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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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
327
Rick James: Superfreak Is an Understatement
31 min
328
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
329
Keith Moon: Rockstar Excess and a Dead Chauffeur
28 min
330
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
331
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
332
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
333
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
334
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
335
The Death of John Lennon (Pt. 2): “The phony mu...
24 min
336
The Death of John Lennon (Pt. 1): “John Lennon,...
26 min
337
Michael Alig: If a Club Kid Kills, Stuffs the B...
27 min
338
Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.: The Medi...
24 min
339
Bob Marley: Rasta Vigilante
35 min
340
Tay-K: A Nationwide Manhunt and Art Imitating Life
22 min
341
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes: Hit Me Again and I'll Bu...
27 min
342
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks, Movement and Murder
26 min
343
Norwegian Black Metal: Satanic Rebellion, Murde...
31 min
344
Sam Cooke: An Insatiable Libido and a Justifiab...
26 min
345
Sid Vicious: Love Kills... Even a Mother's Love?
31 min
346
Jerry Lee Lewis: The Killer and Getting Away wi...
25 min