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  • The Wonder of Stevie cover art

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    • The History of Classical Music

    • By: Richard Fawkes
    • Narrated by: Robert Powell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-2000
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music....

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    • Deliver Me from Nowhere

    • The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
    • By: Warren Zanes
    • Narrated by: Warren Zanes
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • Without Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen might not be who he is today. The natural follow-up to Springsteen’s hugely successful album The River should have been the hit-packed Born in the U.S.A....

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    • Great Piano Works Explained

    • By: Catherine Kautsky, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Catherine Kautsky
    • Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • In Great Piano Works Explained, you’ll study masterpieces from a wide selection of the great composers, deepening your skill in hearing and appreciating these timeless creations of the human spirit....

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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
    • Release date: 31-01-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beating heart of music's most iconic moments for over sixty years....

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  • All Things Must Pass Away cover art

    • All Things Must Pass Away

    • Harrison, Clapton, and Other Assorted Love Songs
    • By: Kenneth Womack, Jason Kruppa
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 20-07-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • George Harrison and Eric Clapton shared a legendary and tumultuous friendship that shaped not only their respective lives and careers, but the shifting face of rock itself in the early 1970s. All Things Must Pass Away traces that friendship from its earliest roots in 1964....

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    • 1966

    • The Year the Decade Exploded
    • By: Jon Savage
    • Narrated by: Richard Trinder
    • Length: 21 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • In America, in London, in Amsterdam, in Paris, revolutionary ideas fomenting since the late 1950s reached boiling point, culminating in a year in which the transient pop moment burst forth....

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    • Fire and Rain

    • The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY and the Lost Story of 1970
    • By: David Browne
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 19-07-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Fire and Rain tells the story of four iconic albums of 1970 and the lives, times, and constantly intertwining personal ties of the remarkable artists who made them....

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    • Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall

    • By: Christophe Lebold
    • Narrated by: Vlasta Vrana
    • Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • After more than two decades of research and travels, Christophe Lebold, who befriended the poet and spent time with him in Los Angeles, delivers a stimulating analysis of Cohen’s life and art.

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    • Kraftwerk

    • Future Music from Germany
    • By: Uwe Schütte
    • Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape....

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    • Delta Blues

    • The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
    • By: Ted Gioia
    • Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
    • Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Tracing the history of the Delta blues from the field hollers and plantation music of the 19th century to the exploits of modern-day musicians in the Delta tradition, Delta Blues tells the full story of this timeless and unforgettable music....

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  • The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs cover art

    • The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs

    • By: Greil Marcus
    • Narrated by: Henry Rollins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 27-01-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008 and then proceeds to dramatize how each embodies rock 'n' roll as a thing in itself in the story it tells, inhabits, and acts out....

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    • The McCartney Legacy: Volume 2: 1974-80

    • By: Allan Kozinn, Adrian Sinclair
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Series: The McCartney Legacy, Book 2
    • Length: 31 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-2024
    • Language: English
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    • The follow-up to The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1, the most complete work on the life and work of Paul McCartney ever published. Volume 2 continues to paint the portrait of one of the world’s greatest musicians, his work post-Beatles, and his life from 1974 to 1980.

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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
    • Release date: 16-08-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • 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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    • Laurel Canyon

    • The Inside Story of Life in L.A.'s Legendary Rock and Roll Neighborhood
    • By: Michael Walker
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 18-05-2006
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • This is the story of an important period in rock music, but also of the harsher results of the sixties....

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    • Miles to Go

    • By: Chris Murphy
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-2006
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A frank and intimate exploration of Miles Davis' eccentric working life, drug habits, paranoia, depression....

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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
    • Release date: 01-11-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • 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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    • Maestros and Their Music

    • The Art and Alchemy of Conducting
    • By: John Mauceri
    • Narrated by: John Mauceri
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • An exuberant, uniquely accessible look inside the enigmatic art and craft of conducting, from a celebrated conductor whose international career has spanned half a century....

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    • They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

    • By: Hanif Abdurraqib
    • Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others—Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times....

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