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  • Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph book cover
  • Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music book cover
  • The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century book cover
  • The Great Book of Rock Trivia: Amazing Trivia, Fun Facts & The History of Rock and Roll book cover
  • Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music book cover
  • The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band book cover
  • How Music Works book cover
  • Eagles: Before the Band book cover
  • The Classical Music Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained book cover
  • LOST OR FORGOTTEN OLDIES VOLUME 1: Hit Records From 1955 To 1989 That The Radio Seldom Plays book cover
  • Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music and Fame book cover
  • Composers: Their Lives and Works book cover
  • Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk book cover
  • Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation book cover
  • The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Hair Metal book cover
  • Once Upon a Rock Star: Backstage Passes in the Heavy Metal Eighties—Big Hair, Bad Boys (and One Bad Girl) book cover
  • Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock book cover
  • White Line Fever: The Autobiography book cover
  • Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd (Reading Edition): (Rock and Roll Book, Biography of Pink Floyd, Music Book… book cover
  • Music Theory 101: From keys and scales to rhythm and melody, an essential primer on the basics of music theory (Adams… book cover
  • Guitar: An American Life book cover
  • Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions book cover
  • Music: The Definitive Visual History book cover
  • Listening To The Who: Album By Album, Song By Song book cover
  • Lost Pianos of Siberia book cover
  • Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom book cover
  • Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood book cover
  • I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie book cover
  • Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians book cover
  • Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen… book cover
  • They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us book cover
  • Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll book cover
  • The Story of Music: From Babylon to the Beatles: How Music Has Shaped Civilization book cover
  • Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop book cover
  • Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond book cover
  • Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation book cover
  • Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition book cover
  • Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 book cover
  • Everybody Must Get Stoned:: Rock Stars On Drugs book cover
  • Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James & The Shondells book cover
  • John Lennon: 1980 Playlist book cover
  • Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock 'n' Roll book cover
  • Music: A Subversive History book cover
  • Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville book cover
  • All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America (Pivotal Moments in American History) book cover
  • Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge book cover
  • Wendy Carlos: A Biography (Cultural Biographies) book cover
  • More Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas book cover
  • Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 book cover
  • Last Train to Memphis (Enhanced Edition): The Rise of Elvis Presley book cover
  • I'm Gonna Say It Now: The Writings of Phil Ochs book cover
  • I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution book cover
  • The Indispensable Composers: A Personal Guide book cover
  • Schoenberg and His School book cover
  • The Violin Maker: A Search for the Secrets of Craftsmanship, Sound, and Stradivari book cover
  • Must-See Musicals: 50 Show-Stopping Movies We Can't Forget (Turner Classic Movies) book cover
  • Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away with Murder and Behaving Very Badly book cover
  • Lost or Forgotten Oldies Volume 4: Hit Records from 1955 to 1989 that the Radio Seldom Plays book cover
  • Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story: His Own Story by Rick Bragg book cover
  • What to Listen For in Music (Signet Classics) book cover
  • Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul (The Soul Trilogy Book 2) book cover
  • Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles book cover
  • Joan Baez: The Last Leaf book cover
  • A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead book cover
  • You Can't Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Other Wonderful Reprobates book cover
  • Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 book cover
  • The Traveling Wilburys: The Biography book cover
  • Get in the Van book cover
  • Mozart: A Life book cover
  • Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix book cover
  • The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince book cover
  • The Romantic Revolution: A History (Modern Library Chronicles Series Book 34) book cover
  • Global Rock Legends - Part 1 book cover
  • Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul (The Soul Trilogy Book 1) book cover
  • Red Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground book cover
  • Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To book cover
  • The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience (Music in American Life) book cover
  • LOST OR FORGOTTEN OLDIES VOLUME 2: Hit Records From 1955 to 1989 That The Radio Seldom Plays book cover
  • Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock book cover
  • Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain: Tales of Romance and Tragedy book cover
  • Bernard Shaw on Music (The Critical Shaw) book cover
  • LOST OR FORGOTTEN OLDIES VOLUME 3: Hit Records from 1955 to 1989 that the Radio Seldom Plays book cover
  • Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD book cover
  • Pink Floyd All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track book cover
  • Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War book cover
  • Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo book cover
  • Beethoven: The Man Revealed book cover
  • Ocean of Sound: Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication (Serpent's Tail Classics) book cover
  • Rock Trivia Madness: 60s to 90s Rock Music Trivia & Amazing Facts book cover
  • The World's Hardest Music Trivia: Rock n Roll History, Fun Facts and Behind the Scenes Stories About the Groups and… book cover
  • Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day book cover
  • Women, Music, Culture: An Introduction book cover
  • Why Was the Partridge in the Pear Tree?: The History of Christmas Carols book cover
  • Bob Dylan In America book cover
  • Religion in Hip Hop: Mapping the New Terrain in the US (Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music) book cover
  • A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians--from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in… book cover
  • Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead book cover
  • Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica (33 1/3 Book 44) book cover
  • The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation book cover
  • What Goes On: The Beatles, Their Music, and Their Time book cover
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6 authors with more than one book:

  • 4 - Rembert N Parker
  • 4 - Peter Guralnick
  • 3 - DK
  • 2 - Alex Ross
  • 2 - Bill O'Neill
  • 2 - Stuart Cosgrove

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Series in the chart

  • The Soul Trilogy (Book 2, Book 1)
  • Modern Library Chronicles Series (Book 34)

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