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. Read less

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. Read less

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 Read less