Introducing: DISGRACELAND
Good Assassins
iHeartPodcasts and Diversion
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Hello, Good Assassins Listeners! We want to share a new show you might enjoy, it’s DISGRACELAND!!!
About the Show: You know the myths. You’ve seen the biopics. But if you’re the kind of music fan who craves the rest of the story—the stuff they buried or cleaned up for streaming and theaters—this is your podcast. DISGRACELAND is the award-winning show that reveals the deeply human, highly dramatic, true crime–fueled chaos behind legendary musicians like Amy Winehouse, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sean “Diddy” Combs, the Grateful Dead, Blondie, and more. While we dig into the dark side, we do so with reverence for the artists—and an understanding of the extreme highs, lows, and personal costs that come with fame and making great art. This is music history like you’ve never heard it—edge-of-your-seat stories exploding with drama and the kind of information that’ll make you dangerous at dinner parties.
New, fully scripted and sound-designed episodes drop every Tuesday. On Thursdays, we hand the mic to you—and feature listener voicemails, texts, and emails in our interactive bonus episodes. And on Fridays, we revisit the wildest stories from our 250+ episode archive with “Rewind” drops that’ll transport you back into music history’s most entertaining moments.
DISGRACELAND is not a journalistic podcast—it’s an entertainment podcast inspired by true events. Certain dialogue and scenes are occasionally fictionalized for dramatic effect, as is common in scripted entertainment based on real stories. Sources and credits for each episode are available at www.disgracelandpod.com
Listen here and subscribe to DISGRACELAND on the iHeartRadio App or wherever you get your podcasts!
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jake Brennan, and on the Disgraceland podcast, I explore the wild lives of rock stars and |
| 0:05.8 | unbelievable true crime stories from music history. These are the stories you haven't heard, |
| 0:11.6 | the kind you'll end up telling someone else. Like the time Paul McCartney spent in one of the |
| 0:16.6 | world's most notorious prisons. Imagine that. You're Paul McCartney. It's 1980. You're an ex-beedle, |
| 0:25.7 | and you're doing time in one of Japan's worst prisons right there alongside Yakuza gangsters |
| 0:31.4 | and for a ridiculous charge. Or the bizarre crime, Lady Gaga, is accused of. Who is the artist, Lady Gaga is accused them. |
| 0:39.2 | Who is the artist Lady Gaga as being accused of doing the unthinkable to, |
| 0:44.1 | after allegedly stealing her music in style to become famous? |
| 0:48.9 | And what about that time, Blondie's Debbie Harry escaped a serial killer? |
| 0:54.8 | Debbie Harry was in shock. |
| 0:56.9 | The man who had given her that ride |
| 0:58.4 | she barely escaped from with her life. |
| 1:01.1 | That man was Ted Bundy. |
| 1:04.6 | Disgraceland is an award-winning scripted |
| 1:06.8 | and sound design podcast |
| 1:08.2 | about music history, true crime, |
| 1:10.7 | and the fork in the road where those |
| 1:12.2 | two elements collide. The Rolling Stones at Altam, Taylor Swift, Stalkers, The Grateful Dead |
| 1:18.7 | and M.K. Ultra, Snoop Dog, and the murder case they gave him. Amy Winehouse, Lana Delray, |
| 1:24.6 | Sid, Nancy, Kirk, Courtney, and more. Disgraceland episodes are released |
| 1:29.8 | every Tuesday, bonus episodes on Thursdays, and rewind episodes from our archive of over 250 |
| 1:36.4 | stories from every genre of music are released on Sundays. Listen to Disgraceland on the IHeart |
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