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Groovy, Laidback and Nasty
- A History of Independent Music in Sheffield
- By: Daniel Dylan Wray
- Narrated by: Daniel Dylan Wray
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Spanning seven decades and with over 150 new interviews, including Richard Hawley, Arctic Monkeys, Self Esteem, ABC, Pulp, Def Leppard, The Human League, Toddla T, Cabaret Voltaire, Warp Records, Clock DVA, Heaven 17 and many more From dazzling electronic futurism to pioneering post-punk, via...
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Groovy, Laidback and Nasty
- A History of Independent Music in Sheffield
- Narrated by: Daniel Dylan Wray
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 28-05-26
- Language: English
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The McCartney Legacy
- Volume 2: 1974 – 80
- By: Allan Kozinn, Adrian Sinclair
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 31 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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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. By 1974 the Beatles were a...
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very enjoyable audiobook
- By Anonymous on 24-04-25
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The McCartney Legacy
- Volume 2: 1974 – 80
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Series: The McCartney Legacy, Book 2
- Length: 31 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 10-12-24
- Language: English
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What Does This Button Do?
- By: Bruce Dickinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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‘I was spotty, wore an anorak, had biro-engraved flared blue jeans with “purple” and “Sabbath” written on the thighs, and rode an ear-splittingly uncool moped. Oh yes, and I wanted to be a drummer…’ Bruce Dickinson – Iron Maiden’s legendary front man – is one of the world’s...
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Scream for me Audible
- By Neil Pardoe on 19-10-17
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What Does This Button Do?
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 19-10-17
- Language: English
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Beastie Boys Book
- By: Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz
- Narrated by: Full Cast
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip-hop superstardom. Here is their story, told for the first time in the words of the band. With a style as distinctive and eclectic as a Beastie Boys album, Beastie Boys Book upends the typical music memoir. Alongside the band narrative you will find rare photos, original illustrations, a cookbook by chef Roy Choi, a graphic novel, a map of Beastie Boys' New York, mixtape playlists, pieces by guest contributors, and many more surprises.
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Audio book ill communication. I loved it
- By Claire on 01-11-18
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Beastie Boys Book
- Narrated by: Full Cast
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 30-10-18
- Language: English
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Escaping Babylon
- An Intimate History of Black British Music
- By: Jesse Bernard
- Narrated by: Jordan Peters
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Shapeshifting, collaborative, endlessly inventive and robustly empowering: Black music has transformed British culture and society, and gifted generations of Black Britons a powerful means to reject misrepresentation and find freedom and joy in sound. From the height of jungle and hip-hop in the...
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Escaping Babylon
- An Intimate History of Black British Music
- Narrated by: Jordan Peters
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 07-05-26
- Language: English
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And the Roots of Rhythm Remain
- A Journey Through Global Music
- By: Joe Boyd
- Narrated by: Joe Boyd
- Length: 40 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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And the Roots of the Rhythm Remain is like no other. It shows how personalities, events and politics in Havana, Lagos, Buenos Aires, Soweto, Rio and Seville are as colourful and fascinating as anything that took place in Storyville, Harlem, Laurel Canyon or Liverpool. And, moreover, how jazz, r&b and rock 'n' roll would never have happened if it wasn't for sounds emanating from over the horizon and below the equator.
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Excellent overview of ‘world music’
- By A R Jeanes on 31-12-24
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And the Roots of Rhythm Remain
- A Journey Through Global Music
- Narrated by: Joe Boyd
- Length: 40 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 17-12-24
- Language: English
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Hope I Get Old Before I Die
- Why rock stars never retire, from the bestselling author of Abbey Road
- By: David Hepworth
- Narrated by: David Hepworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. From the author of Abbey Road comes the story of how enduring rock icons like Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen and many more have remained in the ever changing music game. When Paul McCartney closed Live Aid in July 1985 we thought he was rock's Grand Old Man. He was...
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People Try To Put Us Down
- By alan ball on 28-10-24
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Hope I Get Old Before I Die
- Why rock stars never retire, from the bestselling author of Abbey Road
- Narrated by: David Hepworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 05-09-24
- Language: English
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Can't Buy Me Love
- By: Jonathan Gould
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 29 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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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. That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. Here Jonathan Gould seeks to explain why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and tumultuous panorama of their time and place, rooting their story in the social context that girded both their rise and their demise.
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Decent Book, awful reader
- By Susie Rainbird on 23-09-14
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Can't Buy Me Love
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 29 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 01-04-13
- Language: English
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Respect Yourself
- Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
- By: Robert Gordon
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960’s segregated south Memphis. Their success is startling, and Stax soon defines an international sound. Then, after losses both business and personal, the siblings part, and the brother allies with a visionary African-American partner. Under integrated leadership, Stax explodes as a national player until, Icarus-like, they fall from great heights to a tragic demise.
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So good I went to Memphis
- By Mr Potts on 15-05-19
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Respect Yourself
- Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 13-05-14
- Language: English
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Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop
- By: Bob Stanley
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 31 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Yeah Yeah Yeah is a landmark and addictive work that audaciously charts the entire story of pop music. Unlike other books, it comprehensively covers the genre's history, spanning from the advent of the music charts in the 1950s to the digital transition of the year 2000. It covers an astonishing range of artists, from Billy Fury and Roxy Music to TLC and Britney, including giants like Led Zeppelin and Donna Summer. This book will remind you exactly why you first fell in love with pop.
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Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 31 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 13-02-26
- Language: English
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Man in the Music
- The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson
- By: Joseph Vogel
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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For half a century, Michael Jackson’s music has been an indelible part of our cultural consciousness. Landmark albums such as Off the Wall and Thriller shattered records, broke racial barriers, amassed awards, and set a new standard for popular music. While his songs continue to be played in...
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Interesting but disappointing
- By Bouquiniste on 21-04-26
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Man in the Music
- The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 27-08-19
- Language: English
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A History of the World in 50 Pieces
- An Official Radio 3 book
- By: Tom Service
- Narrated by: Tom Service
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Explore how music has changed our world through 50 pieces across classical, folk and world traditions with BBC presenter Tom Service, in this official Radio 3 compendium. Music transports us and defines us. As a form of expression, it has been passed down through oral...
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A History of the World in 50 Pieces
- An Official Radio 3 book
- Narrated by: Tom Service
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 13-11-25
- Language: English
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Major Labels
- A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
- By: Kelefa Sanneh
- Narrated by: Kelefa Sanneh
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
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Kelefa Sanneh has made a deep study of how our popular music unites and divides us, the tribes it forms, and how its genres, shape-shifting across the years, give us a way to track larger forces and concerns. Sanneh debunks cherished myths, reappraises beloved heroes and upends familiar ideas of musical greatness, arguing that sometimes the best popular music isn't transcendent: it expresses our grudges, as well as our hopes, and it is motivated by greed as well as inspiration.
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Excellent Take On How We Describe Music
- By Mr. Findlay J. Napier on 23-11-21
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Major Labels
- A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
- Narrated by: Kelefa Sanneh
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 07-10-21
- Language: English
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Tales from the Dancefloor
- Manchester / The Warehouse Project / Parklife / Sankeys / The Haçienda
- By: Sacha Lord, Luke Bainbridge
- Narrated by: Sacha Lord
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Haçienda to The Warehouse Project. Tales From the Dance Floor is an electrifying journey into the heart of Manchester’s music culture with its most influential promoter. Over the past three...
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Shame making it political!
- By S PAYNE on 23-11-25
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Tales from the Dancefloor
- Manchester / The Warehouse Project / Parklife / Sankeys / The Haçienda
- Narrated by: Sacha Lord
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 11-04-24
- Language: English
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Mud Ride
- A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion
- By: Steve Turner
- Narrated by: Lloyd Floyd, Steve Turner
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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A down-and-dirty chronicle of the birth and evolution of the Seattle grunge scene—from backyard skateboard ramps and underground hardcore clubs to worldwide phenomenon—as told by one of its founding fathers and lead guitarist of legendary alternative rock band, Mudhoney. In the late 80s and...
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enjoyable listen
- By mark on 01-09-24
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Mud Ride
- A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion
- Narrated by: Lloyd Floyd, Steve Turner
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 13-06-23
- Language: English
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The Other Side of the Dream
- My Life In and Out of Blondie
- By: Clem Burke, Fred Armisen - introduction
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos, Fred Armisen, Kathy Valentine
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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'Clem was not just a drummer; he was the heartbeat of Blondie.' – Debbie Harry For anyone who loves music this is a backstage pass to a life lived fully as one of rock's greatest heroes. In The Other Side of the Dream, Clem Burke reflects on his extraordinary journey from the gritty streets of...
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Good drummer, nice guy, less than riveting story
- By Ian Stewart on 31-05-26
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The Other Side of the Dream
- My Life In and Out of Blondie
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos, Fred Armisen, Kathy Valentine
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 07-05-26
- Language: English
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Music
- A Subversive History
- By: Ted Gioia
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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A four-thousand-year history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions. “A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched labor of cultural provocation.” ―Los Angeles Times Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who...
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informative
- By Ruta Kasinskaite on 16-04-20
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Music
- A Subversive History
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 15-10-19
- Language: English
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The History of Classical Music
- By: Richard Fawkes
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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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 and the composers who have sought to express in music the deepest of human feelings and emotions. Polyphony, sonata form, serial music - many musical expressions are also explained - with the text illustrated by performances from some of the most highly praised recordings of recent years.
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Very pleasant way to read a book !
- By Kindle Customer on 23-12-12
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The History of Classical Music
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 06-07-00
- 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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Reams of quotes do not a satisfying book make
- By Alex Marsh on 14-12-25
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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: 13-10-22
- Language: English
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Mark Kermode's Surround Sound
- The Stories of Movie Music
- By: Mark Kermode
- Narrated by: Mark Kermode
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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This audiobook is read by the author and includes an exclusive Q&A between Mark Kermode and Jenny Nelson 'Brims with enthusiasm and joyful insight' – Richard Ayoade How can a film score make you cheer, shiver, cry or punch the air? How do directors communicate their musical vision to composers?...
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Ace!
- By Robert Fryer on 03-04-26
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Mark Kermode's Surround Sound
- The Stories of Movie Music
- Narrated by: Mark Kermode
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 10-09-25
- Language: English
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