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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    • 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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    • A Personal History of Pink Floyd
    • By: Nick Mason
    • Narrated by: Nick Mason
    • Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 188 ratings
    • Nick has been fantastically involved throughout the production of this download, so that it has become something far more than simply an author reading his work....

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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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    • 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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    • An MM Second Chance, Nerd/Jock Romance (South Rock High, Book 1)
    • By: A.J. Truman
    • Narrated by: Iggy Toma
    • Series: South Rock High, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • A long time ago, in a suburban high school not so far away, a closeted nerd (me) and a closeted soccer star (Hutch) fell in love and planned to make their public debut at prom. Until Hutch bailed at the last minute, leaving me with a broken heart and unworn tuxedo....

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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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    • 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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    • 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 24 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 Oral History of the Soft, Smooth Sounds of the 70s and 80s
    • By: Greg Prato
    • Narrated by: Greg Prato
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Today, yacht rock is one of the most celebrated "yesteryear" styles of pop music, and has resonated with a new generation of musicians. But despite all the hoopla, there has never been a book that told the entire story of the genre. Until now....

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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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    • 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 189 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 Oral History of Seattle Rock Music
    • By: Greg Prato
    • Narrated by: Greg Prato
    • Length: 22 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Grunge Is Dead weaves together the definitive story of the Seattle music scene through a series of interviews with the people who were there....

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    • More Rock’n'Roll War Stories
    • By: Allan Jones
    • Narrated by: Matt Bates
    • Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In more than 40 stories from the glory days of rock’n’roll, featuring Lou Reed, Elton John, Sting and The Clash, Allan Jones remembers a world that once was....

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