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The Beatles Play Shea
- By: James Woodall
- Narrated by: Christopher Price
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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The Beatles' third tour of North America was nearly a year in the planning. By late 1964, manager Brian Epstein knew that they were not only the biggest act in his stable: they had become the biggest act on earth. America worshipped them. Somewhere different for the start of this tour, in New York - somewhere appropriately massive - had to be found. It was: a baseball stadium in Flushing, Queens. On August 15, 1965, The Beatles played the concert of their lives there.
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The Beatles Play Shea
- Narrated by: Christopher Price
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Release date: 29-08-16
- Language: English
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Changing Lives
- Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music
- By: Tricia Tunstall
- Narrated by: Carol Monda
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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When Gustavo Dudamel, at the age of 28, ascended the podium at the Hollywood Bowl for his inaugural concert as conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he immediately captivated the hearts of his audience, just as he had the minds of music critics who designated him a modern-day Leonard Bernstein. In Changing Lives, the maestro's story becomes the entry point to an equally captivating subject: El Sistema, the music education program that nurtured his musical talent, first as a young violinist and then as a budding conductor under the mentorship of its founder, Jos Antonio Abreu.
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Changing Lives
- Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music
- Narrated by: Carol Monda
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 04-06-13
- Language: English
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I'd Fight the World
- A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music
- By: Peter La Chapelle
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Long before the United States had presidents from the world of movies and reality TV, we had scores of politicians with connections to country music. In I'd Fight the World, Peter La Chapelle traces the deep bonds between country music and politics. These performers and politicians both rode and resisted cultural waves: some advocated for the poor and dispossessed, and others voiced religious and racial anger, but they all walked the line between exploiting their celebrity and righteously taking on the world.
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I'd Fight the World
- A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 10-03-20
- Language: English
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All the Years Combine
- The Grateful Dead in Fifty Shows
- By: Ray Robertson
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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In All the Years Combine: The Grateful Dead in Fifty Shows, Robertson listens to and writes ecstatically about fifty of the band's most important and memorable concerts in order to better understand who the Grateful Dead were, what they became, and what they meant-and what they continue to mean.
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All the Years Combine
- The Grateful Dead in Fifty Shows
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 25-06-24
- Language: English
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Legends of Music: The Life and Legacy of Paul McCartney
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Robin McKay
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
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Sir Paul may have never topped the highs established by the Beatles, but he has gone on to have the longest and most productive solo career of the four. While that was helped in part by the tragic murder of Lennon in 1980, McCartney has nonetheless remained at the forefront of pop culture since 1970, and the Guinness Book of World Records has recognized him as the most successful recording artist of all time. Indeed, McCartney wrote or co-wrote over 30 #1 hits and has sold over 100 million albums and 100 million singles in his music career.
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Legends of Music: The Life and Legacy of Paul McCartney
- Narrated by: Robin McKay
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 29-04-15
- Language: English
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Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
- Pop-Splits
- By: N.N.
- Narrated by: Michael Pan
- Length: 1 min
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Dieser Pop-Splits ist Eric Claptons Song "Tears in Heaven" gewidmet und beantwortet die Frage, wie man musikalisch über den Tod des eigenen Kindes hinwegkommt...
Der Titel ist Teil des Pop-Splits "Tears in Heaven - 21 traurige und schöne Geschichten".
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Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
- Pop-Splits
- Narrated by: Michael Pan
- Length: 1 min
- Release date: 05-09-06
- Language: German
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This Land That I Love
- Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, and the Story of Two American Anthems
- By: John Shaw
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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February, 1940. After a decade of worldwide depression, World War II had begun in Europe and Asia. With Germany on the march and Japan at war with China, the global crisis was in a crescendo. America's top songwriter, Irving Berlin, had captured the nation's mood a little more than a year before with his patriotic hymn "God Bless America."
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This Land That I Love
- Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, and the Story of Two American Anthems
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 05-11-13
- Language: English
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The Masters: Curated Audio Excerpts
- Historic Recordings with Lennon, Jagger, Townshend, Garcia, Bono, and Springsteen
- By: Jann S. Wenner
- Narrated by: Jann S. Wenner, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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During fifty years of publishing the “Bible of Rock and Roll,” Jann Wenner recorded a series of interviews that are now regarded among the most important historical documents of rock. From the hubris and pissed-off attitude of Pete Townshend, to the volcano that was John Lennon after the breakup of the Beatles, to Bono, using music to speak to God, these interviews reveal the beating hearts of six creative giants.
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The Masters: Curated Audio Excerpts
- Historic Recordings with Lennon, Jagger, Townshend, Garcia, Bono, and Springsteen
- Narrated by: Jann S. Wenner, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, Jerry Garcia, Bono, Bruce Springsteen
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 26-09-23
- Language: English
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Democracy of Sound
- Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century
- By: Alex Cummings
- Narrated by: Aaron Abano
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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It was a time when music fans copied and traded recordings without permission. An outraged music industry pushed Congress to pass anti-piracy legislation. Yes, that time is now; it was also the era of Napster in the 1990s, of cassette tapes in the 1970s, of reel-to-reel tapes in the 1950s, even the phonograph epoch of the 1930s. Piracy, it turns out, is as old as recorded music itself. In Democracy of Sound, Alex Sayf Cummings uncovers the little-known history of music piracy and its sweeping effects on the definition of copyright in the United States.
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Democracy of Sound
- Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century
- Narrated by: Aaron Abano
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 30-01-14
- Language: English
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Cinq espaces-temps de mon mari : "1347" - English version
- The battle behind the stained-glass window
- By: Pascal Rueff
- Narrated by: Morgan Touzé
- Length: 20 mins
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Singer and actress Morgan Touzé presents five immersive 3D pieces produced by her husband, the poet and binaural sound pioneer, Pascal Rueff. "My husband likes me to take on the characters when roaming through his space-times." she says. Come dive in with her! These sound journeys, to be listened to through headphones, visit twenty years of 3D sound recording, from southern Crete to Chernobyl.
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Cinq espaces-temps de mon mari : "1347" - English version
- The battle behind the stained-glass window
- Narrated by: Morgan Touzé
- Series: Cinq espace-temps de mon mari (English edition)
- Length: 20 mins
- Release date: 13-09-22
- Language: English
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Rock & Roll Nightmares
- True Stories, Volume 1
- By: Staci Layne Wilson
- Narrated by: Andy Garrison
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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Kurt Cobain. GG Allin. Wendy O. Williams. Duane Allman. Travis Barker. Jimmy Page. Janis Joplin. Ozzy Osbourne. Chrissie Hynde. Dee Dee Ramone. Chris Cornell. Marc Bolan. Tommy Lee. Amy Winehouse. Jimi Hendrix. What do these artists all have in common? They’re rowdy rock stars whose over-the-top lifestyles spun out of control, landing them deep in Rock & Roll Nightmare territory. Rock & Roll Nightmares: True Stories, Volume 1 is a meticulously-researched, up-to-date, entertaining, and shocking book that rounds up the tragic tales from the 1960s to the present day.
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Rock & Roll Nightmares
- True Stories, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Andy Garrison
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 08-09-22
- Language: English
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Mysteries in the Music: Case Closed
- By: Jim Berkenstadt
- Narrated by: Matt Hurwitz
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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Mysteries in the Music: Case Closed examines some of the secrets, myths, legends, hoaxes, conspiracies, and wildly inexplicable events that are such an intriguing part of rock and roll history. Travel back to the 1950s to uncover "Who Really Discovered Elvis Presley?" Revisit the 1960s when a folk troubadour tried forming a supergroup with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Transport back to Jamaica 1976 to discover whether the CIA tried to assassinate reggae superstar Bob Marley. Discover whether The Beach Boys actually stole a song from cult leader Charles Manson.
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Mysteries in the Music: Case Closed
- Narrated by: Matt Hurwitz
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 28-10-22
- Language: English
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The Guitar in America
- Victorian Era to Jazz Age
- By: Jeffrey J. Noonan
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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This volume opens a new chapter on the guitar in America, considering its cultivated past and documenting how banjoists and mandolinists aligned their instruments to it in an effort to raise social and cultural standing. At the same time, the audiobook considers the BMG community within America's larger musical scene, examining its efforts as manifestations of this country's uneasy coupling of musical art and commerce.
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The Guitar in America
- Victorian Era to Jazz Age
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 28-07-14
- Language: English
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The New Blue Music: Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950-1999
- American Made Music Series
- By: Richard J. Ripani
- Narrated by: Kenneth Lee
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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Rhythm & blues emerged from the African American community in the late 1940s to become the driving force in American popular music over the next half-century. Although sometimes called "doo-wop", "soul", "funk", "urban contemporary", or "hip-hop", R&B is actually an umbrella category that includes all of these styles and genres. It is in fact a modern-day incarnation of a musical tradition that stretches back to 19th-century America, and even further to African beginnings.
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Soul Analysis
- By Danny on 24-12-12
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The New Blue Music: Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950-1999
- American Made Music Series
- Narrated by: Kenneth Lee
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 11-12-12
- Language: English
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Rocking Toward a Free World
- When the Stratocaster Beat the Kalashnikov
- By: András Simonyi
- Narrated by: András Simonyi
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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From renowned diplomat and musician András Simonyi - whom Stephen Colbert calls "the only ambassador I know who can shred a mean guitar!" - comes a timely and revealing memoir about growing up behind the Iron Curtain and longing for freedom while chasing the great power of rock and roll. In Rocking Toward a Free World, Simonyi charts the struggle of growing up in 1960s Hungary, a world in which listening to his favorite music was a powerful but furtive endeavor: records were black-market bootlegs, and concerts were held under strict control, even banned....
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Rocking Toward a Free World
- When the Stratocaster Beat the Kalashnikov
- Narrated by: András Simonyi
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 04-06-19
- Language: English
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Good Old Grateful Dead
- By: Michael Lydon
- Narrated by: Peter Larkin
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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Suddenly the music is not notes or a tune, but what those seven people are exactly: the music is an aural holograph of the Grateful Dead. All their fibers, nuances, histories, desires, beings are clear. Jerry and his questing, Phil the loyal comrade, Tom drifting beside them both on a cloud, Pig staying stubbornly down to earth; Mickey working out furious complexities trying to understand how Bill is so simple, and Bob succumbing inevitably to Jerry and Phil and joining them.
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Don't Waste Your Time with This
- By Dj Pike on 17-02-19
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Good Old Grateful Dead
- Narrated by: Peter Larkin
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 13-12-16
- Language: English
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Nefarious
- A Life in Music PR
- By: Glen Colson
- Narrated by: Glen Colson
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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Glen Colson lived through the golden age of Rock & Roll during the sixties, seventies and eighties, working as PR for many of the best loved acts in rock history. Among them Lindisfarne, Genesis, Pink Floyd, The Nice, Elvis Costello, Dr Feelgood, Ian Dury, Nick Lowe, Graham Parker, and Van der Graaf Generator. As the press officer at two of the UK's most iconic record labels, Stiff and Charisma, Glen worked alongside managers who made the music industry tick. Famously dry of wit, Glen's take on the inside workings of the music business is both informative and never short of laughs.
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Nefarious
- A Life in Music PR
- Narrated by: Glen Colson
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 11-12-23
- Language: English
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The Sixties - Die britische Popmusik im Musikpodcast #100malMusiklegenden
- British Pop 1
- By: Markus Dreesen
- Narrated by: Markus Dreesen
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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Eine Sammlung der Episoden aus dem Erfolgspodcast #100malMusiklegenden, die thematisch geordnet wird. In diesem Band geht es um die britische Pop- & Rockszene in den 60er Jahren. Angefangen mit Apache, dem ersten britischen Rockhit der Shadows bis hin zum Ende der 60ies mit den Beatles und ihrer Single Lea it be. Dieses Hörbuch ist gemacht für Musikliebhaber:innen, die noch den ein oder anderen Hintergrund Ihrer Lieblingsmusik wissen möchten.
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The Sixties - Die britische Popmusik im Musikpodcast #100malMusiklegenden
- British Pop 1
- Narrated by: Markus Dreesen
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 08-11-24
- Language: German
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The 25 Songs of Christmas
- The Greatest Christmas Songs Ever Made
- By: Eric Jones
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Turner
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
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It's the songs that take you back. It's the music that celebrates the joys and hopes of the Holiday Season. Welcome to The 25 Songs of Christmas: The Greatest Holiday Songs Ever Made. In this audiobook, we will embark on a musical journey through some of the most beloved and iconic Christmas songs of all time. From the traditional carols that have been sung for centuries to the modern classics that dominate the airwaves, these songs capture the spirit and joy of the holiday season. Join me as we explore the history, lyrics, and enchanting stories behind each of these 25 timeless treasures.
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The 25 Songs of Christmas
- The Greatest Christmas Songs Ever Made
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Turner
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Release date: 22-08-23
- Language: English
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Then Sings My Soul, Book 2
- 150 of the World's Greatest Hymn Stories
- By: Robert J. Morgan
- Narrated by: Robert J. Morgan
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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Each week millions of Christians around the world use hymns composed by believers from every era and branch of Christianity to join voices in praise—singing psalms and hymns, making melody in their hearts to praise the Lord. Pastor Robert Morgan’s goal is to keep these traditional hymns vital and meaningful to all generations. Then Sings My Soul: Book 2 will help listeners reacquaint themselves with 150 additional beloved hymns of the faithful. These devotional-style stories show the emotion and drama behind the hymns of faith that have changed many lives throughout history.
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Then Sings My Soul, Book 2
- 150 of the World's Greatest Hymn Stories
- Narrated by: Robert J. Morgan
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 18-10-22
- Language: English
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