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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Naughty Author: Mark Chester. Narrator: Mark Chester. Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 1 minute Release date: February 8, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: An updated and revised version of Naughty. An Autobiography. Mark Chester was a founder member of the N40 hooligan firm, followers of Stoke City Football Club.. One of the most brutal and highly organised criminal gangs in the United Kingdom for over four decades.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything Is Combustible: Television, CBGB's and Five Decades of Rock and Roll: the Memoirs of an Alchemical Guitarist Author: Richard Lloyd Narrator: Richard Lloyd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 31, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Legendary Rock and Roll guitarist. Founding member of Television. Masterful storyteller. Written in Lloyd's inimitable, frequently humorous style, Everything is Combustible chronicles, through vignettes, Lloyd's colorful early life, starting in Pittsburgh and soon moving to New York City, and then details his teenage travels and encounters with music legends including Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy and Keith Moon. Lloyd recounts the founding of Television, the band's rise alongside other bands and personalities in the 1970 s New York Music scene, and the legend-making of the unparalleled music venue CBGB. As the rock 'n' roll tales unfold, he accompanies them with insights into his approach to music and the electric guitar. Lloyd's mid-career vignettes detail his solo years, including the backstory of critically praised records such as Alchemy and Field of Fire, his drug addiction and recovery, his 90s-era work, and touring adventures with artists such as Matthew Sweet, John Doe, and Robert Quine. Throughout the book is an undercurrent: Lloyd's continually evolving spiritual-philosophical approach to life, emerging from the conscious digestion of the highs and the lows, both ends of the same stick. In Everything is Combustible, Richard Lloyd relates his life, both inner and outer, in the narrative style, digging beneath the events and revealing their meanings. Everything is Combustible is a must-have for any fan of Television and the heyday of the New York rock music scene. It fills a void in the written record as the first complete account of the band, including the making of their records and touring, from a founding member of the band.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625799 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Land That I Love: Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, and the Story of Two American Anthems Author: John Shaw Narrator: Traber Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A narrative history of the writing of 'This Land Is Your Land' and 'God Bless America' that uncovers the conflicts and common ground between two classic patriotic songs February, 1940. After a decade of worldwide depression, World War II had begun in Europe and Asia. With Germany on the march and Japan at war with China, the global crisis was in a crescendo. America's top songwriter, Irving Berlin, had captured the nation's mood a little more than a year before with his patriotic hymn 'God Bless America.' Woody Guthrie was having none of it. Near-starving and penniless, he was traveling from Texas to New York to make a new start. As he eked his way across the country by bus and by thumb, he couldn't avoid Berlin's song. Some people say that it was when he was freezing by the side of the road in a Pennsylvania snowstorm that he conceived of a rebuttal. It would encompass the dark realities of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, and it would begin with the lines 'This land is your land, this land is my land.' In This Land That I Love, John Shaw writes the dual biography of these beloved American songs. Examining the lives of their authors, he finds that Guthrie and Berlin had more in common than either could have guessed. Though Guthrie's image was defined by train-hopping, Irving Berlin had also risen from homelessness, having worked his way up from the streets of New York. At the same time, This Land That I Love sheds new light on our patriotic musical heritage, from 'Yankee Doodle' and 'The Star-Spangled Banner' to Martin Luther King's recitation from 'My Country 'Tis of Thee' on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963. Delving into the deeper history of war songs, minstrelsy, ragtime, country music, folk music, and African American spirituals, Shaw unearths a rich vein of half-forgotten musical traditions. With the aid of archival research, he uncovers new details about the songs, including a never-before-printed verse for 'This Land Is Your Land.' The result is a fascinating narrative that refracts and reenvisions America's tumultuous history through the prism of two unforgettable anthems.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628191 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Lady of Song: Ella Fitzgerald for the Record Author: Geoffrey Mark Fidelman Narrator: Geoffrey Mark Fidelman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 20, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Ella Fitzgerald. The name alone conjures up images of the Savoy Ballroom; of the Chick Webb, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie bands; of hot jazz, sweet ballads, and a genuinely unique presence. Ella Fitzgerald, an artist who has been called a national treasure—and no one has disputed the laudation—has captivated an international audience for more than fifty years. Her inimitable voice has been heard in intimate clubs, in concerts, on radio and television, and on countless recordings. First Lady of Song is a celebration of her life and work. In these pages are revived memories of duets with Frank Sinatra, harmonizing with Dinah Shore, and solo triumphs at Carnegie Hall.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Picasso: Creator and Destroyer Author: Arianna Huffington Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 15, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: This landmark biography penetrates the barriers of legend to bring to full and intimate life a man whose burning passions—for painting, women, and ideas—were matched by a compulsion to invent reality in his life no less than in his art. Here is the tragic story of a man who, from his teenage passion for a gypsy boy to the chilling bitterness and betrayals of his old age, was unable to love and was driven to dominate and humiliate the women—and men—who fell under his hypnotic spell. Drawing on a wealth of startling revelations, including the vivid memories of Picasso’s daughter Maya and the heretofore untold recollections of Françoise Gilot, who shared his life for ten years and bore two of his children, the author has stripped bare the romantic myths to reveal, in all its volatile complexity, Picasso’s lifelong struggle between his power to create and his compulsion to destroy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624322 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vincent van Gogh: A Biography Author: Julius Meier-Graefe Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: August 6, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The lives of many famous artists have been shrouded in mystery and conjecture, but none have been more controversial than the life of Vincent van Gogh. Remembered for his swirling brushstrokes and burning colors, Vincent van Gogh is today one of the best-known painters. Though his career as a painter spanned less than ten years, he produced a body of work that remains one of the most enduring in all of modern art. In his lifetime, however, he received little recognition. Today his paintings sell for countless millions, yet during his lifetime, van Gogh managed to sell just one painting. Van Gogh's road to becoming a painter took a circuitous, often troublesome path. In his twenties, van Gogh served as a lay minister in a Belgian mining district. He practiced Christian virtues with such outward zeal that he found himself ostracized from society, which prompted him to set off for Brussels to study art. His religious zeal, his belief in the unimpeachable nature of man and his struggle, and his many tumultuous inner-turmoils all resonate through his extraordinary body of paintings.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Way: A Biography of Frank Sinatra 1915–1998 Author: Michael Freedland Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 38 minutes Release date: August 3, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Frank Sinatra has been a legend in many people’s lifetimes. In the course of his long career of successes, failures, and even greater comeback triumphs, he has remained one of the most enduring performers in twentieth-century show business history. Michael Freedland’s biography gives a full portrait of this unorthodox singer’s life, from his tough beginnings as an unpromising youth in the Italian quarter of Hoboken, New Jersey, to his unprecedented hero-worship as a singer whose unique vocal styling and unerring eye for a hit song made him a fit rival to his idol Bing Crosby. Sinatra’s life was studded with romance and scandal, including an alleged association with the Mafia. This biography is a fitting tribute to a singer, actor, and hell-raiser who in every aspect of his personal and professional life took it “All the Way.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reason in Art: The Life of Reason Author: George Santayana Narrator: Bernard Mayes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: August 2, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In Reason in Art, Santayana explores the social and psychological origins of art. He examines its moral and ideal functions, its lapses into tastelessness, and the distinctive character of music, speech, poetry, and prose. The Spanish-born philosopher sees art as part of the broader human context, concluding that art prepares “the world to receive the soul and the soul to master the world.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622891 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter, and Me Author: Rielle Hunter Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 26, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The John Edwards–Rielle Hunter affair made headlines for years. 'One of the biggest political scandals of all time,' 'a fall from grace,' 'a modern-day tragedy'—it's a story that has been reported, distorted, and spun over and over again by the media, by political aides, by the US government, and by supposed friends. There is, however, someone who actually knows the truth, someone who lived it from day one—the woman at the heart of the story itself: Rielle Hunter. In What Really Happened, Hunter offers an extremely personal account of her relationship with John Edwards: the facts of how they actually met, how their accidental love started and escalated, what it was like to fall in love with a married man who decided to run for president, the surprise of becoming pregnant during the campaign, how the affair became public, the extensive cover-up, and finally, what happened in the years after Edwards publicly admitted to being the father of their daughter, Frances Quinn. Meet Edwards' political players and get an intimate look at how they really operated. Learn about the evolution of friends, enablers, and do-gooders, their involvement with the affair and Edwards' 2008 presidential campaign, and where the money from Rachel 'Bunny' Mellon and Fred Baron actually went. This book doesn't spin the truth to achieve a prettier picture or a better story. It isn't about changing anyone's mind. It's simply the facts, the truth of what really happened.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628154 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday Author: Donald Clarke Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 45 minutes Release date: January 16, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: No singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than jazz legend Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. This authentic biography sets the record straight. Donald Clarke was given unrivaled access to a treasure trove of interviews from the 1970s with those who knew Lady Day in all stages of her short, tragic life—from her childhood in the streets and good-time houses of Baltimore, through the early days of success in New York and the years of fame, to her tragic decline and death at the age of forty-four. This biography separates fact from fiction to reveal the true Billie Holiday.