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Listen to This
By: Alex Ross
Narrated by: Alex Ross
Length: 14 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011
Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross... Read more
Patti LuPone
By: Patti LuPone
Narrated by: Patti LuPone
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The legendary Patti LuPone is one of the theatre’s most beloved leading ladies. Now she lays it all bare, sharing the intimate story of her life both onstage and off--through the dizzying highs and darkest lows--with the humor and outspokenness that have become her trademarks.
With nearly 100 photographs, including an 8-page four-color insert,... Read more
Sie Düffeldoffel da! Herbert Wehner - Ein komischer Heiliger
By: Jürgen Roth
Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich
Length: 2 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Herbert Wehner war ein Jahrhundertpolitiker, ein Mensch, an dem sich die Weltgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts bricht. Er war Sozialist, Anarchist, Kommunist, Widerstandskämpfer in Deutschland und in der Emigration. 1946 trat er in die SPD ein und gehörte von 1949 bis 1983 dem Deutschen Bundestag an. Wehner liebte das Parlament. Er hielt... Read more
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Bob Dylan In America
By: Sean Wilentz
Narrated by: Sean Wilentz
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
One of America’s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the country’s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years.
Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discovered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylan’s work with the skills of an... Read more
The Lost Music
By: Kathryn Meyrick
Narrated by: Patrick Macnee
Length: 23 minutes
Abridged: No
As Gustav and his family travel the world in search of the lost music, we share their discovery of musical traditions and strange instruments in many lands, before returning home in triumph to the World Festival of Music. A Child's Play audio production. Read more
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Leonard Bernstein
By: Barry Seldes
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
From his dazzling conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990, Leonard Bernstein's star blazed brilliantly. In this fresh and revealing biography of Bernstein's political life, Barry Seldes examines Bernstein's career against the backdrop of cold war America - blacklisting by the State Department in 1950, voluntary exile from the New York... Read more
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Mustaine
By: Dave Mustaine & Joe Layden
Narrated by: Tom Wayland
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
From his early, crazy days as a founding member of Metallica, Dave Mustaine has seen and experienced everything in the world of rock n’ roll. From his young triumphs and ignominious ouster from the band for his hard-partying ways to his later rule over Megadeth, one of the most successful heavy metal bands of all time, Mustaine tells it all.... Read more
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Composed
By: Rosanne Cash
Narrated by: Rosanne Cash
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A candid and moving memoir from the critically acclaimed singer and songwriterFor thirty years as a musician, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, releasing a series of albums that are as notable for their lyrical intelligence as for their musical excellence.Now, in her memoir, Cash writes compellingly about her... Read more
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Talking to Girls About Duran Duran
By: Rob Sheffield
Narrated by: Scott Sheppard
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of the national bestseller Love is a Mix Tape returns, with a different-but equally personal and equally universal- pin on music as memory."No rock critic-living or dead, American or otherwise-has ever written about pop music with the evocative, hyperpoetic perfectitude of Rob Sheffield."So said Chuck Klosterman about Love is a Mix... Read more
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Meet Ludvig Van Beethoven
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: James Rix
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
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Meet Wolfgang Mozart
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Charles Margerison
Length: 23 minutes
Abridged: No
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The Ninth
By: Harvey Sachs
Narrated by: Patrick Egan
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
“All men become brothers . . .
Be embraced, ye millions!”
The Ninth Symphony, a symbol of freedom and joy, was Beethoven’s mightiest attempt to help humanity find its way from darkness to light, from chaos to peace. Yet the work was born in a repressive era, with terrified Bourbons, Hapsburgs, and Romanovs using every means at their disposal to... Read more
You Don't Know Me
By: Ray Charles Robinson, Jr. & Mary Jane Ross
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
A deeply personal memoir of the private Ray Charles - the man behind the legend - by his eldest son.
Ray Charles is an American music legend. A multiple Grammy Award-winning composer, pianist, and singer with an inimitable vocal style and a catalog of hits including "What I Say," "Georgia on My Mind," "Unchain My Heart," "I Can't Stop Loving... Read more
The Music Lesson
By: Victor L. Wooten
Narrated by: Victor L. Wooten, Michael Kott, Chuck Rainey, S...
Length: 7 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
"Boy, do I have a lot to learn!" Anyone who's ever picked up a musical instrument of any kind—from the first caveman banging rocks to that little kid at the guitar shop—has though that. I know I did. I'd been trying for years to break in to the music scene, to show everyone my chops, to make my mark. And I was good. But I wasn't great. I knew... Read more
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Lips Unsealed - Abridged
By: Belinda Carlisle
Narrated by: Belinda Carlisle
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The women of the iconic eighties band the Go-Go’s will always be remembered as they appeared on the back of their debut record: sunny, smiling, each soaking in her own private bubble bath with chocolates and champagne. The photo is a perfect tribute to the fun, irreverent brand of pop music that the Go-Go’s created, but it also conceals the... Read more
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The Mozart Question
By: Michael Morpurgo
Narrated by: Michael Morpurgo & Alison Read
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Abridged: No
“The time has come, I think, not to lie any more.” This beautiful recording features solo performances by various classical musicians. When cub reporter Lesley is sent to Venice to interview a world-renowned violinist, the journalist is told she can ask Paolo Levi anything about his life and career as a musician,... Read more
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Lives of the Musicians
By: Kathleen Krull
Narrated by: John C. Brown & Melissa Hughes
Length: 1 hour 57 minutes
Abridged: No
It's no secret that Beethoven went deaf, that Mozart had constant money problems, and that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote musicals. But what were these people—and other famous musicians—really like? What did they eat? What did they wear? How did they spend their time? What were they like as children? What were their phobias, obsessions, and bad... Read more
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Losing My Cool
By: Thomas Chatterton Williams
Narrated by: Thomas Chatterton Williams
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Unabridged, 7 hours
Read by the author
A pitch-perfect account of how hip-hop culture drew in the author and how his father drew him out again-with love, perseverance, and fifteen thousand books. Read more
Licht und Schatten - Abridged
By: Abi Ofarim
Narrated by: Torsten Münchow
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Die Autobiografie eines geläuterten Weltstars - voller Kraft und Intensität Sie waren das Gesangsduo der 60er-Jahre - Abi Ofarim und seine Frau Esther stürmten weltweit die Hitparaden. Dann der steile Absturz: Drogen, Partys, Frauen, Millionenverluste. Viele Jahre war es ruhiger um den Weltstar. Er unterstützte seine Söhne Gil und Tal auf... Read more
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Ich bin der Weiße Clown
By: Christiane Hörbiger
Narrated by: Christiane Hörbiger
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Die ungewöhnliche Autobiografie einer ungewöhnlichen Frau: Christiane Hörbiger erzählt in dieser sehr persönlichen Rückschau von großen und kleinen Momenten ihres Lebens, von Phasen der Freude und des Erfolgs und von solchen voller Trauer und Ängsten. Erinnerungen mit einer klaren Botschaft: Koste das Leben in jedem Augenblick aus, jeden Tag ein... Read more
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Rock Stories
By: Eva Demski, Wenzel Storch, Hansjörg Schertenlei...
Narrated by: Friedrich Ani, Josef Haslinger, Thomas Kraft, G...
Length: 1 hour 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Acht bekannte deutsche Schriftsteller blicken in kleinen persönlichen Erinnerungsstücken und Feuilletons zurück auf die Zeit, als sich fast alles um Rock, Pop, Politik und Protest drehte. Protest auch gegen die Enge der Provinz, gegen Eltern und Lehrer, die schon lange Haare und "laute" Musik als echte Provokation empfanden. Aber auch ein Blick... Read more
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Iggy Pop
By: Paul Trynka
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 14 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Iggy Pop’s legendary career has been tumultuous, reaching great heights, producing mega-hits, while at times hitting rock-bottom lows in jail and mental institutions. Along the way, he’s become a cult rock hero, an inspiration for dozens of other famous rockers, and has had a pretty good time of it, too. But the image of Iggy Pop versus the man... Read more
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The Beatles
By: Hunter Davies
Narrated by: Edward Lewis
Length: 16 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
This worldwide bestseller is the biography that defined a band—and an era.As the friend and only authorized biographer of the most famous musical group in history, Davies had full access to the Beatles—including their family, friends, and colleauges—as well as their help and encouragement in writing this biography. He spent eighteen months with... Read more
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Brad Lansky and the Anti-Starc
By: J.D. Venne
Narrated by: Dieter Zimmermann, Matthew Roberts, Bianca Resn...
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes
Abridged: No
These are troubled times. MARA, the mighty blue supergiant of the Torvus Iubar System is dying, as are the other thirteen ambistars that make up the Ambistar Collective. Billions of lives are in peril. What conceivable force could cause the simultaneous death of fourteen ambistars thousands of light-years apart? Since the peace accord between... Read more
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