7212: Michael Jackson — How the World's Greatest Entertainer Was Broken by Fame | pplpod
Michael Jackson was performing professionally at five years old and never had a childhood. By the time he became the biggest pop star in history, the damage was already done. Thriller sold 70 million ...
16 Juni 20min
7211: Larry Bird — How a Small-Town Kid Mastered Every Role in the NBA | pplpod
Larry Bird grew up in a town so small that basketball was the only way out, and he took it further than anyone from French Lick, Indiana, had any right to expect. He became the NBA's most complete pla...
16 Juni 22min
7210: Henry Fonda — The Cold Perfectionist Behind Hollywood's Warmest Characters | pplpod
Henry Fonda spent fifty years playing America's moral conscience on screen — Tom Joad, Abe Lincoln, Juror #8. Off screen he was emotionally remote, struggled through five marriages, and maintained a p...
16 Juni 22min
7209: Harry Belafonte — The Calypso King Who Secretly Bankrolled the Civil Rights Movement | pplpod
Harry Belafonte sold more records than any other artist in the world in 1956. He used the money and fame to quietly bankroll the civil rights movement, posting bail for Martin Luther King Jr., funding...
16 Juni 19min
7208: George Harrison — The Quiet Beatle's Beautifully Contradictory Life | pplpod
George Harrison spent years in the shadow of Lennon and McCartney, then released a triple album that outsold anything either of them had made solo. He sought spiritual enlightenment while suing his ow...
16 Juni 22min
7207: David Bowie — Ziggy Stardust, the Psychological Submarine, and Infinite Reinvention | pplpod
David Bowie became famous by inventing a character, then killed that character onstage and became someone else entirely. He repeated this pattern for forty years, shedding identities like a psychologi...
16 Juni 22min
7206: Bessie Smith — The Empress of the Blues and Her Unmarked Grave | pplpod
Bessie Smith was the highest-paid Black entertainer in America during the 1920s, selling millions of records and commanding enormous fees. She died after a car accident in Mississippi in 1937, and for...
16 Juni 20min
7205: Babe Didrikson Zaharias — The Greatest Multi-Sport Athlete Who Ever Lived | pplpod
Babe Didrikson Zaharias won two Olympic gold medals in track and field, then became the greatest female golfer of her era. She also played baseball, basketball, tennis, and dove competitively. No athl...
16 Juni 21min
