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Behind the Music

November 3, 2012 | madame librarian

Promoters,musicians,songwriters,recording studios...all these people behind the scenes.


Hüsker Dü: the story of the noise-pop pioneers who launched modern rock by Andrew Earles

Here, there and everywhere: my life recording the music of the Beatles by Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey

Lonely avenue: the unlikely life and times of Doc Pomus by Alex Halberstadt

Dream boogie: the triumph of Sam Cooke by Peter Guralnick

Seeing the light: inside the Velvet Underground by Rob Jovanovic

While my guitar gently weeps: the music of George Harrison by Simon Leng

At the jazz band ball: sixty years on the jazz scene by Nat Hentoff ; foreword by Lewis Porter

Hound dog: the Leiber & Stoller autobiography by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller with David Ritz