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- The Inside Story of Pink Floyd
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Mark Blake draws on his own interviews with band members as well as the group's friends, road crew, musical contemporaries, former housemates, and university colleagues to produce a riveting history of one of the biggest rock bands of all time. We follow Pink Floyd from the early psychedelic nights at UFO, to the stadium-rock and concept-album zenith of the '70s, to the acrimonious schisms of the late '80s and '90s. Along the way there are fascinating revelations about Syd Barrett's chaotic life at the time of Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the band's painstaking and Byzantine recording sessions at Abbey Road, and the fractious negotiations to bring about their fragile, tantalizing reunion in Hyde Park.
Meticulous, exacting, and ambitious as any Pink Floyd album, Comfortably Numb is the definitive account of this most adventurous - and most English - rock band.
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- Narrated by: George Stroumboulopoulos
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From our talent-rich neighbor to the north comes this biography of one of the most successful Canadian rock bands, The Tragically Hip, which announced a year-long tour after sharing the news of lead singer Gord Downie’s inoperable cancer. Now available to US listeners, The Never-Ending Present details what led up to the memorable night when music fans all over the world watched Downie’s heroic final performance.
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Hometown Heroes
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Keith Richards
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In 1992, Victor Bockris' celebrated biography was the first to recognize Richards' pivotal role in the legend of the Rolling Stones. Now that book on rock's most incredible survivor has been expanded. Here are the true facts behind Richards' battles with his demons: the women, the drugs and the love-hate relationship with Jagger. His struggle with heroin and his status as the rock star most likely to die in the 1970s. His scarcely believable rebirth as a family man in the 1980s. Illuminated with revealing quotes and thoughtful insights into the man behind the band that goes on forever.
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doesn't comapre to LIFE
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Bright lights dark shadows
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An exploration of all aspects of the Abba member’s lives and careers. Amazingly detailed, it examines the group member’s family backgrounds, the pre-Abba days, the legendary 70s, the marriages, the divorces, the business ups and downs, and the post-Abba solo careers.
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Awesome! -- All the Swedish words pronounced!
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Never a Dull Moment
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On New Year's Eve, 1970, Paul McCartney told his lawyers to issue the writ at the High Court in London, effectively ending The Beatles. You might say this was the last day of the pop era. The following day, which was a Friday, was 1971. You might say this was the first day of the rock era. And within the remaining 364 days of this monumental year, the world would hear Don McLean's "American Pie", The Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar", The Who's "Baba O'Riley", Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven", and more.
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A blast from the past
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Iggy Pop's legendary career has been tumultuous, reaching great heights with mega-hits and then 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 behind that image, James Newell Osterberg, Jr., is surprisingly contradictory.
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Banal and Boring
- By Michael on 12-03-08
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Paul McCartney
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Great...But
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Brian Jones
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Brian Jones is a forensic, thrilling account of Jones' life, which for the first time details his pioneering achievements and messy unraveling. With more than 120 new interviews, Trynka offers countless new revelations and sets straight the tall tales that have long marred Jones' legacy. His story is a gripping battle between creativity and ambition, between self-sabotage and betrayal. It's all here: the girlfriends, the drugs, and some of the greatest music of all time.
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Great story, exceptionally well narrated
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So Many Roads
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No longer dismissed as relics of the hippie era, a new generation has lionized the Dead for creating a culture that paved the way for social networking, free music swapping, and the uncompromising anticorporate attitude of indie rock. Now, fifty years after the band first began changing rock 'n' roll both sonically and psychically, So Many Roads paints the most vivid portrait yet of the Grateful Dead, one of the most enduring institutions in American music and culture.
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Everybody Wants Some
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How did a pair of little Dutch boys trained in classical music grow up to become the nucleus of the most popular heavy metal band of all time? What's the secret behind Eddie Van Halen's incredible fast and furious guitar solos? What makes David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar so wacky? And, are all those stories about groupies, booze bashes, and contract riders true? The naked truth is laid bare in Everybody Wants Some - the real-life story of a rock 'n' roll fantasy come true.
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Good details of albums and post-1984 career
- By IndyMATT on 12-30-18
By: Ian Christe
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- Rob
- 07-11-22
Great history of Pink Floyd
As a long time fan of Pink Floyd this book is a must for all fans. Very thorough.
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- Marco Fallermo
- 06-12-23
phenomenal
A fantastic, but rather biased story of the band. the narrator did a fantastic job.
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- Serendipity
- 07-28-19
The Absolute Definitive Story of Floyd and Company
First off, the narrator was the perfect choice to put forth the author's words. English, sympathetic and warm. I was extremely impressed how much time the author devoted to the legendary Syd Barrett and Syd's influence he left on the band and his enormous clutch of fans. Syd's life is threaded all throughout this book, as if the author could have added to the titled, "...and Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Syd Barrett. Nothing is left to the imagination, and the author's words are written as if he were a "behind the scenes" ghost in their entire career, including the individual members' personal lives outside the band in just enough snippets to keep you wanting more. I've listened to this one three times, and will undoubtedly return again, as I get more out of this book each time I come back to it. I'm always left with the feeling that I'm just as much an insider as the author and his sources, fortunate enough to feel as though I am as much a 5th member of the band, their friends and associates of their career up to 2008, when the book was published. If there's anything else to be said about Pink Floyd, the members' side projects and all it's machinations, it's nowhere in sight. As more than just a casual fan, I've yet to discover anything quite as magnanimous in the 45+ years I've been following the ultimate rock behemoth, Pink Floyd. An immense thank you to Syd, Roger, Dave, Nick and Rick, for creating some of the greatest rock music to have ever been created in the mid-20th century through the beginning of the 21st, as well as your ability to influence countless other bands and dedicated orchestras even today, and for never selling out your integrity through all of rock's changes and attitudes, and for remaining true to the non-conforming sound of Pink Floyd to the very end...reviewed by Marc Austin.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-18-21
Great narration and history
Tells their story from start to finish. Really helped me appreciate them as a band even more than I did.
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- Kindle Customer
- 10-15-21
interesting
I always love learning more about the history of the band a very thorough read. Loved it
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- R. Mueller
- 06-13-18
Very interesting story, but sometimes too detailed
Loved the story. Lots of great background on SydB and the interesting relationships between the band members. But, at times, it seemed like it dove into too much detail that didn't really add much value to the overall story.
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- Kevin M. Buter
- 11-29-22
A Good History of The Floyd
Being a long time super fan of Pink Floyd I thoroughly enjoyed this audiobook. I learned a few new things and thought it was well laid out. If you’re interested in Pink Floyd’s history this is a good place to start. Cheers
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- Arturo Pardo
- 03-31-19
Well done with the details
Its a very detailed narrative of the band and each of the members, considering even there adventures while stepping asside of the band. Some curious stuff here with a lot of information about what turned to be and what was near to happen. Highly recommended!
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- Schorkie
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Excellent
Great details without irritating verbosity. Being an avid Pink fan, I thoroughly enjoyed this book!
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- Question Everything
- 11-25-21
So Interesting!
Pink Floyd is my favorite group. When I'm looking for music to listen to they are my go-to band. But as much as I love the band, I knew very little about their background story. I didn't know why Gilmour and Waters don't get along. I didn't know the part Syd Barrett played in the band. I didn't know how they got their name or where the album title UmmaGumma came from. And so much more. This book is a great source of that type of information and juicy tidbits. I loved how it started out with the separate, early careers of band members. And then how they came together. I loved hearing how they came up with the design of the album covers and some of the challenges that happened in creating those covers. Most times, when listening to the book I felt like I was sitting at a London coffee shop with the narrator and he was filling me in on the juicy stories that made the band what they are today. The author did an exhaustive job of finding first-hand reports and interviews to validate his information and painted a broad, complete picture of the band and the characters who made it the behemoth it became.
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