DISGRACELAND

Murder, infidelity, suicide, arson, overdose, religious cults, drug trafficking; this award winning podcast explores the alleged true crime antics and criminal connections of musicians we love like Jerry Lee Lewis, Jay Z, The Rolling Stones, Amy Winehouse, Tupac Shakur, the Grateful Dead, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Blondie and many more. Why? Because real rock stars are more like feral, narcissistic animals than functioning members of society and that is precisely what makes them so damn entertaining. If you love music history and you love true crime, then get ready to love this podcast. 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. Special "Rewind" episodes from our archive of over 230+ episodes are re-released on Fridays.


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 .


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Music
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Society & Culture
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The Misfits: Robbing Graves, Night of the Livin...
45 min
302
The Grateful Dead Pt. 2: The Ballad of Pigpen a...
37 min
303
Chet Baker: Heroin, Romance, Missing Teeth and ...
35 min
304
Ice-T: Crip Rhymes, a Cop Killer, Thieving Jewe...
37 min
305
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
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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
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Prince (Pt. 1): Dark Funk and Fentanyl
36 min
308
Ozzy Osbourne: The Prince of Darkness, Randy Rh...
40 min
309
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
310
Joe Exotic: Tiger King, Budding Country Star, C...
Joe Exotic, the gun toting, mullet wearing, polyamorous subject of the hit Netflix series, Tiger King was more than just a murder-minded conman. He could sing! You saw those videos. We did too. As a singer, Joe’s voice belied the tortured Everyman experience of some of the best country music crooners, hinting at deep trauma resulting from unspeakable loss, assault and violence. Most of which was for the most part, left on the cutting room floor of the popular Netflix series and is on display in this special Covid-19 bonus content episode of Disgraceland.
36 min
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John Denver: A Folk Singer, a Sniper and Americ...
54 min
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Little Richard: Sex and the Duality of the King...
Little Richard is the originator. Without him it’s hard to imagine the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Elton John or even Led Zeppelin. He blazed a trail through popular culture that previous to him did not exist. His music was completely original for the time, the essence of rock ‘n’ roll, filled with impassioned energy, fueled at times by large quantities of drugs and always brimming with sex. The sex, the drugs, and the party for Little Richard, it was as endless as the manic energy that drove his music and it all nearly derailed him––several times––landing him behind bars and on the wrong side of the gun. 
39 min
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Jay Z: Street hustle, a Nightclub Stabbing, a N...
44 min
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Guns N’ Roses Pt. 2: Real life Rocket Queen, Ra...
38 min
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Guns N’ Roses Pt. 1: Brawling with Bowie, Juven...
37 min
316
The Beach Boys Pt. 2: Endless Bummer, Hollywood...
38 min
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The Beach Boys Pt. 1: Endless Summer, LSD, Orgi...
41 min
318
A$AP Rocky: Love Sex Dreams/LSD and Locked Up O...
A$AP Rocky’s upbringing; Harlem, Riker’s, and his own instincts and sense of history informed his world view: A view that included not only a healthy respect for the healing powers of LSD, but also a healthy distaste for the political maelstrom surrounding cartoon president Donald J. Trump. The irony is that A$AP Rocky’s own behavior led him straight into the political fray—jailed in an international incident and, in the end, in need of the unlikeliest of political allies to help him escape.
45 min
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Whitney Houston: Cracks in the Mirror, Crack o...
Whitney Houston was The Voice. A stunning beauty. An early MTV star and leading actress. But when she passed away in a hotel suite bath, the music industry gala downstairs that she was supposed to attend went on without her. How did it all come to this? The drugs and her husband Bobby Brown weren’t answers, just ways to avoid the question: what was the private tragedy of Whitney Houston?
33 min
320
Eminem: Taking His Shot, Pulling a Glock, and F...
On a single Saturday in 2000, Marshall Mathers assaulted two separate men with a pistol and fought with his wife outside a nightclub, resulting in lawsuits and charges that hung over the completion of his original trilogy of albums. For that one day, the rap persona Slim Shady had escaped into the real world. How had Slim Shady come to be, and why had he gotten out?
32 min
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Madonna: Music as Sex and Sex as Power in the R...
38 min
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Iggy Pop: Mad Artistry, Mental Wards, and Gapin...
37 min
323
Motown Records: Pimps, Prostitutes, the Detroit...
Motown Records is one of the most successful musical industry endeavors or all time. The music and the megastars Motown produced; Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder and the Jackson 5 defined a generation. But that success is marred by rumors. Rumors that the record label and its innovative owner were controlled by the quote unquote black hand of the white American mob.
38 min
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Led Zeppelin: Dark Power, Cocaine, Backstage Br...
Led Zeppelin were the biggest band on the planet. The great white shark of the seventies. They defined excess. The designed the avatar for the heavy metal rock star; themselves. Along the way there were violent brawls, car crashes, lots of cocaine, alcohol, satanic sexual rituals and a very freaked out David Bowie.
42 min
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N.W.A Pt. 2: Beatdowns, Band Beef, Death Row an...
36 min