Bonus Episode: Near Death Experiences and Unlikely Covers
DISGRACELAND
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4.6 • 13.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s After Party, we dive into the near-death experience of Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan. After a harrowing moment in 1996, he floated above his body, witnessing paramedics trying to save him. But where do rock stars really go when they die? Is it a dark void or a realm of love? Plus, we hear from you about your favorite unlikely cover songs. Welcome to the After Party, Disgos!
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| 0:00.0 | This is exactly right. |
| 0:03.0 | Double Elvis. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey Discos. |
| 0:16.0 | Need a little more disgrace land in your life? |
| 0:18.0 | Just a touch to get you through? |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, me too. This is the podcast that comes after the podcast. Welcome to Disgraceland bonus episode, a little thing we like to call the after party. |
| 0:46.4 | This is the show after the show, the party after the party, the bridge to get you from one full episode of disgrace land to the other. |
| 0:51.8 | It's the backyard to dig into the dirt where our mission |
| 0:54.7 | is to uncover the truth, to confront the myth, and to reclaim the story for music history. |
| 0:59.3 | On this bonus episode, Dave Gahan from Depeche Mode died and came back to life. What he saw |
| 1:04.9 | afterward has us asking, where do rock stars go when they die? The near-death experiences of the |
| 1:10.7 | Depeche Mode frontman and other rock stars. Plus your voicemails, text, emails, comments, DMs. And as always, a whole lot of Rosie. This is the podcast for the musically obsessed, the outsiders, the independent thinkers who know that the best history is the history that gets buried. Disgraceland is where I tell the stories they didn't want told, |
| 1:32.1 | the kind that you'll end up telling someone else. All right, discos, let's get into it. |
| 1:47.6 | Where to rock stars go when they die? They don't go to heaven where the angels fly. In this week's episode of Disgraceland on Depeche Mode, part of the story focuses on the near-death |
| 1:53.1 | experience of singer Dave Gahan. The time his heart stopped for two minutes after injecting |
| 1:59.1 | a speedball in 1996. |
| 2:01.6 | Dave survived. |
| 2:03.6 | And I love NDE stories. |
| 2:07.6 | That's near-death experience. |
| 2:09.6 | So I love this story. |
| 2:11.6 | I love NDE stories, near-death experience stories, |
| 2:15.6 | because it's the greatest trick in storytelling |
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