Jim Morrison
With Jim Morrison, everything’s always somewhere between truth and myth. You don’t know what’s real, it’s all bent together. There’s things that make you love him, make you hate him. Things that make ...
13 Jan 202226min
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain doesn’t look like the spokesman for an angry generation. Then he starts picking at his guitar and singing. Rasping, like a chainsaw cutting down a tree. Ugly and beautiful, vulnerable and ...
6 Jan 202228min
Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly came and went so fast. Inspired the Beatles, inspired the Stones. His songs soundtrack so many lives, but he was the first of the rock’n’roll legends to go down in flames. The day, as we a...
18 Mar 202134min
Ian Curtis
Some bands could be from anywhere. You can’t hear their home in the bassline, feel the streets and skies in the guitars. But Joy Division and Ian Curtis are pure Manchester - an old town, a new town, ...
11 Mar 202130min
Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes
You can’t talk about TLC without talking about all three. But there’s always a point to every triangle, and TLC’s is Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes. It’s her creativity, her contradictions and the way she cou...
4 Mar 202131min
John Lennon
It’s an unusually warm December day in New York City. Mild enough to linger on the sidewalk. To make time for people. But today is different. Because the madness is coming back. On this benign day, fr...
25 Feb 202131min
Sid Vicious
WARNING: This episode contains graphic descriptions and references to drug abuse. Sid Vicious. The name is potent, a kind of manifesto in itself. For some people, Sid Vicious is punk, its ultimate po...
18 Feb 202130min
Chester Bennington
WARNING: This episode contains references to suicide. In The End. If you’ve heard any Linkin Park song, it’s that one. Chester Bennington sings about nothing really mattering. But if that’s how he tr...
11 Feb 202134min
