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Original Gangstas
- The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
- By: Ben Westhoff
- Narrated by: J.D. Jackson
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
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A monumental, revealing narrative history about the legendary group of artists at the forefront of West Coast hip-hop: Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur....
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Great book
- By Camo on 29-05-2017
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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
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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....
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Kraftwerk
- Future Music from Germany
- By: Uwe Schütte
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape....
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How Music Works
- The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
- By: John Powell
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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An enthralling investigation into the mysteries of music....
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Original Gangstas
- The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
- By: Ben Westhoff
- Narrated by: J.D. Jackson
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
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A monumental, revealing narrative history about the legendary group of artists at the forefront of West Coast hip-hop: Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur....
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Great book
- By Camo on 29-05-2017
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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
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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....
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Kraftwerk
- Future Music from Germany
- By: Uwe Schütte
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape....
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How Music Works
- The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
- By: John Powell
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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An enthralling investigation into the mysteries of music....
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Prophets of the Hood
- Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop
- By: Imani Perry
- Narrated by: Emil Nicholas Gallina
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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At once the most lucrative, popular, and culturally oppositional musical force in the United States, hip-hop demands the kind of interpretation Imani Perry provides here....
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Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
- By: Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton
- Narrated by: Theo Solomon
- Length: 15 hrs
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This classic book is the whole unruly story of dance music in one volume. It recreates the dance floors that made history, conjuring their atmosphere with loving detail and bringing you the voices of the DJs and clubbers at their heart....
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Inner City Pressure
- The Story of Grime
- By: Dan Hancox
- Narrated by: Ash Hunter
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Dan Hancox tells the remarkable story of how a group of outsiders from the margins of urban life went on to create a genre that has become a British institution. Here, for the first time, is the full story of grime....
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Brilliant cultural history
- By Kindle Customer on 12-07-2020
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The History of Jazz, Second Edition
- By: Ted Gioia
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 21 hrs and 59 mins
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Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic - acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world....
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More than this casually listener wants
- By Curious on 05-12-2018
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Not for You
- Pearl Jam and the Present Tense
- By: Ronen Givony
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
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Not for You is the first full-length treatment of Pearl Jam's odyssey and importance in the culture, from the '90s to the present....
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Smash!
- Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the '90s Punk Explosion
- By: Ian Winwood
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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With astounding access to all the key players of the time, including members of Green Day, The Offspring, Rancid, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, and many others, music writer Ian Winwood at last gives the significant, substantive, and compelling story of '90s punk rock its due....
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Very interesting
- By Smon on 22-02-2020
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Bach
- Music in the Castle of Heaven
- By: John Eliot Gardiner
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
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John Eliot Gardiner takes us as deeply into Bach’s works and mind as perhaps words can. The result is a unique book about one of the greatest of all creative artists....
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From Pieces to Weight
- Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens
- By: 50 Cent
- Narrated by: Kris Ex
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
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From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens is a violent and introspective memoir that reveals not only 50 Cent's story but the story of a generation....
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Good Read And Listen For Any 50 Cent fan
- By Anonymous User on 08-02-2022
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Music Is History
- By: Ahmir Khalib Thompson, Questlove
- Narrated by: Questlove
- Length: 11 hrs
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Best-selling author and Sundance award-winning director Questlove offers a thrilling, music-driven ride through the last 50 years of American history....
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Altamont
- The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day
- By: Joel Selvin
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones' infamous Altamont concert in San Francisco, the disastrous historic event that marked the end of the idealistic 1960s....
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a good listen BUT...
- By chris whitton on 27-09-2017
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Seven Deadly Sins
- By: Corey Taylor
- Narrated by: Corey Taylor
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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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....
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Entertaining
- By Lori on 31-05-2015
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Swooning
- A Classical Music Guide to Life, Love, Lust and Other Follies
- By: Christopher Lawrence
- Narrated by: Christopher Lawrence
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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A whimsical guide to the conduct of a romance interwoven with the history of classical music, which is, surprisingly, not as nice as you might think....
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Maximum Volume: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin
- The Early Years, 1926-1966
- By: Kenneth Womack
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
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Maximum Volume offers a glimpse into the mind, the music, and the man behind the sound of the Beatles....
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Waiting for part 2 .....
- By Won on 20-01-2019
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Fornication
- The Red Hot Chili Peppers Story
- By: Jeff Apter
- Narrated by: Adrian Mulraney
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
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Here is the extreme story of the indestructible LA group, from their early funk days to eventual success as one of America’s top-selling bands.....
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Can't Buy Me Love
- By: Jonathan Gould
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 29 hrs and 52 mins
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Nearly 20 years in the making, Can't Buy Me Love is a masterful work of group biography, cultural history, and musical criticism....
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My only regret is reaching the end!
- By Anonymous User on 18-11-2021
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While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- The Music of George Harrison
- By: Simon Leng
- Narrated by: Simon Leng
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Far from being "the quiet one," George Harrison was a writer and arranger of terrific power and beauty, and his guitar playing was fundamental to the Beatles' sound and success....
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so sad - but all things must pass :)
- By Anonymous User on 14-06-2019
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Grunge Is Dead
- The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music
- By: Greg Prato
- Narrated by: Greg Prato
- Length: 22 hrs and 24 mins
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Grunge Is Dead weaves together the definitive story of the Seattle music scene through a series of interviews with the people who were there....
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Great grunge stories from those who were there when it happened.
- By James R Dilger on 26-01-2022
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White Bicycles
- Making Music in the 1960s
- By: Joe Boyd
- Narrated by: Joe Boyd
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Joe Boyd tells of his journey through Sixties music, from tour managing Muddy Waters and Coleman Hawkins to becoming a leading record producer....
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So Good !!!
- By Grapsta on 15-02-2021
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The Cello Suites
- J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
- By: Eric Siblin
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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One fateful evening, journalist Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites and began an epic quest that would unravel three centuries of intrigue, politics, and passion....
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England's Dreaming
- The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock
- By: Jon Savage
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 21 hrs and 51 mins
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England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and the moment they defined for music fans in England and the United States....
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The History of Gangster Rap
- From Schoolly D to Kendrick Lamar, the Rise of a Great American Art Form
- By: Soren Baker, Xzibit - foreword
- Narrated by: James Shippy, Soren Baker
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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Filled with interviews with key players such as Snoop Dogg, Ice-T, and dozens more, as well as breakout bios of notorious characters, lists, and more, The History of Gangster Rap is the be-all-end-all book that contextualizes the importance of gangster rap as a cultural phenomenon....
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The Musical Human
- A History of Life on Earth
- By: Michael Spitzer
- Narrated by: Daniel Levitin
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
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Today music fills our lives. How we have created, performed and listened to this music throughout history has defined what our species is and how we understand who we are. Yet music is an overlooked part of our origin story....
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Robbie Williams
- Facing the Ghosts
- By: Paul Scott
- Narrated by: John Last
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
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From his school days in Stoke -on-Trent to his years in Take That, his battle with drink and drugs and the song that 'saved his life'....
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The Beautiful Ones
- By: Prince
- Narrated by: Esperanza Spalding, Adepero Oduye, Daniel Piepenbring
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
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Prince was a musical genius, one of the most talented, beloved, accomplished, popular, and acclaimed musicians in pop history....
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Had the possibilities of being great
- By Anonymous User on 28-01-2020