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Linda Eastman was born a free spirit, but she was also the daughter of a strict and demanding father, a poor Jewish boy who became a wealthy lawyer and rebranded himself as a WASP. Linda fought her own nature to try and please him, and then her first husband, before finally breaking free to find success as a freelance photographer in Manhattan. Shooting and hobnobbing with ‘60s pop stars led her to Swinging London.

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Host Nikki Lynette returns with a new season of About A Girl, a show about women in music history. Stay tuned for a new episode on October 27, wherever you get your podcasts.

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Before there was Queen Latifah the actress, there was Queen Latifah the hip-hop star. She ascended to royal status in rap at a time when the genre revolved around putting women down – and keeping them down. Thanks to her reign, a generation of hip-hop heads learned that women could rule just as well as any man. But Queen Latifah’s legacy as one of the loudest, proudest voices in the game often gets buried by her pile of film awards and acclaim.

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Eudoxie thought she was escaping torment and horror when she emigrated from Gabon to the United States as a young girl. But even through her marriage to a huge star, even with her beautiful children, all of her joy, the dark shadow of her childhood continued to loom.

Mother’s Day w/Angela Simmons, Nina Westbrook, and Eudoxie Bridges 

Eudoxie Bridges speaks out to help abuse victims at event Saturday

Atlanta Plugged In interview 

Eudoxie Bridges On Nourishing Her Spirit In Eleuthera, Bahamas 

Haute Living & Wine Access Celebrated Mother's Day Early With Angela Simmons, Eudoxie Bridges & Nina Westbrook (And Ludacris)

Ludacris and Wife Eudoxie Celebrate The 10-Year Anniversary Of When They First Met at Ludaday Weekend - Essence 

Ludacris Talks His Impact on Hip Hop – Kalisha Perera 

What Happens During a Panic Attack? 

Culture of Gabon - history, people, clothing, traditions, women, beliefs, food, customs, family 

Ludacris And Eudoxie Bridges Met 10 Years Ago Today, And They've Had Quite The Glow Up Together

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Few musicians are as inescapable as the Beyoncé. But even if you’ve kept up with her immeasurable press coverage and airplay over the decades, this story reveals the things you don’t know about Beyoncé Giselle Knowles. As it turns out, men aren’t the only thing that can overshadow a women’s story and success; sometimes, their own larger-than-life fame is just as much to blame.

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Kelis’s musical light was undeniable from the start, but it was still a struggle to shine as brightly as knew she could. She did get there, but little did she know that the same people she thought were on her side were really just out for themselves. Between that and a messy first marriage she tried to keep private, it would only take one more straw to break her silence.

Nas: 5 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About God's Son

Unmasked singer: Kelis on music, men and her missing money | Kelis | The Guardian

Kelis on Finding Freedom Through Farming

Kelis' Best Early-2000s Fashion Moments.

List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1999 - Wikipedia

Kelis age, hometown, biography | Last.fm

Kelis - Wikipedia

The Neptunes Discography - The Neptunes #1 fan site, all about Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo

Milkshake (song) - Wikipedia

Take a Look at Kelis and Nas' Full Relationship Timeline.

Nas Denies Kelis Abuse Allegations While Pleading 'We Should Be Better Examples' for Son Knight

Why Did Nas and Kelis Divorce?

Kelis Opens Up On Violent Relationship & Custody Battle with Nas

Kelis on Instagram: “I just heard the record everyone is saying has my sample . But it’s beyond this song at this point . This was a TRIGGER for me . Milkshake…”

Kelis Speaks On Contract She Signed With The Neptunes At Beginning Of Her Career

Wanderland - Wikipedia

Flesh Tone - Wikipedia

Did You Know that Nas, as in Nas the Rapper, is a Venture Capitalist

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Tashera loved Earl Simmons from the moment she first saw him when they were kids. They reconnected as adults, but Earl’s transformation into DMX and, worse, his alter ego ‘X,’ pulled her back into the cycle of emotional abuse and neglect she’d endured while growing up.

Sources:

Tashera’s speech at DMX’s memorial

People Magazine Podcast interview

You Think You Know But You Have No Idea by Tashera Simmons

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Shante Broadus steered her husband Snoop Dogg from hapless criminal to cultural icon long before she established herself as his official manager. The woman Snoop referred to as Boss Lady almost from day one truly ended up running the empire.

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Los Angeles, the mid 1990s. Tupac Shakur is one of the biggest emcees in the world, a lyric poet of a rapper. Kidada Jones is the daughter of music legend Quincy Jones. With her mother acting again, her younger sister Rashida headed to Harvard, and her father as active as ever, twenty-one year old Kidada was left to search for her place in the world. She would find it in Tupac, ironically after he’d blasted her interracial family in an interview. 

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Faith Evans met and married Christopher Wallace in 1994. Within a year, they both became stars. The new marriage suffered under their grueling work schedules, but their connection remained strong, despite external drama and pressure. Just as Biggie was looking forward to the next stage of his life, though, it all caught up with them.

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Shirley Collie helped launch Willie Nelson’s solo career back before the name “Willie Nelson” meant anything to anyone. As a guitarist and singer who climbed to the top tier of the country music circuit as just a teenager, she traded her trajectory as a recording artist and staple of the silver screen for a life with the duet partner of her dreams. But it wasn’t long before her life with Willie fell out of harmony…and fell into a twister of stagnation, loneliness, and jealousy. 

Scrapbooks In My Mind: Featuring Shirley and Willie Nelson and Many Others by Shirley Caddell Collie Nelson

Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family Band by Willie Nelson and Bobbie Nelson

Willie Nelson: An Epic Life by Joe Nick Patoski

Shirley Nelson Obituary (Springfield Union Leader)

Shirley Collie Nelson. Former Wife and Duet Partner of Willie Nelson, Dies (CMT)

Wikipedia: Shirley Collie Nelson

Country Music Hall of Fame: Willie Nelson 

Interview: Willie Nelson (The Telegraph)

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Victoria Mary Clarke was shocked to find herself in love with legendary Pogues singer Shane MacGowan, incurring the sprawling wrath of the Cobains, and sinking into depression before finding solace in the spiritual world.

Sources:

A Drink With Shane MacGowan by Shane MacGowan and Victoria Mary Clarke

Kurt & Courtney documentary, 1998

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/03/love-story-of-kurt-cobain-courtney-love

https://ew.com/article/1992/12/04/kurt-cobain-courtney-love-unauthorized/

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Auuu5

https://vmcjournalism.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/my-adventures-with-kurt-and-courtney/

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/17/shane-mcgowan-victoria-mary-clarke

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/weekend/victoria-mary-clarke-tells-how-jealousy-of-partner-shane-magowan-stopped-her-marrying-him-for-three-decades-until-she-found-her-own-success-designing-angel-scarves-38754190.html

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Kim Gordon, the soft-spoken, hard-edged heroine of the 1980s New York City underground became a beloved icon of the 1990s alternative rock boom. Her marriage with her Sonic Youth bandmate Thurston Moore was the ultimate #relationshipgoals for Generation X and beyond, before it all fell apart.

Sources:

Girl In A Band - Kim Gordon

1991: The Year Punk Broke (https://youtu.be/LeCYXexOZEg)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/683avr/nirvana-saint-vitus-april-10-2014-review

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-inside-story-of-nirvanas-one-night-only-reunion-185105/ 

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/sonic-youth-and-the-business-of-keeping-a-dead-band-alive/ 

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/10326-daydream-nation-deluxe-edition/ 

https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/music-2/kim-gordon-interview-profile-sonic-youth/ 

https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/03/10/kim-gordon-solo-tour-sonic-youth

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Claudia Lennear’s affair with Mick Jagger led to her dubious distinction as an inspiration for the Rolling Stones’ classic “Brown Sugar,” but her incredible adventures in the music world reveal a much deeper story, including a long-lasting connection to David Bowie.

SOURCES:

‘Faithfull’ by Marianne Faithfull

‘20 Feet From Stardom’ dir. Morgan Neville

‘Black Diamond Queens’ by Maureen Mahon

‘Rock and Roll Woman’ by Katherine Orloff

https://www.dailybulletin.com/2016/02/06/david-bowies-lady-grinning-soul-claudia-lennear-of-pomona-remembers-her-friend/

https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/09/17/muse-du-jour-david-bowies-real-lady-grinning-soul/

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/rolling-stones-brown-sugar-inspiration/

https://www.spin.com/2021/11/claudia-lennear-rolling-stones-brown-sugar/

https://www.popmatters.com/claudia-lennear-interview-2495747896.html

https://www.popmatters.com/claudia-lennear-interview-2495747896.html

https://www.rocksoffmag.com/claudia-lennear-the-soul-singer-youve-probably-never-heard-of/

‘Fillmore East’ by Frank Mastropolo

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/467453/Mick-Jagger-ex-Claudia-Lennear-interview

https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/the-irish-mail-on-sunday/20160124/283085593199298

http://claudialennear.com/disco.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8gnqZfWO2A&t=246s

https://archive.org/details/rocknrollwoman00orlo/page/86/mode/2up?view=theater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2aVBMhCPmg

https://www.45cat.com/record/nc813884us

https://www.discogs.com/release/1522702-Various-Shelter-Skelter

https://www.dailynews.com/2021/11/04/claudia-lennear-talks-about-joe-cocker-rolling-stones-at-claremont-event/

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/inside-tedeschi-trucks-bands-all-star-joe-cocker-tribute-concert-168931/

https://www.dailybreeze.com/2021/10/15/the-rolling-stones-celebrate-the-late-charlie-watts-at-first-sofi-stadium-concert/

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About A Girl returns November 16th for a fourth season! Host Nikki Lynette brings to life 12 new stories of heartbreak and hope, detailing the lives of extraordinary women who have each played unique roles in music history. From household names to unsung heroines, every subject’s story adds a new dimension to the music we love.

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​​Mary Ford did more for Les Paul’s career than most people know or care to admit. Before she met Les for a radio audition, Mary already had notoriety in the country scene as “Colleen Summers.” When the two musicians became entangled - both professionally and romantically - her plush vocals and quick pickin’ made them one of the most popular acts in America. But Les’ pride and workaholic lifestyle would eventually strip Mary not just of her love of music — but also the proper credit she deserved. 

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Britt Eckland became famous first as the wife of comic genius Peter Sellers, whose troubled and unstable inner life eventually drove her away. Then she became a Bond girl and international sex symbol, and hooked up with one of the world’s biggest rock stars, Rod Stewart. Together, they led a life of wild excess, but true contentment eluded her under Rod’s reluctance to commit and wandering eye.

Coachella Vegan Options - Lou Adler

Victoria Sellers Instagram

Victoria Sellers Arrested (Hollywood Reporter)

Jail Saved My Life - the Wayward Daughter of Peter Sellers (Daily Mail)

Victoria Sellers Gets Suspended Jail Term (NYT)

Rod Stewart and His Son Plead Guilty to Misdemeanor Battery (Rolling Stone)

The one lesson I’ve learned from life: Britt Ekland says just get on with it (Daily Mail)

Rod Stewart Speaks (longjohnbaldry.com)

Rod Stewart (Billboard)

Britt Ekland: 'I was put through emotional and psychological warfare'

Britt Ekland says the toll of her cosmetic injections should be a bitter lesson for today's Instagram stars (Daily Mail)

Daughter Of Late Actor, Housemate, Among Six Charged In Cocaine Ring (AP)

Tonight's The Night (YouTube)

Don't hate her because she's tall (Today Show)

Charlize picks Britt as date (Evening Standard)

Britt Ekland: 'It was frightening' The Real Marigold Hotel star talks 'difficult' moment (Express)

Britt Ekland: 'The Bond girl of my era exists no more' (Irish Times)

Former Bond girl Britt Ekland says she ‘ruined her face’ with lip fillers (Page Six)

BOTOX BASHER (Page Six)

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Frank Zappa ruled his kingdom of freaks, a prolific and obsessed man with many plans. But Gail was undeniably the woman behind the man, a role to which she felt duty-bound, and when Frank passed away, there was a new freak queen on the scene.

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words, dir. Thorsten Schütte, 2016

Frank Zappa, his groupies and me (The Guardian)

Frank Zappa: ‘People thought the Beatles were God! That's not correct (Louder)

Frank Zappa’s Widow Gail Zappa Dead at 70 (Rolling Stone)

Gail Zappa, Mother of Invention (Pamela Des Barres) 

Gail Zappa: Simply Greedy, or Was She Mentally Disturbed, Too? Dweezil Discusses the Medea Complex and More (Inquisitr)

Gail Zappa speaking in Baltimore Sept. 19, 2010

Industry Profile: Gail Zappa (Celebrity Access)

It's brother and sister against brother and sister in a bitter fight over control of Frank Zappa's legacy (LA Times)

Just Plain Folks (Billboard)

Let's Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies, by Pamela Des Barres

Swinging Modern Sounds #45: The distribution problem, part one” (The Rumpus)

The Real Frank Zappa Book, by Frank Zappa

Zappa: A Biography, by Barry Miles

Zappa, dir. Alex Winter, 2020

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A simple story about two people falling in love and then growing apart, except one of them was trying to navigate being extremely famous and under the oppressive thumb of Bill Cosby, while the other was on the verge of becoming a rock and roll superstar.

Let Love Rule, by Lenny Kravitz with David Ritz

Lisa Bonet Interview Magazine, April 1987

BFI Interview with Alan Parker on Angel Heart

We Need to Talk About Cosby, dir W. Kamau Bell (Showtime)

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Rita Coolidge soared as a singer and songwriter, working with Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton, Leon Russell, Bobby Womack, and Booker T. Jones. She was denied credit for writing the famous piano coda to “Layla” and her contribution to “Superstar,” a huge hit for The Carpenters, was similarly unsung. That was all before she met country rock troubadour Kris Kristofferson, whose superhuman levels of drinking did not help their marriage as her solo career took off.

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Delta Lady: A Memoir, by Rita Coolidge

Kristofferson: The Wild American, by Stephen Miller

Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville, by Michael Streissguth

The Kristoffersons Make It (Rolling Stone)

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Carrie Snodgress turned her back on Hollywood so fast that she didn't even attend the Academy Awards when she was nominated for Best Actress. Her dream was never stardom; it was love and family. But it was hard to find the stability her own childhood had lacked when she went to live with Neil Young on his remote ranch, just as Neil's solo career went into high gear.

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Host Nikki Lynette returns on May 16th to bring you 12 fascinating and dramatic stories of women whose pivotal roles in music history and pop culture are not widely known. Learn about Bob Dylan's secret wife Carolyn Dennis, Rick James's protegee Teena Marie, and Jenny Boyd, the woman Mick Fleetwood loved so much he married her twice. Nikki delves into the private struggles, the triumphs, and the heartbreak that occurred alongside the creation of timeless music.

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Lou Reed was fascinated and inspired by all kinds of real people who existed on the edges of society — junkies, street hustlers, gender non-conformists — but he fell in love with trans woman Rachel Humphreys, a beautiful mystery even to him.

This episode contains references to heavy drug use, abuse, and suicide.

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When Tammy Wynette was a young girl, she dreamed of singing with George Jones at the Grand Ole Opry. Her single-minded drive to be a star brought her to the top and to George Jones, and these two great voices of country music fell in love. But once seated as the queen of country, Tammy was lost, while George proved to be a troubled and dedicated alcoholic.

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Long before June Carter came along, there was Vivian. Johnny Cash and Viv were deeply in love, and had four daughters together, before... well, you probably know the rest. But you might not know the heartbreaking story of a young woman who went through hell to save her family, whose racial identity became a scandal emblematic of mid-century American strife, and who made it through the dark times, only to be insulted and written out of history.

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A songwriter and singer so erotic, raw, and ahead of her time that no one was ready for her. An earthquaking icon of feminism and Black power during a time when it was unheard of for a woman, let alone a Black woman, to own her sexuality so explicitly. Betty Davis pushed her legendary husband out of cool jazz and up to the cutting edge, before divorcing him and releasing three of the most unexpected and astonishing albums of the 1970s. Then she disappeared.

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Norma Tanega was a soulful American Latina artist, a one-hit wonder who never wanted stardom, but who fell in love with Dusty Springfield, the Queen of White Soul, who wanted stardom very much. They kept their contentious love affair from the public, but Norma had to leave behind Dusty's glittering world for the pain it concealed.

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Behind Marvin Gaye's incredibly smooth, affable exterior was a soul tortured by the abuse he suffered as a child, insecurity, and paranoia. Like many victims, he turned perpetrator and dragged his child bride into his world of pain, drug dependency, and more sexual abuse. But Janis is a survivor...

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The White Stripes. Jack and his sister Meg. His wife Meg. His ex-wife Meg. The non-musician who became a rock star. The unassuming, pretty, porcelain-complexioned woman who evoked thunder from behind the drum kit. Her silent intensity became a riddle and compelled millions of fans to puzzle for the solution. And her disappearance has made clear that none is forthcoming.

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About A Girl returns on June 7th with twelve new episodes about women who have played crucial roles in music history, but whose fascinating personal stories have been eclipsed by the legends of their famous romantic partners.

Nikki Lynette, the host of About A Girl, sits down with Chelsea Ursin of Dear Young Rocker to discuss the new season and to preview an upcoming episode about Marianne Faithfull.

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About A Girl is back with 12 new stories about women who have played crucial roles in music history, but whose fascinating personal stories have been eclipsed by the legends of their famous romantic partners. Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull, Notorious BIG and Faith Evans, Miles and Betty Davis... Host Nikki Lynette sheds light upon the women — many of them artists themselves — without whom the landscape of popular music might be very different. About a Girl is executive produced by Jake Brennan of Disgraceland and premieres on June 7, 2021. Listen to About A Girl on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Listen to Season 3 of the 27 Club to hear the insane details behind the life of one of rock's greatest icons — Janis Joplin. From her roots as a bullied and ostracized teenager to her stunning rise to international superstardom, the story of Janis Joplin’s short life still resonates today, more than 50 years after her death. You'll hear about her wild adventures from Texas to San Francisco and beyond, her involvement with the Hell's Angels, fellow 27 Club members Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, and her surveillance by the FBI. Jake Brennan, the creator and host of the award-winning Disgraceland podcast, brings you an all new season of the 27 Club that is not to be missed. The 27 Club season 3 launches on Thursday April 22, 2021.

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Brooke Shields was a young star who had her first taste of massive fame — and controversy — with the film Pretty Baby, in which she’d played a child prostitute. Michael Jackson, youngest of the Jackson Five, was transitioning to solo stardom as an adult. They met in 1981, each with an uncertain path before them, but Brooke and Michael would find comfort and friendship in each other. 

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Robyn Crawford met Whitney Houston when they were both just teenagers. From the moment their eyes met, Robyn was drawn in by Whitney’s warmth and beauty — and when she heard her sing, Robyn knew she wanted to be in Whitney’s life for good. But the price she would pay for Whitney’s success was their own romance.

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Los Angeles, 1957. In the time of drive-in movies and sock hops, high school student Donna Ludwig liked to sneak out of the house to have fun with her friends. On one night out, she met a young guitarist named Richard Valenzuela and was immediately smitten. As Ritchie Valens, he would have a chart-topping hit with a song he wrote for her, before his life was tragically cut short.

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In rural Alabama circa World War II, a farm girl named Audrey Mae Sheppard was at the tail end of a series of bad decisions. An ill-fated marriage and a pregnancy made her a single mother at the age of 18, and she’d had to move back home. An aspiring singer herself, she one day discovered an unassuming, lanky singer-songwriter named Hank Williams, and they fell in love. Their tumultuous union was defined by her singular, driving ambition to make them both stars.

SOURCES:

• \\Still in Love With You\\ by Lycrecia Williams 
• \\Hank\\ by Mark Ribowsky 
• \\The Hank Williams Museum\\
• \\Hank Williams A&E Biography\\

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In 1959, an American teenager named Priscilla Beaulieu, daughter of an Air Force officer, was living in West Germany. Lonely and bored, she was introduced to another American who understood the feeling. Elvis Presley, already a huge star, was serving a stint in the U.S. Army, and fell in love with the beautiful, though very young girl. The troubling relationship only became more complicated as the years passed.

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In 1962, the Caribbean island of Jamaica gained independence from Great Britain, and the fledgling nation yearned to establish an identity of its own. Two years later, Rita Anderson was a teenage single mother living in the impoverished Kingston suburb of Trenchtown, in search of something beyond her circumstances. She would find it as a singer in a rocksteady group. That would lead her to discover her twin flame: a shy young man who also saw music as his ticket out of Trenchtown. His name was Bob Marley. 

SOURCES:

• Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley
• Biography article
• Elvis Presley: The Searcher (Documentary)

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By the time she was seventeen, London actress Jane Asher had already made a name for herself, onstage, in films, and in 1963 as a panelist on the BBC’s Juke Box Jury, a popular musical variety show. Due to her youth and popularity, she was offered an opportunity: interviewing The Beatles after their upcoming Royal Albert Hall concert. This simple assignment would be the start of a five-year relationship with Paul McCartney and a wild journey through the eye of Beatlemania and the 1960s cultural revolution, during which Jane would truly find herself.  

SOURCES

• Shout: The True Story of the Beatles by Philip Norman 
• Paul McCartney: The Life by Philip Norman
• The Beatles: Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years (Documentary)

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In the early 1970s, actress Peggy Lipton was at a crossroads. She was the beautiful star of The Mod Squad, admired by girls and desired by men. And yet, she could not make a real relationship last, not until she met Quincy Jones, bandleader, record producer, and composer of Oscar-winning films. Sure, he was 13 years her elder, twice (and still) married with four kids. And never mind the roiling legacy of racism in America that would haunt their relationship. She knew he was the one.

SOURCES:

• Breathing Out: A Memoir by Peggy Lipton 
• Quincy (Documentary)

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Mary Austin, shopgirl. Farrokh Bulsara, art student. They formed a bond that didn’t have a name and couldn’t be defined. Even as he metamorphosed into the superstar the world would know as Freddie Mercury, their connection would last until the end.

SOURCES:

• The Freddie Mercury Story: Who Wants To Live Forever (Documentary)
• Freddie Mercury: The Untold Story (Documentary)
• Mary Austin interview with OK! Magazine
• Mary Austin interview with Daily Mail
• 39th birthday party footage

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In the mid-1960s, Los Angeles was a mecca of American music, and it was where Pamela Courson decided she wanted to be, escaping her suffocating conservative community in nearby Orange County. Pam was an intelligent but restless young woman, and she found a home among the outcasts of her generation who frequented the nightclubs and parties all over town. On one of these nights, she’d meet a sensitive and handsome poet who’d been thrust into the role of lead singer of a strange rock band called The Doors. Pam and Jim would quickly fall in love and over the next few years; their time together would be a rollercoaster. Ultimately, it would lead them to Paris.

SOURCES:

• Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend by Stephen Davis
• When You’re Strange (2009, d. Tom DiCillo)
• Jim & I: Friends Until Death (Alain Ronay essay)
• Angels Dance and Angels Die: The Tragic Romance of Pamela and Jim Morrison by Patricia Butler

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In the summer of 1969, people all over the world were gripped by space fever in the wake of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission, which would successfully land men on the moon. In London, nineteen year old Angie Barnett, freshly out of boarding school, was searching for an identity of her own. She found it one evening in an up and coming singer named David Bowie, whose single “Space Oddity” was rocketing to the Number #1 spot in the UK charts. While their marriage a year later was one of convenience above all else, she would help him bring his alter ego, Ziggy Stardust, to life, and the relationship they developed was unique indeed.

SOURCES:

• Angie Bowie, PleaseKillMe.com article
• Angie Bowie interviews:
• On David’s death (2016)
• Post-divorce (1980s)
• David Bowie - The Story Of Ziggy Stardust (Documentary)
• David Bowie - Sound and Vision (Documentary)
• Backstage Passes: Life on the Wild Side with David Bowie by Angela Bowie

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About A Girl is a new podcast about the influential women behind the musical legends - women who inspired, supported, and challenged icons like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, and Bob Marley on their way to greatness. About a Girl is executive produced by Jake Brennan of Disgraceland and premieres November 30th, 2020. Search for and subscribe to About A Girl on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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In the 1970s, the world regarded the Rolling Stones as an insular band of hedonistic and glamorous pansexual junkies. But all of the trouble they’d stirred up during the ’60s and early ’70s would be dwarfed by the mess they would cause in Canada in 1977. Up until that point, the band’s money and collective luck had been enough to fend off destruction. But the scandal they embroiled themselves in touched the highest levels of government, and threatened to destroy the band and their as-yet indestructible guitar player, Keith Richards.

To see the full list of contributors, see the show notes at www.disgracelandpod.com.

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