Double Elvis.

Disgraysand is a production of Double Elvis. us. The story of the Beatles, their meteoric rise from working class backgrounds to global icons in such a short time span, is so complex that two episodes were needed to properly

tell this story. If you're just getting hip to this now I suggest you hit pause and

go back to the last episode of Disgraceland, part one of the Beatles story.

Or if you're looking exclusively for a deep dive into John Lennon in his final days,

you should check out the two-part episode dedicated to the assassination of

John from season 2 of Disgraceland.

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

mobtops.

We also get into the Beatles continued exploration into drugs and the smuggling of cash and

LSD from America, a deranged woman's brief kidnapping

by a beetle and the suicide of the band's manager.

Of course, we discussed the influence of Yoko Ono and tracked the demise of the greatest band of all time.

A band that made great music, like the greatest music in the history of the world.

Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show,

that wasn't great music.

That was a preset loop from my melotron

called Skies of Blazon, M.K. 2.

I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to owed to Billy Joe by Bobby Gentry.

And why would I play you that specific slice of Tallahatchie Bridge Cheese could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America on August 27, 1967. And that was the day the Beatles manager Brian Epstein killed himself and effectively

pushed the Beatles into their third and final act as a group. On this episode, kamakasi assassins, acid smuggling,

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