Episode #73 | 2.23.21
The Beatles (Pt. 1): Stoned with Dylan, Dosed with Acid, Outrunning Knife Wielding Maniacs, and Driving the World to the Brink with Beatlemania
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In this episode
The Beatles caused fans to enter into manic states, literally. People died because of it. The band swallowed more pills than food in their early years. They took acid by accident and changed the course of popular music forever as a result. Aside from all the screaming fans and the drugs, beating at the heart of Beatlemania was always just “a great little band.” Listen to learn how the Beatles saved America from certain doom with some of the most exciting music ever made.
Sources
The Love You Make: An Insider’s Story of the Beatles, by Peter Brown
Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation, by Philip Norman
The Lives of John Lennon by Albert Goldman
Last Days of John Lennon by Frederic Seaman
Chapter 27 Directed by J.P. Schaefer
Esquire: John Lennon Where Are You?
Playboy: An Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Rolling Stone: When John Lennon's 'More Popular Than Jesus' Comment Turned Ugly
Disgraceland is a podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. It melds music history, true crime and transgressive fiction. Disgraceland is not journalism. Disgraceland is entertainment. Entertainment inspired by true events. However, certain scenes, characters and names are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes.
Music
Score by Jake Brennan.
Mixed and Engineered by Sean Cahalin.
Disgraceland theme song, "Crenshaw Space Boogie" written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.
*illustrations by Avi Spivak @avispivak