Music audiobooks

Anatomy of a Song

By: Marc Myers

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Part artist confessional, part musical analysis, Anatomy of a Song ranges from the Isley Brothers' “Shout” to Janis Joplin's “Mercedes Benz” to R.E.M.'s “Losing My Religion.” After being discharged from the army in 1968, John Fogerty does a handstand and revises Beethoven's Fifth Symphony to come up with “Proud Mary.” Joni Mitchell remembers... Read more

A New America

By: Tommy Mottola

Narrated by: Rudy Sanda

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Tommy Mottola discovered a passion for Latin music when he was a small child on the streets of the Bronx, where he fell in love with the energy and rhythm of the legendary Tito Puente. It was a love he would carry with him to this day.



In A New America, Mottola explores the societal and cultural impact the Latino community and its music has had... Read more

Pretty Paper

By: Willie Nelson & David Ritz

Narrated by: W. Brown

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A perfect Christmas gift for music lovers, Pretty Paper is Willie Nelson’s inspiring Christmas fable, based on his holiday classic “Pretty Paper.”
 
More than fifty years ago, Willie Nelson’s beloved Christmas song “Pretty Paper” first hit the airwaves. And for all these years, Willie has wondered about the real-life Texas street vendor, selling... Read more

Play It Loud

By: Brad Tolinski & Alan di Perna

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiration for the Play It Loud exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Every guitar player will want to read this book twice. And even the casual music fan will find a thrilling narrative that weaves together cultural history, musical history, race, politics, business case studies, advertising, and technological discovery." —Daniel... Read more

Not Dead Yet

By: Phil Collins

Narrated by: Phil Collins

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Phil Collins pulls no punches—about himself, his life, or the ecstasy and heartbreak that’s inspired his music.

In his much-awaited memoir, Not Dead Yet, he tells the story of his epic career, with an auspicious debut at age 11 in a crowd shot from the Beatles’ legendary film A Hard Day’s Night. A drummer since almost before he could walk,... Read more

The Mountaintop

By: Katori Hall

Narrated by: Aja Naomi King & Larry Powell

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. What happened inside room 306 on the evening of April 3 is the subject of Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop. Hours after King’s final speech, punctuated by his immortal line, “I’ve been to the mountaintop,” the celebrated Reverend forms an... Read more

They're Playing Our Song

By: Carole Bayer Sager

Narrated by: Carole Bayer Sager

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller from Grammy and Academy Award–winning songwriter Carole Bayer Sager shares “a delightful and funny tell-all crammed with famous names and famous songs” (Steve Martin), from her fascinating (and sometimes calamitous) relationships to her collaborations with the greatest composers and musical artists of our time.

For... Read more

Love for Sale

By: David Hajdu

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From revered music critic David Hajdu comes a personal, idiosyncratic history of popular music.David Hajdu begins Love for Sale, his personal history of recorded pop music, in an unexpected place—not with nostalgic reminiscences of the 45s of his youth but with the sheet music era at the end of the nineteenth century. It was not so much the... Read more

I Killed Pink Floyd’s Pig

By: Beau Phillips

Narrated by: Beau Phillips

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

I Killed Pink Floyd’s Pig is an all-access behind-the-scenes VIP tour of when rock was great, courtesy of Beau Phillips, a respected radio programmer and former head of marketing at MTV.Phillips was an insider and occasional accomplice who witnessed the legends of classic rock in their heyday and takes readers inside the dressing rooms, hotel... Read more

Homeward Bound

By: Peter Ames Carlin

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 18 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A revelatory account of the life of beloved American music icon, Paul Simon, by the bestselling rock biographer Peter Ames Carlin

To have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon. The boy from Queens scored his first hit record in 1957, just months after Elvis Presley ignited the rock era. As the... Read more

Shock and Awe

By: Simon Reynolds

Narrated by: Nicholas Camm

Length: 23 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania—“the foremost popular music critic of this era (Times Literary Supplement)—comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars, including David Bowie and Alice Cooper, and tracking its vibrant legacy in... Read more

Blue Man World

By: Blue Man Group

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The first-ever Blue Man Group book, published on the occasion of their 25th anniversary. As entertaining and hilarious as the show itself, Blue Man World reveals everything you ever wanted to know about the Blue Men, but couldn't get them to tell you.
A glorious combination of music, comedy, and state-of-the-art technology, Blue Man Group has... Read more

Garvey's Choice

By: Nikki Grimes

Narrated by: James Shippy

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Garvey's father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading-anything but sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also overweight, teased by bullies, and lonely. When his only friend encourages him to join... Read more

With a Love Like That

By: Michael Feeney Callan

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Here, for the first time, is an intimate look inside the Beatles and their relationships with their muses, the eight women who shared the Beatles' lives from their teens, through Beatle-mania to the breakup. In evaluating the lives of these storied women, the book charts unrecorded collaborations and the startlingly revelatory autobiographical... Read more

Soul Serenade

By: Rashod Ollison

Narrated by: C. S. Treadway

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A coming-of-age memoir about a young boy in rural Arkansas who searches for himself and his distant father through soul music

Growing up in rural Arkansas, young Rashod Ollison turned to music to make sense of his life. The dysfunction, sadness, and steely resilience of his family and neighbors was reflected in the R&B songs that played on... Read more

Whisperin’ Bill Anderson

By: Bill Anderson

Narrated by: Bill Anderson & Peter Cooper

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Whisperin’ Bill: An Unprecedented Life in Country Music presents a revealing portrait of Bill Anderson, one of the most prolific songwriters in the history of country music.Mega country music hits like “City Lights,” (Ray Price), “Tips of My Fingers,” (Roy Clark, Eddy Arnold, Steve Wariner), “Once a Day,” (Connie Smith), “Saginaw, Michigan,”... Read more

The Zapple Diaries

By: Barry Miles

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the first full-length look at Zapple—the Beatles' label for experimental music and spoken word recordings and the most ambitious expression of the group's determination to be leading members of the counterculture movement in the late 1960s. Barry Miles, the acclaimed author, was the Zapple label manager and has written an engaging and... Read more

Hero

By: Lesley-Ann Jones

Narrated by: Gina Murray & Lesley-Ann Jones

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

His music thrilled the generation it was written for, and has entertained and inspired every generation since.

HERO: DAVID BOWIE is an exploration of the man behind the myths and the makeup told from the very beginning.

Respected music journalist and biographer Lesley-Ann Jones knew David Jones from the days before fame, when he was a young... Read more

Paddington Plays On

By: Michael Bond

Narrated by: Christian Coulson

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Paddington Bear has delighted readers of all ages for almost 60 years! Now part of the I Can Read line, Michael Bond’s classic character will drum up the interest of beginning readers with his charming antics. Paddington is having a wonderful time while on vacation with the Browns in a small French town. He loves exploring and meeting new... Read more

Elizabeth and Michael

By: Donald Bogle

Narrated by: Michael Early

Length: 17 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the moment Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson met, they were hooked on each other. Soon a deep friendship blossomed, unexpectedly unlike anything either had ever experienced. Through thick and thin, through their various emotional upheavals, through the peaks and valleys of their careers, through their personal traumas and heartaches,... Read more

They Call Me Supermensch

By: Shep Gordon

Narrated by: Shep Gordon

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An eye-popping peek into entertainment industry from the magnetic force who has worked with an impeccable roster of stars throughout his storied career.In the course of his legendary career as a manager, agent, and producer, Shep Gordon has worked with, and befriended, some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry, from Alice Cooper to... Read more

Can I Say

By: Travis Barker

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating never-before-told-in-full story of personal reinvention grounded in musical salvation and fatherhood.Travis Barker’s soul-baring memoir chronicles the highlights and lowlights of the renowned drummer’s art and his life, including the harrowing plane crash that nearly killed him and his traumatic road to recovery. After breaking... Read more

Original Gangstas

By: Ben Westhoff

Narrated by: J. D. Jackson

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"Raw, authoritative, and unflinching ... An elaborately detailed, darkly surprising, definitive history of the LA gangsta rap era." -- Kirkus, starred review

A monumental, revealing narrative history about the legendary group of artists at the forefront of West Coast hip-hop: Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur.

Amid rising... Read more

My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire

By: Maurice White & Herb Powell

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The late Grammy-winning founder of the legendary pop/R&B/soul/funk/disco group tells his story and charts the rise of his legendary band in this sincere memoir that captures the heart and soul of an artist whose groundbreaking sound continues to influence music today. With a foreword by David Foster.With its dynamic horns, contrasting... Read more