DISGRACELAND

You know the myths. You’ve seen the biopics. But if you’re the kind of music fan who craves the rest of the story—the stuff they buried or cleaned up for streaming and theaters—this is your podcast. DISGRACELAND is the award-winning show that reveals the deeply human, highly dramatic, true crime–fueled chaos behind legendary musicians like Amy Winehouse, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sean “Diddy” Combs, the Grateful Dead, Blondie, and more. While we dig into the dark side, we do so with reverence for the artists—and an understanding of the extreme highs, lows, and personal costs that come with fame and making great art. This is music history like you’ve never heard it—edge-of-your-seat stories exploding with drama and the kind of information that’ll make you dangerous at dinner parties.

New, fully scripted and sound-designed episodes drop every Tuesday. On Thursdays, we hand the mic to you—and feature listener voicemails, texts, and emails in our interactive bonus episodes. And on Fridays, we revisit the wildest stories from our 250+ episode archive with “Rewind” drops that’ll transport you back into music history’s most entertaining moments.

DISGRACELAND is not a journalistic podcast—it’s an entertainment podcast inspired by true events. Certain dialogue and scenes are occasionally fictionalized for dramatic effect, as is common in scripted entertainment based on real stories. Sources and credits for each episode are available at www.disgracelandpod.com.

To hear every episode ad-free—and get access to exclusive monthly episodes, weekly bonus content, and stories too wild for the main feed—become a Disgraceland All Access member at www.disgracelandpod.com/membership.

Music
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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
352
Snoop Doggy Dogg: Murder Was The Case
30 min
353
Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love Pt. 2: Suicide Sa...
31 min
354
Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love Pt. 1: No Directi...
38 min
355
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
356
Rick James: Superfreak Is an Understatement
31 min
357
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
358
The Who Pt 1: Keith Moon, Rockstar Excess, and ...
28 min
359
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
360
GG Allin: Live Fast, Die
30 min
361
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
362
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
363
Mötley Crüe Pt. 1: Sex, Drugs, and Even More Se...
28 min
364
The Death of John Lennon (Pt. 2): “The phony mu...
24 min
365
The Death of John Lennon (Pt. 1): “John Lennon,...
26 min
366
James Brown: Papa's Got A Brand New Bag... Of Meth
29 min
367
Michael Alig: If a Club Kid Kills, Stuffs the B...
27 min
368
Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.: The Medi...
24 min
369
Bob Marley: Rasta Vigilante
35 min
370
Tay-K: A Nationwide Manhunt and Art Imitating Life
22 min
371
The Rolling Stones: Sleeping With the First Lad...
25 min
372
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes: Hit Me Again and I'll Bu...
27 min
373
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks, Movement and Murder
26 min
374
Norwegian Black Metal: Satanic Rebellion, Murde...
31 min
375
Sam Cooke: An Insatiable Libido and a Justifiab...
26 min