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The BBC Music Search allows you to look for over 15,000 biographies of artists, composers and bands, as well as a host of features and microsites from around the BBC. Each biography comes with a full discography and list of recommended books and videos.

In addition you can search the database for 150,000 albums, with full tracklistings and over one million soundclips of featured tracks.
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For an album tracklisting, enter an album name in the album title box, and click Search.

If you are having trouble locating a band name (e.g. The Beatles or The Who), try omitting the word 'The' from your search.

Likewise if you are having trouble locating an artist biography using initials (eg P.J.Harvey), try the surname alone.

If you're looking for classical results, try the Advanced Classical Search.
Search for profiles, biographies and discographies on 15,000 artists across all genres
Search the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music for composer / performer biographies
For articles on instruments, notation, styles, classical terms, concepts or even venues explore the Grove Glossary.



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