Research Catalog

Title

Disgraceland : musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly / Jake Brennan.

Author

Brennan, Jake

Publication

• New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

x, 272 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• A collection of stories about some of the music world's most beloved stars and their crimes.
• You may know Jerry Lee Lewis married his thirteen-year-old cousin but did you know he shot his bass player in the chest with a shotgun or that a couple of his wives died under extremely mysterious circumstances? Or that Sam Cooke was shot dead in a seedy motel after barging into the manager's office naked to attack her? Maybe not. Would it change your view of him if you knew that, or would your love for his music triumph? Real rock stars do truly insane thing and invite truly insane things to happen to them; murder, drug trafficking, rape, cannibalism and the occult. We allow this behavior. We are complicit because a rock star behaving badly is what's expected. It's baked into the cake. Deep down, way down, past all of our self-righteous notions of justice and right and wrong, when it comes down to it, we want our rock stars to be bad. We know the music industry is full of demons, ones that drove Elvis Presley, Phil Spector, Sid Vicious and that consumed the Norwegian Black Metal scene. We want to believe in the myths because they're so damn entertaining. Disgraceland is a collection of the best of these stories about some of the music world's most beloved stars and their crimes. It will mix all-new, untold stories with expanded stories from the first two seasons of the Disgraceland podcast. Using figures we already recognize, DISGRACELAND shines a light into the dark corners of their fame revealing the fine line that separates heroes and villains as well as the danger Americans seek out in their news cycles, tabloids, reality shows and soap operas. At the center of this collection of stories is the ever-fascinating music industry--a glittery stage populated by gangsters, drug dealers, pimps, groupies with violence, scandal and pure unadulterated rock 'n' roll entertainment.

Subject

• Musicians > Conduct of life
• Rock musicians > Conduct of life
• Rock musicians > Miscellanea
• Rock musicians > Biography
• Musicians > Miscellanea
• Musicians > Biography
• Criminal behavior
• Crime
• Music trade
• Musicians

Genre/Form

• Biography.
• True crime stories.
• Biographies.
• Humor.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-262) and index.

Contents

Fat Elvis -- Jerry Lee Lewis -- Dead, Euronymous, and Varg -- Gram parsons -- Axl Rose -- Chuck Berry -- Sid Vicious -- Sam Cooke -- Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes -- Phil Spector -- Skinny Elvis.

Call Number

JME 19-450

ISBN

• 9781538732144
• 1538732149

OCLC

1107433445

Author

Brennan, Jake, author.

Title

Disgraceland : musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly / Jake Brennan.

Publisher

New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-262) and index.

Local Note

TRUE CRIME.

Research Call Number

JME 19-450