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God Only Knows
- The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the California Myth
- By: David Leaf
- Narrated by: Alex Knox, David Leaf
- Length: 19 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Originally published in 1978 as The Beach Boys and the California Myth, this groundbreaking study was both the first full-length book on the band and the first to recognize Brian Wilson as one of the most significant and influential artists of the twentieth century. Covering the turbulent family strife and internal conflicts as well as giving proper attention to the remarkable music, the book was an instant classic.
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God Only Knows
- The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the California Myth
- Narrated by: Alex Knox, David Leaf
- Length: 19 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 21-03-2023
- Language: English
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Music as an Art
- By: Roger Scruton
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Roger Scruton is a polymath. He has written authoritatively on a huge range of subjects from the environment to wine, from cosmology to the Middle East. He is also an accomplished musician (organ and piano) and a composer of works including an opera and a song cycle. This is Scruton’s second major work on music for Bloomsbury - the first being Understanding Music (Continuum, 2009).
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You’ll be stretched
- By Richie on 30-01-2019
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Music as an Art
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 23-08-2018
- Language: English
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Lollapalooza
- The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival
- By: Richard Bienstock, Tom Beaujour
- Narrated by: Dylan Reilly Fitzpatrick, Joshua Quinn, Kelli Tager, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive, no-holds-barred oral history of 1990s alt-rock festival Lollapalooza―told by the musicians, roadies, and industry insiders who lived it—includes a foreword by Kim Thayil of Soundgarden! From the New York Times bestselling authors of Nothin’ But A Good Time. In Lollapalooza...
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Stellarpalooza
- By Anonymous on 12-08-2025
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Lollapalooza
- The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival
- Narrated by: Dylan Reilly Fitzpatrick, Joshua Quinn, Kelli Tager, Shahjehan Khan, Yael Rizowy, Zac Aleman
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 25-03-2025
- Language: English
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Johnny B. Bad
- Chuck Berry and the Making of Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll
- By: Stephanie Bennett, Keith Richards, Helen Mirren, and others
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Thirty years ago, Chuck Berry starred in the seminal music documentary Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll, which profiled the legend during a star-studded concert celebrating his 60th birthday. Now comes the complete story behind one of America's most enduring and embattled icons. Compiled as an oral history by the film's producer, Stephanie Bennett, Johnny B. Bad combines interviews from the film's participants, including its music director - Keith Richards. These unique interviews and accounts paint a vivid and multifaceted picture of the artist.
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Johnny B. Bad
- Chuck Berry and the Making of Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 19-03-2019
- Language: English
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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 harnesses his encyclopedic knowledge of popular music and his deep curiosity about history to examine America over the past 50 years. Choosing one essential track from each year, Questlove unpacks each song’s significance, revealing the pivotal role that American music plays around issues of race, gender, politics, and identity.
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Music Is History
- Narrated by: Questlove
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 19-10-2021
- Language: English
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Abbey Road
- The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio
- By: David Hepworth, Paul McCartney - foreword
- Narrated by: David Hepworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Many people will recognise the famous zebra crossing. Some visitors may have graffitied their name on its hallowed outer walls. Others might even have managed to penetrate the iron gates. But what draws in these thousands of fans here, year after year? What is it that really happens behind the doors of the most celebrated recording studio in the world? It may have begun life as an affluent suburban house, but it soon became a creative hub renowned around the world as a place where great music, ground-breaking sounds and unforgettable tunes were forged.
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Engaging as always!
- By gramon on 08-01-2024
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Abbey Road
- The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio
- Narrated by: David Hepworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-10-2022
- Language: English
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Rip It up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
- By: Simon Reynolds
- Narrated by: Liam Wheatley
- Length: 23 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In this, the first book to take a big-picture view of the entire post punk period, acclaimed author and music journalist Simon Reynolds recreates a time of tremendous urgency and idealism in pop music. Full of anecdote and insight, and featuring the likes of Joy Division, The Fall, Pere Ubu, PiL and Talking Heads, Rip It Up And Start Again stands as one of the most inspired and inspiring books on popular music ever written.
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Great book. Amazing history.
- By Craig on 26-07-2025
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Rip It up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
- Narrated by: Liam Wheatley
- Length: 23 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 06-06-2024
- Language: English
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They Just Seem a Little Weird
- How KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz Remade Rock and Roll
- By: Doug Brod
- Narrated by: Eric Stuart
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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A veteran music journalist explores how four legendary rock bands—KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz—laid the foundation for two diametrically opposed subgenres: hair metal in the '80s and grunge in the '90s. It was the age when heavy-footed, humorless dinosaurs roamed the hard-rock...
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A Little Weird? Nah...not at all.
- By George W. Peden on 27-06-2021
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They Just Seem a Little Weird
- How KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz Remade Rock and Roll
- Narrated by: Eric Stuart
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 01-12-2020
- Language: English
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Robbie Williams
- Facing the Ghosts
- By: Paul Scott
- Narrated by: John Last
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Abridged
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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', this is the most intimate and well balanced portrait of this excitingly unpredictable showman to date. This Sunday Times bestseller has become the definitive account of Robbie Williams life.
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Robbie Williams
- Facing the Ghosts
- Narrated by: John Last
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Release date: 24-02-2010
- Language: English
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The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique
- 33 1/3, Book 30
- By: Dan LeRoy
- Narrated by: Stacy Carolan
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Derided as one-hit wonders, estranged from their original producer and record label, and in self-imposed exile in Los Angeles, the Beastie Boys were written off by most observers before even beginning to record their second album—an embarrassing commercial flop that should have ruined the group's career. But not only did "Paul's Boutique" eventually transformed the Beasties from a fratboy novelty to hiphop giants, its sample-happy, retro aesthetic changed popular culture forever.
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The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique
- 33 1/3, Book 30
- Narrated by: Stacy Carolan
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 13-05-2025
- 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
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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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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: 13-10-2022
- Language: English
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Then Sings My Soul
- 150 of the World's Greatest Hymn Stories
- By: Robert J. Morgan
- Narrated by: Steven Grimsley
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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Over one million copies sold! Have you ever wanted to learn more about hymns, but weren’t sure where to start? Bestselling author Robert J. Morgan shares the incredible stories behind the beloved traditional hymns of faith. Each week millions of Christians around the world use hymns composed...
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Then Sings My Soul
- 150 of the World's Greatest Hymn Stories
- Narrated by: Steven Grimsley
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 15-09-2020
- Language: English
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In Defense of Ska (Expanded 2nd Edition)
- By: Aaron Carnes
- Narrated by: Aaron Carnes
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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With an additional 30,000 words of compelling stories, research, and analysis, music journalist and In Defense of Ska podcast creator/host Aaron Carnes presents the case that ska never died, by jumping headfirst into ska's "lost years," i.e., the period after the 90s third-wave ska boom.
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In Defense of Ska (Expanded 2nd Edition)
- Narrated by: Aaron Carnes
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 21-01-2025
- Language: English
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Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited
- 33 1/3, Book 35
- By: Mark Polizzoti
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In this book, Mark Polizzotti examines just what makes the songs on Highway 61 Revisited so affecting, how they work together as a suite, and how lyrics, melody, and arrangements combine to create an unusually potent mix. He blends musical and literary analysis of the songs themselves, biography (where appropriate) and recording information (where helpful).
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Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited
- 33 1/3, Book 35
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 13-05-2025
- 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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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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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: 10-11-2023
- 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
- Unabridged
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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: 13-11-2025
- 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
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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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Paper Cuts
- How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures
- Narrated by: Ted Kessler
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 21-07-2022
- Language: English
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Black Metal Rainbows
- By: Daniel Lukes, Stanimir Panayotov
- Narrated by: Rain Corbyn
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
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Black metal is a paradox. A noisy underground metal genre brimming with violence and virulence, it has captured the world's imagination for its harsh yet flamboyant style and infamous history involving arson, blasphemy, and murder.
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Black Metal Rainbows
- Narrated by: Rain Corbyn
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 06-02-2024
- Language: English
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The Art of Darkness
- The History of Goth
- By: John Robb
- Narrated by: John Robb
- Length: 27 hrs and 15 mins
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This is the first comprehensive history of goth music and culture. John Robb explores the origins and legacy of this enduring scene, which has its roots in the post-punk era. Featuring sound and original music, and read by the author in his distinctive narrative style, this is a truly atmospheric audiobook that takes you right into the heart of the history of goth.
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The Art of Darkness
- The History of Goth
- Narrated by: John Robb
- Length: 27 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 02-01-2024
- Language: English
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Crying in the Rain
- The Perfect Harmony and Imperfect Lives of the Everly Brothers
- By: Mark Ribowsky
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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The Everly Brothers—aka Don and Phil to fans with an intimate appreciation for them—seemed to exist almost as an apparition. Emerging within the formative era for young Baby Boomers during the blandly regimented '50s, they were a ubiquitous presence, clad in snug suits and skinny ties, hair neatly Brylcreemed, never raising their voices when they sang. The two prim-looking country boys with dark, curiously penetrating eyes and perfectly merged, honey-dipped harmonies, were oddly but comfortably settled as sentimental, soothing, sometimes lovelorn voices of a still-uncharted cultural turf.
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Crying in the Rain
- The Perfect Harmony and Imperfect Lives of the Everly Brothers
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 02-04-2024
- Language: English
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