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DISGRACELAND

John Lennon Pt. 1: "John Lennon, I'm going to kill you, you phony bastard."

DISGRACELAND

Jake Brennan

True Crime, Music, Society & Culture

4.613.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

John Lennon was a walking contradiction: a violent pacifist and a creative genius marred by creative inconsistency. Just as he was getting his groove back, he was gunned down by Mark David Chapman, a self-loathing narcissist who was obsessed with his contradictory hero, as well as with Lennon’s musical rival, Todd Rundgren and J.D. Salinger’s angsty, Holden Caulfield from The Catcher In The Rye. Hear how all of these factors and more contributed to the musical icon’s senseless murder in the first installment of a two part Disgraceland episode. To see the complete list of contributors, visit disgracelandpod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, what is up, discos?

0:01.3

Jake Brennan, your host here this month.

0:03.1

As you know, we're celebrating our fifth year, our five year anniversary of this

0:06.7

great sign. We just launched our eleventh season to go along with that. So if you haven't already,

0:11.7

go listen to our new episodes, our episode on 50 Cent. We've got a great episode on ACDC.

0:16.4

They're both great, but ACDC is probably my first favorite band and I'm really pumped on the work

0:21.7

we did with both of these. So check them out. If you're already caught up, if you've heard these

0:25.7

two episodes, you can go listen to where it all began. You can go back to the beginning.

0:29.5

Listen to the previously exclusive season one of Discretsland with stories on Jerry Lee Lewis,

0:34.3

Sid Vicious, Bob Merley, James Brown, and many more. You can listen to Discretsland right now,

0:38.8

wherever you get your podcasts, Apple podcasts, iHeart Radio App, Spotify Stitcher,

0:42.8

Cast Box, and Amazon Music, Rockerola. Discretsland is a production of Double Elvis.

1:05.6

John Munn and his celebrated as a defiant icon of the Peace and Love generation.

1:10.0

The Smart Beetle, a dedicated husband, and doting father to his young son, whose life was tragically

1:17.0

cut short by a bullet from a deranged fan. All of that is true, and all of that is also untrue.

1:25.3

John Munn was a violent, flandering, absentee dad, and drug and alcohol abusing insecure mess

1:31.8

of a man whose life he left in the manipulative hands of his Machiavellian witch of a wife,

1:37.6

Yoko Ono, a woman he truly loved and who truly loved him back. Throughout his life he'd

1:44.2

been fiercely independent, but by the 70s he would hardly make any move of consequence without

1:49.6

first having his wife consult the complicated cosmic algorithm of horoscopes, numerology,

1:56.3

real life oracles, and tarot cards. He was a long time critic of the trappings of the material world,

2:03.1

yet he empowered his wife to build a financial empire through real estate, Egyptian art,

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