The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll runs 9.9 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Pete Simonelli (about 6.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 20 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 9.9 hours, it runs longer than 69% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Pete Simonelli
Pete Simonelli narrates 88 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 875 hours in all.
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1,782 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll is an audiobook by Ian S. Port: a 9.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Pete Simonelli, released January 15, 2019, on the Social Science shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Pete Simonelli
- Released
- January 15, 2019
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science
- ISBN
- 9781508281474
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll as an audiobook?
The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll runs 9.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.6 hours.
Is The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll?
The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll is narrated by Pete Simonelli.