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Unabridged. |
| Description |
8 audio discs (9 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
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optical rdarm |
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audio file rdaft |
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CD audio |
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Compact discs. |
| Performer |
Read by Michael Butler Murray. |
| Summary |
Music journalist and historian Marc Myers tells the story behind fifty-five rock, pop, R&B, country, and soul-gospel hits through intimate interviews with the artists who wrote and recorded them. |
| Contents |
Walk On By / Dionne Warwick -- Dancing in the Street / Martha and the Vandellas -- Sunshine Superman / Donovan -- Good Vibrations / The Beach Boys -- Up, Up and Away / The 5th Dimension -- Get Together / The Youngbloods -- The Weight / The Band -- Fire / The Crazy World of Arthur Brown -- Bad Moon Rising / Creedence Clearwater Revival -- Crystal Blue Persuasion / Tommy James and the Shondells -- Ain't No Mountain High Enough / Diana Ross -- Paranoid / Black Sabbath -- Truckin' / Grateful Dead -- I'm Eighteen / Alice Cooper -- Bang a Gong (Get It On) / T. Rex -- Roundabout / Yes -- Doctor My Eyes / Jackson Browne -- Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress / The Hollies -- Rocket Man / Elton John -- Papa Was a Rollin' Stone / The Temptations -- I'll Be Around / The Spinners -- Killing Me Softly with His Song / Roberta Flack -- Smoke on the Water / Deep Purple -- Hello It's Me / Todd Rundgren -- She's Gone / Hall and Oates -- Come and Get Your Love / Redbone -- Sundown / Gordon Lightfoot -- I'm Not in Love / 10CC -- Love Is the Drug / Roxy Music -- The Boys Are Back in Town / Thin Lizzy -- Fly Like an Eagle / Steve Miller Band -- Year of the Cat / Al Stewart -- Barracuda / Heart -- Nobody Does It Better / Carly Simon -- Peg / Steely Dan -- My Best Friend's Girl / The Cars -- The Gambler / Kenny Rogers -- September / Earth, Wind & Fire -- What a Fool Believes / The Doobie Brothers -- Accidents Will Happen / Elvis Costello -- The Devil Went Down to Georgia / The Charlie Daniels Band -- Good Times / Chic -- Highway to Hell / AC/DC -- Cars / Gary Numan -- On the Radio / Donna Summer -- Bad Reputation / Joan Jett -- Rapture / Blondie -- Don't Stop Believin' / Journey -- Steppin' Out / Joe Jackson -- Burning Down the House / Talking Heads -- The Power of Love / Huey Lewis and the News -- Small Town / John Mellencamp -- Take It So Hard / Keith Richards -- Being Boring / Pet Shop Boys -- If It Makes You Happy / Sheryl Crow. |
| Subject |
Popular music -- History and criticism.
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Musicians -- Interviews.
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MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal.
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MUSIC / Essays.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
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MUSIC / Reference.
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Musicians. (OCoLC)fst01030837
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Popular music. (OCoLC)fst01071422
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Interviews. (OCoLC)fst01423832
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Audiobooks.
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Interviews.
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| Added Author |
Murray, Michael Butler, narrator.
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| Added Title |
Anatomy of fifty-five more songs |
| ISBN |
9798212251747 (sound recording ; Blackstone Library CD) |
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9798212251761 (sound recording ; Blackstone Retail CD) |
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