Music audiobooks

Stories Behind the Greatest Hits of Christmas

By: Ace Collins

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Much like The Stories Behind The Best-Loved Songs Of Christmas, The Stories Behind The Great Traditions of Christmas and More Stories Behind The Best Loved Songs of Christmas this new Collins Christmas book will fill a void in the book world. With a look at these secular classics, people who love the music of the season will finally have a... Read more

Listen to This

By: Alex Ross

Narrated by: Alex Ross

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011

Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross... Read more

Patti LuPone

By: Patti LuPone

Narrated by: Patti LuPone

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The legendary Patti LuPone is one of the theatre’s most beloved leading ladies. Now she lays it all bare, sharing the intimate story of her life both onstage and off--through the dizzying highs and darkest lows--with the humor and outspokenness that have become her trademarks.

With nearly 100 photographs, including an 8-page four-color insert,... Read more

Sie Düffeldoffel da! Herbert Wehner - Ein komischer Heiliger

By: Jürgen Roth

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert Wehner war ein Jahrhundertpolitiker, ein Mensch, an dem sich die Weltgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts bricht. Er war Sozialist, Anarchist, Kommunist, Widerstandskämpfer in Deutschland und in der Emigration. 1946 trat er in die SPD ein und gehörte von 1949 bis 1983 dem Deutschen Bundestag an. Wehner liebte das Parlament. Er hielt... Read more

Bob Dylan In America

By: Sean Wilentz

Narrated by: Sean Wilentz

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America’s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the country’s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years.

Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discov­ered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylan’s work with the skills of an... Read more

The Lost Music

By: Kathryn Meyrick

Narrated by: Patrick Macnee

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

As Gustav and his family travel the world in search of the lost music, we share their discovery of musical traditions and strange instruments in many lands, before returning home in triumph to the World Festival of Music. A Child's Play audio production. Read more

Leonard Bernstein

By: Barry Seldes

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From his dazzling conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990, Leonard Bernstein's star blazed brilliantly. In this fresh and revealing biography of Bernstein's political life, Barry Seldes examines Bernstein's career against the backdrop of cold war America - blacklisting by the State Department in 1950, voluntary exile from the New York... Read more

Mustaine

By: Dave Mustaine & Joe Layden

Narrated by: Tom Wayland

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From his early, crazy days as a founding member of Metallica, Dave Mustaine has seen and experienced everything in the world of rock n’ roll. From his young triumphs and ignominious ouster from the band for his hard-partying ways to his later rule over Megadeth, one of the most successful heavy metal bands of all time, Mustaine tells it all.... Read more

Composed

By: Rosanne Cash

Narrated by: Rosanne Cash

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A candid and moving memoir from the critically acclaimed singer and songwriterFor thirty years as a musician, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, releasing a series of albums that are as notable for their lyrical intelligence as for their musical excellence.Now, in her memoir, Cash writes compellingly about her... Read more

Talking to Girls About Duran Duran

By: Rob Sheffield

Narrated by: Scott Sheppard

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the national bestseller Love is a Mix Tape returns, with a different-but equally personal and equally universal- pin on music as memory."No rock critic-living or dead, American or otherwise-has ever written about pop music with the evocative, hyperpoetic perfectitude of Rob Sheffield."So said Chuck Klosterman about Love is a Mix... Read more

The Ninth

By: Harvey Sachs

Narrated by: Patrick Egan

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“All men become brothers . . .
Be embraced, ye millions!”
 
The Ninth Symphony, a symbol of freedom and joy, was Beethoven’s mightiest attempt to help humanity find its way from darkness to light, from chaos to peace. Yet the work was born in a repressive era, with terrified Bourbons, Hapsburgs, and Romanovs using every means at their disposal to... Read more

Meet Ludvig Van Beethoven

By: Charles Margerison

Narrated by: James Rix

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

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Meet Wolfgang Mozart

By: Charles Margerison

Narrated by: Charles Margerison

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

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You Don't Know Me

By: Ray Charles Robinson, Jr. & Mary Jane Ross

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply personal memoir of the private Ray Charles - the man behind the legend - by his eldest son.

Ray Charles is an American music legend. A multiple Grammy Award-winning composer, pianist, and singer with an inimitable vocal style and a catalog of hits including "What I Say," "Georgia on My Mind," "Unchain My Heart," "I Can't Stop Loving... Read more

The Music Lesson

By: Victor L. Wooten

Narrated by: Victor L. Wooten, Chuck Rainey, Sam Hunter, Rad...

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"Boy, do I have a lot to learn!" Anyone who's ever picked up a musical instrument of any kind—from the first caveman banging rocks to that little kid at the guitar shop—has though that. I know I did. I'd been trying for years to break in to the music scene, to show everyone my chops, to make my mark. And I was good. But I wasn't great. I knew... Read more

Lips Unsealed - Abridged

By: Belinda Carlisle

Narrated by: Belinda Carlisle

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The women of the iconic eighties band the Go-Go’s will always be remembered as they appeared on the back of their debut record: sunny, smiling, each soaking in her own private bubble bath with chocolates and champagne. The photo is a perfect tribute to the fun, irreverent brand of pop music that the Go-Go’s created, but it also conceals the... Read more

The Mozart Question

By: Michael Morpurgo

Narrated by: Michael Morpurgo & Alison Read

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“The time has come, I think, not to lie any more.” This beautiful recording features solo performances by various classical musicians. When cub reporter Lesley is sent to Venice to interview a world-renowned violinist, the journalist is told she can ask Paolo Levi anything about his life and career as a musician,... Read more

Lives of the Musicians

By: Kathleen Krull

Narrated by: John C. Brown & Melissa Hughes

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

It's no secret that Beethoven went deaf, that Mozart had constant money problems, and that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote musicals. But what were these people—and other famous musicians—really like? What did they eat? What did they wear? How did they spend their time? What were they like as children? What were their phobias, obsessions, and bad... Read more

Losing My Cool

By: Thomas Chatterton Williams

Narrated by: Thomas Chatterton Williams

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged, 7 hours

Read by the author

A pitch-perfect account of how hip-hop culture drew in the author and how his father drew him out again-with love, perseverance, and fifteen thousand books. Read more

Licht und Schatten - Abridged

By: Abi Ofarim

Narrated by: Torsten Münchow

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Autobiografie eines geläuterten Weltstars - voller Kraft und Intensität Sie waren das Gesangsduo der 60er-Jahre - Abi Ofarim und seine Frau Esther stürmten weltweit die Hitparaden. Dann der steile Absturz: Drogen, Partys, Frauen, Millionenverluste. Viele Jahre war es ruhiger um den Weltstar. Er unterstützte seine Söhne Gil und Tal auf... Read more

Ich bin der Weiße Clown

By: Christiane Hörbiger

Narrated by: Christiane Hörbiger

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Die ungewöhnliche Autobiografie einer ungewöhnlichen Frau: Christiane Hörbiger erzählt in dieser sehr persönlichen Rückschau von großen und kleinen Momenten ihres Lebens, von Phasen der Freude und des Erfolgs und von solchen voller Trauer und Ängsten. Erinnerungen mit einer klaren Botschaft: Koste das Leben in jedem Augenblick aus, jeden Tag ein... Read more

Rock Stories

By: Eva Demski, Wenzel Storch, Hansjörg Schertenlei...

Narrated by: Friedrich Ani, Josef Haslinger, Thomas Kraft, G...

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Acht bekannte deutsche Schriftsteller blicken in kleinen persönlichen Erinnerungsstücken und Feuilletons zurück auf die Zeit, als sich fast alles um Rock, Pop, Politik und Protest drehte. Protest auch gegen die Enge der Provinz, gegen Eltern und Lehrer, die schon lange Haare und "laute" Musik als echte Provokation empfanden. Aber auch ein Blick... Read more

Iggy Pop

By: Paul Trynka

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Iggy Pop’s legendary career has been tumultuous, reaching great heights, producing mega-hits, while at times 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... Read more

The Beatles

By: Hunter Davies

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 16 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This worldwide bestseller is the biography that defined a band—and an era.As the friend and only authorized biographer of the most famous musical group in history, Davies had full access to the Beatles—including their family, friends, and colleauges—as well as their help and encouragement in writing this biography. He spent eighteen months with... Read more