Music audiobooks

Ludwig van Beethoven und die heisse Silvesternacht - Abridged

By: Michael Vonau

Narrated by: Heiner Heusinger, Thomas Rübenacker, Gero Wachh...

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ludwig van Beethoven und die heiße Silvesternacht Ein Hörspiel von Michael Vonau So macht Klassik Spaß! Woher weiß man, wie schnell ein Musikstück zu spielen ist? Wie schnell ist ein "Allegro", das ja "schnelles Tempo" bedeutet? Sogar Ludwig van Beethoven beschäftigte sich mit solchen Fragen und bat seinen Freund, den Erfinder Johann... Read more

Your Band Sucks

By: Jon Fine

Narrated by: Jon Fine

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Jon Fine spent nearly thirty years performing and recording with bands that played various forms of aggressive and challenging underground rock music, and, as he writes in this memoir, at no point were any of those bands "ever threatened, even distantly, by actual fame." Yet when members of his first band, Bitch Magnet, reunited after twenty-one... Read more

How Music Got Free

By: Stephen Witt

Narrated by: Stephen Witt

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime?"

How Music Got Free is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money, featuring visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-savvy teenagers. It’s about the greatest pirate in history, the most powerful executive in the music business, a revolutionary invention and an illegal... Read more

Ich bin bei dir - Abridged

By: Sarah Young

Narrated by: Daniel Kopp & Angelika Fries

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Balsam für die Seele. Das Andachtsbuch von Sarah Young wurde weltweit viele Millionen Mal verkauft. Und es erfreut sich weiterhin großer Beliebtheit. Beliebt war auch das erste Hörbuch mit gelesenen Impulsen. Eine zweite Ausgabe schließt sich jetzt an. Erleben Sie 25 Impulse aus dem Bestseller "Ich bin bei dir". Die Sprachsequenzen sind mit... Read more

Why Does Music Need Censorship?

By: Trevor Clinger

Narrated by: Trevor Clinger

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In this book, I delve into the complexities of music censorship, examining its impact through both legal and moral lenses. I challenge the idea of categorizing music as explicit, non-explicit, or censored, advocating instead for a broader understanding of music under our First Amendment rights. Whether you're a supporter of censorship or an... Read more

The Differences And Similarities Between Rock And Rap Music

By: Trevor Clinger

Narrated by: Trevor Clinger

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In the realm of music, fans often align themselves with either rap or rock, each with distinct influences on societal norms. Rap music can sway behavior and attitudes, while rock encourages rebellion against authority. Could these seemingly divergent genres actually be working together toward a shared objective? Delve into this engaging,... Read more

Dreams to Remember

By: Mark Ribowsky

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

When he died suddenly at the age of twenty-six, Otis Redding (1941-1967) had already become the conscience of a new kind of music. Sure, Berry Gordy might have built the first black-owned music empire at Motown, but Redding was doing something as historic: mainstreaming black music within the whitest bastions of the post-Confederate south. As a... Read more

Sound Man

By: Glyn Johns

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Born just outside London in 1942, Glyn Johns was sixteen years old at the dawn of rock and roll. His big break as a producer came on the Steve Miller Band's debut album, Children of the Future, and he went on to engineer or produce iconic albums for the best in the business including Abbey Road with the Beatles. Even more impressive, Johns was... Read more

Brian Jones

By: Paul Trynka

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Brian Jones was the golden boy of the Rolling Stones—the visionary who gave the band its name and its sound. Yet he was a haunted man, and much of his brief time with the band, before his death in 1969 at the infamous age of twenty-seven, was volatile and tragic. Even now the full story of his downfall is still largely untold.




Brian Jones is a... Read more

After the Dance

By: Jan Gaye & David Ritz

Narrated by: Robin Eller

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving Marvin Gaye, a performer passionately pursued by all—and a searing memoir of drugs, sex, and old school R&B from the wife of legendary soul icon Marvin Gaye.After her seventeenth birthday in 1973, Janis Hunter met Marvin Gaye—the soulful prince of Motown with the seductive... Read more

Worte & Musik

By: Erik Satie

Narrated by: Dietmar Mues

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Erik Satie, ein Pionier von scheinbar beziehungslosen Harmonien und surrealer Sprach- und Musikexperimente, hinterließ ein erstaunliches Gesamtwerk, darunter auch etliche kurze Prosatexte. Auf Hunderten von Zettelchen notierte er kleine Geschichten, Bizarrerien und fiktive Inserate. Seine Partituren durchsetzte er mit allerlei Bemerkungen und... Read more

Mo' Meta Blues

By: Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson & Ben Greenman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"You have to bear in mind that [Questlove] is one of the smartest motherf*****s on the planet. His musical knowledge, for all practical purposes, is limitless." --Robert Christgau

MO' META BLUES
The World According to Questlove

Mo' Meta Blues is a punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of... Read more

It's a Long Story

By: Willie Nelson

Narrated by: Christopher Ryan Grant

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Willie Nelson shares his life story in this "heartfelt" bestselling memoir of true love, wild times, best friends, and barrooms (Washington Post).
"Unvarnished. Funny. Leaving no stone unturned." . . . So say the publishers about this book I've written. What I say is that this is the story of my life, told as clear as a Texas sky and in the same... Read more

The Half That’s Never Been Told

By: Doctor Dread

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A passionate memoir and fearless behind-the-scenes look at the personal lives of the biggest reggae stars in the worldDoctor Dread has committed his life to producing reggae music and releasing it on his label, RAS Records. He has become one of the world’s foremost reggae producers and has worked with almost all the genre’s icons: Bunny Wailer,... Read more

Blood, Sweat and My Rock 'n' Roll Years

By: Steve Katz

Narrated by: Dan Triandiflou

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

On paper Steve Katz's career rivals anyone's except the 1960s' and '70's biggest stars: the Monterey Pop Festival with the legendary Blues Project, Woodstock with Blood, Sweat & Tears, and even producing rock's most celebrated speed addict, Lou Reed. There were world tours, and his résumé screams "Hall of Fame" — it won't be long before... Read more

So Many Roads

By: David Browne

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 15 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Grateful Dead's long, strange trip has been the subject of countless books—but none like So Many Roads. Drawing on new interviews with surviving members and people in their inner circle along with previously unknown details gleaned from the group's extensive archives, David Browne, acclaimed music journalist and contributing editor at... Read more

El Tono Universal

By: Carlos Santana

Narrated by: Gustavo Rex

Length: 22 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The intimate and long-awaited memoir of guitar legend Carlos Santana

In the realm of guitar gods, Santana stands alone for what's come to be called his "universal tone"-both the fact that you can recognize a Santana song from just one note and the fact that Santana is well known to believe music and soul are interconnected. In the category of... Read more

Poster Girl

By: Beccy Cole

Narrated by: Beccy Cole

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Beccy Cole is known for her hugely entertaining live shows and songs that are beloved by people of all ages. She has won nine Golden Guitars and seven songwriting awards, amongst other accolades. Her work has taken her around Australia, to small country towns, the Top End and the Tamworth Country Music Festival, and to Iraq, where she performed... Read more

Mo' Meta Blues

By: Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson & Ben Greenman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"You have to bear in mind that [Questlove] is one of the smartest motherf*****s on the planet. His musical knowledge, for all practical purposes, is limitless." --Robert Christgau

MO' META BLUES
The World According to Questlove

Mo' Meta Blues is a punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of... Read more

Words without Music

By: Philip Glass

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

World-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Philip Glass has almost single-handedly crafted the dominant sound of late twentieth-century classical music. In Words without Music, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice: that of a born storyteller and insightful chronicler, whose behind-the-scenes recollections allow... Read more

Billie Holiday

By: John Szwed

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Published in celebration of Holiday's centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer's extraordinary musical talent When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia's studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and influential career in ?twentieth-century popular music. Her voice weathered countless... Read more

Brad Lansky and the Rogue Era

By: J.D. Venne

Narrated by: Dieter Zimmermann, Matthew Roberts, Adrian Gall...

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“A before B, except after C” - a favorite saying of Carbon-Based A-life. Biological or ‘B-life’ was overtaken by A-life centuries ago and now the balance of power is at the tipping point.An invisible rogue planet on a perfect collision course with Earth caught everyone by surprise, even GAIA. With nearly all forty billion humans still living on... Read more

Girl in a Band

By: Kim Gordon

Narrated by: Kim Gordon

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERKim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story—a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty of Patti Smith's Just... Read more

Introducing George The Poet

By: George the Poet

Narrated by: George the Poet

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

‘The title is Search Party – the idea being that we’re all out here looking for something, and my poems are my way of finding myself.’

A young black poet blending spoken word and rap; an inner city upbringing with a Cambridge education; a social consciousness with a satirical wit and infectious rhythm – George The Poet is the voice of a new... Read more