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Fallopian Rhapsody
- The Story of the Lunachicks
- By: The Lunachicks, Jeanne Fury
- Narrated by: The Lunachicks, Jeanne Fury
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Dive into this no-holds-barred group autobiography of the critically acclaimed feminist punk-rock group, The Lunachicks—featuring never-before-seen materials from the band's private archive. Fallopian Rhapsody: The Story of the Lunachicks is a coming-of-age tale about a band of NYC teenagers...
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great
- By John Williams (Artist) on 31-08-22
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Fallopian Rhapsody
- The Story of the Lunachicks
- Narrated by: The Lunachicks, Jeanne Fury
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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Swingin' at the Savoy
- By: Norma Miller, Evette Jensen
- Narrated by: Bettye Zoller Seitz
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Dancer, award-winning choreographer, show producer, stand-up comedienne, TV/film actress, and author, Norma Miller shares her touching historical memoir of Harlem's legendary Savoy Ballroom and the phenomenal music and dance craze that "spread the power of Swing across the world like Wildfire". It was a time when the music was Swing, and Harlem was king.
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Swingin' at the Savoy
- Narrated by: Bettye Zoller Seitz
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 28-07-14
- Language: English
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Trips
- Rock Life in the Sixties - Augmented Edition
- By: Ellen Sander
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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As a pioneering rock journalist for Hit Parader, Vogue, Saturday Review, and other publications, Ellen Sander had a backstage pass to the hottest music scenes of the 1960s. In this feast of juicy anecdotes and keen social commentary, she draws upon her professional and personal experiences to chronicle pop culture's highs and lows during the turbulent decade. Join her for weird and wild road trips with companions ranging from Yippies to the members of Led Zeppelin.
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Trips
- Rock Life in the Sixties - Augmented Edition
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 05-02-21
- Language: English
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David Bowie Made Me Gay
- 100 Years of LGBT Music
- By: Darryl W. Bullock
- Narrated by: Darryl W. Bullock
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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A groundbreaking book exploring the breadth of history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community and how those records influenced the evolution of the music we listen to today. From Sia to Elton John, from Billie Holiday to David Bowie, LGBT musicians have changed the course of modern music. But before their music - and the messages behind it - gained understanding and a place in the mainstream, how did the queer musicians of yesteryear fight to build foundations for those who would follow them?
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A superb history
- By N W. on 24-10-22
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David Bowie Made Me Gay
- 100 Years of LGBT Music
- Narrated by: Darryl W. Bullock
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 30-04-19
- Language: English
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The Show That Never Ends
- The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock
- By: David Weigel
- Narrated by: Rudy Sanda
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The Show That Never Ends is the behind-the-scenes story of the extraordinary rise and fall of progressive ("prog") rock, epitomized by such classic, chart-topping bands as Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, and Emerson Lake & Palmer, and their successors Rush, Styx, and Asia. With inside access to all the key figures, Washington Post national reporter David Weigel tells the story with the gusto and insight prog rock's fans (and its haters) will relish.
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Fairly interesting if you like Prog
- By Kindle Customer on 25-04-24
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The Show That Never Ends
- The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock
- Narrated by: Rudy Sanda
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 13-06-17
- Language: English
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Paper Cuts
- How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures
- By: Ted Kessler
- Narrated by: Ted Kessler
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Paper Cuts is the inside story of the slow death of the British music press. But it's also a love letter to it, the tale of how music magazines saved one man's life. Ted Kessler left home and school around his 17th birthday, determined 'to be someone who listened to music professionally'. That dream appeared forlorn when he was later arrested for theft behind the counter of the record shop he managed during acid house's long hot summer of love.
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Painfully middle of the road
- By Karmel Mandrick on 25-01-25
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Paper Cuts
- How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures
- Narrated by: Ted Kessler
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 21-07-22
- Language: English
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The Story of Motown
- By: Peter Benjaminson, Greil Macus - foreword
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In January 1959, Berry Gordy borrowed $800 from his family and founded the Detroit-based record company that in less than a decade was to become the largest Black-owned business in the United States. It also became one of the most productive and influential producers of popular music anywhere in the world. The Story of Motown is the story of Berry Gordy's triumph over powerful, established financial interests, entrenched popular taste, bigotry, and racism.
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Never give up on a dream
- By Anonymous on 21-08-24
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The Story of Motown
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 16-10-18
- Language: English
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A New Philosophy of Opera
- By: Yuval Sharon
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Known as opera’s “disrupter-in-residence,” director Yuval Sharon has never adhered to the art form’s conventions. In his many productions in both the United States and Europe, he constantly challenges the perception of opera as aloof by urging, among other things: performing operas in “non-places,” such as parking lots; encouraging the use of amplification; and shuffling the traditional structure of classic works, like performing Puccini’s La bohème in reverse order, ending not with the tubercular heroine Mimi’s death but with her first falling in love.
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New philosophy - my philosophy
- By A Heller on 01-11-24
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A New Philosophy of Opera
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 17-09-24
- Language: English
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Shake It Up, Baby!
- By: Ken McNab
- Narrated by: Luke R. Francis
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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It's 1963. The year of the Profumo scandal, the Great Train Robbery, the rise of teenage consumerism and sexual emancipation, and Kennedy's assassination...and the birth of Beatlemania. In the beginning, The Beatles were a band of brothers who really did make Britain twist and shout. This is the unprecedented story of the Beatles' remarkable journey from Liverpool dance hall favourites to becoming the biggest band in the world in the space of just twelve rollercoaster months.
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Very worthwhile addition to the Beatles library
- By J. Chow on 22-08-24
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Shake It Up, Baby!
- Narrated by: Luke R. Francis
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 01-01-24
- Language: English
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Bowie
- By: Simon Critchley, Eric Hanson
- Narrated by: Simon Critchley
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Simon Critchley first encountered David Bowie in the early '70s, when the singer appeared on Britain's most-watched music show, Top of the Pops. His performance of "Starman" mesmerized Critchley: it was "so sexual, so knowing, so strange". Two days later Critchley's mum bought a copy of the single; she liked both the song and the performer's bright orange hair (she had previously been a hairdresser). The seed of a lifelong love affair was thus planted in the mind of her son, aged 12.
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he's gettin it
- By M GARVIN on 09-08-21
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Bowie
- Narrated by: Simon Critchley
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Release date: 08-01-15
- Language: English
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Here We Are Now
- The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain
- By: Charles R. Cross
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain, Charles R. Cross, author of the New York Times bestselling Cobain biography Heavier Than Heaven, examines the legacy of the Nirvana front man and takes on the question: why does Kurt Cobain still matter so much, 20 years after his death?...
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Not a Biography, a Legacy
- By Ms. L. Murphy on 12-11-18
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Here We Are Now
- The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 18-03-14
- Language: English
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The History of the Musical (Unabridged)
- By: Richard Fawkes
- Narrated by: Kim Criswell
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Original Recording
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In this audio-original production, author Richard Fawkes traces the development of the musical, highlighting composers and lyricists including Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim. Presented by the vivacious singer Kim Criswell, star of Cats, and including nearly 100 famous musical extracts.
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Enjoyable and insighful
- By Anonymous on 25-07-20
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The History of the Musical (Unabridged)
- Narrated by: Kim Criswell
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 30-12-01
- Language: English
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All Summer Long
- Conversations with The Beach Boys from Surfin' to SMiLE
- By: David Beard, John Stamos
- Narrated by: Danny Montooth
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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This unforgettable and in-depth exploration of The Beach Boys’ incredible output during their early to peak years, from 1961 to 1967, interweaves recollections by group members, family, friends, and musical colleagues. David Beard compiles a wide range of fascinating and eye-opening conversations and original interviews with the group and integral figures in the band’s history, including Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, David Marks, Bruce Johnston, Jan Berry, Dean Torrence, Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford, Ginger Blake, and many others.
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All Summer Long
- Conversations with The Beach Boys from Surfin' to SMiLE
- Narrated by: Danny Montooth
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 11-06-26
- Language: English
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Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
- 33 1/3
- By: John Cavanagh
- Narrated by: Philip Battley
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Through a series of interviews with a wide range of people connected to Pink Floyd in their earliest days (including Nick Mason, Peter Jenner, Jenny Fabian, Storm Thorgerson, Duggie Fields and Peter Whitehead), John Cavanagh paints a vivid picture of how this remarkable debut album was created. He brings to life the stories behind each track, as well as Pink Floyd's groundbreaking live performances of the time.
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Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Philip Battley
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Weird Era
- How Pitchfork Changed Music Forever: A Memoir
- By: Ryan Schreiber
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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An Almost Famous–like memoir for the twenty-first century: Pitchfork’s founder opens up about running the most influential, and infamous, music publication of the internet age. In 1996, as legacy media slowly went digital, a nineteen-year-old Minneapolitan named Ryan Schreiber fired up his...
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Weird Era
- How Pitchfork Changed Music Forever: A Memoir
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-12-26
- 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: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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“A biography that crackles with as much energy as the great bluesman’s songs.” —Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix 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...
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Can't Be Satisfied
- The Life and Times of Muddy Waters
- Narrated by: Keb' Mo'
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 16-04-24
- Language: English
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King of the Groove
- How One Dream Transformed into 60 Years of Making Legendary Music
- By: John Robinson, Allison Mang, Ralph Benmergui
- Narrated by: John JR Robinson
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Grammy winner John JR Robinson's bestselling memoir, "King of the Groove - How One Dream Transformed into 60 Years of Making Legendary Music," is captivating listeners with behind-the-scenes stories from his unprecedented six-decade career. This book plays a part in helping others to find new ways to believe in themselves. The memoir, featuring a foreword by the late, Quincy Jones offers listener and listeners an intimate glimpse into Robinson's journey from small-town Creston, Iowa into a legacy of over 500 million records sold, proving that rhythm isn't just what he does—it's who he is.
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Amazing person
- By Þorsteinn Lýðsson on 20-11-25
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King of the Groove
- How One Dream Transformed into 60 Years of Making Legendary Music
- Narrated by: John JR Robinson
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 21-04-25
- Language: English
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Shiny and New
- Ten Moments of Pop Genius That Defined the ’80s
- By: Dylan Jones
- Narrated by: Simon Slater
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The '80s were about big ideas writ large - new money, new style, gender fluidity, gay pride, attritional politics, the 'special relationship', nuclear fear, AIDS, cocaine, ecstasy, tabloid royalty, the rise of urban pop and ultimately geopolitical chaos. Using a big narrative approach, Dylan Jones' history of the decade in pop frames the decade through some of its most important and popular hits, choosing records that either epitomised their time or ushered in a new cultural shift.
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Very good but slightly annoying performance
- By P.Barnhill on 12-05-22
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Shiny and New
- Ten Moments of Pop Genius That Defined the ’80s
- Narrated by: Simon Slater
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 08-07-21
- Language: English
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Unfinished
- The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- By: Lucas Cantor Santiago
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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Bloomsbury presents Unfinished by Lucas Cantor Santiago, read by Christopher Ragland. For most of his career, the Emmy Award–winning composer and producer Lucas Cantor Santiago was a self-described luddite. Technology, he felt, was moving too fast, transforming the world and the arts with no regard for the cost in tradition, hard-won human wisdom, and tried-and-true methods of mastery.
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Unfinished
- The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 11-12-25
- Language: English
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20th Century Ambient
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- By: Dusty Henry
- Narrated by: Sam Rushton
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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20th Century Ambient details a crucial period in which ambient music became a fully realized idea and is secretly one of the most popular genres in the world. This book walks through ambient's ambiguous timeline to uncover not just the genre's evolution but to understand why it resonates so deeply with the human spirit.
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20th Century Ambient
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Narrated by: Sam Rushton
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 13-11-25
- Language: English
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