Rock History

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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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    • 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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    • Bruce Springsteen's “Born in the U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland
    • By: Steven Hyden
    • Narrated by: Steven Hyden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • On June 4, 1984, Columbia Records issued what would become one of the best-selling and most impactful rock albums of all time. An instant classic, Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. would prove itself to be a landmark not only for the man who made it, but rock music in general.

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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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    • 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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    • 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 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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    • Getting Backstage and Personal with Rock's Greatest Legends
    • By: John Glatt
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • But why did both Fillmores close within weeks of each other in 1971? This book reveals how Graham's claim that "the flowers wilted and the scene changed" was not quite the whole story....

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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 26 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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    • 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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    • 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 190 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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    • The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History
    • By: Bill Janovitz
    • Narrated by: Bill Janovitz, Jason Culp
    • Length: 24 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 14-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Leon Russell is an icon, but somehow is still an underappreciated artist. He is spoken of in tones reserved not just for the most talented musicians, but also for the most complex and fascinating....

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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 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Learn Spanish the Fun Way with the History & Theory of Rock'n'Roll
    • By: Olly Richards
    • Narrated by: Baz Jones, Francisco Jimenez
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-22
    • Language: English
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    • When it comes to mastering a foreign language, learning around your interests makes all the difference. But finding books designed for language learners can be hard! This book fixes that....

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