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DISGRACELAND

Van Morrison: Astral Weeks, Movement and Murder

DISGRACELAND

Jake Brennan

True Crime, Music, Society & Culture

4.613.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In 1968, Van Morrison was hiding out from the New York City Mafia in Boston, Massachusetts. Recently the victim of a physical attack from a Genovese crime family member, Morrison was desperately trying to piece together a band to complete what would become his landmark creative statement, Astral Weeks. One of the musicians who would help him achieve this goal—a young, handsome guitar player from Emerson College named Rick Philp—would mysteriously go missing and eventually wind up dead. Disgraceland pieces together this story using, as one of many sources, the critically acclaimed book Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 by Ryan Walsh. To see the full list of contributors, see the show notes at www.disgracelandpod.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up, this goes Jake Brennan here. We have a new season of disgrace land coming out next week on February 14th.

0:06.7

This is also the five year anniversary of the show five years of disgrace land.

0:12.0

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0:13.3

We've got some surprises coming your way this year. Last month though, you may or may not know we released a ton of previously exclusive content to get you all caught up.

0:21.1

So you can go back and listen to episodes on Miles Davis, Palmer, Cartney, John Lennon, Ray Charles, Tommy James, Billy Holiday, Black Sabbath, Fleetwood, Mac, the Beatles, and so many more.

0:28.2

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0:38.7

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0:48.0

Hey, Disco's, did you know disgrace land is no longer just a podcast? That's right.

0:53.1

I recently launched a YouTube channel where a whole new bag of stories from the world of music history and mystery and misadventure is being opened up.

1:01.2

New stories on Debbie Harry, YouTube, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, and more.

1:06.2

And of course stories on some familiar podcast subjects as well. New old does not matter.

1:11.5

It's all the same edge of your seat storytelling that you've come to expect from disgrace land and double Elvis, but now with visuals.

1:17.7

We've got daily 60 second shorts on the most crazy artist misadventures out there as well as weekly long form stories that dig deeper into music history's craziest mysteries.

1:27.8

All with my sometimes smiling, sometimes smirking mug at the center of it guiding you through the insanity.

1:33.2

Go to youtube.com slash at disgrace land pod or just search disgrace land on YouTube.

1:39.2

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1:48.3

Disgrace land is a production of double Elvis.

1:52.2

The story about Van Morrison's time spent in Cambridge, Massachusetts is kind of crazy. He was hiding out from the New York City Mafia.

2:10.8

Recently, the victim of a physical attack from a Genoves crime family member and starving and desperately trying to keep his career together.

2:19.2

He was playing in a band with a young talented Emerson college student who would wind up beaten a death in a beacon street apartment in a matter of months.

2:28.3

Van Morrison was ornery, broke and reclusive despite early success.

2:35.3

First with a seminal rhythm and blues inspired garage rock outfit them and later with a smash solo hit Brown Eyed Girl.

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