Ariana Grande: Terror on Tour, Tragedy in Manchester, and Learning to Sing Again (REWIND)
DISGRACELAND
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🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On May 22, 2017, a terrorist detonated a bomb outside Ariana Grande’s performance at Manchester Arena. The blast killed 22 people. It injured over a thousand more. The attack remains one of the most heartbreaking events in music history. Parents were terrified. Younger fans suddenly feared going to concerts. But Manchester’s story doesn’t end on May 22, or in the days that followed. It ends with one woman organizing the One Love concert, healing a new generation of young pop devotees. This is the story of hope in the face of terror.
This episode contains themes that may be disturbing to some listeners, including graphic depictions of violence.
This episode was originally published on July 11, 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | This is exactly right. |
| 0:10.5 | Double Elvis. |
| 0:14.5 | What's up, guys? |
| 0:15.8 | So recent listeners of Disgraceland, |
| 0:18.3 | you might recognize a scene from this Ariana Grande Grande rewind episode that you're about to hear. |
| 0:24.2 | The tragedy at the Eagles of Death Metal Show at Bada Clan are depicted, and we use that audio scene in our recent Foo Fighters episode because, well, as you may have heard, that show, that Eagles of Death Medal show and the tragedy |
| 0:39.4 | that happened there that had a lot to do with our theory on the reason why Taylor Hawkins' cause |
| 0:45.4 | of death has still not been made public. So, Taylor Hawkins, Foo Fighters, Eagles of Death Medal, |
| 0:53.3 | Ariana Grande? Yes, it's all connected. Music history is a tangled, |
| 0:59.5 | sometimes very dark web. And the tragedy that took place in Manchester at the Ariana Grande show in |
| 1:06.5 | 2017, that happened almost 10 years ago. That's hard to believe. A lot of this happened to Ariana |
| 1:13.1 | Grande since then. She's been deemed by Time Magazine for a second time to be one of the most |
| 1:18.3 | influential people on the planet. In 2020, she was the highest paid female musician in the world, |
| 1:24.3 | which is saying something, considering that Taylor Swift was making music that |
| 1:27.6 | year as well. |
| 1:28.9 | Ariana Grande, of course, went on to star in Wicked and get nominated for an Academy Award. |
| 1:33.9 | Too many things have happened to mention. |
| 1:36.0 | A lot. |
| 1:37.3 | Ariana Grande has turned herself into one of the biggest stars on the planet, and that nearly |
| 1:42.3 | never happened, given the psychotic designs |
| 1:44.7 | of a mad, bombing lunatic |
| 1:47.1 | who targeted one of her concerts |
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