Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

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Chances are you probably know someone like this. A guy, or a woman, who through having

loads of talent or tons of luck, or both, has become successful. They have everything anyone could ever hope to have.

They've got money, notoriety, stuff,

access to all kinds of pleasure and adventures and opportunity.

Everybody you know wishes they could be that person.

And then they screw it all up.

Not by bad luck or illness or any other misfortune necessarily.

They just make some bad decisions or questionable moves that damage or destroy their careers

and maybe even their lives.

Sometimes this downfall happens in slow motion over a period of weeks or months or even years,

but sometimes the crash comes in seconds, and in the end, there's nobody to blame except the person

themselves. This sort of thing happens a lot in music. Ego, bad advice, hubris, arrogance, drugs,

stubbornness, being out of touch, mental illness.

All these things can lead to tarnished legacies at the very least, and full-on catastrophes at worst.

These are stories of spectacular acts of self-sabotage. This is the ongoing history of new music, the podcast edition with Alan Cross.

All right, you spend your whole life crawling up from the muck to be a successful rock star.

You sacrifice everything for your art.

And then, when you're at the top, you lose sight of the prize

and start doing dumb things. And before you know it, you're in trouble. And if you're not

careful, everything you've worked for disappears. Hello again, I'm Ellen Cross. And I want to be

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