, hip-hop - were shaped and driven by rebel voices: whether that was Robert Johnson and Billie Holiday in the 1920-40s, or the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Joe Strummer in the 1960s and 70s. Truly ground- and...
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historical perspective
- By Stefan Mapp on 07-05-17
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Huey Morgan's Rebel Heroes
- The Renegades of Music & Why We Still Need Them
- Narrated by: Huey Morgan
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 12-11-15
- Language: English
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Travelling
- On the Path of Joni Mitchell
- By: Ann Powers
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Time Must-Read Books of 2024 Independent Best Non-Fiction Books 2024 Mojo Books of the Year 2024 "A vibrant, multifaceted portrait of a music enigma" Guardian "A powerful portrait" Irish Independent "Displays a bracing rigour and an exhilarating curiosity about its subject, coming closer than...
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Its all about Joni Mitchell!
- By Joe on 06-10-25
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Travelling
- On the Path of Joni Mitchell
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 20-06-24
- Language: English
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Musical Truth, Volume 3
- By: Mark Devlin
- Narrated by: Mark Devlin
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance24
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Story24
Musical Truth Volume 3 completes club and radio DJ-turned author/ researcher Mark Devlin’s trilogy of books, exposing the real nature of the corporate music industry and those that populate it.
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Hidden layers of fame...
- By Deborah Pearce on 28-07-24
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Musical Truth, Volume 3
- Narrated by: Mark Devlin
- Series: Musical Truth, Book 3
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 09-03-23
- Language: English
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Live Forever
- The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Oasis
- By: John Robb
- Narrated by: Daniel Millar
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance39
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Story39
The finest book on Britain's most popular rock 'n' roll band 'Read on … It's all true' Noel Gallagher Featuring an exclusive interview with Noel Gallagher and bespoke artwork by celebrated Oasis album designer Brian Cannon Think Oasis was just Britpop and brawls? Think again. John Robb was...
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A book of two halves...
- By 5434 8460 0166 4771 on 24-04-26
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Live Forever
- The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Oasis
- Narrated by: Daniel Millar
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 19-06-25
- Language: English
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Wagnerism
- Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
- By: Alex Ross
- Length: 28 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance19
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’An absolutely masterly work’ Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and...
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A masterful example of Gesamtkunstwerk
- By Wotan on 05-07-21
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Wagnerism
- Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
- Length: 28 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 15-09-20
- Language: English
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Brothers
- By: Alex Van Halen
- Narrated by: Alex Van Halen
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance42
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Told with acclaimed New Yorker writer Ariel Levy, Brothers is seventy-year-old drummer Alex Van Halen’s love letter to his younger brother, Edward (maybe “Ed,” but never “Eddie”), written while still mourning his untimely death.
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essential reading for any musician.
- By Brad S. on 31-10-24
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Brothers
- Narrated by: Alex Van Halen
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 24-10-24
- Language: English
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The Story of Music
- By: Howard Goodall
- Narrated by: Howard Goodall
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall108
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Performance91
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Story90
Accompanies BBC2's major new TV series and The Story of Music in 50 Pieces on Radio 3. Music is an intrinsic part of everyday life, and yet the history of its development from single notes to multi-layered orchestration can seem bewilderingly specialised and complex. In his dynamic tour through 40,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop, Howard Goodall does away with stuffy biographies, unhelpful labels and tired terminology.
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Good book, shame about the lack of music.
- By cattyish on 23-08-14
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The Story of Music
- Narrated by: Howard Goodall
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 21-03-13
- Language: English
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Music
- A Subversive History
- By: Ted Gioia
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance40
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A four-thousand-year history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions. “A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched labor of cultural provocation.” ―Los Angeles Times Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who...
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informative
- By Ruta Kasinskaite on 16-04-20
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Music
- A Subversive History
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 15-10-19
- Language: English
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The Greatest Band That Ever Wasn't
- The Story of the Roughest, Toughest, Most Hell-Raising Band to Ever Come Out of the Pacific Northwest, the Screaming Trees
- By: Barrett Martin
- Narrated by: Barrett Martin
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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In 1992, the Screaming Trees were expected to become the next big band to come out of the Seattle music scene during the heyday of grunge. Except it never happened. It wasn't because the band didn't have great songs—indeed, the Trees were revered for their ability to write a great song that was both artistically original and commercially viable, which is no easy task. Other Seattle bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden were fans of the Screaming Trees, playing shows with them and collaborating on albums, long before their own bands broke through into the mainstream.
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The Greatest Band That Ever Wasn't
- The Story of the Roughest, Toughest, Most Hell-Raising Band to Ever Come Out of the Pacific Northwest, the Screaming Trees
- Narrated by: Barrett Martin
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 28-12-23
- 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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Taylor Swift
- The Whole Story
- By: Chas Newkey-Burden
- Narrated by: Norma Butikofer
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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The #1 New York Times Bestseller As Taylor releases her 11th album, THE TORTURED POET’S DEPARTMENT, catch up on the full story of Taylor Swift’s stratospheric rise to fame; all any dedicated Swifty needs to know about the pop superstar who’s taking over the world A small-town girl with...
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Taylor Swift
- The Whole Story
- Narrated by: Norma Butikofer
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 28-03-24
- Language: English
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Monolithic Undertow
- In Search of Sonic Oblivion
- By: Harry Sword
- Narrated by: Harry Sword
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall57
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Performance54
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Story54
Monolithic Undertow alights a crooked path across musical, religious and subcultural frontiers. It traces the line from ancient traditions to the modern underground, navigating archaeoacoustics, ringing feedback, chest plate sub-bass, avant-garde eccentricity, sound weaponry and fervent spiritualism.
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Underground, Overground, wandering feedback....
- By Bewarethetoon on 01-04-21
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Monolithic Undertow
- In Search of Sonic Oblivion
- Narrated by: Harry Sword
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 18-02-21
- 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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Overall15
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Performance12
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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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Seven Deadly Sins
- By: Corey Taylor
- Narrated by: Corey Taylor
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall405
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Performance344
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Story344
'I was 22 years old, a hard-on with a pulse: wretched vice-ridden, too much to burn and not enough minutes in a hour to do so. 1995 was a full 365-day year of drinking, fucking, lying, raging and exploration for me - not a dull one in the bunch. It was a time of self-shit: self-importance...
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Great stuff
- By paul on 27-07-15
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Seven Deadly Sins
- Narrated by: Corey Taylor
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 05-10-11
- Language: English
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Curepedia
- An immersive and beautifully designed A-Z biography of The Cure
- By: Simon Price
- Narrated by: Ffion Aynsley, Nathaniel Priestley, Reanne Farley, and others
- Length: 33 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance4
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A Rough Trade Book of the Year A Guardian Music Book of the Year 'Beautifully written and meticulously researched' Classic Pop '[An] all-encompassing repository of Cure wisdom' Record Collector The Cure are indisputable titans of alternative rock. Recognisable as much for their iconic aesthetic...
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Detail
- By Jono on 06-07-24
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Curepedia
- An immersive and beautifully designed A-Z biography of The Cure
- Narrated by: Ffion Aynsley, Nathaniel Priestley, Reanne Farley, Simon Price
- Length: 33 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 10-11-23
- Language: English
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What Does This Button Do?
- By: Bruce Dickinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance1,856
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Story1,850
‘I was spotty, wore an anorak, had biro-engraved flared blue jeans with “purple” and “Sabbath” written on the thighs, and rode an ear-splittingly uncool moped. Oh yes, and I wanted to be a drummer…’ Bruce Dickinson – Iron Maiden’s legendary front man – is one of the world’s...
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Scream for me Audible
- By Neil Pardoe on 19-10-17
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What Does This Button Do?
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 19-10-17
- Language: English
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