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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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5 out of 5 stars
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A blast from the past
- De Amazon Customer en 07-30-16
De: David Hepworth
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Alan Lomax: A Biography
- De: John Szwed
- Narrado por: Scott Sowers
- Duración: 20 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
The remarkable life and times of the man who popularized American folk music and created the science of song. Folklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who introduced folk music to the masses. Lomax began his career making field recordings of rural music for the Library of Congress and by the late 1930s brought his discoveries to radio, including Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Burl Ives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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They Done Good
- De DonnaMarie113 en 06-26-22
De: John Szwed
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The History of Rock & Roll
- Volume 1: 1920-1963
- De: Ed Ward
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 15 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
Ed Ward covers the first half of the history of rock & roll in this sweeping and definitive narrative - from the 1920s, when the music of rambling medicine shows mingled with the songs of vaudeville and minstrel acts to create the very early sounds of country and rhythm and blues, to the rise of the first independent record labels post-World War II, and concluding in December 1963, just as an immense change in the airwaves took hold and the Beatles prepared for their first American tour.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Author's blindspots mar this book
- De Mark Clark en 03-28-17
De: Ed Ward
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Cowboys and Indies
- The Epic History of the Record Industry
- De: Gareth Murphy
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 15 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Cowboys and Indies is the definitive record-business bible, chronicling the pioneers who set the stylus on the most important labelsand musical discoveries of the last century. The narrative follows all the musical trends and developments from the phonograph to the Internet age as it delves behind the big business of corporate hit machines and the diligent industry of small, curated labels.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Epic, yet incomplete.
- De Rob G. en 10-14-14
De: Gareth Murphy
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Thelonious Monk
- The Life and Times of an American Original
- De: Robin DG Kelley
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 25 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 160
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 137
Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of an artist's struggle to "make it" without compromising his musical vision. It is a story that, like its subject, reflects the tidal ebbs and flows of American history in the 20th century. To his fans, he was the ultimate hipster; to his detractors, he was temperamental, eccentric, taciturn, or childlike. His angular melodies and dissonant harmonies shook the jazz world to its foundations, ushering in the birth of "bebop" and establishing Monk as one of America's greatest composers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The definitive bio of Monk
- De ricardo en 12-27-17
De: Robin DG Kelley
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Michael Jackson, Inc.
- The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of a Billion-Dollar Empire
- De: Zack O'Malley Greenburg
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
Michael Jackson, Inc. reveals the incredible rise, fall, and rise again of Michael Jackson's fortune - driven by the unmatched perfectionism of the King of Pop. Forbes senior editor Zack O'Malley Greenburg uncovers never-before-told stories from interviews with more than 100 people, including music industry veterans Berry Gordy, John Branca, and Walter Yetnikoff; artists 50 Cent, Sheryl Crow, and Jon Bon Jovi; and members of the Jackson family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The King Lives...Life,Legacy and Love
- De Amazon Customer en 06-22-17
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The Story of Motown
- De: Peter Benjaminson, Greil Macus - foreword
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
In January 1959, Berry Gordy borrowed $800 from his family and founded the Detroit-based record company that in less than a decade was to become the largest Black-owned business in the United States. It also became one of the most productive and influential producers of popular music anywhere in the world. The Story of Motown is the story of Berry Gordy's triumph over powerful, established financial interests, entrenched popular taste, bigotry, and racism.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Check Your Facts
- De Marie en 11-24-18
De: Peter Benjaminson, y otros
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Uncommon People
- The Rise and Fall of The Rock Stars
- De: David Hepworth
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations. What did we see in them? Swagger. Recklessness. Sexual charisma. Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief. A certain way of carrying themselves. Good hair. Interesting shoes. Talent we wished we had. What did we want of them? To be larger than life but also like us. To live out their songs. To stay young forever. No wonder many didn't stay the course.
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5 out of 5 stars
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INSIGHTFULL!
- De CLAUDIA R KENNEDY en 02-18-18
De: David Hepworth
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Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?
- Larry Norman and the Perils of Christian Rock
- De: Gregory Alan Thornbury
- Narrado por: Stephen R. Thorne
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
In 1969, in Capitol Records' Hollywood studio, a blonde-haired troubadour named Larry Norman laid track for an album that would launch a new genre of music and one of the strangest, most interesting careers in modern rock. Having spent the bulk of the 1960s playing on bills with acts like The Who, Janis Joplin, and The Doors, Norman decided that he wanted to sing about the most countercultural subject of all: Jesus.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Hagiography not Biography
- De Keith Howard en 10-29-18
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All Shook Up
- How Rock ‘n’ Roll Changed America
- De: Glenn C. Altschuler
- Narrado por: Jack Garrett
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 52
As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise of rock 'n roll--and the outraged reception to it--in fact can tell us a lot about the values of the United States in the 1950s, a decade that saw a great struggle for the control of popular culture. Altschuler shows, in particular, how rock's "switchblade beat" opened up wide fissures in American society along the fault-lines of family, sexuality, and race.
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4 out of 5 stars
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50's Rock&Roll was more of a force than I thought
- De James en 10-19-11
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Beatles '66
- The Revolutionary Year
- De: Steve Turner
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 358
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 304
The year that changed everything for the Beatles was 1966 - the year of their last concert and of Revolver, their first album created to be listened to rather than performed. This was the year the Beatles risked their popularity by retiring from live performances, recording songs that explored alternative states of consciousness, experimenting with avant-garde ideas, and speaking their minds on issues of politics, war, and religion. Music journalist and Beatles expert Steve Turner investigates the enormous changes that took place in the Beatles' lives and work during 1966.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listen
- De Tad Davis en 07-28-18
De: Steve Turner
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Respect Yourself
- Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
- De: Robert Gordon
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 17 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 106
The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960’s segregated south Memphis. Their success is startling, and Stax soon defines an international sound. Then, after losses both business and personal, the siblings part, and the brother allies with a visionary African-American partner. Under integrated leadership, Stax explodes as a national player until, Icarus-like, they fall from great heights to a tragic demise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great narration
- De A. K. Moore en 10-29-14
De: Robert Gordon
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Dig If You Will the Picture
- Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince
- De: Ben Greenman
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 29
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Ben Greenman, New York Times best-selling author, contributing writer to The New Yorker, and owner of thousands of recordings of Prince and Prince-related songs, knows intimately that there has never been a rock star as vibrant, mercurial, willfully contrary, experimental, or prolific as Prince. Uniting a diverse audience while remaining singularly himself, Prince was a tireless artist, a musical virtuoso and chameleon, and a pop-culture prophet.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Reads like a indepth career review & analysis
- De herb en 05-18-17
De: Ben Greenman
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Allen Klein
- The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll
- De: Fred Goodman
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Allen Klein was like no one the music industry had seen before. The hard-nosed business manager became infamous for allegedly catalyzing the Beatles' breakup and robbing the Rolling Stones, but the truth is both more complex and more fascinating.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Beatles' & Rolling Stones' Big Bad Manager
- De tru britty en 07-05-15
De: Fred Goodman
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The Walrus and the Elephants
- John Lennon’s Years of Revolution
- De: James A. Mitchell
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
In late 1971 John Lennon left London behind and moved to New York, eager to join a youth movement rallying for social justice and an end to the Vietnam War. Lennon was quickly embraced by radicals and revolutionaries, the hippies and Yippies at odds with the establishment. Settling in Greenwich Village, the heart of Manhattan's counterculture, the former Beatle was soon on the frontlines of the antiwar movement and championing a range of causes and issues.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I wish you were still here
- De Kazuhiko en 12-09-13
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Shining Star
- Braving the Elements of Earth, Wind & Fire
- De: Philip Bailey, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman
- Narrado por: Philip Bailey
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
With more than 90 million records sold and eight Grammy Awards throughout its 40-year history, Earth, Wind & Fire has staked its claim as one of the most successful, influential, and beloved acts in music history. Now, for the first time, its dynamic lead singer, Philip Bailey, chronicles the group's meteoric rise to stardom and his own professional and spiritual journey. Never before had a musical act crossed multiple styles and genres with a quixotic blend of astrology, universalism, and Egyptology as Earth, Wind & Fire (EWF) did when it exploded into the public's conscience during the 1970s.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book, but needed pro narrator
- De Wayne en 03-23-16
De: Philip Bailey, y otros
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King of the Blues
- The Rise and Reign of B.B. King
- De: Daniel De Visé
- Narrado por: Cary Hite
- Duración: 17 h y 7 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 58
Riley “Blues Boy” King (1925-2015) was born into deep poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi. Wrenched away from his sharecropper father, B.B. lost his mother at age 10, leaving him more or less alone. Music became his emancipation from exhausting toil in the fields. Inspired by a local minister’s guitar and by the records of Blind Lemon Jefferson and T-Bone Walker and encouraged by his cousin, the established blues man Bukka White, B.B. taught his guitar to sing in the unique solo style that, along with his relentless work ethic and humanity, became his trademark.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Sonny Garcia en 01-02-24
De: Daniel De Visé
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music
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- 08-06-18
Good introduction to the music business
This book did an excellent job showcasing who Ralph Peer was and how influential he was to music consumption. It also serves a solid introduction to the music business in the early 20th century.
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