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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Author: David Allen Narrator: Richard Mayes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 1, 1978 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  Austrian composer, widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. With Haydn and Beethoven he brought to its height the achievement of the Viennese Classical school. Unlike any other composer in musical history, he wrote in all the musical genres of his day and excelled in every one. His taste, his command of form, and his range of expression have made him seem the most universal of all composers; yet, it may also be said that his music was written to accommodate the specific tastes of particular audiences. (Britannica). Mozart is without doubt also the most famous of all musical child prodigies. At the age of 6 he enthralled the Austrian Court with his unbelievable virtuosity. Yet he died friendless and in poverty at the age of 36, a victim of jealousy, and vicious intrigue. Mozart's story is a tragedy, but one filled with superb music; for he brought new colour, passion and power to opera, symphony and concerto. Credits: Mozart: Robert Rietty. Young Mozart: Nikolaj Berg. Other parts: Edmund Pegge. 'The Boy Mozart' portrait Wiki Commons.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Author: Kenneth Allen Narrator: Richard Mayes, Steve Hodson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 1, 1978 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, violin Concerto, the Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy and the opera Eugene Onegin. "An artist should not be troubled by the indifference of his contemporaries. He should go on working and say all that he is predestined to say. He should know that posterity alone can deliver a true and just verdict". So said Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - and posterity has delivered its verdict. His music is glorious, uplifting, soulful, humourous and wonderfullymelodic. Thchaikovsky  regarded music as something to be savoured and shared, and he worked hard and long to that end. This Chiron biodrama reveals much of his troubled life and times -  and presents many extracts from his marvellous music. Credits: Tchaikovsky: Trader Faulkner. Other parts: Marcia Warren, Steve Hodson. Tchaikovsky portrait Wiki Commons.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731367 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Johann Sebastian Bach Author: David Allen Narrator: John Ringham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 51 minutes Release date: January 1, 1978 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Johann Sebastian Bach has been called the father of Western music; precise and incredibly prolific - his works fill 52 volumes. He was an obstinate but nevertheless modest man and the outstanding tributes paid to his work more than a 100 years after his burial in an unmarked grave, would have probably amused him. This biodrama traces the development of his life and work and is copiously illustrated with examples of his music. Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the Brandenburg Concertos:; instrumental compositions keyboard works such as the Goldberg Variations and The Well Tempered Clavier; organ works such as the Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Credits: Narrator : John Ringham. Bach: Gary Hope. Other parts: Michael Burrell, Michael Kilgarriff. Bach Portrait Wiki Commons.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731366 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ludwig van Beethoven Author: David Allen Narrator: Richard Mayes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 1 minute Release date: January 1, 1978 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony has come to represent Classical Music and modern Western Culture in general. It was used by the allies and the BBC European Service in WWII as a symbol of victory, since the opening "da-da-da-dum" rhythm happens to translate as the letter "V" in Morse Code. "Imagine a blind painter!" So said Richard Wagner when describing the effect of deafness on a composer. Yet Ludwig van Beethoven was a man with the character to overcome this seemingly incapacitating disability and produce some of the most powerful and beautiful music ever written.This absorbing biodrama features the words of Beethoven and his contemporaries, and includes excerpts from his best known and loved works. Together with an informative and illuminating commentary, it conveys to the listener a fascinating and colourful picture of a musical giant. Credits:Beethoven: Kevin Flood. Other parts: Michael Burrell, Derrick Gilbert. Beethoven portrait Wiki Commons.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731369 to listen full audiobooks. Title: George Frideric Handel Author: David Allen Narrator: John Ringham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 0 minutes Release date: January 1, 1978 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: George Frideric Handel was a German/British Baroque composer who in 1737, addressed the English middle class and made a transition to English choral works. After his success with Messiah (1742), he never composed an Italian opera again. His orchestral Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks remain steadfastly popular. One of his four coronation anthems, Zadok the Priest, has been performed at every British coronation since 1727. Almost blind, he died in 1759, a respected and rich man, and was given a state funeral at Westminster Abbey. (Wikipedia). This biodrama is a portrait in words and music of one of the world's truly great composers. A man who gained fame in a land far from his birthplace. Handel was rewarded with glory and honour in his lifetime, and his music lives on in opera house, church and concert hall. His famous 'Largo' is generally accepted as being one of the best loved melodies  in the world...Credits: Handel: Michael Kilgarriff. Other parts: Nigel Lambert. Handel portrait Wiki Commons.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731368 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Franz Joseph Haydn Author: Rosemary Hughes Narrator: Michael Burrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 49 minutes Release date: January 1, 1978 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Franz Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form have led him to be called "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet". (Wikipedia) Haydn's creative life spanned the latter half of the eighteenth century and more than any other musician of his period, he was responsible for the evolution of the Viennese classical style. He was a humble man, largely self-taught, who in his later years became the doyen of the English musical scene. This fascinating biodrama is a listening must for lovers of the Viennese style. Credits: Haydn: John Ringham. Other parts: Michael Kilgarriff, Gary Hope. Hatdn portrait Wiki Commons.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731370 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Guiseppi Verdi Author: John Green Narrator: Richard Mayes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 58 minutes Release date: January 1, 1978 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Giuseppe Verdi was an Italian composer best known for  his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the help of a local patron. Copiously illustrated by excerpts from Verdi's music, this biodrama tells how the composer rose from humble origins to become the unrivalled master of Italian opera. Living in the time of Italian unification, his music and his life became entwined with politics and patriotism and his melodies were taken up as battle cries in the Italian fight against foreign domination. This Chiron full cast and music audiobook explores the fertility of Verdi's musical imagination and his deep but unconventional religious faith. His operas remain extremely popular, especially the three peaks of his 'middle period': Rigoletto, Il Trovatore and La Traviata. The bicentenary of his birth in 2013 was widely celebrated in broadcasts and performances.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Johann Strauss the Younger Author: David Allen Narrator: Marcia Warren, Richard Mayes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 58 minutes Release date: January 1, 1978 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In his lifetime Johann Strauss theYounger was known as 'The Waltz King', and was largely responsible for the popularity of the waltz in Vienna during the 19th century. Some of Johann Strauss's most famous works include The Blue Danube (Famously used in '2001: A Space Odyssey'), The Emperor Waltz, Tales from the Vienna Woods and the Tritsch-Tratsch-polka. The opening bars of The Blue Danube Waltz can bring a tear to the eye and a lump to the throat. It is at once the most romantic and sentimental melody ever written. For more than 60 years Strauss captivated audiences with his evocations of Viennese joi de vivre; yet his own life was often sad. This biodrama makes use of fascinating contemporary writings as well as the wonderful music itself. Credits: Johann Strauss: Steve Hodson. Other parts: Trader Faulkner. Strauss portrait Wiki Commons.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758935 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops Author: Tim Robey Narrator: Tim Robey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 57 minutes Release date: November 5, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: "A wild success." — Publishers Weekly "A surefire hit." —Library Journal STARRED review "A brilliant star turn." —Andrew O’Hagan A riotous and revealing story of Hollywood’s most spectacular flops and how they ended careers, bankrupted studios and changed film history. "Failure fascinates, for all the reasons that success is a drag…” From grand follies to misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous sequels to catastrophic literary adaptations, Box Office Poison tells a hugely entertaining alternative history of Hollywood, through a century of its most notable flops. What can these films tell us about the Hollywood system, the public’s appetite–or lack of it–and the circumstances that saw such flops actually made? Away from the canon, this is the definitive take on these ill-fated, but essential celluloid failures. Robey covers a vast century of flops, including: Intolerance; Queen Kelly; Freaks; Sylvia Scarlett; The Magnificent Ambersons; Land of the Pharoahs; Doctor Dolittle; Sorcerer; Dune; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen; Nothing But Trouble; The Hudsucker Proxy; Cutthroat Island; Speed 2: Cruise Control; Babe: Pig in the City; Supernova; Rollerball; The Adventures of Pluto Nash; Gigli; Alexander; Catwoman; A Sound of Thunder; Speed Racer; Synecdoche, New York; Pan; and Cats. From Daily Telegraph film critic Tim Robey, this is a brilliantly fun exploration of human nature and stupidity in some of the greatest film flops throughout history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755132 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman Author: Robert Hilburn Narrator: Rob Hilburn Jr. Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The definitive biography of songwriter Randy Newman, told with his full cooperation, by acclaimed biographer and longtime Los Angeles Times music critic, Robert Hilburn   Randy Newman is widely hailed as one of America’s all-time greatest songwriters, equally skilled in the sophisticated melodies and lyrics of the Gershwin-Porter era and the cultural commentary of his own generation, with Bob Dylan and Paul Simon among his most ardent admirers. While tens of millions around the world can hum “You’ve Got a Friend in Me,” his disarming centerpiece for Toy Story, most of them would be astonished to learn that the heart of Newman’s legacy is in the dozens of brilliant songs that detail the injustices, from racism to class inequality, that have contributed to the division of our nation. Rolling Stone declared that a single Newman song, “Sail Away,” tells us more about America than “The Star-Spangled Banner.” And yet, his legacy remains largely undocumented in book form—until now.   In A FEW WORDS IN DEFENSE OF OUR COUNTRY, veteran music journalist Robert Hilburn presents the definitive portrait of an American legend. Hilburn has known Newman since his club debut at the Troubadour in 1970, and the two have maintained a connection in the decades since, conversing over the course of times good and bad. Though Newman has long refused to talk with potential biographers, he now gives Hilburn unprecedented access not only to himself but also to his archives, as well as his family, friends, and collaborators. Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, John Williams, Linda Ronstadt, Don Henley, Bonnie Raitt, Chuck D, James Taylor, and New York Times’ Pulitzer-winning columnists, Thomas Friedman and Wesley Morris, among others, contributed to the book. In addition to exploring Newman’s prolific career and the evolution of his songwriting, A FEW WORDS IN DEFENSE OF OUR COUNTRY also dives into his childhood and early influences, his musical family that ruled Hollywood movie scores for decades, the relationships that have provided inspiration for his songs, and so much more.   As thought-provoking and thorough as it is tender, this book is an overdue tribute to the legendary songwriter whose music has long reflected and challenged the America we know today.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746339 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brothers Author: Alex Van Halen Narrator: Alex Van Halen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 9 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Featuring an exclusive, never-before-heard piece of music, the last written together by the legendary Van Halen brothers! In this intimate and open account—nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you’ve ever read—Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love in a remarkable tribute to his beloved brother and band mate. Told with acclaimed New Yorker writer Ariel Levy Brothers is seventy-year-old drummer Alex Van Halen’s love letter to his younger brother, Edward, (Maybe “Ed,” but never “Eddie”), written while still mourning his untimely death. In his rough yet sweet voice, Alex recounts the brothers’ childhood, first in the Netherlands and then in working class Pasadena, California, with an itinerant musician father and a very proper Indonesian-born mother—the kind of mom who admonished her boys to “always wear a suit” no matter how famous they became—a woman who was both proud and practical, nonchalant about taking a doggie bag from a star-studded dinner. He also shares tales of musical politics, infighting, and plenty of bad-boy behavior. But mostly his is a story of brotherhood, music, and enduring love. ''I was with him from day one,” Alex writes. “We shared the experience of coming to this country and figuring out how to fit in. We shared a record player, an 800 square foot house, a mom and dad, and a work ethic. Later, we shared the back of a tour bus, alcoholism, the experience of becoming successful, of becoming fathers and uncles, and of spending more hours in the studio than I’ve spent doing anything else in this life. We shared a depth of understanding that most people can only hope to achieve in a lifetime.''  There has never been an accurate account of them or the band, and Alex wants to set the record straight on Edward’s life and death.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/728626 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out of Character: From Abigail’s Party to Gavin and Stacey, and everything in between Author: Alison Steadman Narrator: Alison Steadman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 40 minutes Release date: October 10, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A Waterstones Best Book of 2024 'Marriage to Mike Leigh, the minutiae of working on Gavin and Stacey: it's a tribute to her range that there's something here to interest everybody' Telegraph The first memoir from the national treasure, critically acclaimed actress and much-loved Gavin and Stacey star. Candice Marie in Nuts in May. Beverly in Abigail’s Party. Mrs Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. Betty in Fat Friends. Sue in Here We Go and Pamela in Gavin & Stacey – we can all name a beloved, iconic character brought to life by the magnificent Alison Steadman. Growing up in post-war, working-class Liverpool, the young Alison – ever the entertainer – would address the world from the stage of her bedroom window, until she got a taste for performing in front of an actual audience at her progressive 1960s drama school. By the time she left, her mind was made up: she was going to be an actress! If only she could conquer the onstage giggling … Always pushing boundaries – reclining naked on a sofa in her first role, embracing groundbreaking female characters from day one – Alison has deservedly found acclaim and recognition, succeeding in her TV and theatre career while juggling family life – a difficult feat for any working mother, but particularly for an actress in the twentieth century. From the nervy Mrs Bennet to the robo-dancing Pam-el-aah, Alison has proved herself again and again to be a comedy genius. Here, with her distinctive warmth and humour, she vividly recalls all the must-read moments of a life spent in and out of character.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755130 to listen full audiobooks. Title: MC5: An Oral Biography of Rock's Most Revolutionary Band Author: Ben Edmonds, Jaan Uhelszki, Brad Tolinski Narrator: Widdie Turner, Kellen Boyle, Angèle Masters, Justin Price, Jeremy Arthur, Fleet Cooper, Peter Berkrot, Fred Berman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A riveting oral biography of the proto-punk Detroit rockers MC5, based on original interviews with the band and key members of their inner circle   Few bands have dared to ignite a revolution through their fusion of activism and art like MC5. Managed by the charismatic radical and hippie spokesman, John Sinclair, MC5 wasn’t just a band; they were a thunderous proclamation of dissent, amplifying the voices of the marginalized long before it was fashionable. From championing Black Lives Matter to rallying for cannabis legalization, they fearlessly thrust their beliefs onto the world stage. For their efforts, the rabble-rousing musical arm of the White Panther Party, the scourge of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and other defenders of public decency, were often beaten with clubs, threatened at gunpoint, tossed into jail, and even unceremoniously dumped by their record company, right as their album was storming up the charts—and all while the Sex Pistols were still on training wheels. What has been lost amidst this notoriety is MC5 itself, a band worth remembering not because they were bad boys, but because they were so damn good. In MC5: An Oral Biography of Rock’s Most Revolutionary Band​, music journalists Brad Tolinski and Jaan Uhelszki invite readers to reconsider this legendary group. Centered around a series of interviews with MC5, their manager, and their inner circle—many of whom are no longer with us—that Tolinski and Uhelszki inherited from CREEM Magazine founding staffer and Mojo's US editor Ben Edmonds prior to his death, this book presents a genuinely candid, funny, and moving portrait of rock’s most uncompromising and articulate band. MC5 also features a virtual “who’s who” of 1960s rockers, including Iggy and the Stooges, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, promoter Bill Graham, John Lennon, the Jefferson Airplane, and political firebrands like Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden, and Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver. As innovative, insightful, and inspiring as the band itself, MC5 is a fitting testament to the legacy of these iconic rock pioneers—told in their very own words.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739131 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music Author: Alison Fensterstock Narrator: TBD Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date: October 1, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: NPR’s launch of the multi-platform series Turning the Tables in 2017, suddenly pushed more women onto “Best of” lists and into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. With How Women Made Music, acclaimed critic and TtT co-founder Ann Powers and contributor Alison Fensterstock draw from every Turning the Tables season and the full 50-years of NPR archives, to bring a vibrant, entertaining history of women in folk, rock, rap, hip hop, salsa, bubblegum pop, and much more.  The audiobook version features: ·        Joan Baez discussing nonviolence as a musical principle in 1971 ·        Nina Simone, in 2001, reflecting on how she developed the edge in her voice as a tool against racism ·        Patti Smith describing art as her “jealous mistress” in 1976 ·        Taylor Swift, in 2012, talking about early uncertainty in her music career ·        Odetta, in 2005, explaining how shifting from classical to folk music allowed her to express her fury over Jim Crow Destined to become a classic, this audiobook is not only a vital record of history, it will spark creativity, inspiration, and awe in hearing how musical lives are maintained and favorite songs are born. Full list of the 55 audio excerpts: Joan Baez Tammy Wynette Patti Smith Carly Simon Marianne Faithfull Tracy Chapman Roberta Flack Carole King Kate Bush Mercedes Sosa Diamanda Galas Lucinda Williams Liz Phair Etta James Tori Amos Melissa Etheridge Joni Mitchell Loretta Lynn Nina Simone Dolly Parton Donna Summer Sheila E Gillian Welch Donna Summer Miriam Makeba Madonna Loretta Lynn Alice Coltrane Odetta Joan Jett Joan Jett Mary J Blige Cassandra Wilson Mariah Carey Chaka Khan Mary Weiss Queen Latifah Shakira Queen Latifah Sinead O'Connor Dionne Warwick Alanis Morrissette Taylor Swift Janet Jackson (Danyel Smith) Rickie Lee Jones Alicia Keys Mavis Staples Solange Cecile McLorin Salvant on Ella Fitzgerald Angelique Kidjo on Celia Cruz Lizzo Kathleen Hanna Linda Ronstadt Fiona Apple Sha Rock

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755128 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Best Possible Place, Worst Possible Time: True Stories from a Career in Hollywood Author: Barry Sonnenfeld Narrator: Barry Sonnenfeld Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 1, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One-of-a-kind filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld tells stories only he can tell, from his blockbuster career with iconic actors, studio execs, and producers. His humor and insight provide an inside glimpse into how Hollywood really works, or how it doesn’t. Best Possible Place, Worst Possible Time delivers a cavalcade of sometimes baffling, often enlightening, and always funny stories about Sonnenfeld’s many films and television shows. From battling with studio executives and producers to bad-script-solving on set to coaxing actors into finding the right light and talking faster, Sonnenfeld provides an entertaining master class in how to make commercial art in the face of constant human foible. Over four decades in Hollywood, the mega-franchises include The Addams Family and Men in Black; the critical favorites, Get Shorty and Pushing Daisies; the icons, Will Smith, John Travolta, and Michael Jackson; and the projects that got away, Forrest Gump, Ali, and anything starring Jim Carrey. The true stories escalate from surreal to outrageous to unbelievable. And then there’s magic hour. But you’ll never see Hollywood the same way again.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755114 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sidney Poitier: The Great Speeches of an Icon Who Moved Us Forward Author: Sidney Poitier, Joanna Poitier Narrator: Sydney Tamiia Poitier Heartsong, Joanna Poitier, Rodney Gardiner, Morgan Freeman, Oprah Winfrey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 1, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The speeches of film legend Sidney Poitier—given at commencement addresses, awards shows, memorials, and more, on topics ranging from entertainment history to filmmaking, civil rights, and parenthood—come to vibrant life in this inspirational and stunningly packaged volume from the Poitier estate that sheds new light on the trailblazing artist's life and culture of the past century. Sidney Poitier represented strength, good looks, and above all dignity at a time when Black representation on the screen was so often relegated to servile parts. He broke ground as the top box-office draw in Hollywood at the peak of his career, and was the first Black actor to win the Best Actor Oscar, for his performance in Lillies of the Field (1963). Poitier—who narrowly escaped illiteracy after rising up from an impoverished childhood and the massive obstacles he faced as a Black man in mid-twentieth century America—was also one of the most articulate and sought-after speakers of his day. This book is a one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the wise, witty, and deeply personal speeches Poitier gave at awards ceremonies, family events, memorials, and more. His salutes to artists such as Dorothy Dandridge, Spencer Tracy, Stanley Kramer, and Denzel Washington offer fresh insight on icons of our time. Poitier's unforgettable cadence and voice are clear as day on the page, sometimes with careful edits and additions written in his own hand. Compiled by his wife, Joanna Poitier, and illustrated by dozens of professional and family photos, this collection stunningly captures all that was remarkable about the man through his own words; archives moments in the history of entertainment, culture, and civil rights; and offers a uniquely inspirational perspective on career, family, art, and life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739357 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Talkin' Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital Author: David Browne Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 9 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers   Although Greenwich Village encompasses less than a square mile in downtown New York, rarely has such a concise area nurtured so many innovative artists and genres. Over the course of decades, Billie Holiday, the Weavers, Sonny Rollins, Dave Van Ronk, Ornette Coleman, Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, Phil Ochs, and Suzanne Vega are just a few who migrated to the Village, recognizing it as a sanctuary for visionaries, non-conformists, and those looking to reinvent themselves. Working in the Village’s smokey coffeehouses and clubs, they chronicled the tumultuous Sixties, rewrote jazz history, and took folk and rock & roll into places they hadn’t been before.   Based on over 150 new interviews (Judy Collins, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Eric Andersen, Suzzy and Terre Roche, Suzanne Vega, Steve Forbert, Arlo Guthrie, John Sebastian, Shawn Colvin, the members of the Blues Project, and more), previously unseen documents, and author David Browne’s longtime immersion in the scene, Talkin’ Greenwich Village lends the saga the epic, panoramic scope it’s long deserved. It takes readers from the Fifties jamborees in Washington Square Park and into landmark venues like Gerde’s Folk City, the Gaslight Café, and the Village Vanguard, onto Dylan’s momentous arrival and returns, the no-holds-barred Seventies years (West Village discos, National Lampoon’s Lemmings), and the folk revival of the Eighties (Vega’s enduring “Tom’s Diner”).   In eye-opening fashion, Browne also details the often-overlooked people of color in the Sixties folk clubs, reveals how the FBI and city government consistently kept their eyes on the community, unearths the machinations behind the infamous “beatnik riot” in Washington Square Park, and tells the interconnected tales of Van Ronk, the seminal band the Blues Project, and the beloved sister trio, the Roches.   In also recounting the racial tensions, crackdowns, and changes in New York and music that infiltrated the neighborhood, Talkin’ Greenwich Village is more than just vivid cultural history. It also speaks to the rise and waning of bohemian culture itself, set to some of the most enduring lyrics, melodies, and jazz improvisations in American music.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758404 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir Author: Mary L. Trump Narrator: Mary L. Trump Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.93 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: This program is read by the author. Who Could Ever Love You is an intimate, heartbreaking memoir of a father, a mother, and a family’s exile. Mary Trump grew up in a family divided by its patriarch’s relentless drive for money and power. The daughter of Freddy Trump, the highly accomplished, dashing eldest son of wealthy real estate developer Fred Trump, and Linda Clapp, a flight attendant from a working-class family, Mary lived in the shadow of Freddy’s humiliation at the hands of his father. Fred Trump embodied the ethos of the zero-sum game and among his five children, there could only be one winner. That was supposed to be Freddy, his namesake, but Fred found him wanting—too sensitive, too kind, too interested in pursuits beyond the realm of the real estate empire he was meant to inherit. In Donald, Fred found a kindred spirit, a “killer,” who would stop at nothing to get his own way. Even after Freddy’s short-lived career as a professional pilot for TWA came to an end, he never stopped trying to gain his father’s approval. Finally, at the age of forty-two, he succumbed to Fred’s lethal contempt and died alone in an emergency room, with no family by his side. In WHO COULD EVER LOVE YOU, Mary Trump brings us inside the twisted family whose patriarch ignored, froze out, and eventually destroyed his own. Freddy Trump’s decline into alcoholism and illness, along with Linda’s suffering after their divorce, left Mary dangerously vulnerable as a very young girl. Inadequately and only conditionally loved, there were no adults in her life except for the father she loved, but lost before she could know him; and a mother abandoned by her ex-husband’s rich and powerful family who demanded her loyalty but left her with nothing. With searching insight, poignant detail, and unsparing prose, Mary Trump reveals the cold, selfish cruelty that has come to define the Trump family thanks in large part to her uncle, whose malignant ambition has riven our nation and threatens the world. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742631 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 2 Series: #2 of Eric Krasno Plus One Author: Eric Krasno Narrator: Eric Krasno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians. After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists—and these conversations have become some of his most cherished memories. In Eric Krasno Plus One, the audience is invited to join moments like these in podcast form—topics range from early inspirations to discussions about the state of the music industry, to the challenges of life on the road, backstage shenanigans, and much more. Full Contents: Episode 6: John MayerEpisode 7: Mac AyresEpisode 8: John ScofieldEpisode 9: Alan EvansEpisode 10: Derek Trucks

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 3 Series: #3 of Eric Krasno Plus One Author: Eric Krasno Narrator: Eric Krasno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians. After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists—and these conversations have become some of his most cherished memories. In Eric Krasno Plus One, the audience is invited to join moments like these in podcast form—topics range from early inspirations to discussions about the state of the music industry, to the challenges of life on the road, backstage shenanigans, and much more. Full Contents: Episode 11: Questlove - Part 1Episode 12: Questlove - Part 2Episode 13: Adam DeitchEpisode 14: Ivan NevilleEpisode 15: Billy Strings

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/729797 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How To Run An Indie Label Author: Alan Mcgee Narrator: Russ Bain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 5, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A no-holds-barred rampage through gigs, clubs, boardrooms, drugs and booze, mad scenes, brilliant signings, machine gun quotes and a resilient wild spirit. Music is like no other business. It's about being at the right place at the right time, following your nose and diving in feet first. It's about being plugged into the mystical electricity and about surfing on the wild energy. It's about how to fuck up and how to survive and be sustained by the holy grail of the high decibel. No-one captures this wild feral spirit better than Alan McGee whose helter-skelter career through music has made him a major force. Wilder than his bands, more out of control than his most lunatic singer, more driven than his contemporaries and closer in spirit to the rock'n'roll star he could never be himself, McGee was always in a rush. Creation would sign people and not just the music. McGee understood that running an indie label is mainly about the charisma, the game changers, the iconography and the story. It's about never being boring. His ability to start a raw power ruckus brought the visceral danger back to a moribund mid-eighties music scene. His nose for danger and his ear for classic guitar rock'n'roll brought us The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, Teenage Fanclub and Ride before topping out in the nineties with the biggest band in the world, Oasis. By no means a conventional instruction manual or business audiobook, How To Run an Indie Label tells you everything you need to know about how to be a creative force.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755390 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cocaine and Rhinestones: A History of George Jones and Tammy Wynette Author: Tyler Mahan Coe Narrator: Tyler Mahan Coe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 26 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the creator of the acclaimed country music history podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones, comes the epic American saga of country music’s legendary royal couple—George Jones and Tammy Wynette. By the early 1960s nearly everybody paying attention to country music agreed that George Jones was the greatest country singer of all time. After taking honky-tonk rockers like “White Lightning” all the way up the country charts, he revealed himself to be an unmatched virtuoso on “She Thinks I Still Care,” thus cementing his status as a living legend. That’s where the trouble started. Only at this new level of fame did Jones realize he suffered from extreme stage fright. His method of dealing with that involved great quantities of alcohol, which his audience soon discovered as Jones more often than not showed up to concerts falling-down drunk or failed to show up at all. But the fans always forgave him because he just kept singing so damn good. Then he got married to Tammy Wynette right around the time she became one of the most famous women alive with the release of “Stand by Your Man.” Tammy Wynette grew up believing George Jones was the greatest country singer of all time. After deciding to become a country singer herself, she went to Nashville, got a record deal, then met and married her hero. With the pop crossover success of “Stand by Your Man” (and the international political drama surrounding the song’s lyrics) came a gigantic audience, who were sold a fairy tale image of a couple soon being called The King and Queen of Country Music. Many fans still believe that fairy tale today. The behind-the-scenes truth is very different from the images shown on album covers. Illustrated throughout by singular artist Wayne White, Cocaine & Rhinestones is an unprecedented look at the lives of two indelible country icons, reframing their careers within country music as well as modern history itself.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739049 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire Author: Stacy A. Cordery Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A sweeping biography of one of the most influential and successful business-women in American history, BECOMING ELIZABETH ARDEN opens the Red Door to a world of wealth, glamor, and the profitable business of beauty Elizabeth Arden was a household name on six continents and a millionaire several times over before her death in 1966. Arden counted British royalty and social elites from the overlapping worlds of New York, Hollywood, London, and Paris among her clients. She revolutionized skin care and cosmetics, making it acceptable for all women to embrace glamour and wear makeup—not just actresses and prostitutes. She created a successful international business empire before women gained the vote and at a time when virtually no woman owned or ran a national company. She developed the first luxury spa and insisted on a holistic understanding of health and beauty. Unconventional and driven, Arden fervently believed that every woman could be beautiful. Acclaimed biographer Stacy Cordery does full justice to one of America’s greatest entrepreneurs. Canadian-born Florence Nightingale Graham turned herself into Elizabeth Arden, using her uncanny sense of the possible to take full advantage of everything New York City offered, building her company and becoming one with her brand. In an astounding rags-to-riches tale, Elizabeth Arden came to personify sophistication and refinement. Her hard work and innovation made makeup, fitness, and style not only acceptable but de rigueur. Arden prospered throughout the Depression, reimagined women’s needs during two World Wars, and by pioneering new approaches to marketing and advertising, ushered beauty into the modern era. Cordery delivers a compelling picture of a modern CEO whose career provides a model for aspiring businesses to this day.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739393 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The De Palma Decade: Redefining Cinema With Doubles, Voyeurs, and Psychic Teens Author: Laurent Bouzereau Narrator: Dani Martineck Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Journey with award-winning filmmaker and author Laurent Bouzereau through acclaimed director Brian De Palma’s renowned—and controversial—horror and thriller films that redefined cinema in the 1970s and early 80s with new interviews and fresh takes.   Among a crop of fresh filmmakers including Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, and Francis Ford Coppola revolutionizing Hollywood in the ’70s, Brian De Palma—a director from Philadelphia with a few social satires under his belt—charted a cinematic path unlike any of his peers. At times he was unfairly dismissed as a Hitchcock copycat; other times he was misunderstood for his peculiar mix of sexuality, humor, music, and violence. But, over the course of ten years, he created a new cinematic language, melding his signature themes with specific filmmaking techniques that are now synonymous with his name.   Acclaimed filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau explores the seven films that came to define the De Palma decade—Sisters, Phantom of the Paradise, Obsession, Carrie, The Fury, Dressed to Kill, and Blow Out. Combining film analysis, detailed production histories, and new interviews with De Palma himself, his casts, and collaborators, Bouzereau presents the definitive record on this unrivaled period of cinematic creativity and the emergence of an auteur who would continue to influence filmmaking in the decades that followed.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 1 Series: #1 of Eric Krasno Plus One Author: Eric Krasno Narrator: Eric Krasno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 59 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians. After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists—and these conversations have become some of his most cherished memories. In Eric Krasno Plus One, the audience is invited to join moments like these in podcast form—topics range from early inspirations to discussions about the state of the music industry, to the challenges of life on the road, backstage shenanigans, and much more. Full Contents: Series Premiere: Dave MatthewsEpisode 2: Laura Lee (Khruangbin)Episode 3: Marcus KingEpisode 4: Chris RobinsonEpisode 5: Emily King

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742635 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 6 Series: #6 of Eric Krasno Plus One Author: Eric Krasno Narrator: Eric Krasno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians. After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists—and these conversations have become some of his most cherished memories. In Eric Krasno Plus One, the audience is invited to join moments like these in podcast form—topics range from early inspirations to discussions about the state of the music industry, to the challenges of life on the road, backstage shenanigans, and much more. Episode 26: Andy FrascoEpisode 27: Jeff BhaskerEpisode 28: Son LittleEpisode 29: Theo KatzmanEpisode 30: Ani DiFranco

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742633 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 4 Series: #4 of Eric Krasno Plus One Author: Eric Krasno Narrator: Eric Krasno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 8 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians. After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists—and these conversations have become some of his most cherished memories. In Eric Krasno Plus One, the audience is invited to join moments like these in podcast form—topics range from early inspirations to discussions about the state of the music industry, to the challenges of life on the road, backstage shenanigans, and much more. Full Contents: Episode 16: Don WasEpisode 17: Allen StoneEpisode 18: Cochemea GastelumEpisode 19: Dominic LalliEpisode 20: Phil and Grahame Lesh

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758393 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World Author: Anupreeta Das Narrator: Ulka Simone Mohanty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the finance editor of The New York Times, an insightful and illuminating examination of Bill Gates—one of the most powerful and provocative figures of the past four decades—and an exploration of our national fixation on billionaires. Few billionaires have been in the public eye for as long, and in as many guises, as Bill Gates. At first hailed as a tech visionary, the Microsoft cofounder morphed into a ruthless capitalist, only to change yet again when he fashioned himself into a global do-gooder. Along the way, Gates influenced how we think about tech founders, as the products they make and the ideas they sell continue to dominate our lives. Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he also set a new standard for high-profile, billionaire philanthropy. But there is more to Gates’s story, and here, Das’s revelatory reporting shows us that billionaires have secrets and philanthropy can have a dark side. Drawing upon hundreds of interviews with current and former employees of the Gates Foundation, Microsoft, academics, nonprofits, and those with insight into the Gates universe, Das delves into Gates’s relationships with Warren Buffett, Jeffrey Epstein, Melinda French Gates, and others, to uncover the truths behind the public persona. In telling Gates’s story, Das also provides a new way to think about how billionaires wield their power, manipulate their image, and pursue philanthropy to become heroes, repair damaged reputations, and direct policy to achieve their preferred outcomes. “A balanced, perceptive, and thought-provoking portrait of a man and his times” (Booklist) Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King is an important story of money and government, wealth and power, and media and image, and the ways in which the world’s richest people hold us in their thrall.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/735708 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll Author: Fred Goodman Narrator: Brett Barry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 2 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: “Fred Goodman makes this world come alive, and any fan of rock or insider tales of the music industry will be in heaven reading about this fascinating, troubling character.” — Judd Apatow, Omnivoracious “Writing about contracts, percentages, and deals can be tedious, but Goodman makes it as exciting as reading about an artist’s sex life. The book explodes with inside dope.” —New York Daily News   Allen Klein was like no one the music industry had seen before. Though he became infamous for allegedly causing the Beatles’ breakup and robbing the Rolling Stones, the truth is both more complex and more fascinating. As the manager of the Stones and then the Beatles—not to mention Sam Cooke, Pete Townshend, Donovan, the Kinks, and numerous others—he taught young soon-to-be legends how to be businessmen as well as rock stars. While Klein made millions for his clients, he was as merciless with them as he was with anyone, earning himself an outsize reputation for villainy that has gone unchallenged until now. Through unique, unprecedented access to Klein’s archives, veteran music journalist Fred Goodman tells the full story of how the Beatles broke up, how the Stones achieved the greatest commercial success in rock history, and how the music business became what it is today.   “Fred Goodman is a superb writer . . . and his account here of one of rock ’n’ roll’s most polarizing figures could not be more readable. The even-handed tone, the supposition that readers are moderately intelligent and sophisticated, and the rather astounding involvement Allen Klein had with pop music’s largest legends—put all that together, and you’ve got one highly engrossing read.” —Yahoo! Music   “Succeed[s] both as a compelling work of rock ’n’ roll history and as a cautionary business primer.” —Wall Street Journal

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Witch's Daughter: My Mother, Her Magic, and the Madness that Bound Us Author: Orenda Fink Narrator: Orenda Fink Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed indie musician and songwriter Orenda Fink’s lyrical and moving memoir about growing up with a mother who battled mental illness and addiction is a “master text on surviving trauma as a child and adult” (Phoebe Bridgers). Each night, Orenda Fink’s darkly charismatic mother perches on a kitchen stool and insists that she and Orenda are magic. Orenda’s mother claims to be a witch who uses her magic to protect the family from the outside world, but Orenda’s childhood is marked by instability and uncertainty. Her family moves from town to town, chasing a fresh start whenever the money runs out. Orenda escapes to pursue a music career in Birmingham, Alabama, and then Athens, Georgia, forming the bands Little Red Rocket and Azure Ray. The magic she finds in her music, and in her sense of self, feels precious and rare, while the magic her mother wields feels increasingly volatile. Orenda orbits the family home, always drawn back by her mother’s dark powers and her own need to discover whether that claim of magic—or any magic—is real. With the guidance of a Jungian psychotherapist, Orenda is stunned to learn that her mother fits many of the criteria associated with borderline personality disorder, including a subtype identified by famed thought leader Christine Ann Lawson known as “The Witch”—an aggressive, dominating figure who operates by fear-driven control, sometimes claiming to wield magic. Told in spellbinding prose, this memoir of music, self-discovery, and compassion is for anyone who has had to conjure a safe place to call home. “Equal parts cutting and compassionate, this tale of hard-won peace will resonate with readers wrestling with their own complicated families” (Publishers Weekly).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/729538 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Iconic: My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects Author: Zandra Rhodes, Ella Alexander Narrator: Antonia Beamish Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 18, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Dame Zandra Rhodes has spent her life rallying against what was expected of her, both as a designer and a woman. Often perceived as too bold for the mainstream, she fought for creativity and individuality, and continues to achieve both in everything she does. In this insightful memoir, Zandra shares her life story for the first time. Told through a variety of mementos collected over the years, it is a vibrant account filled with rockstars and royalty, of life-changing friendships and poignant reflections on her personal triumphs and tragedies, as well as the fears, sacrifices and pressures that come with being an era-defining designer. From a road trip to Rome with Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell, to opening her first London store thanks to a kind loan from Vanessa Redgrave while Joe Cocker sang With a Little Help From My Friends; from judging Andrew Logan's Alternative Miss World with David Hockney and Angie Bowie which was so packed that even David Bowie couldn't get in, to hanging out with Andy Warhol and Halston in New York's Studio 54; from friendships with legends such as Karl Lagerfeld and Diana Vreeland to designing for everyone from Freddie Mercury to Diana Ross, from Princess Diana to Barbra Streisand. Iconic gives the reader a sense of being right alongside Zandra through all the highs and lows of her extraordinary life. Capturing the rich and unexpected life of a British icon, this memoir explores what it is to defy the norm. ‘A wonderful, fascinating, fun collection of memories and stories.' Shirley Bassey 'Dazzling from start to finish.' Joanna Lumley ‘Zandra Rhodes has changed the course of fashion history.' Suzy Menkes, fashion journalist ©2024 Zandra Rhodes and Ella Alexander (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758986 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Murray Ball: A Cartoonist's Life Author: Mason Ball Narrator: Martin Crump Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 46 minutes Release date: July 15, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The long-awaited biography of cartoonist Murray Ball, creator of Footrot Flats In Murray Ball: A Cartoonist's Life, Murray's son Mason Ball shares all the hits and misses and long years of hard graft that went into what would become the wildly successful creative enterprise: Footrot Flats. From his unique viewpoint and with candid honesty, Mason reveals the real-life backstory to Murray's most iconic characters and themes, telling the story of the man - and father - who could see the quirks of human nature and capture them with the stroke of a pen. Richly illustrated with family photos and cartoons by the bloke who brought us that most lovable character, the Dog. Let me show you how my dad became a leading cartoonist of his generation, how his endearing characters evolved and where the insightful and humorous ideas sprang from. Let's see the man behind the drawing desk and delve into the workings of his mind. - Mason Ball

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/723301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Desolation: A Heavy Metal Memoir Author: Mark Morton Narrator: Mark Morton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: June 25, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A gritty, revealing heavy metal memoir by Lamb of God’s lead guitarist and co-lyricist, which explores both his life in music and his tumultuous path through addiction and into recovery.   DESOLATION is the story of Morton's lifelong quest for clarity and self-acceptance, and shows how the pressures of career success and personal battles eventually came into conflict with Morton's dedication to the creative process. Intertwined with addiction, self-destruction, and the path to eventual surrender and recovery, Morton also reveals the greatest personal tragedy of his life: the death of his two-day old daughter, plunging Morton further into hopelessness. Surrounded by bandmates living their wildest dreams, Morton wanted nothing more than to disappear, ingesting potentially lethal cocktails of drugs and alcohol into his system on a daily basis.   And yet, amidst the harrowing heartbreak, there were moments of triumph, hope, and incredible personal connection. Morton developed close relationships with his bandmates and crew members, sharing experiences that have made for some strange and hilarious tales. He's also gained a greater sense of purpose through interactions with his fans, who remind him that his work reaches people on a deeply personal level. Through the highs and the lows, Morton learns how to find presence and gratitude where he once found fear and resentment, a process that he considers a gift of spiritual awakening.    DESOLATION is, at its core, about Morton's journey as a musician navigating self doubt, anxiety and the progressive disease of addiction, and ultimately finding relative serenity. Perfect for fans, new and old, as well as anyone who has ever been tested and brought to their limits, DESOLATION is a highly-satisfying, full-throttle investigation of the human experience.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745443 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We're Live in 5: My Extraordinary Life in Television Author: Loren Stephens, Jeff Margolis Narrator: Jeff Margolis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In this dazzling Hollywood memoir, Jeff Margolis takes us on the ultimate behind-the-scenes tour of television’s most memorable variety series and specials spanning the past fifty years—from the most iconic variety shows of the 1970s to the Oscars.Introduced to showbiz by his uncle Monty Hall, legendary host of Let’s Make a Deal, Jeff Margolis quickly forged his own path with natural talent, charisma, and bar mitzvah money. Today, as one of the most prolific directors/producers of event television, Margolis is not only a technical ringmaster but also a confidante and sage to the stars who headline the shows.Students of television will savor the “how-to” of event television while fans will love the intimate stories of beloved stars like Julie Andrews, Carol Burnett, Cher, Sammy Davis Jr., Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Dolly Parton, Frank Sinatra, and Oprah Winfrey. While not a sordid tell-all, We’re Live in 5 is a tell-it-as-it-is with all the glamour you expect, along with a deeply revealing human portrait of working with larger-than-life personalities at television’s most dizzying and demanding heights.“Nobody has better stories or more to say.”—Whoopi Goldberg, EGOT, 4x Oscar host

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737417 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs Author: Jonathan Greenberg, Mo Rocca Narrator: Mo Rocca Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 50 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca, author of New York Times bestseller Mobituaries, comes an inspiring collection of stories that celebrates the triumphs of people who made their biggest marks late in life. Eighty has been the new sixty for about twenty years now. In fact, there have always been late-in-life achievers, those who declined to go into decline just because they were eligible for social security. Journalist, humorist, and history buff Mo Rocca and coauthor Jonathan Greenberg introduce us to the people past and present who peaked when they could have been puttering—breaking out as writers, selling out concert halls, attempting to set land-speed records—and in the case of one ninety-year tortoise, becoming a first-time father. (Take that, Al Pacino!) In the vein of Mobituaries, Roctogenarians is a collection of entertaining and unexpected profiles of these unretired titans—some long gone (a cancer-stricken Henri Matisse, who began work on his celebrated cut-outs when he could no longer paint), some very much still living (Mel Brooks, yukking it up at close to one hundred). The amazing cast of characters also includes Mary Church Terrell, who at eighty-six helped lead sit-ins at segregated Washington, DC, lunch counters in the 1950s, and Carol Channing, who married the love of her life at eighty-two. Then there’s Peter Mark Roget, who began working on his thesaurus in his twenties and completed it at seventy-three (because sometimes finding the right word takes time.) With passion and wonder Rocca and Greenberg recount the stories of yesterday’s and today’s strongest finishers. Because with all due respect to the Golden Girls, some people will never be content sitting out on the lanai. (PS Actress Estelle Getty was sixty-two when she got her big break. And yes, she’s in the book.)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fosse Author: Sam Wasson Narrator: Jim Meskimen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Now the FX limited series Fosse/Verdon starring Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams with Lin-Manuel Miranda executive producing. “Wasson is a smart and savvy reporter, and his book abounds with colorful firsthand tales.” — Janet Maslin, New York Times “Fascinating . . . Wasson has taken complete control of his subject.” — Wall Street Journal The only person ever to win Oscar, Emmy, and Tony awards in the same year, Bob Fosse revolutionized nearly every facet of American entertainment. His signature style would influence generations of performing artists. Yet in spite of Fosse’s innumerable—including Cabaret, Pippin, All That Jazz, and Chicago, one of the longest-running Broadway musicals ever—his offstage life was shadowed by deep wounds and insatiable appetites. To craft this richly detailed account, best-selling author Sam Wasson has drawn on a wealth of unpublished material and hundreds of sources: friends, enemies, lovers, and collaborators, many of them speaking publicly about Fosse for the first time. With propulsive energy and stylish prose, Fosse is the definitive biography of one of Broadway and Hollywood’s most complex and dynamic icons. “Spellbinding.” —Entertainment Weekly “Impeccably researched.” —Vanity Fair An NPR Best Book of the Year

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731595 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scream Queen: A memoir Author: Yvette Fielding Narrator: Yvette Fielding Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 30, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Seances, Ouija boards, table tipping, knocking phenomena - all in a day's work for the First Lady of the Paranormal. Yvette Fielding has nerves of steel when facing down her tormentors in the spirit world. Her living-world personal story also reveals a woman of courage and determination, who built success from nothing, following her passion and lifelong curiosity in search of answers to the unexplained. Yvette was always fascinated with the afterlife, and Buddhist meditation practice opened her up to any spirit who wanted to contact her. This manifested in her first family home. Their TV would switch itself on, and kitchen cupboards would open and close all by themselves. When alone there, Yvette would arm herself with a Samurai sword to confront her unseen visitors. But it was a harrowing investigation of eerie 800 year-old Michelham Priory where Yvette’s life-changing Most Haunted adventure began, and still continues many terrifying quests and over twenty years later. Here you’ll walk with Yvette where others fear to tread through chills of the supernatural kind, and she also talks with candid honesty of occasional cold spots she’s encountered in human form. But through all the drops in temperature, the nation’s most celebrated ghost hunter radiates warmth and humour and it’s a joy to accompany her on her incredible journey from child TV star to Most Haunted icon. Beware sceptics: the Scream Queen's story could change your world view for ever. ©2024 Yvette Fielding (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry Author: Howie Singer, Bill Rosenblatt Narrator: Asa Siegel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In recent years, narratives about the music industry tend to hew to a common theme: it was humming along for decades until the Internet and Napster came along and disrupted it. Key Changes shows that this view is incorrect: the industry was actually shaken up not once in the 1990s, but ten times over more than 100 years. These ten disruptions came with the introduction of new formats for enjoying recorded music: starting with the cylinders and discs played on early phonographs; then moving through radio, LPs, tapes, CDs, television, digital downloads, streaming, and streaming video; and then into Artificial Intelligence (AI), which enables a wide range of new capabilities with profound impacts upon the business. Each of the technological innovations covered in this book not only disrupted the music business, but also fundamentally altered the industry's character. Veteran music industry professionals and music technology experts Howie Singer and Bill Rosenblatt illuminate this pattern through a framework they term 'the 6 Cs': cutting edge technology, channels of distribution, creators, consumers, cash, copyright. Extensively researched and supplemented by interviews with Grammy-winning artists, producers, and executives, the book provides an insightful perspective on the ways technology has fundamentally altered the music industry.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757708 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Wall Street to the White House and Back: The Scaramucci Guide to Unbreakable Resilience Author: Anthony Scaramucci Narrator: Anthony Scaramucci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Learn from the successes, the fights, and the failures of businessman and former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci.Have you just been fired? Did that job you were hoping to get not pan out? Did you recently end up embarrassing yourself in a major way in front of people you really wanted to impress?Not to worry. There’s a way out of whatever you’re going through, and Anthony Scaramucci—or “The Mooch,” as he’s known to his friends—is the perfect person to point you in the right direction. Whatever you’re going through, he’s been through it already. Probably twice. And he’s learned a whole lot of lessons along the way.In From Wall Street to the White House and Back, the Mooch sets down twentysix of these lessons. Along the way, he tells wild tales from his time working in finance, politics, and a few strange places in between.Readers will spend time in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump, visit the Bahamas with the disgraced crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried, and encounter pearls of wisdom from a few other unlikely sources in the world of business, national politics, and publishing.If you’re interested in Eminem, Leo Tolstoy, Sigmund Freud, or Tony Robbins—all of whom are mentioned at least once in these pages—and you want to learn from the mistakes of one of the all-time great mistake-makers of our age, jump in.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757697 to listen full audiobooks. Title: And Then? And Then? What Else? Author: Daniel Handler Narrator: Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: YOU NEVER LOVE A BOOK THE WAY YOU LOVE A BOOK WHEN YOU ARE TEN.Writing as Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler has led several generations of young readers into that special and curious space of being hopelessly lost, and joyfully finding yourself, in the essential strangeness of literature. The wondrous and perilous journey of the Baudelaire orphans sprung from the author’s own path, from his childhood discovery of Baudelaire’s poetry through the countless peculiarities of his pursuit of a literary life—abject failure and startling success, breakthrough and breakdown, concordance and controversy—lit along the way by the books and culture he loved best.At once a personal memoir and a literary exploration, a how-to book and a critical inquiry, a sequence of stories and a series of events, And Then? And Then? What Else? is a book not just for anyone curious about the creator of Lemony Snicket, but for anyone who loved books when they were a child, and still loves them now.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/732210 to listen full audiobooks. Title: More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen Author: Laurie Colwin Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 29 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: With a new foreword by Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen, the triumphant sequel to Home Cooking by “a home cook, like you and me, whose charm and lack of pretension make her wonderfully human and a welcome companion as she chatters on about the small culinary accomplishments and discoveries that occur in her kitchen” (Chicago Tribune).  Lucky readers in the 1970s and ’80s discovered Laurie Colwin’s urbane, witty fiction in The New Yorker, as well as her warm, engaging food writing in Gourmet magazine columns. More Home Cooking, the second collection of these columns, is an expression of Colwin’s lifelong passion for cuisine and offers a delightful mix of recipes, advice, and personal anecdotes from the kitchen and beyond. She muses over the many charms and challenges of cooking at home in timeless essays including “Desserts That Quiver,” “Real Food for Tots,” and “Catering on One Dollar a Head.” As informative as it is entertaining, and filled with Colwin’s trademark down-to-earth charm and wit, More Home Cooking is a rare treat for anyone who spends time in the kitchen and feels “like having a great conversation with someone that you love” (Samantha Bee). Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/735717 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Johnny Carson Author: Henry Bushkin Narrator: Josh Bloomberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: “A close look at how show business power corrupts . . . The dishiest read of the year.” – Janet Maslin, “Ten Favorite Books of the Year,” New York Times “Here’s Johnny!” Probably everyone in America knows the phrase, whether they watched every episode of The Tonight Show or none because they had to go to bed early on school nights. From 1962 to 1992, Johnny Carson and his Tonight Show dominated the American consciousness. Henry Bushkin was Carson’s best friend and lawyer during that period, and his book is a tautly rendered and remarkably nuanced portrait of Carson, revealing not only how he truly was, but why. Bushkin explains why Carson, a voracious (and very talented) womanizer, felt he always had to be married; why he couldn’t visit his son in the hospital and wouldn’t attend his mother’s funeral; and much more. Johnny Carson is by turns shocking, poignant, and uproarious — written with a novelist’s eye for detail, a screenwriter’s ear for dialogue, and a knack for comic timing that Carson himself would relish. “A fascinating book about a complex man.” — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Like The Tonight Show, the book has many a merry moment . . . [Johnny Carson] was also one of a kind, and is missed. This book brings a bit of him back.” — St. Louis Post-Dispatch A People magazine Top Ten Book of the Year

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733893 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today Author: Simon Reynolds Narrator: Rich Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A collection of writing by Simon Reynolds, centered on music that seemed, in its moment, to prefigure the Future   Simon Reynolds's first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow. Sounds that prefigure pop music's future—the vanguard genres and heroic innovators whose discoveries eventually get accepted by the wider mass audience. But it's also about the way music can stir anticipation for a thrillingly transformed world just around the corner: a future that might be utopian or dystopian, but at least will be radically changed and exhilaratingly other.     Starting with an extraordinary chapter on Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer, taking in illuminating profiles of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Boards of Canada, Burial, and Daft Punk, and arguing for Auto-Tune as the defining sound of 21st century pop, Futuromania shapes over two dozen essays and interviews into a chronological narrative of machine-music from the 1970s to now. Reynolds explores the interface between pop music and science fiction's utopian dreams and nightmare visions, always emphasizing the quirky human individuals abusing the technology as much as the era-defining advances in electronic hardware and digital software.     A tapestry of the scenes and subcultures that have proliferated in that febrile, sexy, and contested space where man meets machine, Futuromania is an enthused listening guide that will propel readers towards adventures in sound. There is a lifetime of electronic listening here.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757795 to listen full audiobooks. Title: With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic Author: A. Ashley Hoff Narrator: Kim Niemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: When she died in 1977, Joan Crawford was remembered as an icon of Hollywood's Golden Age—until publication the following year of her daughter's memoir, Mommie Dearest. Christina Crawford's book was an immediate bestseller, addressing the infrequently discussed topic of child abuse. When Paramount Pictures released the film, starring Faye Dunaway as Crawford, it was critically panned, and remains one of the most legendary critical bombs in film history. The lavish, big-screen adaptation drew unexpected laughter in the scenes depicting life in the Crawford household. Rarely have such good intentions been met with such ridicule. Despite this, the movie was a commercial success and remains, four decades later, immensely popular. With Love, Mommie Dearest details the writing and selling of Christina's book and the aftermath of its publication, as well as the filming of the motion picture, whose backstage drama almost surpassed what was viewed onscreen in the film. Based on new interviews with people connected to the book and the film, Hollywood historian A. Ashley Hoff explores the phenomenon, the camp, and the very real social issues addressed by the book and film.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752348 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Film Director's Intuition: Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques Author: Judith Weston Narrator: Judith Weston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: This book is an invaluable and inspirational material for the film, television and theater professional. It helps directors, actors, writers, designers, producers and executives tap into their imagination and instincts, in turn helping them create the films they’ve always dreamed of creating.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759178 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Guitar By Ear: Rock and Blues Box Set 5 Author: Bill Brown Narrator: Bill Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 57 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Beatles, Beatles, Beatles, and some Jeff Beck, CCR, and Christian Rock are all in this Guitar By Ear Box Set. This set has almost fourteen hours of high quality guitar instruction teaching some of the greatest hits of Rock and Roll, and you can learn them all completely “by ear” without music, tab, or video! This box set contains a mixture of late beginner through intermediate level song lessons. This box set includes: “A Hard Days Nights”“All My Loving”“All the Small Things”“And I Love Her”“Baby It’s You”“Can’t Buy Me Love”“Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers”“Day Tripper”“Don’t Let Me Down”“Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere”“Hit Me with Your Best Shot”“Jeff’s Boogie”“Made to be Broken”“God Save Us All”“Redeemer”“She’s a Woman”“Suzie Q”“Walking in the Light”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Studio Ghibli: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata (4th Edition) Author: Michelle Le Blanc, Colin Odell Narrator: Abigail Reno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: REVISED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE BOY AND THE HERON The animations of Japan’s Studio Ghibli are among the most respected in the movie industry. Their films rank alongside the most popular non-English language films ever made, with each new release a guaranteed box office hit. Yet this highly profitable studio has remained fiercely independent, producing a stream of imaginative and individual animations. The studio’s founders, Hayao Miyazaki and the late Isao Takahata, have created timeless masterpieces. Their films are distinctly Japanese but the themes are universal: humanity, community and a love for the environment. Studio Ghibli outlines the history of the studio and explores the early output of its founders. It examines all the studio’s major works including Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Grave of the Fireflies, My Neighbour Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Only Yesterday, Porco Rosso, Pom Poko, Whisper of the Heart, Princess Mononoke and Howl’s Moving Castle, as well as the Oscar-winning Spirited Away. Also included are the more recent animations: Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-nominated masterpiece The Wind Rises, Isao Takahata’s The Tale of Princess Kaguya, Goro Miyazaki’s Earwig and the Witch and Hayao Miyazaki’s latest box office success, The Boy and the Heron, which recently won a BAFTA, Golden Globe and Academy Award.   ‘One of the most authoritative texts available. Whether you’re a newcomer or a longtime fan, Studio Ghibli is well worth a read’ – SCIFI NOW ‘A valuable beginner’s guide to their complex and beautiful world’ – THE LIST MAGAZINE

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753871 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Respect for Acting: Expanded Edition Author: Uta Hagen Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 25 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Since its original publication in 1973, Uta Hagen's Respect for Acting has remained a durable classic for all students of acting. As an acting instructor at the Herbert Berghof Studio, Hagen helped to develop the talents of world-class actors like Robert DeNiro, Matthew Broderick, Gene Wilder, Amanda Peet, Austin Pendleton, Whoopi Goldberg, and more. This updated edition illuminates Hagen's original text with a new foreword written by Katie Finneran, retaining the David Hyde Pierce foreword, along with added background on HB Studio—one of the original New York performing arts training and practice spaces—and an excerpt from Hagen's autobiography SOURCES. Respect for Acting is a book for actors and audiences who understand the need for truth in the creative process. ● Discover the acting book that has shaped professional theater performances for decades ● Learn the history and background of Herbert Berghof Studio ● Practice the craft of acting with concrete exercises and instruction on technique ● Delve into the deep questions that arise when actors truly inhabit the lives of their characters

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755849 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Piano by Ear: Pop and Standards Box Set 10 Series: Part of The Piano by Ear Series Author: Bill Brown Narrator: Bill Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 56 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: This Piano By Ear box contains fifteen hours of high quality music instruction teaching you some of the greatest songs of all time. These solos are mostly intermediate to early advanced, so you will sound like a true professional once you have mastered them. This package contains mostly movie and theater hits along with a few top hits from the pop and rock world. This box set includes: “Everything I Do” (Late Intermediate/Early Advanced)“Part of Your World” (Late Intermediate/Early Advanced)“Send in the Clowns” (Late Intermediate/Early Advanced)“I Will Always Love You” (Late Intermediate/Early Advanced)“Open Arms” (Late Intermediate)“Can You Feel the Love Tonight” (Intermediate)“In this Life” (Late Intermediate/Early Advanced)“Noelle’s Theme” (Late Intermediate/Early Advanced)“A Whole New World” (Intermediate)“Edelweiss” (Early Intermediate) “The Rose” (Late Intermediate)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738494 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lucas: His Hollywood Legacy Author: Richard Ravalli Narrator: Joe Hempel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 8 minutes Release date: April 14, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: George Lucas is an innovative and talented director, producer, screenwriter, and filmmaker whose prolific career spans decades. While he is best known as the creative mind behind the Star Wars franchise, Lucas first gained notoriety with his 1973 film American Graffiti, which received five Academy Award nominations. When Star Wars was released, the groundbreaking motion picture won six Academy Awards, became the highest grossing film at the time, and started a cultural revolution that continues to inspire generations of fans. Three decades and countless successes later, Lucas announced semiretirement in 2012 and sold his successful production company, Lucasfilm, to Disney. His achievements have earned him the Academy's Irving G. Thalberg Award, the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award, induction into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and the California Hall of Fame, and a National Medal of Arts presented by President Barack Obama. Lucas: His Hollywood Legacy is the first collection to bring a sustained scholarly perspective to the iconic filmmaker and his legacy beyond the Star Wars films. Edited by Richard Ravalli, this volume analyzes Lucas's overall contribution and importance to the film industry, diving deep into his use and development of modern special effects technologies, the history of his Skywalker Ranch production facilities, and more.