UPCOMING EPISODES

In the mid 90’s the infamous East Coast – West Coast hip hop rivalry was in full swing, and two of raps biggest icons – former friends The Notorious B.I.G, and Tupac Shakur – were caught in the middle of it. It was a battle that tragically cost both starts their lives before the end of the decade, in a pair of murders that are unsolved to this day. We’ll trace the story of these two legendry rappers by visiting the locations that lead to their rise and fall – the gritty streets of Biggie’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn where he hustled, sold drugs, and became a freestyling legend; a hidden set of train tracks in Vernon, California; New York City’s Quad Recording Studios, where a 1994 assassination attempt on Tupac ignited the biggest feud in the history of rap, and the corner of Fairfax and Wilshire in Los Angeles, where Biggie was tragically gunned down in a hit and run.

A true pop culture icon, John Lennon gave us some of the most enduring and memorable music of the twentieth century as part of The Beatles, and as a solo artist. His enormous popularity also gave him an unprecedented platform to promote his political views, which caused him serious problems when he moved to New York in the early 1970s. In his hometown of Liverpool, we’ll visit the locations that lead to the founding of The Beatles – the childhood home where he lived with his Aunt Mimi and first started writing music, the bus stop on Menlove Avenue where his mother was tragically killed when John was a teenager, and the church hall where he famously met Paul McCartney for the first time in 1957. And in New York City, we’ll trace John’s political activism at his apartment in Greenwich Village where he was hounded by the FBI, the New York City Bar Association where he fought deportation, and The Dakota Building, where he tragically lost his life in 1980.

A prodigiously talented singer, Janis Joplin broke through rock and roll’s glass ceiling in the mid 1960s and became the first bona fide female rock superstar. But a serious alcohol addiction, and an on-again off-again dalliances with heroin tragically cost Janis her life at the age of 27. Being a gentle soul and a free spirit made Janis an outcast in her conservative hometown of Port Arthur, Texas, which is where our journey starts, before heading to the stage of Threadgill’s in Austin, where Janis found her voice and her confidence with the bluegrass group The Waller Creek Boys. In San Francisco, we’ll discover the North Beach bar where she met one of the loves of her life, and in Los Angeles, room 105 of The Landmark hotel, the room where Janis she spent her final night alive, and a hidden location across the street that might hold secret to her accidental overdose.

As an alternative rock legend, Kurt Cobain changed the course of music history with a single song. He seemingly had it all – the adoration of millions of fans, a beautiful family, and more money than he ever could have imagined. But Kurt was hiding secrets – a lifelong bout with depression, a painful chronic stomach problem, and a predilection for self-medication that escalated into a heroin addiction that lead to his suicide in 1994. We’ll travel to iconic locations in Washington State – Kurt’s mother’s home, his grandfather Leland’s trailer, and the bridge over the Wishkah River where Kurt would go to be by himself after his parents divorced, and his girlfriend’s apartment in Olympia where he wrote some of Nirvana’s iconic rock anthems. And we’ll uncover two hidden locations that played a role in Kurt’s death, a room in an obscure Seattle motel where he would shoot heroin, and try to find some peace during the maelstrom that was the final months of his life, and the Los Angeles rehab facility that he broke out of a week before his suicide

Iconic pop artist Andy Warhol was the target of a bizarre assassination attempt at the height of his fame in 1968, by a woman desperate to become part of his inner circle. Warhol rose to fame as a commercial illustrator in New York City after leaving his childhood home in Pittsburgh. He would go on to become a trailblazer – the most important and influential artist in New York, creating new forms of art, controversial films, and totally transforming our entire idea of celebrity. But his near fatal shooting changed his life forever. We’ll visit the locations that made Andy an icon – the restaurant where he sold his first original pieces of art, the Upper East Side townhouse where he created some of his most important art (and also lived with his mother!), the former site of a legendary nightclub where he held court with his Superstars and The Velvet Underground, and 33 Union Square, Andy Warhol’s second Factory, the site of the attempt on his life in 1968.

Soul music legend Marvin Gaye’s life was cut short a day before his 45th birthday on April 1, 1984, when he was shot dead by his own father in their family home in Los Angeles. Marvin and his father’s tumultuous relationship goes all the way back to his troubled childhood in Washington DC, which is where we’ll visit Bo Diddley’s House, site of Marvin first recording session, and the iconic Howard Theatre, where the aspiring singer first performed in the late 50s. In Los Angeles, we’ll follow Marvin’s downward spiral from his early 70s peak – at a secret hideaway above Pacific Palisades that he would visit with his brother Frankie and sister-in-law Irene, the Malibu beach where he jogged and meditated during his darkest days, and the Gaye family home, where Marvin’s sister Zeola will walk us through the tragic day of Marvin’s murder.

In the mid 90’s the infamous East Coast – West Coast hip hop rivalry was in full swing, and two of raps biggest icons – former friends The Notorious B.I.G, and Tupac Shakur – were caught in the middle of it. It was a battle that tragically cost both starts their lives before the end of the decade, in a pair of murders that are unsolved to this day. We’ll trace the story of these two legendry rappers by visiting the locations that lead to their rise and fall – the gritty streets of Biggie’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn where he hustled, sold drugs, and became a freestyling legend; a hidden set of train tracks in Vernon, California; New York City’s Quad Recording Studios, where a 1994 assassination attempt on Tupac ignited the biggest feud in the history of rap, and the corner of Fairfax and Wilshire in Los Angeles, where Biggie was tragically gunned down in a hit and run.