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The Stone Roses: War and Peace
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Monster Loyalty: How Lady Gaga Turns Followers Into Fanatics
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Build Your Own Electric Guitar
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Led Zeppelin: From a Whisper to a Scream: Complete Guide to Their Music
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The Persistence of Sentiment: Display and Feeling in Popular Music of the 1970s
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David Bowie Is...
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The Rose That Grew from Concrete
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Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga
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Hal Leonard Recording Method #03: Recording Software & Plug-Ins
Bill GibsonBill Gibson 9781423430506
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The Craft of Lyric Writing
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Best of Dave Matthews Band for Easy Guitar - Volume 2
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Classic Rock: 50 Favorites for Easy Guitar
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The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats
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Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar
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Just Kids
by Patti Smith
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How Music Works
by David Byrne
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
by Alex Ross
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Among its many other innovations, the 20th century was the first to truly have its own soundtrack. New Yorker music critic Alex Ross is nothing if not ambitious, and, as he tracks the history of 20th-century music (and the music of 20th-century history... (read more)

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I Hope You Are All Happy Now
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Cobain Unseen
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Piano Book Buying & Owning a New Or 4TH Edition
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