Few musicians are as inescapable as the Beyoncé. But even if you’ve kept up with her immeasurable press coverage and airplay over the decades, this story reveals the things you don’t know about Beyoncé Giselle Knowles. As it turns out, men aren’t the only thing that can overshadow a women’s story and success; sometimes, their own larger-than-life fame is just as much to blame.
 
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ENCORE: Beyoncé: Destiny's Child, Jay-Z, Fidelity and Feminism

About A Girl is a scripted narrative anthology series about women whose stories have long been eclipsed by the legends of their famous partners. Bowie, Elvis, 2Pac, Prince, Miles, Biggie. Each of these icons created some of the most celebrated and enduring music of the modern age. But there's more to their stories than you know. About A Girl brings focus to the many women without whom the landscape of popular music might be very different.

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George Harrison famously survived the dissolution of the Beatles, a bust by London’s drug squad, a potentially bloody visit from the Hell’s Angels, and a few rounds with cancer. But on the final day of the 20th century, his strength and faith were put to the ultimate test. A crazed fan, convinced that the Beatles were evil and George was a sorcerer who had possessed him, broke into George’s Friar Park estate in the dead of night with one goal: to murder George Harrison.
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Presenting DISGRACELAND - George Harrison: Surviving the Beatles, the London Drug Squad, and a Home Invasion

Pattie Boyd is one of the best known rock star partners, having married both Beatle George Harrison and then Harrison’s close friend Eric Clapton. She famously inspired the Beatles’ “Something” and Clapton’s “Layla.”. But less publicized is the infidelity and turmoil that infected both marriages. Find out how she responded and finally emerged from it all.

Sources:
Wonderful Tonight by Pattie Boyd
George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door by Graeme Thompson
Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton
BeatlesBible.com Timeline
Miss O’Dell: My Hard Days and Long Nights with The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and the Women They Loved by Chris O’Dell
Jennifer Juniper by Jenny Boyd
This episode originally aired on October 27, 2023.
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ENCORE - Pattie Boyd, George Harrison, & Eric Clapton

Welcome to DISGRACELAND in 2024. Jake Brennan will continue to bring you the most insane stories about rock stars getting away with murder and behaving very badly ... and will also tell other stories about icons from beyond the world of music who possess dangerously compelling rock 'n roll hearts. Like Anthony Bourdain. Andy Warhol. Hunter S. Thompson. Kobe Bryant. Garth Brooks. Public Enemy. Van Halen. And so many more. Get the scoop on the exciting 2024 we have planned for you, the biggest and most iconic year in DISGRACELAND history. Rocka rolla.
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The gospel-fed daughter of one of Ray Charles’s Raelettes had no idea who this Bob Dylan character was when she was called to audition for his band. Within a few years, she would be his wife and mother to his daughter—both of them hidden from the public, as Dylan converted to Christianity and tried to find his identity as a man and as an artist.
Sources:
A Look Back At Bob Dylan's First Album
Carolyn Dennis: The Secret Wife of Bob Dylan
Madelyn Quebec
Carol Dennis: Who Is Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan Sings "Changing of the Guards" On His Alimony Tour
Dylan's Secret Wife Talks
A Simple Twist of Faith: Reconsidering Bob Dylan's Christian Period
Hot Minute With Carol Dennis
The Young Americans
Bob Dylan With Carolyn Dennis—Farm Aid Rehearsals
Bob Dylan: A Spiritual Life
Down The Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes
I Love Carolyn Dennis (blog)
The Lonesome Death of Richard Manuel
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About A Girl is a scripted narrative anthology series about women whose stories have long been eclipsed by the legends of their famous partners. Bowie, Elvis, 2Pac, Prince, Miles, Biggie. Each of these icons created some of the most celebrated and enduring music of the modern age. But there's more to their stories than you know. About A Girl brings focus to the many women without whom the landscape of popular music might be very different. For more shows like About A Girl, check out www.doubleelvis.com. 

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ENCORE - Carolyn Dennis & Bob Dylan

The mysterious woman on the cover of the breakthrough album ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’ was a major influence on the legendary musician’s development, just as he was becoming “Bob Dylan.” He assimilated her art, influences, and politics into his persona and his songs, so many of which were written about or for her. They were intensely in love at a very young age in a time of social upheaval, all in the cauldron of Greenwich Village, and it forged and tested them both in myriad ways.

SOURCES:

‘A Freewheelin’ Time’ by Suze Rotolo
‘Chronicles Vol. 1’ by Bob Dylan
‘Down The Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan’ by Howard Sounes
‘Bob Dylan’ by Anthony Scaduto
‘Dylan: The Biography’ by Dennis McDougal
‘Alias Bob Dylan’ by Stephen Scobie
‘No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan’ by Robert Shelton

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ENCORE: Beyoncé: Destiny's Child, Jay-Z, Fidelity and Feminism

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