DISGRACELAND

Musicians. Movie stars. Mayhem. Murder. DISGRACELAND is the award-winning podcast that tells the unbelievable but true stories from the dark side of entertainment history. Rockstars getting away with murder and behaving very badly. Actors engulfed in scandal. Pop stars plotted against and terrorized. Taylor Swift escaping her stalkers. Jerry Lee Lewis allegedly murdering his wife. Brittany Murphy’s suspicious death. Big Lurch, the hip hop star who ate his roommate. The assassination of John Lennon. The Grateful Dead, the CIA, the LSD that turned on the USA, and the real reason Neil Young gave Charles Manson his motorcycle. Robert Downey Jr.’s redemptive rise from addiction. Anthony Bourdain’s destructive lust for life. The true crime stories that inspired Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska and the serial killer inspired by AC/DC’s Highway To Hell. Welcome to DISGRACELAND, where these stories and more will grip you to the edge of your seat and cause you to binge episode after episode. 


DISGRACELAND publishes new, fully scripted, and sound-designed episodes every Tuesday and bonus episodes featuring listener voicemails, texts, and emails on Thursdays. 


DISGRACELAND is not a journalistic podcast. It is an entertainment podcast inspired by true events. Certain dialogue and scenes are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes, as they are in most scripted entertainment based on true events. Sources and credits for each episode are available at www.disgracelandpod.com .


To listen to DISGRACELAND ad-free and get access to an exclusive monthly episode, weekly bonus content, and more, become a Disgraceland All Access member at www.disgracelandpod.com/membership.

Music
True Crime
Society & Culture
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The Notorious B.I.G. Pt. 2: A Dead Rivalry, New...
32 min
252
The Notorious B.I.G. Pt. 1: Dealing Crack on th...
36 min
253
Lil Wayne: Murder Squads, A Pre-Teen Suicide At...
33 min
254
Oasis Pt. 2: The Biggest Band on the Planet, Br...
32 min
255
Oasis Pt. 1: Hooliganism, Hedonism, Rock Star A...
32 min
256
The New York Dolls: Born to Lose, Lipstick Kill...
37 min
257
Lil’ Peep: A new hip-hop and emo fusion; trap b...
33 min
258
The Beatles (Pt. 2): Kamikaze Assassins, Acid S...
37 min
259
The Beatles (Pt. 1): Stoned with Dylan, Dosed w...
38 min
260
The Ramones: TV Bombs, Psycho Therapy, Toilet S...
35 min
261
David Bowie: The occult, cocaine, orgies, arres...
38 min
262
Gram Parsons: A Stolen Body, Heroin, More Rolli...
40 min
263
Chuck Berry: Systemic Racism, Sexual Depravity ...
34 min
264
Selena: Tejano, Deception, and the Death of the...
41 min
265
The Misfits: Robbing Graves, Night of the Livin...
45 min
266
The Grateful Dead Pt. 2: The Ballad of Pigpen a...
37 min
267
Chet Baker: Heroin, Romance, Missing Teeth and ...
35 min
268
Ice-T: Crip Rhymes, a Cop Killer, Thieving Jewe...
37 min
269
The Rolling Stones Pt. 2: Swinging London, Stol...
The Establishment strikes back in this second installment of the Rolling Stones time in Swinging London. UK pop star Donovan is busted, a precursor to the Stones Redlands bust. Mick Jagger is in jail looking at hard time. The tabloids and the coppers are in league to bring down the disruptive Rolling Stones while the myth of Keith Richards is born.
34 min
270
Rolling Stones Pt. 1: Swinging London, a Prison...
London was swinging. Keith Richards was in jail. The Kray Twins were menacing about. Brian Jones was on too much LSD. Aristocrats were tripping over themselves to hang out with the Rolling Stones. England was smitten. The London Establishment was freaking out and the Stones’ manager wanted to know one thing: Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone?
32 min
271
Prince: Dark Funk and Fentanyl
Few pop artists achieved the dizzying creative and career highs that Prince did. An artist who famously stayed away from drugs and most anything that would cause him to lose control, Prince was aided in his legendary musical output by a small army of creative alter egos, who helped him maintain control and helped him reign supreme as one of the greatest pop musicians of all time, until of course, all control was lost.
36 min
272
Studio 54: Disco Decadence, a Dead Body and Bag...
In the late seventies, Studio 54 was the place to be for musicians and celebrities alike. John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and others all famously hung out at the notorious club where hedonism was part of the venue’s allure. The success of Studio 54 was sudden and massive, resulting in mountains of cash, cocaine, jealousy, revenge, an FBI raid and an ironic ending for one of its owners.
37 min
273
Nipsey Hussle: A Crenshaw Murder, Community Act...
Nipsey Hussle was more than just one of this generation’s most promising voices in hip hop. He was a social activist, a community leader and aspirational entrepreneur. His death was senseless and set off grief stricken testimonials from some of the biggest names in hip hop as well as from some of the biggest names in our culture period. It also set off a riot in the streets of Los Angeles where he came up on and was shot down on. He was taken from us too soon and we’re still searching for answers.
31 min
274
Ozzy Osbourne: The Prince of Darkness, Randy Rh...
40 min
275
Run DMC: Innovation, Evolution and the Mysterio...
Run DMC is directly responsible for elevating hip hop to previously unimagined heights. They took rap music into an entirely different direction and helped mainstream the genre. They were beloved as musicians, innovators and people. None more than their DJ, Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell, which makes understanding his senseless murder near impossible. Who killed Jam Master Jay and why? And why are there literally zero suspects when there were numerous eyewitnesses?
37 min