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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
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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. Gracefully blending biography and essay, he interrogates the mission Cohen set out for himself: to show us that darkness is just the flip side of light.
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Leonard, the poet, the arch angel, the messenger, so real, so delicate, so dark, as is life itself
- By Miss Judith Finlay on 02-02-25
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Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall
- Narrated by: Vlasta Vrana
- Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 03-09-24
- Language: English
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Dreams
- The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac
- By: Mark Blake
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Fleetwood Mac have had a chart-topping career that spans over fifty years and includes some of the biggest-selling albums and greatest hits of the 20th and 21st centuries. But the band's story is one of enormous triumph and also unimaginable tragedy. There has never been a band in the history of music riven with as much romantic drama, sexual tension and incredible highs and lows as Fleetwood Mac.
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Great stories
- By Mr. J. Rayner on 11-08-25
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Dreams
- The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 05-03-25
- 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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Uncommon People
- Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs
- By: Miranda Sawyer
- Narrated by: Miranda Sawyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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When Miranda Sawyer interviewed Liam Gallagher in 1994, his gag wishing Damon Albarn would die of AIDS became front-page news all over the world. This fascinating pop history, exploring the moment British music suddenly meant everything, explains why. Picking out twenty key songs, delving into the surprising stories behind them and their unlikely creators, UNCOMMON PEOPLE takes us back to when Jarvis Cocker became a national hero, films like Trainspotting were international hits, rave became what everybody did - and it felt like the revolution was happening.
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Fun nostalgia trip
- By Mr R J Boston on 22-03-25
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Uncommon People
- Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs
- Narrated by: Miranda Sawyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 24-10-24
- Language: English
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A Long Strange Trip
- The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
- By: Dennis McNally
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 29 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of the most beloved, unusual, and accomplished musical entities to ever grace American culture. The creative synchronicity among Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan exploded out of the early 60s roots and folk scene, providing the soundtrack for the Dionysian revels of the counterculture. Dennis McNally, the band's historian and publicist for more than 20 years, takes listeners back through the Dead's history.
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a vital listen for any deadhead
- By James Cliff on 23-09-25
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A Long Strange Trip
- The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 29 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 28-11-17
- Language: English
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3 Shades of Blue
- Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans & the Lost Empire of Cool
- By: James Kaplan
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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1959 saw Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the other members of Miles's sextet come together to record the seminal jazz album of all time Kind of Blue. 3 Shades of Blue is a magnificent blended biography on the meandering paths which led Miles, Coltrane and Evans to the mountaintop of 1959 and the aftermath. It's a book about music, business, race, addiction and the cities that gave jazz its home; from New York and LA to Philadelphia, Chicago and Kansas City. Kaplan meditates on creativity and the great forebears of this golden age who would take the music down strange new paths.
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A standout group biography
- By woodwild on 21-05-24
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3 Shades of Blue
- Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans & the Lost Empire of Cool
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 07-03-24
- Language: English
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Too Late To Stop Now
- More Rock’n’Roll War Stories
- By: Allan Jones
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents Too Late To Stop Now by Allan Jones, read by Matt Bates. More than 40 stories from the glory days of rock’n’roll, featuring Lou Reed, Elton John, Sting and The Clash. Allan Jones brings stories – many previously unpublished – from the golden days of music reporting...
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Memories
- By Tom O'Rourke on 29-09-24
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Too Late To Stop Now
- More Rock’n’Roll War Stories
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 25-05-23
- Language: English
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Live Forever
- The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Oasis
- By: John Robb
- Narrated by: Daniel Millar
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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The finest book on Britain's most popular rock 'n' roll band 'Read on … It's all true' Noel Gallagher Featuring an exclusive interview with Noel Gallagher and bespoke artwork by celebrated Oasis album designer Brian Cannon Think Oasis was just Britpop and brawls? Think again. John Robb was...
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A book of two halves...
- By 5434 8460 0166 4771 on 24-04-26
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Live Forever
- The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Oasis
- Narrated by: Daniel Millar
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 19-06-25
- 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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Little Richard's Witness
- Liner Notes on Black Religion and Sexuality
- By: Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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An intimate view into the life of Little Richard, the trailblazing artist who helped create rock 'n' roll out of the Black church traditions of the Jim Crow South—a rousing elegy for the Black church boy who harnessed his queerness to become one of the world’s great performers, even as he...
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Little Richard's Witness
- Liner Notes on Black Religion and Sexuality
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 23-02-27
- Language: English
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Travelling
- On the Path of Joni Mitchell
- By: Ann Powers
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Time Must-Read Books of 2024 Independent Best Non-Fiction Books 2024 Mojo Books of the Year 2024 "A vibrant, multifaceted portrait of a music enigma" Guardian "A powerful portrait" Irish Independent "Displays a bracing rigour and an exhilarating curiosity about its subject, coming closer than...
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Its all about Joni Mitchell!
- By Joe on 06-10-25
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Travelling
- On the Path of Joni Mitchell
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 20-06-24
- Language: English
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Wishing on the Moon
- The Life and Times of Billie Holiday
- By: Donald Clarke
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 17 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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No singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than jazz legend Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues - and this authentic biography sets the record straight. Donald Clarke was given unrivaled access to a treasure trove of interviews from the 1970s with those who knew Lady Day in all stages of her short, tragic life - from her childhood in the streets and good-time houses of Baltimore, through the early days of success in New York and the years of fame, to her tragic decline.
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Incredibly in depth biography.
- By Alison St Pierre on 13-12-13
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Wishing on the Moon
- The Life and Times of Billie Holiday
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 17 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 21-06-12
- Language: English
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Musical Truth, Volume 3
- By: Mark Devlin
- Narrated by: Mark Devlin
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Musical Truth Volume 3 completes club and radio DJ-turned author/ researcher Mark Devlin’s trilogy of books, exposing the real nature of the corporate music industry and those that populate it.
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Hidden layers of fame...
- By Deborah Pearce on 28-07-24
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Musical Truth, Volume 3
- Narrated by: Mark Devlin
- Series: Musical Truth, Book 3
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 09-03-23
- Language: English
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Are We Still Rolling?
- Studios, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll - One Man's Journey Recording Classic Albums
- By: Phill Brown
- Narrated by: Terry Brown
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author's first glimpse of a magical recording studio in the mid-1960s up through a busy career that continues to the present day, this rollicking story can only be told by those that were there. As the young tape operator on sessions for the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, and Joe Cocker at the famed Olympic Sound Studios in London, Phill learned the ropes from experienced engineers and producers such as Glyn Johns and Eddie Kramer.
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An excellent tale, brilliantly told...
- By colin_mcleod@mmltd.uk.com on 27-07-15
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Are We Still Rolling?
- Studios, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll - One Man's Journey Recording Classic Albums
- Narrated by: Terry Brown
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 12-12-14
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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Beatleness explains how the band became a source of emotional, intellectual, aesthetic, and spiritual nurturance in fans’ lives, creating a relationship that was historically unique. Looking at that relationship against the backdrop of the sexual revolution, the Vietnam War, political assassinations, and other events of those tumultuous years, the audiobook critically examines the often-heard assertion that the Beatles changed everything.
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Good as an introduction to the Beatles. Maybe not for fans.
- By Martin Fitzgerald on 28-08-24
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Beatleness
- How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World
- Narrated by: Tamara Marston
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 31-10-14
- Language: English
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Why Dylan Matters
- By: Richard F. Thomas
- Narrated by: Nick Landrum
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2017. ‘At last an expert classicist gets to grips with Bob Dylan’ Mary Beard ‘Thomas’s elegant, charming book offers something for everyone – not just the super-fans’ Independent When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob...
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Very well researched
- By David Ferguson on 09-01-26
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Why Dylan Matters
- Narrated by: Nick Landrum
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 16-11-17
- Language: English
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The History of Jazz, Second Edition
- By: Ted Gioia
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 21 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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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. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present. Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary jazz players, the breakthrough styles, and the world in which it evolved. Here are the giants of jazz and the great moments of jazz history.
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Excellently written, read by a robot
- By Mr D on 23-05-16
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The History of Jazz, Second Edition
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 21 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 14-05-14
- Language: English
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Live Aid: The Definitive 40 Year Story
- By: Paul Vallely
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 26 hrs and 16 mins
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A Classic Pop Music Book of the Year FEATURING A FOREWORD BY BOB GELDOF The authoritative, official inside story of 40 years of Live Aid, from Band Aid to today. In 1985, with £100+ million in his back pocket from Live Aid – the greatest rock concert the world had ever seen – Bob Geldof...
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Excellent - a must listen!
- By Amazon Customer on 29-03-26
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Live Aid: The Definitive 40 Year Story
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 26 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 06-11-25
- Language: English
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Every Valley
- The Story of Handel’s Messiah
- By: Charles King
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Every Valley is a glittering narrative history of intertwined lives that tells the story behind one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, Handel's Messiah. London - Dublin, 1741-42. An actress mired in scandal plans her escape from an abusive husband. A...
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An engaging history of the period and of Handel’s world
- By Amazon Customer on 20-05-26
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Every Valley
- The Story of Handel’s Messiah
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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The Musical Human
- A History of Life on Earth – A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'
- By: Michael Spitzer
- Narrated by: Daniel Levitin
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents The Musical Human by Michael Spitzer, read by Daniel Levitin. A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online 'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ... An essential read' All About History 'Extraordinary range ... All the world and more is here'...
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Terrible narration
- By Sarah on 20-05-21
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The Musical Human
- A History of Life on Earth – A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'
- Narrated by: Daniel Levitin
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 01-04-21
- Language: English
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