Rock History

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    • By: Greil Marcus
    • Narrated by: Henry Rollins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 27-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • In a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008, 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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    • The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock
    • By: Jon Savage
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 21 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 31-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and the moment they defined for music fans in England and the United States....

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    • The Inside Story of One of the Biggest Bands in Rock History
    • By: John Illsley
    • Narrated by: John Illsley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • Dire Straits filled giant stadiums around the world and sold hundreds of millions of records....

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    • Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
    • By: Nick Estes
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the 21st century....

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    • An MM Second Chance, Nerd/Jock Romance (South Rock High, Book 1)
    • By: A.J. Truman
    • Narrated by: Iggy Toma
    • Series: South Rock High, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • A long time ago, in a suburban high school not so far away, a closeted nerd (me) and a closeted soccer star (Hutch) fell in love and planned to make their public debut at prom. Until Hutch bailed at the last minute, leaving me with a broken heart and unworn tuxedo....

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    • The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself - While the Rest of Us Die
    • By: Garrett M. Graff
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • A fresh window on American history: the eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil, even if the rest of us die....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock
    • By: David Weigel
    • Narrated by: Rudy Sanda
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 13-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The Show That Never Ends is the behind-the-scenes story of the extraordinary rise and fall of progressive ("prog") rock....

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    • Joy Division: The Oral History
    • By: Jon Savage
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Jon Savage's oral history of Joy Division is the last word on the band that ended with the suicide of Ian Curtis in Macclesfield on May 18, 1980....

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    • The Rise and Fall of SST Records
    • By: Jim Ruland
    • Narrated by: Jim Ruland
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In Corporate Rock Sucks, music journalist Jim Ruland relays the unvarnished story of SST Records. SST was the most popular indie label by the mid-80s - until a tsunami of legal jeopardy, financial peril, and dysfunctional management brought the empire tumbling down....

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    • An Oral History as Told by the Artists, Backstage Insiders, and Fans Who Were There
    • By: Marc Myers
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine, Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Decades after the rise of rock music in the 1950s, the rock concert retains its allure and its power as a unifying experience - and as an influential multibillion-dollar industry. In Rock Concert, acclaimed interviewer Marc Myers sets out to uncover the history of this phenomenon....

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    • Why rock stars never retire
    • By: David Hepworth
    • Narrated by: David Hepworth
    • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • When Paul McCartney closed Live Aid in July 1985 we thought he was rock's Grand Old Man. He was forty-three years old. As the forty years since have shown he - and many others of his generation - were just getting started.

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    • The Remarkable Life of Medical Pioneer and Legendary Rock Climber Hans Kraus
    • By: E.B. Schwartz
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 22-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • JFK's Secret Doctor tells a thrilling story of adventure and a historic medical career....

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    • By: David R. Montgomery
    • Narrated by: Gary Telles
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • How the mystery of the Bible's greatest story shaped geology: a MacArthur Fellow presents a surprising perspective on Noah's Flood....

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    • The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
    • By: Warren Zanes
    • Narrated by: Warren Zanes
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 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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    • By: Murray Englehart
    • Narrated by: Stig Wemyss
    • Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Over three decades and more than 150 million albums, AC/DC has established itself as much more than just a great rock band....

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    • 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: 13-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 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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    • Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
    • By: Neil Shubin
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In his last book, Neil Shubin delved into the amazing connections between human anatomy—our hands, our jaws—and the structures in the fish that first took over land 375 million years ago....

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    • How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
    • By: Peter Biskind
    • Narrated by: Dick Hill
    • Length: 23 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 188 ratings
    • This audiobook follows the wild ride that was Hollywood in the 70s - an unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll and a climate where innovation reigned supreme....

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    • A Personal History of Pink Floyd
    • By: Nick Mason
    • Narrated by: Nick Mason
    • Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • Nick has been fantastically involved throughout the production of this download, so that it has become something far more than simply an author reading his work....

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