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Stephen Sondheim:
A Life
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9.4
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    Mahler:
    A Biography
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    9.2
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    • 3

    El Secreto De Selena:
    LA Reveladora Historia Detras De Su Tragica Muerte
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    9.1
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    • 4

    Rotten:
    No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs:
    The Authorized Autobiography Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols
    Current rating
    8.9
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    • 5

    Doo-Dah!:
    Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture
    Current rating
    8.7
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    • 6

    Memoirs:
    Sir Georg Solti
    Current rating
    8.5
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    • 7

    George Clinton and P-Funk:
    An Oral History
    (For the Record)
    Current rating
    8.3
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    • 8

    Sinatra! the Song Is You:
    A Singer's Art
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    8.3
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    • 9

    The Lives of the Great Composers
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    8.3
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    • 10

    Andrew Lloyd Webber:
    His Life and Works:
    A Critical Biography
    Current rating
    8.1
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    • 11

    Tupac Amaru Shakur:
    1971-1996
    Current rating
    8.1
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    • 12

    Bad Seed:
    The Biography of Nick Cave
    Current rating
    7.9
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    • 13

    Richard Rodgers
    Current rating
    7.9
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    • 14

    I Make My Own Rules
    Current rating
    7.8
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    • 15

    ERR
    Current rating
    7.8
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    • 16

    Selena:
    Como LA Flor
    Current rating
    7.6
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    • 17

    Thelonious Monk:
    His Life and Music
    Current rating
    7.6
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    • 18
    El Sid:
    Saint Vicious
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    7.6
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    • 19
    Cleo
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    7.6
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    • 20
    Speak Low
    (When You Speak Love):
    The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya
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    7.4
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