Cover of Wired for Sound: Now That's What I Call an Eighties Music Childhood

Wired for Sound: Now That's What I Call an Eighties Music Childhood

A charmingly nostalgic and humorous memoir of growing up during the decade in which music changed forever - the 1980s.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 401 pages

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