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Down with the System

A Memoir (of Sorts)

by Serj Tankian ...

Narrated by Serj Tankian ...

Unabridged

9 hours 57 min

THE *INSTANT* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERUSA TODAY BESTSELLERAn exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead singer-lyricist of Grammy award-winning metal band, System Of A Down, Serj Tankian.Serj Tankian will be the first to admit that his band, System Of A Down, was an unlikely chart-topper. After all, as Serj concedes, “it’s not easy listening.” Even ... Read more

$27.99 USD

THE *INSTANT* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERUSA TODAY BESTSELLERAn exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead singer-lyricist of Grammy award-winning metal band, System Of A Down, Serj Tankian.Serj Tankian will be the first to admit that his band, System Of A Down, was an unlikely chart-topper. After all, as Serj concedes, “it’s not easy listening.” Even
... Read more
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Total F*cking Godhead

The Biography of Chris Cornell

by Corbin Reiff ...

Narrated by Michael Butler Murray ...

Unabridged

12 hours 55 min

The first comprehensive biography of iconic singer-songwriter Chris Cornell.Total F*cking Godhead is the complete story of the complex and enigmatic artist, Chris Cornell. It's the riveting account of a blue collar, high-school dropout emerging from Seattle, Washington, to become one of the greatest singer-songwriters and voices of his generation. With input from people who knew and worked with ... Read more

$24.99 USD

The first comprehensive biography of iconic singer-songwriter Chris Cornell.Total F*cking Godhead is the complete story of the complex and enigmatic artist, Chris Cornell. It's the riveting account of a blue collar, high-school dropout emerging from Seattle, Washington, to become one of the greatest singer-songwriters and voices of his generation. With input from people who knew and worked with
... Read more
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Our Band Could Be Your Life

Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991

by Michael Azerrad ...

Narrated by Michael Azerrad, Dave Longstreth, Jeff Tweedy, Jonathan Franzen, Laura Jane Grace, Colin Meloy, Jon Wurster, Fred Armisen, Corey Taylor, Sharon Van Etten0, Phil Elverum1, Stephin Merritt2, Merrill Garbus3 ...

Unabridged

21 hours 6 min

The definitive chronicle of underground music in the 1980s tells the stories of Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, and other seminal bands whose DIY revolution changed American music forever.Our Band Could Be Your Life is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties—when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, ... Read more

$44.99 USD

The definitive chronicle of underground music in the 1980s tells the stories of Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, and other seminal bands whose DIY revolution changed American music forever.Our Band Could Be Your Life is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties—when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels,
... Read more
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Elvis and Ginger

Elvis Presley's Fiancée and Last Love Finally Tells Her Story

by Ginger Alden ...

Narrated by Ginger Alden ...

Unabridged

10 hours 16 min

Elvis Presley and Graceland were fixtures in Ginger Alden’s life; after all, she was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. But she had no idea that she would play a part in that enduring legacy—as Elvis Presley’s fiancée and his last great love. For more than three decades Ginger has held the truth of their relationship close to her heart. Now she shares her unique story.In her own words, Ginger ... Read more

$17.50 USD

Elvis Presley and Graceland were fixtures in Ginger Alden’s life; after all, she was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. But she had no idea that she would play a part in that enduring legacy—as Elvis Presley’s fiancée and his last great love. For more than three decades Ginger has held the truth of their relationship close to her heart. Now she shares her unique story.In her own words, Ginger
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George Harrison

The Reluctant Beatle

by Philip Norman ...

Narrated by David Holt ...

Unabridged

16 hours 22 min

From the premiere Beatles biographer—author of the New York Times bestseller John Lennon: The Life and Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation—a rare and “absorbing biography” (Wall Street Journal) of George Harrison, the most misunderstood and mysterious Beatle, based on decades-long research and unparalleled access to inside sources.Despite being hailed as one of the best guitarists of his era, ... Read more

$29.99 USD

From the premiere Beatles biographer—author of the New York Times bestseller John Lennon: The Life and Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation—a rare and “absorbing biography” (Wall Street Journal) of George Harrison, the most misunderstood and mysterious Beatle, based on decades-long research and unparalleled access to inside sources.Despite being hailed as one of the best guitarists of his era,
... Read more
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Prince - Imp of the Perverse

by Barney Hoskyns ...

Narrated by Greg Lockett ...

Unabridged

4 hours 9 min

Originally published in 1988, and charting the first decade of Prince’s meteoric rise, Prince: Imp of the Perverse, was the earliest book to explore Prince’s prodigious and eccentric talent.Prince Rogers Nelson stood alone as a musical maestro amongst his peers, and proved you could do it all yourself: write, play, perform, produce and take control of your career. He took American pop by the ... Read more

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Originally published in 1988, and charting the first decade of Prince’s meteoric rise, Prince: Imp of the Perverse, was the earliest book to explore Prince’s prodigious and eccentric talent.Prince Rogers Nelson stood alone as a musical maestro amongst his peers, and proved you could do it all yourself: write, play, perform, produce and take control of your career. He took American pop by the
... Read more
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Somewhere You Feel Free

Tom Petty and Los Angeles

by Christopher McKittrick ...

Narrated by Gary Bennett ...

Unabridged

8 hours 45 min

From the earliest Heartbreakers concerts in Los Angeles at the legendary Whisky a Go Go and the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, to the band’s final concerts at the iconic Hollywood Bowl, Petty aimed to continue the tradition of the Southern California rock and roll of his musical heroes like the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield in his own fashion. At the same time, Petty's career often coincided with ... Read more

$19.99 USD

From the earliest Heartbreakers concerts in Los Angeles at the legendary Whisky a Go Go and the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, to the band’s final concerts at the iconic Hollywood Bowl, Petty aimed to continue the tradition of the Southern California rock and roll of his musical heroes like the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield in his own fashion. At the same time, Petty's career often coincided with
... Read more
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Hard to Handle

The Life and Death of the Black Crowes--A Memoir

by Steve Gorman ...

Narrated by Steve Gorman ...

Unabridged

13 hours 37 min

Black Crowes drummer and cofounder Steve Gorman shares the band's inside story in this behind-the-scenes biography, from their supernova stardom in the '90s to exhilarating encounters with industry legends."This book is literally the Angela's Ashes of rock memoirs. .. I absolutely loved this book."-BILL BURR, comedian"I couldn't put the book down-absolutely unbelievable read!"-JOHN MCENROE, New ... Read more

$31.99 USD

Black Crowes drummer and cofounder Steve Gorman shares the band's inside story in this behind-the-scenes biography, from their supernova stardom in the '90s to exhilarating encounters with industry legends."This book is literally the Angela's Ashes of rock memoirs. .. I absolutely loved this book."-BILL BURR, comedian"I couldn't put the book down-absolutely unbelievable read!"-JOHN MCENROE, New
... Read more
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Careless Love

The Unmaking of Elvis Presley

by Peter Guralnick ...

Narrated by Kevin Stillwell ...

Unabridged

31 hours 7 min

Careless Love is the full, true, and mesmerizing story of Elvis Presley's last two decades, in the long-awaited second volume of Peter Guralnick's masterful two-part biography.**"A masterwork." —**Wall Street JournalLast Train to Memphis, the first part of Guralnick's two-volume life of Elvis Presley, was acclaimed by the New York Times as "a triumph of biographical art." This concluding ... ... Read more

$49.99 USD

Careless Love is the full, true, and mesmerizing story of Elvis Presley's last two decades, in the long-awaited second volume of Peter Guralnick's masterful two-part biography.**"A masterwork." —**Wall Street JournalLast Train to Memphis, the first part of Guralnick's two-volume life of Elvis Presley, was acclaimed by the New York Times as "a triumph of biographical art." This concluding ...
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The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names

How Arcade Fire, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Vampire Weekend, and 532 Other Bands Got Their Names

by Adam Dolgins ...

Narrated by Gabriel Vaughan ...

Unabridged

8 hours 27 min

The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names tells the behind-the-scenes stories of how the world's most popular and influential rock and pop acts got their names.By turns fascinating, funny, and bizarre, this book offers insight into the peculiar choices and idiosyncratic psychologies of hundreds of top musicians from the 1960s to the present. Originally published more than two decades ago to great success, ... Read more

$24.99 USD

The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names tells the behind-the-scenes stories of how the world's most popular and influential rock and pop acts got their names.By turns fascinating, funny, and bizarre, this book offers insight into the peculiar choices and idiosyncratic psychologies of hundreds of top musicians from the 1960s to the present. Originally published more than two decades ago to great success,
... Read more
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The McCartney Legacy

Volume 2: 1974 – 80

by Allan Kozinn, Adrian Sinclair ...

Narrated by Simon Vance ...

Unabridged

31 hours 35 min

The follow-up to The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1, the most complete work on the life and work of Paul McCartney ever published. Volume 2 continues to paint the portrait of one of the world’s greatest musicians, his work post-Beatles, and his life from 1974 to 1980.By 1974 the Beatles were a distant memory, and Paul McCartney had already gone on to release a solo album and form a new band, Wings. By ... Read more

$52.99 USD

The follow-up to The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1, the most complete work on the life and work of Paul McCartney ever published. Volume 2 continues to paint the portrait of one of the world’s greatest musicians, his work post-Beatles, and his life from 1974 to 1980.By 1974 the Beatles were a distant memory, and Paul McCartney had already gone on to release a solo album and form a new band, Wings. By
... Read more
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Comfortably Numb

The Inside Story of Pink Floyd

by Mark Blake ...

Narrated by Graeme Malcolm ...

Unabridged

17 hours 4 min

Mark Blake draws on his own interviews with band members as well as the group's friends, road crew, musical contemporaries, former housemates, and university colleagues to produce a riveting history of one of the biggest rock bands of all time. We follow Pink Floyd from the early psychedelic nights at UFO, to the stadium-rock and concept-album zenith of the seventies, to the acrimonious schisms of ... Read more

$38.99 USD

Mark Blake draws on his own interviews with band members as well as the group's friends, road crew, musical contemporaries, former housemates, and university colleagues to produce a riveting history of one of the biggest rock bands of all time. We follow Pink Floyd from the early psychedelic nights at UFO, to the stadium-rock and concept-album zenith of the seventies, to the acrimonious schisms of
... Read more
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Rock Stories

Acht Erzählungen aus dem gleichnamigen Band

by Eva Demski, Wenzel Storch, Hansjörg Schertenleib, Michael Weins, Friedrich Ani, Josef Haslinger, Franziska Sperr, Thomas Kraft1, Thomas Kraft3, Gabriele Rieth-Winterherbst6 ...

Narrated by Wenzel Storch, Friedrich Ani, Josef Haslinger, Franziska Sperr0, Thomas Kraft2, Gabriele Welker4, Arno Frank Eser5 ...

Unabridged

1 hour 9 min

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 zurück auf die Zeit der ersten Liebe. Acht ganz ... Read more

$5.27 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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 zurück auf die Zeit der ersten Liebe. Acht ganz
... Read more
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Rocking in the Free World

Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America

by Nicholas Tochka ...

Narrated by Derek Dysart ...

Unabridged

9 hours 36 min

Progressive and libertarian, anti-Communist and revolutionary, Democratic and Republican, quintessentially American but simultaneously universal. By the late 1980s, rock music had acquired a dizzying array of political labels. These claims about its political significance shared one common thread: that the music could set you free.Rocking in the Free World explains how Americans came to believe ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Progressive and libertarian, anti-Communist and revolutionary, Democratic and Republican, quintessentially American but simultaneously universal. By the late 1980s, rock music had acquired a dizzying array of political labels. These claims about its political significance shared one common thread: that the music could set you free.Rocking in the Free World explains how Americans came to believe
... Read more
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The Last Temptation of Beck

The Untold Story of a Pop Messiah

by Josephine Riesman ...

Unabridged

8 hours 30 min

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Ringmaster and the Hugo finalist True Believer, a propulsive and stylish account of Beck, who was received as a pop messiah in the 1990s, but whose closest friends and most devoted fans never knew his buried secrets.Once upon a time, there was a man who made himself into a myth.He went by a single name: Beck. He sang songs that didn’t make easy ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Ringmaster and the Hugo finalist True Believer, a propulsive and stylish account of Beck, who was received as a pop messiah in the 1990s, but whose closest friends and most devoted fans never knew his buried secrets.Once upon a time, there was a man who made himself into a myth.He went by a single name: Beck. He sang songs that didn’t make easy
... Read more
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NIGHT PEOPLE

A Memoir of Love and Music in the 60s with STARK NAKED and the CAR THIEVES

by Larry J. Dunlap ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Maxwell G ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Things We Lost in the Night
Unabridged

15 hours 2 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.NIGHT PEOPLE IS A FAST-MOVING ADVENTURE AND ROMANCE-FILLED SAGA based on real events that reads like a novel.A young Midwestern singer and his friends experience the transformative power of love, loss, and music in a chaotic 1960s West Coast adventure. If you liked Daisy Jones and the Six, books from Bruce Springsteen, Robbie Robertson, Carly Simon, ... Read more

$6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.NIGHT PEOPLE IS A FAST-MOVING ADVENTURE AND ROMANCE-FILLED SAGA based on real events that reads like a novel.A young Midwestern singer and his friends experience the transformative power of love, loss, and music in a chaotic 1960s West Coast adventure. If you liked Daisy Jones and the Six, books from Bruce Springsteen, Robbie Robertson, Carly Simon,
... Read more
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Bread of Angels

A Memoir

by Patti Smith ...

Narrated by Patti Smith ...

Unabridged

8 hours 42 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A radiant new memoir from artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award winner Just KidsA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, NPR, THE NEW YORKER**“God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper,” writes Patti Smith in this moving account of her life. A post–World War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex where we enter the child’s world of the ... Read more

$22.00 USD

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A radiant new memoir from artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award winner Just KidsA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, NPR, THE NEW YORKER**“God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper,” writes Patti Smith in this moving account of her life. A post–World War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex where we enter the child’s world of the
... Read more
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All Things Crack: Some Endure

A Crack the Sky Biography

by Tyson Koska ...

Narrated by Diogenes Dreamer ...

Unabridged

9 hours

Featuring 90+ minutes of music from 50+ songs across Crack the Sky’s extensive catalog, this audiobook chronicles the emotionally tumultuous journey CRACK THE SKY.In 1975, this unknown band from Weirton, West Virginia SHOCKED the Baltimore music scene – becoming "The Beatles of Baltimore." Rolling Stone deemed their first album "one of the year’s most impressive debuts." In 2015, they listed it as ... Read more

$17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Featuring 90+ minutes of music from 50+ songs across Crack the Sky’s extensive catalog, this audiobook chronicles the emotionally tumultuous journey CRACK THE SKY.In 1975, this unknown band from Weirton, West Virginia SHOCKED the Baltimore music scene – becoming "The Beatles of Baltimore." Rolling Stone deemed their first album "one of the year’s most impressive debuts." In 2015, they listed it as
... Read more
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Out in L.A.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers, 1983

by Hamish Duncan ...

Narrated by John Bricker ...

Unabridged

6 hours 49 min

The Red Hot Chili Peppers were going to be a one-time act for a friend's album release party.Forty years later the funk rock band is arguably one of the best known and the longest running in the United States.Everything that happened in 1983 set the course for the rest of the band's career. The scrappy band quickly rose to scene-wide fame, playing all over Los Angeles, and gaining fans and media ... Read more

$19.99 USD

The Red Hot Chili Peppers were going to be a one-time act for a friend's album release party.Forty years later the funk rock band is arguably one of the best known and the longest running in the United States.Everything that happened in 1983 set the course for the rest of the band's career. The scrappy band quickly rose to scene-wide fame, playing all over Los Angeles, and gaining fans and media
... Read more
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All You Need Is Myth

The Beatles and the Gods of Rock

by Steve Wagner ...

Narrated by Steve Wagner ...

Unabridged

9 hours 13 min

All You Need Is Myth is a timely philosophical conversation about ancient concepts that continue to reverberate in the modern age of mass media and global communication. Author Steve Wagner proposes that the Beatles and the iconic stars of the classic rock era function as modern forms of classical archetypes familiar in mythologies and religious traditions throughout history. The book establishes ... Read more

$19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

All You Need Is Myth is a timely philosophical conversation about ancient concepts that continue to reverberate in the modern age of mass media and global communication. Author Steve Wagner proposes that the Beatles and the iconic stars of the classic rock era function as modern forms of classical archetypes familiar in mythologies and religious traditions throughout history. The book establishes
... Read more
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Into the Sky with Diamonds

The Beatles and the Race to the Moon in the Psychedelic '60s

by Ronald P. Grelsamer ...

Narrated by Graham Halstead ...

Unabridged

15 hours 14 min

One small step for a man. One giant leap for rock ’n roll.NASA’s race with the Russians to land a man on the moon. The meteoric rise of the Beatles, considered by many to have revolutionized the music industry. In the postwar era, each stood as an unprecedented cultural watershed. Together they captured the heady zeitgeist of the 1960s, and ignited the imagination of— just about everyone on the ... Read more

$22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

One small step for a man. One giant leap for rock ’n roll.NASA’s race with the Russians to land a man on the moon. The meteoric rise of the Beatles, considered by many to have revolutionized the music industry. In the postwar era, each stood as an unprecedented cultural watershed. Together they captured the heady zeitgeist of the 1960s, and ignited the imagination of— just about everyone on the
... Read more
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Legendäre Songs der 70er und ihre Geschichten

by Uwe Prasse, Uwe Prasse ...

Narrated by Uwe Prasse ...

Unabridged

1 hour 14 min

In dieser Ausgabe Legendärer Songs geht es um 5 Songs, die auch heute noch von Millionen Hörern gehört werden. - Games without Frontiers von Peter Gabriel - Blue Monday von New Order - Go your own way und Dreams von Fleetwood Mac und - Breakfast in Amerika von Supertramp Ich bin sicher, dass auch Du einiges noch nicht über die Songs wusstest. Wie zB bei wem alles New Order sich für "Blue Monday" ... Read more

$6.91 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In dieser Ausgabe Legendärer Songs geht es um 5 Songs, die auch heute noch von Millionen Hörern gehört werden. - Games without Frontiers von Peter Gabriel - Blue Monday von New Order - Go your own way und Dreams von Fleetwood Mac und - Breakfast in Amerika von Supertramp Ich bin sicher, dass auch Du einiges noch nicht über die Songs wusstest. Wie zB bei wem alles New Order sich für "Blue Monday"
... Read more
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Made In Hollywood

All Access with the Go-Go's

by Gina Schock ...

Narrated by Gina Schock, Kathy Valentine, Lyssa Brown, Charles Leggett ...

Unabridged

2 hours 54 min

The Go-Go’s were the first all-female rock group in history to write their own songs, play their own instruments, and reach the top of the Billboard charts with their #1 album, Beauty and the Beat. Made In Hollywood is drummer Gina Schock’s personal account of the band, which includes a treasure trove of photographs and memorabilia collected over the course of her 40-year career.The Go-Go’s debut ... Read more

$14.99 USD

The Go-Go’s were the first all-female rock group in history to write their own songs, play their own instruments, and reach the top of the Billboard charts with their #1 album, Beauty and the Beat. Made In Hollywood is drummer Gina Schock’s personal account of the band, which includes a treasure trove of photographs and memorabilia collected over the course of her 40-year career.The Go-Go’s debut
... Read more
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Here Comes the Sun

The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison

by Joshua M. Greene ...

Narrated by Gildart Jackson ...

Unabridged

10 hours 50 min

Joshua Greene, who studied meditation with the legendary Beatle George Harrison, draws on personal remembrances, recorded conversations, and firsthand accounts to create a moving portrait of Harrison's spiritual life, his profound contribution to the Beatles' music, and previously unpublished anecdotes about his time with music legends Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, and others. A supplemental PDF is ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Joshua Greene, who studied meditation with the legendary Beatle George Harrison, draws on personal remembrances, recorded conversations, and firsthand accounts to create a moving portrait of Harrison's spiritual life, his profound contribution to the Beatles' music, and previously unpublished anecdotes about his time with music legends Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, and others. A supplemental PDF is
... Read more

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