Crime In Music

Hello Again, and Welcome to Crime In Music! Every other week, we'll bring you a true-crime podcast about people in & around the Music Business and their mis-adventures in Law-Breaking! We talk about such things as: #CrimeHistory #MurderMystery #MusicHistory #truecrime #MusicBusiness #CrimeInMusic If you like that sort of thing, Check Us Out, Hit Subscribe & Tell a Friend! Proud part of Pantheon - the podcast network for music lovers.

True Crime
Music History
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050 - I'm Melvin Rees and DO NOT Get Excited, b...
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049 - I'm Randy Travis and Even Though I'm Nake...
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048 - He robbed a woman in Reno just to watch h...
We start in Europe to bring you a uniquely American musical sensation. It all started in Paris, France with successful music producers; Jacques Morali, Henri Belolo (Jack & Hank). Jack knew how to write a catchy tune and Hank was good at business. After...
72 min
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047 - I'm Hank Williams Sr. and I Can Drink Mor...
As a child he lands his own radio show, singing and playing songs on his guitar. Listeners would call in asking for more of the singing kid. As soon as his career starts to take off, the world goes to war. Getting a section 4-F, he grinds out the war at...
81 min
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046 - I'm Flavor Flav and I'm NOT an Enemy of t...
From a young age, he was a musical prodigy. At the age of 5 he taught himself piano and 14 other instruments. He sang in the church choir like an angel, but burned down his house playing with lighters like a little devil. Raised in the mean streets of L...
65 min
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045 - I'm Giuseppe Tartini and the Devil's My D...
This man had a dream, a dream where Satan was HIS servant and Giuseppe told that Devil what to do. He even made Beelzebub entertain him, by playing his violin. As the songs will tell you, the Devil plays a pretty good fiddle son, so we’ll give the Devil ...
45 min
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044 - We're the Blues Brothers Band and We Aren...
Pop on your porkpie hat, raise up your Ray-Bans and hit the mean streets of Chicago's Southside. Hear a tale about brothers who aren't even related. They start a blues band 50 years too late to the game and have a few run-ins with the law along the way. ...
80 min
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043 - I'm Bobby Brown and I Can Do What I Want ...
He was raised on the mean streets of Boston, Massachusetts, USA. No seriously, he saw his buddy die in a knife fight at 11 years old! Not wanting the thug life, he teamed up w/ some friends & family to form the pop group New Edition, which includes membe...
74 min
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042 - We're NOT a person, we're the Canned Heat...
We cover the musical stylings of the Canned Heat. Episode highlights include:Blues record collectors start a Jug BandThe Jug Band turns into a blues-rock band - Canned HeatBand members rotate due to absence, drugs and deathTheir song Going Up Country...
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041 - I'm NOT a Person, I'm the Erie Canal Soda...
What do you get when you have 200K people come to see 40+ of the greatest rock bands of the 70's, with only 3 cops and 300 wooden toilets? It's the Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival! The plan was simple, throw a rock 'n roll festival that's better than New Y...
61 min
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040 - I'm Frank the Tank, I'm Frank Sinatra!
We're introduced to the land of Hoboken, NJ USA, site of the very 1st baseball game played in the states. He was born in America, his parents, were Italian immigrants. His mother would translate for Italians during their immigration and court proceeding...
79 min
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039 - I'm Ol' Dirty Bastard and I Ruined Welfar...
The son of a 911 Dispatcher and a New York City transit worker. He was one of 6 kids, but he regularly hung out with his cousins watching Kung-Fu movies. While regularly riding the train from Brooklyn to see their other cousin on Staten Island, the guys...
61 min
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038 - I'm Marky Mark and I was a Punk!
He can sing, dance and act, he's a triple threat. Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts USA to a delivery driver Dad and a bank clerk/ nurses aide Mom. The youngest of 9 children, with siblings who are also in show business as singers and actors. At a young ...
70 min
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037 - I'm Ike Turner and It's All About Holes!!!
He taught himself guitar and learned to play piano in a pool hall in St. Louis. He's worked as an elevator operator, a radio DJ and sat in with traveling musicians who came thru his town. From blues and boogie-woogie big bands, he splits off and invents ...
90 min
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036 - I'm Axl Rose and Like This Episode, I'm L...
He was a God fearing, church singing, Sunday School student until the day he found out his Dad wasn't really his Dad! Following in his birth Father's footsteps, he becomes a local juvenile delinquent and gets arrested 20 different times in his home town ...
82 min
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035 - I'm George Jones and I Have Stupid Possum...
In this episode we talking about the Possum, George Jones! A Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner, "No Show" Jones wrote several Country Classics, including "He Stopped Loving Her Today", and "White Lightening." His youth was spend dealing with an al...
69 min
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034 - I'm Elvis Presley and I AM A FEDERAL AGEN...
Our first PART TWO, Elvis Presley!! This time, we dive into the crazy meeting between Elvis and then President Richard Nixon. Hear about Elvis and his crew, the Memphis Mafia manhunt a guy through an airport, stopping a plane and we detail the Los Angles...
74 min
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033 - I'm Elvis Presley and I Pulled a Gun on a...
This star was so big we had to split the episode into 2 episodes! As a youth he was described as a loner, hillbilly kid who brought his guitar to school and played it at lunch time. Not the best singer, he was told by his music teacher that he couldn't s...
64 min
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032 - I'm Gucci Mane and Ninjas Tried to Steal ...
It’s a long ride on the struggle bus this episode. You’ll hear about a popular 8th grader who used his Christmas money to buy crack to expand his drug dealing empire. He gets busted by an undercover cop at college and gets kicked out. Ninjas invade his h...
87 min
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031 - I'm Jim Morrison and I Get Pissy After I'...
Raised as a military brat, this music legend's childhood covered half a dozen states, attended a few different universities and while his father commanded US Naval forces during the Gulf of Tonkin, he lived with his grandmother. After graduating UCLA wit...
72 min
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030 - I'm Waylon Jennings and I made $25K takin...
At the age of 12 he started work as a Radio DJ in rural Texas, playing his guitar and spinning records. He made friends with another Texas rock n' roller, Buddy Holly and even played bass in Holly's band the Crickets. His best friend was Willie Nelson an...
89 min
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029 - I'm Wendy O. Williams and I'm Pretty Accu...
We head back to New York City and hit the Punk scene again. This gal hitchhiked around the States as a teenager, travelled Europe as a topless dancer, meditated with monks of Asia and even worked at a Dunkin' Donuts shop. While in NYC she answers a newsp...
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028 - I'm James Brown and There Are 3 Things I ...
It's time for our 1-Year Anniversary Show and it's a big one! Listen along as we accurately and factually recall the life and times of one of the most influential musical icon of our time. Hear all about his youth as a boxer, his time picking peanuts and...
74 min
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027 - I'm Amy Winehouse and You Know I'm No Good!
She attended the best performing arts schools throughout England, like all of them. After years of practice & musical education, she signed a record deal at the age of 19. She had a mean right hook and every once and a while, she'd throw a flurry of punc...
74 min
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026 - I'm Capt. Beefheart & You'd Better Pack M...
What can you say about a guy who remembers his own birth, hosted a TV sculpting show for kids when he was only 9yrs old and his best friend from high school on was Frank Zappa? He drives a bread truck for a while, sold vacuums door to door and created on...
75 min