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    • By: Alex van Halen
    • Narrated by: Alex van Halen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 583 ratings
    • In this intimate and open account—nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you’ve ever read—Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love in a remarkable tribute to his beloved brother and band mate.

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    • By: David Byrne
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman, David Byrne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological, is now updated with a new chapter on digital curation.

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    • The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album
    • By: Ken Caillat, Steve Stiefel
    • Narrated by: Ken Caillat, Fred Berman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 400 ratings
    • Fleetwood Mac's classic 1977 Rumours album topped the Billboard 200 for 31 weeks and won the Album of the Year Grammy....

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    • The Revolutionary Year
    • By: Steve Turner
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 367 ratings
    • A riveting look at the transformative year in the lives and careers of the legendary group whose groundbreaking legacy would forever change music and popular culture....

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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: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 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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    • The Eagles’ Reckless Ride Down the Rock & Roll Highway
    • By: Mick Wall
    • Narrated by: Al Kessel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Legendary rock journalist Mick Wall delivers definitive insight into America's bestselling band of all time, exploring their meteoric rise to fame and the hedonistic days of the '70s music scene in LA, when American music was taking over the world....

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    • Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
    • By: James Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • The story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of three towering artists—Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans—who came together to create the most famous and bestselling jazz album of all time, Kind of Blue....

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    • By: Ted Gioia
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 21 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 303 ratings
    • Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic - acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world....

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    • Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens
    • By: 50 Cent
    • Narrated by: Kris Ex
    • Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
    • From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens is a violent and introspective memoir that reveals not only 50 Cent's story but the story of a generation....

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    • The Beatles: All These Years
    • By: Mark Lewisohn
    • Narrated by: Clive Mantle
    • Length: 43 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,581 ratings
    • Tune In is the first volume of All These Years - a highly-anticipated, groundbreaking biographical trilogy....

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    • The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
    • By: Dennis McNally
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 29 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 551 ratings
    • From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of the most beloved, unusual, and accomplished musical entities to ever grace American culture....

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    • The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
    • By: Chris Payne
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead, Chris Abell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • An energetic and explosive oral history examining emo’s pop culture takeover from 1999-2008, featuring exclusive interviews with My Chemical Romance’s Mikey Way and Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump....

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    • What the Music You Love Says About You
    • By: Ogi Ogas, Susan Rogers
    • Narrated by: Susan Rogers
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • Drawing from her successful career as a music producer (engineering hits like Prince’s “Purple Rain”), professor of cognitive neuroscience Susan Rogers reveals why your favorite songs move you....

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    • The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
    • By: Jeremy Eichler
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Eichler, Sherrill Milnes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • In 1785, when the great German poet Friedrich Schiller penned his immortal “Ode to Joy,” he crystallized the deepest hopes and dreams of the European Enlightenment for a new era of peace and freedom, a time when millions would be embraced as equals....

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    • A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
    • By: Charles R. Cross
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,513 ratings
    • For many, the name Jimi Hendrix conjures up a larger-than-life image of the man who set fire to guitars, women's hearts, and the status quo. This groundbreaking account takes a far deeper look....

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    • My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead
    • By: Steve Parish, Joe Layden - contributor, Bob Weir - foreword
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 260 ratings
    • Steve Parish was never one to walk the straight-and-narrow, even during his childhood growing up in Flushing Meadow, Queens. Busted as a teenager for selling acid in the summer of 1968, Parish landed in Riker's Island....

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    • By: Ahmir Khalib Thompson, Questlove
    • Narrated by: Questlove
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 226 ratings
    • Best-selling author and Sundance award-winning director Questlove offers a thrilling, music-driven ride through the last 50 years of American history....

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    • A Biography of Led Zeppelin
    • By: Mick Wall
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,035 ratings
    • Led Zeppelin rose to become one of the biggest-selling rock bands of all time....

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