Rock History

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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: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • One of the most successful music acts of all time, Dire Straits filled stadiums around the world. In this powerful and entertaining memoir, founding member John Illsley gives the inside track on the most successful rock band of their time....

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    • 1964–1977: The Beatles, the Stones, and the Rise of Classic Rock
    • By: Ed Ward
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Series: The History of Rock & Roll, Book 2
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • Ed Ward weaves together an pause-resisting narrative told through colorful anecdotes and shares the behind-the-scenes stories of the megastars, the trailblazers, DJs, record executives, concert promoters, and producers who were at the forefront of this incredible period in music history....

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    • My Insane, Improbable Rock Life
    • By: Matt Pinfield, Mitchell Cohen
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • In this expansive memoir, Matt Pinfield traces his lifelong music obsession - from the heavy metal that infused his teenage years to his first encounters with legends....

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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: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • 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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    • A History of Ancient Rome
    • By: Mary Beard
    • Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
    • Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,891 ratings
    • Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even 2,000 years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power....

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    • Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them
    • By: Donald R. Prothero
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology....

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    • By: Greil Marcus
    • Narrated by: Henry Rollins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 397 ratings
    • In a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008 and 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 Story of Kiss's Destroyer and the Making of an American Icon
    • By: James Campion
    • Narrated by: Stephen Borne
    • Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Shout It Out Loud is a serious examination of the circumstance and serendipity that fused the creation of the band's seminal work, Destroyer....

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    • Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N' Roses
    • By: Steven Adler, Lawrence C. Spagnola - with
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 375 ratings
    • From Steven Adler, the original drummer for Guns N' Roses, comes My Appetite for Destruction, the inside story of GNR. Offering a different perspective from the bestselling Slash, Adler chronicles his life with the band, and own intense struggle with addiction....

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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: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 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 Beatles After the Breakup
    • By: Peter Doggett
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 152 ratings
    • Acclaimed journalist Peter Doggett recounts the previously untold story of the dramatic final chapter in the lives, loves, and legal battles of John, Paul, George, and Ringo - a.k.a. The Beatles - from their breakup in 1969 to the present day....

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    • The Punk Series, Book 1
    • By: Ward Carroll
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Series: The Punk Series, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 386 ratings
    • Punk’s War reveals the inner workings of the US Navy as only an insider can. An authentic and riveting thriller, it is a highly acclaimed novel of a fighter pilot’s experience in the era just before 9/11....

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    • A History of Contemporary Christian Music
    • By: Leah Payne
    • Narrated by: Leah Payne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In this book, Leah Payne traces the history and trajectory of Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) in America and, in the process, demonstrates how the industry, its artists, and its fans shaped—and continue to shape—conservative, (mostly) white, evangelical Protestantism.

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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: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,281 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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    • My Time Making Hit Records in the Glory Days of Rock Music
    • By: Tom Werman
    • Narrated by: Tom Werman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • As an A&R man at Epic Records, Tom Werman helped introduce the world to REO Speedwagon, Boston, Ted Nugent, and Cheap Trick. Then, as an independent producer, he oversaw landmark albums by Mötley Crüe, Twisted Sister, Lita Ford, Jeff Beck, Poison, and many more.

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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: 12-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 106 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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    • Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
    • By: Elijah Wald
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at Newport Folk Festival, backed by an electric band, and roared into his new rock hit, "Like a Rolling Stone"....

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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 266 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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