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  • The Wonder of Stevie cover art

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    • Beatleness

    • How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World
    • By: Candy Leonard
    • Narrated by: Tamara Marston
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 31-10-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Beatleness explains how the band became a source of emotional, intellectual, aesthetic, and spiritual nurturance in fans’ lives....

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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
    • Release date: 15-09-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • 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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    • Map of the Soul 7

    • Persona, Shadow & Ego in the World of BTS
    • By: Murray Stein
    • Narrated by: James Conlan
    • Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Map of the Soul: 7 is a capstone of a three-album project intended to reveal the inner landscape of the human soul that is packed with rich symbolism and woven together with BTS’s signature sound and moves....

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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
    • Release date: 20-12-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • An enthralling investigation into the mysteries of music....

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    • The History of Jazz, Second Edition

    • By: Ted Gioia
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 21 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 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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  • Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall cover art

    • 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
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    • 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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    • Outlaw

    • Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville
    • By: Michael Streissguth
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-2013
    • Language: English
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    • Waylon Jennings. Willie Nelson. Kris Kristofferson. Three renegade musicians. Three unexpected stars. Three men who changed Nashville and country music forever....

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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
    • Release date: 20-11-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • 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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    • The McCartney Legacy

    • Volume 1: 1969 – 73
    • By: Allan Kozinn, Adrian Sinclair
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Series: The McCartney Legacy, Book 1
    • Length: 29 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 13-12-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in the years immediately following the dissolution of the Beatles, a period in which McCartney recreated himself as both a man and a musician....

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    • Elvis Presley: A Southern Life

    • By: Joel Williamson
    • Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 21-01-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In Elvis Presley: A Southern Life, one of the most admired Southern historians of our time takes on one of the greatest cultural icons of all time....

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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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    • 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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    • The Strat in the Attic

    • Thrilling Stories of Guitar Archaeology
    • By: Deke Dickerson, Jonathan Kellerman
    • Narrated by: Deke Dickerson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 25-10-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Guitar sleuth and music-history detective Deke Dickerson tells the true tales behind 48 rare-guitar and amplifier finds that will make any player or collector green with envy.

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    • Classical Music 101

    • By: Fred Plotkin
    • Narrated by: Fred Plotkin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-2004
    • Language: English
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    • In clear and entertaining prose, Plotkin explores a thousand years of music, introduces listeners to more than 100 great works, and profiles in depth many significant composers....

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    • Mirror in the Sky

    • The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks
    • By: Simon Morrison
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 25-10-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • A stunning musical biography of Stevie Nicks that paints a portrait of an artist, not a caricature of a superstar....

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    • When the Drummers Were Women

    • A Spiritual History of Rhythm
    • By: Layne Redmond
    • Narrated by: Kristi Burns
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 13-06-2024
    • Language: English
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    • For millennia, the sacred drummers of pre-Christian Mediterranean and western Asia were women. In this inspiring book, Layne Redmond, herself a renowned drummer, tells their history.

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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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    • 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
    • Release date: 12-11-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Huey Morgan celebrates the unpredictable personalities and talents of popular music's rebel heroes and explains why we need them more than ever before....

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