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Disgrace and is a production of Double Elvis.

The story about Ian Watkins from Lost Prophets, it might be the most disturbing story that I've come across in all of my music history research.

It involves the sexual abuse of children and at its core a monstrous abuse of power and fame.

But as is the case with a lot of great stories, an unlikely hero emerges

in this one, one who authorities ignored in favor of protecting their own, one who authorities laughed

off in order to preserve some hometown pride, and one who may have saved countless children

from the designs of a monster.

A monster, Ian Watkins, from a band Lost Prophets, who made music?

Not particularly interesting music by my ears and certainly not great music.

Similar in its lack of greatness to the music that I played for you at the top

of this show. That wasn't great music either. That was a preset loop from my Melotron called

Richard Burton's Monster Mash, MK, 2. I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to

we are never, ever getting back together together and why would I play you that

specific slice of pre-travis cheese could I afford it because that was the number one song in

America on September 21st 2012 and that was the day that Ian Watkins was arrested an event that

revealed to everyone the depths of this rock star's

depravity, depraved behavior so dark and so extreme that to this day, it's still hard to understand.

Ian Watkins' life as a rock star wound up with him doing time in one of the world's most notorious prisons.

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