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DISGRACELAND

The Beatles Pt. 2: Kamikaze Assassins, Acid Smuggling, Suicide, Kidnapping, and the Breakup of the Greatest Band of All Time

DISGRACELAND

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

True Crime, Society & Culture, Music

4.613.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

At the height of their world-changing and culture-defining popularity, the Beatles faced death threats in foreign countries, an unfair tax rate in their own country that forced them to stash heaps of undeclared cash in brown paper bags, and the sudden suicide of their manager. But none of this could break up the band. Nor could LSD smuggling missions, drug busts, extramarital affairs or the deranged fans who came to their houses. Listen to learn what really tore the Beatles apart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up everybody? Jake Brennan here as you may have heard disgrace land can now be listened to wherever podcasts are available.

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0:27.2

Previously on her two-parter on two-pock, a two-parter on Biggie, a two-parter on Oasis, and a two-parter on the Beatles.

0:32.8

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0:43.8

Hey Disco's looking for even more disgrace land content? Did you know disgrace land isn't just a podcast?

0:48.8

It's a video channel as well. Search disgrace land on YouTube and you'll find a growing library of video content from the world of music history,

0:56.6

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1:03.6

and of course stories on some familiar podcast subjects as well.

1:07.4

New old doesn't matter. It's all the same edge of your seat storytelling you've come to expect from disgrace land in double Elvis,

1:14.0

but now with visuals. We've got daily 60-second shorts on the most crazy artist misadventures out there as well as weekly long-form stories

1:22.7

that dig deeper into music's biggest mysteries. All with my sometimes smiling, sometimes smirking mug at the center of it all,

1:29.9

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1:34.4

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2:01.8

The story of the Beatles, their meteoric rise from working class backgrounds to global icons in such a short time span,

2:09.9

is so complex that two episodes were needed to properly tell this story.

2:15.3

If you're just getting hip to this now, I suggest you hip pause and go back to the last episode of disgrace land,

2:21.2

part one of the Beatles story, or if you're looking exclusively for a deep dive into John Lennon in his final days,

2:28.7

you should check out the two part episode dedicated to the assassination of John from season two of disgrace land.

2:35.2

In this episode, however, we get into earlier assassins, right-wing Japanese kamikazis trained on murdering the not-so innocent mob tops.

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