DISGRACELAND
Episodes
The Who Pt 1: Keith Moon, Rockstar Excess, and a Dead Chauffeur
09 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Moon of the Who was the prototype for rock drummers, both onstage and off. His drumming was wholly unique. Like his bandmates' behavior, it was ...
Marvin Gaye: Father, Father There’s Far Too Many of Us Dying
25 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Marvin Gaye was born into a God-fearing home to a sweet, wholesome mother and crossdressing, philandering, pentecostal preacher father who ruled his c...
GG Allin: Live Fast, Die
11 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
GG Allin, the notoriously transgressive punk rocker, pushed the limits further than anyone before or after. For GG, there were no limits. No laws. He ...
GG Allin: Live Fast, Die
11 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
GG Allin, the notoriously transgressive punk rocker, pushed the limits further than anyone before or after. For GG, there were no limits. No laws. He ...
Brian Jones: To Be On Your Own Like A Sinking Stone
28 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 yea...
Johnny Paycheck: Pardon Me, I've Got Someone to Kill
14 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 abou...
Mötley Crüe: Sex, Drugs, and Even More Sex and Drugs: How Are These Dudes Still Alive?
17 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 H...
The Death of John Lennon (Pt. 2): “The phony must die, said the catcher in the rye.”
10 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
John Lennon was a walking contradiction: a violent pacifist and a creative genius marred by creative inconsistency. Just as he was getting his groove ...
The Death of John Lennon (Pt. 1): “John Lennon, I’m going to kill you, you phony bastard.”
10 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
John Lennon was a walking contradiction: a violent pacifist and a creative genius marred by creative inconsistency. Just as he was getting his groove ...
James Brown: Papa's Got A Brand New Bag... Of Meth
26 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when the hardest working man in show business takes a break? Idle hands are indeed the devil’s workshop. This episode will detail James...
James Brown: Papa's Got A Brand New Bag... Of Meth
26 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when the hardest working man in show business takes a break? Idle hands are indeed the devil’s workshop. This episode will detail James...
Michael Alig: If a Club Kid Kills, Stuffs the Body in a Box and Tells The World About It Will Anyone Listen?
19 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In March 1996, promoter Michael Alig, the "King of the Club Kids," after appearing on TV’s Geraldo and on the cover of New York magazine, bashed his...
Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.: The Media Did It
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Who killed Tupac? Who killed Biggie? The answer has been right there out in the open for years. This episode looks at the lives and deaths of both rap...
Bob Marley: Rasta Vigilante
29 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Marley is known as the peace and love reggae superstar, but the truth of who he really was is a bit more complicated. After gunmen raided his home...
Tay-K: A Nationwide Manhunt and Art Imitating Life
15 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Arlington, Texas rapper born Taymor Travon McIntyre was involved in two killings by the time he was 17. Arrested on murder charges and placed unde...
The Rolling Stones: Sleeping With the First Lady and Trafficking Heroin
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1970s, the world regarded the Rolling Stones as an insular band of hedonistic and glamorous pansexual junkies. But all of the trouble they’d ...
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes: Hit Me Again and I'll Burn Your House Down
17 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
TLC’s Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes was known as “the crazy one.” She did, after all, burn down the mansion of her boyfriend, NFL player Andre Rison...
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks, Movement and Murder
03 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 1968, Van Morrison was hiding out from the New York City Mafia in Boston, Massachusetts. Recently the victim of a physical attack from a Genovese c...
Norwegian Black Metal: Satanic Rebellion, Murder and Worse
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Never has there been a more extreme form of musical rebellion than Norwegian Black Metal. The genre’s founding band, Mayhem, its sister act Burzum a...
Sam Cooke: An Insatiable Libido and a Justifiable Homicide
06 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Cooke was a lot of things: soul superstar, civil rights champion, whip smart entrepreneur. But he was also a serial womanizer with an unbridled li...
Sid Vicious: Love Kills... Even a Mother's Love?
20 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It has long been believed that punk rock icon Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose. That is true. However, new evidence suggests that his overly affe...
Jerry Lee Lewis: The Killer and Getting Away with Murder
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The night before Jerry Lee Lewis’ fifth wife died, she made a phone call to her mother. She told her that she was thinking of leaving the rock ‘n’...