Bestsellers
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There Was Nothing You Could Do
- Bruce Springsteen's “Born in the U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland
- De: Steven Hyden
- Narrado por: Steven Hyden
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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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.
De: Steven Hyden
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3 Shades of Blue
- Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
- De: James Kaplan
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
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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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Superb
- De Claudia I Saldi en 05-14-24
De: James Kaplan
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60 Songs That Explain the '90s
- De: Rob Harvilla
- Narrado por: Rob Harvilla
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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A companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, this book takes listeners through the greatest hits that define a weirdly undefinable decade....
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My Personal View-Harvilla Rules!
- De Qtsbuster en 11-18-23
De: Rob Harvilla
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How Music Works
- De: David Byrne
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman, David Byrne
- Duración: 13 h y 10 m
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How Music Works is 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....
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Kind of all over the place
- De Amazon Customer en 02-17-23
De: David Byrne
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The McCartney Legacy
- Volume 1: 1969 – 73
- De: Allan Kozinn, Adrian Sinclair
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 29 h y 42 m
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In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in the years immediately following the dissolution of the Beatles, a period in which McCartney recreated himself as both a man and a musician....
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For dedicated Paul McCartney scholars
- De Andreas Lawrence en 01-01-23
De: Allan Kozinn, y otros
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Brothers
- De: Alex van Halen
- Duración: 12 h
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In this intimate and open account—nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you’ve ever listened to—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.
De: Alex van Halen
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There Was Nothing You Could Do
- Bruce Springsteen's “Born in the U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland
- De: Steven Hyden
- Narrado por: Steven Hyden
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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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.
De: Steven Hyden
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3 Shades of Blue
- Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
- De: James Kaplan
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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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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Superb
- De Claudia I Saldi en 05-14-24
De: James Kaplan
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60 Songs That Explain the '90s
- De: Rob Harvilla
- Narrado por: Rob Harvilla
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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A companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, this book takes listeners through the greatest hits that define a weirdly undefinable decade....
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My Personal View-Harvilla Rules!
- De Qtsbuster en 11-18-23
De: Rob Harvilla
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How Music Works
- De: David Byrne
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman, David Byrne
- Duración: 13 h y 10 m
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How Music Works is 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....
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Kind of all over the place
- De Amazon Customer en 02-17-23
De: David Byrne
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The McCartney Legacy
- Volume 1: 1969 – 73
- De: Allan Kozinn, Adrian Sinclair
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 29 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in the years immediately following the dissolution of the Beatles, a period in which McCartney recreated himself as both a man and a musician....
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For dedicated Paul McCartney scholars
- De Andreas Lawrence en 01-01-23
De: Allan Kozinn, y otros
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Brothers
- De: Alex van Halen
- Duración: 12 h
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In this intimate and open account—nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you’ve ever listened to—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.
De: Alex van Halen
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Our Band Could Be Your Life
- Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991
- De: Michael Azerrad
- Narrado por: Jon Wurster, Merrill Garbus, Fred Armisen, y otros
- Duración: 21 h y 6 m
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This is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan '80s - when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives reenergized American rock....
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Comprehenisve History of Some 1980s Indie Bands
- De Jeff Koeppen en 12-22-19
De: Michael Azerrad
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Deliver Me from Nowhere
- The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
- De: Warren Zanes
- Narrado por: Warren Zanes
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
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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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Much more than a “Making of” story…
- De W. Smith en 05-31-23
De: Warren Zanes
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Where Are Your Boys Tonight?
- The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
- De: Chris Payne
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead, Chris Abell
- Duración: 13 h y 54 m
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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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I REALLY Wanted to Like This
- De Fuzz414 en 08-18-23
De: Chris Payne
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Making Rumours
- The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album
- De: Ken Caillat, Steve Stiefel
- Narrado por: Ken Caillat, Fred Berman
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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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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Caillat Cursed With Perfect Memory
- De Private. en 02-05-13
De: Ken Caillat, y otros
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Nirvana
- The Amplifications
- De: Michael Azerrad
- Narrado por: Michael Azerrad
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
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Nirvana reflects on the meaning of the revolutionary band Nirvana, their leader Kurt Cobain, and the band's personal, musical and cultural contexts in the '90s....
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Excellent follow up!
- De Ryan Anys en 02-05-24
De: Michael Azerrad
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Life in the Fast Lane
- The Eagles’ Reckless Ride Down the Rock & Roll Highway
- De: Mick Wall
- Narrado por: Al Kessel
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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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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Disappointed
- De O'Fallon Doug en 03-20-24
De: Mick Wall
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Tune In
- The Beatles: All These Years
- De: Mark Lewisohn
- Narrado por: Clive Mantle
- Duración: 43 h y 43 m
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Tune In is the first volume of All These Years - a highly-anticipated, groundbreaking biographical trilogy....
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Insanely great
- De Tad Davis en 12-17-13
De: Mark Lewisohn
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A Little Devil in America
- Notes in Praise of Black Performance
- De: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow and best-selling author Hanif Abdurraqib has written a profound and lasting reflection on how Black performance is inextricably woven into the fabric of American culture....
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Magical
- De Mary A. Ardoin en 05-11-21
De: Hanif Abdurraqib
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Music
- A Subversive History
- De: Ted Gioia
- Narrado por: Jamie Renell
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
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"A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched" (Los Angeles Times) global history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions....
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Squeezing cherry-picked facts into a simplistic narrative
- De Erik A. Ritland en 11-24-20
De: Ted Gioia
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Dangerous Rhythms
- Jazz and the Underworld
- De: T. J. English
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
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Dangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of jazz and the underworld: a relationship fostered in some of 20th century America’s most notorious vice districts. For the first half of the century mobsters and musicians enjoyed a mutually beneficial partnership....
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Keep your YouTube handy
- De Vikon en 09-12-22
De: T. J. English
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Wagnerism
- Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
- De: Alex Ross
- Narrado por: Alex Ross
- Duración: 28 h y 25 m
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Alex Ross reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics - an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence....
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Not Just for Wagner Experts!
- De Rupert Pupkin en 09-26-20
De: Alex Ross
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Maestros and Their Music
- The Art and Alchemy of Conducting
- De: John Mauceri
- Narrado por: John Mauceri
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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An exuberant, uniquely accessible look inside the enigmatic art and craft of conducting, from a celebrated conductor whose international career has spanned half a century....
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Disappointing. Dry.
- De Jane en 12-30-17
De: John Mauceri
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More Fun in the New World
- The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk
- De: John Doe, Tom Desavia
- Narrado por: John Doe, Tom Desavia, Various
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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Picking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987, covering the dizzying pinnacle of LA's punk rock movement as its stars took to the national - and often international - stage....
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Inclusive look at the L.A. music scene
- De Brenda en 06-08-19
De: John Doe, y otros
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The Come Up
- An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop
- De: Jonathan Abrams
- Narrado por: Dion Graham, Diontae Black, Torian Brackett, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 10 m
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The music that would come to be known as hip-hop was born at a party in the Bronx in the summer of 1973. Now, fifty years later, it’s the most popular music genre in America....
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Great listen!
- De Tom Mott en 05-12-24
De: Jonathan Abrams
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Meet Me in the Bathroom
- Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
- De: Lizzy Goodman
- Narrado por: Charlie Thurston, Nicol Zanzarella
- Duración: 19 h y 42 m
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In the second half of the 20th century New York was the source of new sounds, including the Greenwich Village folk scene....
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Deeply disappointing.
- De ChicagoRob en 01-18-20
De: Lizzy Goodman
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Major Labels
- A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
- De: Kelefa Sanneh
- Narrado por: Kelefa Sanneh
- Duración: 18 h y 59 m
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An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past 50 years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it: rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance music, and pop....
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Pure Pleasure Cultural History
- De A. Yerkes en 11-09-21
De: Kelefa Sanneh
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The History of Jazz, Second Edition
- De: Ted Gioia
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 21 h y 59 m
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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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An Exciting Opportunity Missed
- De Kindle Customer en 02-02-15
De: Ted Gioia
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Songs of America
- Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
- De: Jon Meacham, Tim McGraw
- Narrado por: Jon Meacham, Tim McGraw
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
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Through all the years of strife and triumph, America has been shaped not just by our elected leaders and our formal politics but also by our music - by the lyrics, performers, and instrumentals that have helped to carry us through the dark days and to celebrate the bright ones....
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Great Book & Storytelling, Wish Songs Were Sung
- De Caitlin en 06-13-19
De: Jon Meacham, y otros
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Let's Spend the Night Together
- Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies
- De: Pamela Des Barres
- Narrado por: Pamela Des Barres
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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Pamela Des Barres, the world’s foremost supergroupie, here offers an all-access backstage pass to the world of rock stars and the women who love them....
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Time waster
- De Patti W en 03-03-18
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Under the Big Black Sun
- A Personal History of L.A. Punk
- De: John Doe, Tom Desavia
- Narrado por: Exene Cervenka, Henry Rollins, full cast
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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Under the Big Black Sun explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk as it's never been told before....
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A love song to the early punk days in LA.
- De Brenda en 07-09-16
De: John Doe, y otros
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Ticket Masters
- The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped
- De: Josh Baron, Dean Budnick
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 17 h y 25 m
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Music journalists Dean Budnick and Josh Baron chronicle the behind-the-scenes history of the modern concert industry....
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A great history turned to stodge
- De Robyn en 09-02-15
De: Josh Baron, y otros
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Walk This Way
- Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song That Changed American Music Forever
- De: Geoff Edgers
- Narrado por: Geoff Edgers
- Duración: 6 h y 51 m
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Washington Post staff writer Geoff Edgers takes a deep dive into the story behind "Walk This Way", Aerosmith and Run-DMC's legendary, groundbreaking mashup that forever changed music....
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A MUST LISTEN/READ
- De Aron Teo Lee en 05-17-19
De: Geoff Edgers
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Time's Echo
- The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
- De: Jeremy Eichler
- Narrado por: Jeremy Eichler, Sherrill Milnes
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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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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Beautiful
- De Chuck Millar, PhD en 05-18-24
De: Jeremy Eichler
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27
- A History of the 27 Club Through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
- De: Howard Sounes
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
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When singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her London home in 2011, the press inducted her into what Kurt Cobain's mother named the 27 Club....
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This is the end... my Bea-u-ti-ful friend
- De Ryan Hooey en 12-03-16
De: Howard Sounes