History of Rock & Roll

Launched in 2018, and already in its fourth season, Jake Brennan’s hugely popular true-crime-and-music podcast Disgraceland further proves that rock & roll is all fun and games until someone gets hurt — or in GG Allin’s case, pooped on. The Boston-based Brennan narrates the crazy music tales involving everyone from rock’s early pioneers to Cardi B, Amy Winehouse and XXXTentacion. Each episode breaks down in entertaining and sometimes gross detail the overdoses, murders, suicides, drugs, sex, church burnings and generally bad deeds surrounding the Rolling Stones, Sinatra, Motley Crue, Rick James, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Sid Vicious, Ike and Tina, Kurt and Courtney, Norwegian metal bands and many others. Brennan’s new book Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away with Murder and Behaving Very Badly features additional stories on Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gram Parsons, Axl Rose, Chuck Berry, Phil Spector and more Norwegian metal. Chevalier’s Books hosts a discussion with Brennan and Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, hosts of the podcast My Favorite Murder and authors of the book Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered.

Chevalier’s Books, 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Windsor Square; Tue., Oct. 22, 7 p.m.; $30.66. (323) 465-1334, chevaliersbooks.com.

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