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This unique audiobook from historian and author Geoffrey Giuliano chronicles the life, times, trials, and triumphs of the remarkable scholar, activist, feminist, teacher, and reformer Angela Davis, using informed commentary, but most significantly, the words and wisdom of Ms. Davis herself. Forget the rhetoric, rumors, and urban legends surrounding this polarizing figure, and listen directly to Ms. Davis. Prison reform, civil rights, racial equality - all these topics are presented by author and producer Giuliano.

Everyone who knows music understands Ginger Baker was, and is, perhaps, the greatest rock jazz fusion drummer ever. Author Giuliano was close to both Ginger and Jack Bruce in the 1990s and presents us with the very best of his extended three-week daily interview sessions with Mr. Baker. Here, you will meet the real man behind the never-ending drum kit. Neither myth, legend, nor spurious gossip can ever equal the true measure of the man, and this tempestuous audiobook proves it once and for all.

Contents: How "Legs" Larry Smith joined the Bonzo Dog Band. The requirements for joining the band had far more to do with attitude than musical proficiency. Neil Innes joins the band very early on as a keyboardist and then later switches to guitar. A succession of unnamed transient tuba players come and go. The introduction of Rodney Slater and Roger Ruskin Spear to the band.

Here, from the extensive private archives of the world’s foremost Beatles’ historian and author Geoffrey Giuliano comes perhaps the rarest, virtually unheard interviews with the founder and spiritual heart of the Beatles, circa 1969. In these incredible, over 50-year-old tapes, you will come to know the real John Lennon in his own stirring words and private thoughts. Here is the chance to understand the man behind the music and understand, even more deeply, the incredible music behind the man.

An encounter with the great swirling powerhouse that is Roger Ruskin Spear is one like no other. You have to hear it to believe it - if you could see it, you might, perchance, lower your gaze, as here is one of the brightest suns in this one-of-a-kind pop-rock humor genre that he and his Bonzo Dog mates virtually created from scratch.

John Lennon‘s now well-known maternal half-sister Julia Baird joined forces with famous author Geoffrey Giuliano in the early 1980s to write a riveting book on her life and times on the famous Beatle. With a stirring, revealing introduction by close friend Paul McCartney, it was an immediate, internationally best-selling smash! The sometimes rocky relationship between Mrs. Baird and Mr. Giuliano, however, makes for an exciting, behind the scenes inside story.

When author Geoffrey Giuliano and his wife Vrnda Devi met Jack Bruce and his lovely wife Margaret at the Savoy Hotel bar in London in 1994, they had no idea the kind of explosive, confessional, even lurid conversation they were about to have. What was supposedly a reasonably generic interview about the life and work of the great Mr. Bruce quickly turned into a haunting tirade on Jack’s highly emotional, even hate-filled thoughts concerning his longtime musical colleague and Cream band member Eric Clapton.

Vivian Stanshall, the one-off, brilliant headmaster of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band of the 1960s, has left us - but his music and cultural legacy live on. His brilliant, accomplished, articulate, charming, no-nonsense wife, Ki Longfellow Stanshall, generously gives us her innermost, intimate, and telling thoughts on her time with Vivian and the incredible life she has lived as a highly successful, internationally acclaimed artist and author in her own right.

Once again the Old Gray Goose delivers a collection of funny, heartwarming tales perfected over six decades of campfires and thousands of enthusiastic young campers as part of his amazing lifelong work with the YMCA. Here is the definitive collection of down-home songs and stories for children of all ages, affectionately told by a compassionate man who genuinely cares about young people.

With a lively, fairly bizarre interview between the two, an oddly amusing collection of Henley street interviews conducted by Geoffrey, and other Giuliano-penned musical odds and ends, here is a rare inside look at not only the unlikely relationship between these two talented men but also a breakdown of the creative process in its rawest and most primal form. An audio biographical must for all pop and rock fans, Bonzo Dog freaks, film buffs, and university and school systems.

John Lennon‘s now well-known maternal half-sister, Julia Baird, joined forces with famous author Geoffrey Giuliano in the early 1980s to write a riveting book on her life and times with the famous Beatle. With a stirring, revealing introduction by close friend Paul McCartney, it was an immediate, internationally best-selling smash! The sometimes rocky relationship between Mrs. Baird and Mr. Giuliano however, makes for an exciting, behind the scenes inside story.

Here, you will find the always interesting and enigmatic Vivian Stanshall, the loony cartoony Mr. Wonderful, "Legs" Larry Smith, the incredibly dry robot master trouser king, Roger Ruskin Spear, and the uber-talented, gentlemanly musical engine of the group, sometime Monty Python, Neil Innes. The author also includes concise life histories of each of these amazing gentlemen along with far-ranging archival conversations recorded from 1983 to 1995.

A unique audio primer and celebration of the inspirational life and great work of revolutionary and social reformer Commandante Ernesto Rafael "Che" Guevara de la Serna Lynch...Here you will find the absolute perfect audio archive and practical history of one of the most misunderstood and brilliant warrior politicians philosophers of the 20th century.

Vivian, the headmaster of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, was also a singular author, poet, painter, actor, and iconic British eccentric. This unique audiobook offers rare insight into the brilliant clockwork mind of this late British national treasure. Renaissance man Stanshall holds forth on a number of insightful topics relating to his turbulent life and enticing, inspirational, evergreen work. This in-depth production also includes a concise one-hour biological overview of Vivian’s life as well as the personal remembrances of his friend and colleague Giuliano.

Continuing the almost fairy-tale saga of the unlikely life of Frank Sinatra, in part two, Frank discusses his alleged ties with the mafia, his wild, international concert tours, and his private time at home with his wife Barbara, children, and grandchildren. It is an intimate look at the man behind the legend such as you will not find. Featuring rare interviews and commentary. Recommended for all library collections. Narrated by the author.

In this dynamic, hard-hitting audiobook, music biographer Geoffrey Giuliano examines the turbulent life and times of contemporary legends the Beatles. With an in-depth, insightful narration by the author as well as rare archival, unheard interviews - here is the perfect collection celebrating the Fab Four for every dedicated fan, music historian, the media as well as all school, library, institutional, and university collections. An ultra-rare, exciting audio biography!

Meher Baba, born Merwan Sheriar Iran on February 25, 1894, was a beloved Indian spiritual master who said he was the Avatar or God in human form. When he was 19, he contacted five spiritual teachers before beginning his own mission and gathering his own disciples in early 1922, at the age of 27. From July 1925 to the end of his life, Baba maintained silence, communicating by means of an alphabet board or by unique hand gestures. I

Michael Jeffrey Jordan, born February 17, 1963, is THE greatest American professional basketball player of all time. Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was considered instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s. He holds records for the highest career regular season scoring average and highest career playoff scoring average. In 1999, he was named the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century by ESPN.

Here is the untold, inside story of the brief, eventful life of Princess Diana. Narrated by well-known actress Jan Farrington, here is the princess of hearts who captivated the world through her charitable works and larger-than-life persona. A royal tribute to an icon for the ages. With exclusive interviews and commentary.

When we lost Muhammad Ali, we lost not only a great athlete, but also a beacon of hope for the dispossessed, forgotten, and isolated. As great as he was as a fighter, Ali was arguably even a greater humanitarian. In this one-of-a-kind audio biography, the champ tells his own story with an expansive script by best-selling author Geoffrey Giuliano and an inspirational narration by actress Jan Ferrington. A must-listen for all true fans and lovers of sport and truth. With unpublished interviews.