Classic Rock

In this fantastic audiobook, Charles King talks us through more than one hundred facts about Led Zeppelin, one of the most highly respected rock bands in history. With the facts separated into chapters covering the members of the band, its history, the albums and more, you are sure to learn some fascinating new information about the band. So whether you’re a fan from back in the day or are only now beginning to appreciate classic rock music, this is the perfect audiobook for you!

1915. After six years living in Paris, Sally Lunton faces a crisis of the heart (her love affair has gone smash); a crisis of the pocketbook (her meager living selling her small paintings has dried up); and a crisis of the soul, as she watches in anguish while the broken bodies of soldiers are carried from war-torn Belgium through the Parisian streets. Truly, Sally is on the rocks. Then comes a lifeline: a letter from Miss Maggie Hopkins of Little Crampton, the English village where she grew up. It appears that the town's bank manager is a most eligible bachelor with a steady income.

Have you always felt a certain nostalgia to the 1980s even if you didn’t grow up in it? Were you a child, teenager, or young adult in the '80s and want to relive the best years of your life? Well now you can travel back in time and embrace your over the top fashion sense that’s dying to come out!

From behind the walls of a handful of well-hidden, unlikely recording studios in the Los Angeles area, legends-in-waiting created masterpiece albums. It was a time of astonishing creativity and unprecedented fame and fortune. It was also a time of unfettered excess that threatened to unravel everything along the way. With access that only a longtime music business insider can provide, Kent Hartman packs Goodnight, L.A. with never-before-told stories about the most prolific time and iconic place in rock 'n' roll history.

A professional assassin, disguised as an old woman integrates into a group of homeless drug addicts and poisons six on a cold, rainy November night. So, begins a series of murders and assaults aimed at driving criminal segments of the population out of the city. The police chief assigns Angeline Morris as lead detective...There is a twist. The killer begins calling into a classic rock radio program, requesting songs that suggest a secret code. Jack Burris, known in the city as “The Music Man” begins working the puzzle...he goes to the police and meets Angeline.

Originally published in 1938, Graham Greene’s chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare is a masterpiece of psychological realism and often considered Graham Greene’s best novel. It is a fascinating study of evil, sin, and the “appalling strangeness of the mercy of God,” a classic of its kind.

From 1969 to 1971, as the United States convulsed with political upheaval and transformative social movements, no band was bigger than Creedence Clearwater Revival. They managed a two-year barrage of top-10 singles and LPs that doubled as an ubiquitous soundtrack to one of the most volatile periods in modern American history, and they remain a staple of classic rock radio and films about the era. Yet despite their enduring popularity, no book has ever sought to understand Creedence in conversation with their time. A Song for Everyone finally tells that story.

This fascinating audio program includes actual radio commercials from the 1960s for the following bands: Donovan, Joni Mitchell, Monterey Pop Festival, The Beach Boys, Traffic, The Velvet Underground.

This fascinating audio program includes actual radio commercials from the 1960s for the following bands: Canned Heat, Janis Joplin, H.P. Lovecraft, The Byrds, The Doors, Steppenwolf, Jethro Tull, Ravi Shankar, Bob Seger System.

This fascinating audio program includes actual radio commercials from the 1960s for the following bands: George Harrison, Nazz, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Booker T. & The M.G.'s, The Steve Miller Band, Three Dog Night.

This fascinating audio program includes actual radio commercials from the 1960s for the following bands: Blind Faith, Bee Gees, Iron Butterfly, Johnny Rivers, Neil Diamond, The Ventures, Jan & Dean, and The Stooges.

This fascinating audio program includes actual radio commercials from the 1960s for the band.

The Beatles, an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, became the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed act in the history of popular music. The songs of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr scanned several genres, from pop ballads to psychedelic rock, often incorporating classical and other elements in innovative ways.

This fascinating audio program includes actual radio commercials from the 1960s for the following bands: The Yardbirds, Pink Floyd, The Band, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, The Chambers Brothers, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Spirit, Vanilla Fudge.

This fascinating audio program includes actual radio commercials from the 1960s for each of the bands.

This fascinating audio program includes actual radio commercials from the 1960s for each of the bands.

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 - December 4, 1993) was an American composer, singer-songwriter, guitarist, recording engineer, record producer and film director.

“What are the greatest rock albums of all-time?” Perhaps one of the more common questions examined between music-loving chums, that has led to many a good-natured debate. But if you really dig deeper into the question…is it from the standpoint of the album’s importance in rock history? A classic release that proved significant to an artist’s career? Or perhaps merely a personal favorite, that you just can’t get enough of?

“What are the greatest rock albums of all-time?” Perhaps one of the more common questions examined between music-loving chums that has led to many a good-natured debate. But if you really dig deeper into the question...is it from the standpoint of the album’s importance in rock history? A classic release that proved significant to an artist’s career? Or perhaps merely a personal favorite, that you just can’t get enough of?

Who doesn’t like to learn about the stories behind our favorite rock songs from throughout the years? We all do! And now, author/journalist Greg Prato is prepared to guide listeners through 100 bona fide classic songs from a multitude of rock genres - heavy metal, punk rock, grunge, hair metal, funk, instrumental, classic rock, arena rock, power ballads, new wave, prog rock, soft rock, yacht rock, power pop, thrash metal, hardcore, southern rock, rap, alternative, etc. - with each listing containing background info plus insight from someone closely associated with the track.