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 .


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XXXTentacion: Mellow Beats and Ultra Violence
XXXTentacion was one of Generation Z’s most talented hip hop stars but his ascent was marked by violence and drama; beatdowns, beefs (what’s up, Drake?) and abuse. XXXTentacion’s music quickly rose from Soundcloud to the top of the charts due in part to the relative loneliness and alienation he repped in his lyrics, sentiments his audience quickly latched onto. XXXTentacion’s connection to his audience was (and still is even in death) unique and powerful. Their connection via social media-fueled him, inspired him and ironically alienated him, just like his penchant for violence. What, if any of it, all led to his untimely demise?
39 min
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Grateful Dead Pt. 1: Freedom's Just Another Wor...
40 min
303
Ike and Tina Turner: The Inventor and Queen of ...
Ike Turner very well may have invented rock ‘n’ roll; Tina Turner is one of the most electrifying entertainers to ever take the stage. Together, the pair ascended to icon status through the music they made together. But the couple’s road to the top was anything but smooth. It was rough and violent. Ike Turner, for all of his talent as a musician, was abusive and heavily addicted to cocaine, and in the end did everything he could to bring his wife down with him. This is the story of the couple's rise, Ike’s ultimate demise, and Tina’s triumph.
40 min
304
Snoop Doggy Dogg: Murder Was The Case
Snoop Dogg, (AKA Calvin Broadus) has worn many hats: inmate, pimp, Martha Stewart’s BFF. In 1994, Snoop was the biggest name in hip hop, yet his career was about to be derailed just as it was taking off due to the murder of Philip Woldemariam, a murder that Snoop was being charged with. The streets that made Snoop, the streets he came up on and that infiltrated the raps he made and the smooth style he patented, were the very same streets he could not leave behind.
30 min
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Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love Pt. 2: Suicide Sa...
31 min
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Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love Pt. 1: No Directi...
38 min
307
Spade Cooley: Jealousy, Torture, Murder
Spade Cooley was one of Postwar America’s biggest celebrities and most talented musicians. He was also a violent drunk and homicidal psychopath with no heart. Mean, jealous, abusive, and almost totally driven by the deep-seated insecurity that he wasn’t good enough for any of the women who flocked to see him in concert, on television, and on the movie screen, Spade Cooley couldn’t bear the thought of his wife with another man so he he did the unthinkable—and what followed was, at the time, the trial of the century.
24 min
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Rick James: Superfreak Is an Understatement
31 min
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Big Lurch: Hip Hop Cannibal
Big Lurch didn’t just rap about standard hip-hop culture; he rapped about serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer and horror movie villains like Freddy Krueger. In the process, he contributed to a sub-genre of hip-hop called “horrorcore." He also smoked way too much PCP. So much that he could not separate his horrorcore lyrics, and the horror movies he watched, from reality. The result? Unspeakable. Not just murder. Cannibalism.
26 min
310
Keith Moon: Rockstar Excess and a Dead Chauffeur
28 min
311
Marvin Gaye: Father, Father There’s Far Too Man...
Marvin Gaye was born into a God-fearing home to a sweet, wholesome mother and crossdressing, philandering, pentecostal preacher father who ruled his children with an iron fist. Despite his tense upbringing, Marvin Gaye found his calling—music—and used it as his ticket out of his repressive home life. He chased away his shame and followed his muse to the top of the charts; through a sea of cocaine and sex, becoming one of the biggest and most gifted entertainers of all time before sinking into addiction and depression and ultimately winding up back at home with his parents. This was a move that would prove to be more devastating than any of his volatile sexual relationships and more deadly than any drug he’d ever taken.
26 min
312
GG Allin: Live Fast, Die
GG Allin, the notorious transgressive punk rocker, pushed the limits further than anyone before or after. For GG, there were no limits. No laws. He lived and performed well outside the boundaries of the mainstream and saw himself as the leader of what he called "The Rock 'N Roll Underground," for whom he pledged he would one day make the ultimate sacrifice: commit suicide on stage. Listen to this episode of Disgraceland to hear about GG Allin's final days. Buckle up, Sickos.
30 min
313
Brian Jones: To Be On Your Own Like A Sinking S...
Brian Jones invented “The World’s Greatest Rock ‘N Roll Band”, The Rolling Stones but would find himself kicked out of that band just a few years after helping rocket him and his bandmates to international success. He was ousted because of his excessive drug use and his abuse of women and shortly after bottoming out, Brian Jones was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool under somewhat mysterious circumstances.
27 min
314
Johnny Paycheck: Pardon Me, I've Got Someone to...
Lots of country music stars wear the black hat but none of them wore it with more authenticity than Johnny Paycheck. Johnny Cash may have bragged about shooting a man “just to watch him die” but Johnny Paycheck actually pulled the trigger. He was a true outlaw and totally hardcore. Hardcore honky tonk.
26 min
315
Mötley Crüe: Sex, Drugs, and Even More Sex and ...
Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil totaled his Ford Pantera on a beer run and, in the process, took the life of his friend Razzle Dingley, drummer for Hanoi Rocks. Bassist, Nikki Sixx survived multiple heroin overdoses. Guitarist Mick Mars walked away from a blackout drunk drowning and drummer, Tommy Lee lived through his own Caligula-like Sunset Strip sexcapades. Mötley Crüe, a degenerate band of death cheating rock gods has us asking, “how are these dudes still alive?” Maybe they’re the undead.
28 min
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The Death of John Lennon (Pt. 2): “The phony mu...
24 min
317
The Death of John Lennon (Pt. 1): “John Lennon,...
26 min
318
James Brown: Papa's Got A Brand New Bag... Of Meth
29 min
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Michael Alig: If a Club Kid Kills, Stuffs the B...
27 min
320
Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.: The Medi...
24 min
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Bob Marley: Rasta Vigilante
35 min
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Tay-K: A Nationwide Manhunt and Art Imitating Life
22 min
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Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes: Hit Me Again and I'll Bu...
27 min
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Van Morrison: Astral Weeks, Movement and Murder
26 min
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Norwegian Black Metal: Satanic Rebellion, Murde...
31 min