Music audiobooks

Fortunate Son

By: John Fogerty

Narrated by: John Fogerty

Length: 15 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited memoir from John Fogerty, the legendary singer-songwriter and creative force behind Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Creedence Clearwater Revival is one of the most important and beloved bands in the history of rock, and John Fogerty wrote, sang, and produced their instantly recognizable classics: "Proud Mary," "Bad Moon Rising,"... Read more

Sounds Like Me

By: Sara Bareilles

Narrated by: Sara Bareilles

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Check out Little Voice on Apple TV+! Little Voice is inspired by a lost song from Sara Bareilles’s first studio album.

This updated New York Times bestselling collection of essays by seven-time Grammy nominated singer songwriter Sara Bareilles “resonates with authentic and hard-won truths” (Publishers Weekly)—and features new material on the hit... Read more

Razzle Dazzle

By: Michael Riedel

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 16 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Razzle Dazzle is a provocative, no-holds-barred narrative account of the people, money, and power that reinvented an iconic quarter of New York City, turning its gritty back alleys and sex shops into the glitzy, dazzling Great White Way—and bringing a crippled New York from the brink of bankruptcy to its glittering glory.In the 1970s Times... Read more

The Song Machine

By: John Seabrook

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

New Yorker staff writer John Seabrook tells a fascinating story of creativity and commerce that explains how songs have become so addictive.



Over the last two decades a new type of song has emerged. Today's hits bristle with "hooks," musical burrs designed to snag your ear every seven seconds. Painstakingly crafted to tweak the brain's delight in... Read more

The Man from Muscle Shoals: My Journey from Shame to Fame

By: Rick Hall

Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of legendary record producer Rick Hall and his historic role in the development of the world-famous "Muscle Shoals Sound." FAME Studios founder Hall, produced chart-topping hits from soul music to pop to country, for iconic stars like Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Etta James, and more. Now he tells his own story. The Man... Read more

Symphony for the City of the Dead

By: M. T. Anderson

Narrated by: M. T. Anderson

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults FinalistNational Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony.In September 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to... Read more

Never Broken

By: Jewel

Narrated by: Jewel

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling poet and multiplatinum singer-songwriter Jewel explores her unconventional upbringing and extraordinary life in an inspirational memoir that covers her childhood to fame, marriage, and motherhood.When Jewel’s first album, Pieces of You, topped the charts in 1995, her emotional voice and vulnerable performance were... Read more

Schneller

By: Hans Well

Narrated by: Hans Well

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Ganz gewiss haben die Well-Brüder über lange Zeit dazu beigetragen, den weißblauen Himmel über Bayern durchzulüften. Dann kam der Zerfall der Biermösl Blosn - die Band löste sich auf. Nur einer wollte den geraden Weg weitergehen und sich selbst mit frischer Luft versorgen: Hans Well, schon immer Mastermind der Blosn, der die Texte geschrieben... Read more

Reckless

By: Chrissie Hynde

Narrated by: Rosanna Arquette

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From Chrissie Hynde, one of rock’s most iconic, alluring, kick-ass, and (let’s face it) sexy women, a brilliant, no-holds-barred memoir of a rock life lived to the hilt. Chrissie Hynde, the songwriter and frontwoman of The Pretenders in its various incarnations, has for thirty-five years been one of the most admired and adored and imitated... Read more

Pieces of Why

By: K. L. Going

Narrated by: Azure Parsons

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award winning author of Fat Kid Rules the World and The Liberation of Gabriel King comes a lyrical, middle grade gem that asks all the hard questions and hits all the right notes--perfect for fans of Cynthia Rylant and Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine

Tia lives with her mom in a high-risk neighborhood in New Orleans and loves singing... Read more

The Road Beneath My Feet

By: Frank Turner

Narrated by: Frank Turner

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

*The Sunday Times Bestseller*

On 23 September, 2005, at the Joiners Arms in Southampton, Frank Turner played his last gig with his hardcore band, Million Dead. On the laminates that listed the tour dates, the entry for 24 September simply read: 'Get a job.'
Deflated, jaded and hungover, Frank returned to his hometown of Winchester without a plan... Read more

Die Körperdetektive und der magische Schlüssel

By: Katrin Wiegand

Narrated by: Heinz Hoenig, Valentin Stilu, Wolfgang Wagner, ...

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Im Headquarter geht eine beunruhigende Meldung ein: Der Skeletekt kann nicht am Skelett weiterbauen, weil ihm Baustoffe fehlen! Die Körperdetektive machen sich auf eine abenteuerliche Reise durch Toms Körper, um die Ursachen zu erforschen. Was sie schließlich finden, hätten sie sich im Traum nicht ausmalen können... Read more

Hummelflug und Bärentanz

By: Marko Simsa

Narrated by: Marko Simsa

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Die klassische Musik steckt voller lustiger, spannender und bezaubernder Tiermotive. Mit kurzen Erzählungen zu jedem Stück führt Marko Simsa spielerisch ins große musikalische Reich der Tiere. Und wer will, kann gerne fleißig mittanzen, mithüpfen, mitzwitschern und mitsingen. Aus dem Inhalt: Vogelquartett (Haydn) • Die Forelle (Schubert) •... Read more

Klassik-Hits zum Träumen

By: Marko Simsa

Narrated by: Marko Simsa

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Seit Paul Mozarts "Kleine Nachtmusik" gehört hat, liebt er die Klänge der großen Komponisten. Zusammen mit seinen Eltern, seiner Schwester Paula und seinem Lieblingsstofftier Murmel liegt er gemütlich im Bett und lauscht einem ruhigen Musikstück. Manchmal erfinden sie zur Musik eine Geschichte und erraten, welche Instrumente zu hören sind. Oder... Read more

Die Körperdetektive und der dunkle Hirte

By: Katrin Wiegand

Narrated by: Heinz Hoenig, Valentin Stilu, Julia Stoepel & G...

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Hohes Fieber und schlimme Schmerzen machen Tom zu schaffen – und damit auch den Körperdetektiven... Aber egal wen sie fragen, keiner kann ihnen sagen, was die Ursache ist. Ihre Hoffnung auf Hilfe durch einen alten Bekannten wandelt sich jäh in Schrecken und für Tom wird es verdammt gefährlich. Gesprochen von Heinz Hoenig, Valentin Stilu,... Read more

Zimmerman in der Zone - Abridged

By: Gottfried Blumenstein

Narrated by: Dirk Glodde

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sogar die Besten auf der Straße hatten Tränen in den Augen. Wie hätte es auch anders sein können. Dylan, der so gut drauf war wie nie zuvor, hat seit seiner messianischen Ankunft in New York 1962 alle möglichen Fährnisse des Lebens und der Kunst angenommen und in der Hauptsache auch gemeistert und stand plötzlich vor uns, in der ZONE, und... Read more

Rifka Takes a Bow

By: Betty Rosenberg Perlov

Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Rifka's parents are actors in the Yiddish Theater, and one day she finds herself center stage in a special role! Read more

The Road to You

By: Alecia Whitaker

Narrated by: Alecia Whitaker

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Bright lights...screaming fans...cute roadies...country music sensation Bird Barrett has officially arrived.
Next up on the road to stardom, Bird's heading out on tour. Between opening for one of the biggest acts in country music and meeting a passionate young photographer who's working as part of the backstage crew, the weeks pass by in an... Read more

Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music

By: Barry Mazor

Narrated by: Barry Mazor, Dom Flemons & Ketch Secor

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the first biography of Ralph Peer, the adventurous—even revolutionary—A&R man and music publisher who saw the universal power locked in regional roots music and tapped it, changing the breadth and flavor of popular music around the world. It is the story of the life and fifty-year career, from the age of cylinder recordings to the... Read more

Allen Klein

By: Fred Goodman

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

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. As the manager of the Stones and then the Beatles—not to mention Sam Cooke, the Who, Donovan, the... Read more

Deal

By: Bill Kreutzmann

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

On their fiftieth anniversary comes a groundbreaking rock-and-roll memoir by one of the founding members of the Grateful Dead.The Grateful Dead are perhaps the most legendary American rock band of all time. For thirty years, beginning in the hippie scene of San Francisco in 1965, they were a musical institution, the original jam band that broke... Read more

Antonio Vivaldi und der Fluch des Phoenix - Abridged

By: Michael Vonau

Narrated by: Heiner Heusinger & Thomas Rübenacker

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Antonio Vivaldi und der Fluch des Phoenix Dreimal wird Venedigs berühmtes Opernhaus - das Theater des Phoenix - Opfer von verheerenden Brandkatastrophen. Genug Arbeit für Fred, die Feuermaus, auf ihrem Zeitsprung durch die Musikgeschichte. Doch diesmal gibt es technische Probleme. Es verschlägt unsere Löschhelfer ins Venedig des Jahres 1726.... Read more

Georg Friedrich Händel und der brennende Pavillon - Abridged

By: Michael Vonau

Narrated by: Heiner Heusinger, Thomas Rübenacker & Various A...

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Georg Friedrich Händel und der brennende Pavillon Ein Hörspiel von Michael Vonau So macht Klassik Spaß! Tausende von Menschen sind in London unterwegs, als der englische König Georg II. im Jahre 1749 den Frieden in Europa ausgiebig feiern möchte. Sein Lieblingskomponist Georg Friedrich Händel hat dafür eigens eine "Feuerwerksmusik"... Read more

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart und die unterirdische Feuersbrunst - Abridged

By: Michael Vonau

Narrated by: Heiner Heusinger, Thomas Rübenacker & Various A...

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

So macht Klassik Spaß! Hauptbrandmeister Siggi Rümmelein ist ein ausgesprochener Liebhaber der klassischen Musik. Selbst in der Feuerwache in Feuerbach hört er, wenn immer die Zeit es zulässt, seine Opernarien. Gestört wird er dabei ab und an von einem vorlauten Mäuserich, Fred der Feuermaus, der voller Neugier ist für das Leben der... Read more