Disgrace Land is a production of Double Elvis.

This is a story about a rock star.

It's got sex, or a sex symbol anyways, and Kate Moss,

and drugs, lots of drugs, heroin and crack cocaine,

and glorious rock and roll.

But it's also a story about brotherhood and a suspicious death. It's a story about Pete Dardy from the Libertines, a rock star and a rock and roll band that made great music. Unlike that

music, I played a few at the top of the show. That wasn't great music. That was a preset loop

from my Melotron called Shambolic Shasha, MK1. I played you that loop because I can't afford the

rights to I want to love you by Acon. And why would I play you that specific slice of winding and

grinding cheese could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America on December 2, 2006.

And that was the day that an unknown London actor named Mark Blanco fell to his death under mysterious circumstances after an altercation with Pete

Dardy and his entourage. On this episode, sex, drugs, rock and roll, a suspicious death,

and Pete Dardy of the Libertines. I'm Jake Brennan, and this is Disgraceland. December 2, 2006. It was a late Saturday night in London's East End. In fact, it was just minutes away from Sunday morning.

Outside on the sidewalk, everything was dead silent. Fourteen feet up, an apartment on the second floor was a different story altogether.

Screams cried out from inside, so loud that they echoed throughout the building.

And they weren't the joyful boisterous sounds of a Saturday night rave up. These screams were tense.

They were menacing. They had the ring of a schoolyard fight.

When the kids start circling up and the insults start cutting a little bit deeper,

when the pushing and shoving gets a little bit more intense,

when it feels like violence could break out at any moment.

The sounds kept building, louder and louder, darker and more frenetic, agitated, angry,

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