Bonus Episode: Another Biopic Bites the Dust

What good is a Queen biopic if it reveals nothing real about Freddie Mercury? Are biopics just Marvel movies for music lovers? This and more, plus your voicemails, text, dms, and emails in this week’s After Party bonus episode. See omnystudio.com/listener https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• 2:13Jake Brennan?

  Hey, Discos. Need a little more DisgraceLand in your life? Just a touch to get you through? Yeah, me too. This is the podcast that comes after the podcast. Welcome to DisgraceLand: The After Party. Welcome to the DisgraceLand bonus episode, a little thing we like to call the after party. This is the show after the show, the party after the party, the bridge to get you from one full episode of DisgraceLand to the other, the backyard, to dig into the dirt. Our mission, as always, guys, to uncover the truth, to confront the myth, to reclaim the story.

• 2:57Jake Brennan?

  And boy, howdy, do we have a subject for that. This week for you with our new Queen episode. On this bonus episode, we're going to get into the truth behind the Queen story and what was eventually put up on screen in Bohemian Rhapsody. We're also going to dig into some of the treatment that the critics gave to Queen, the band, not the biopic, the Bohemian Rhapsody biopic anyways. Plus, we're going to get into your emails, comments, DMs, and as always, a whole lot of Rosie. This is the podcast for the musically obsessed, the outsiders, just like you, the independent thinkers who know that the best history is the history that gets buried. DisgraceLand is where I tell the stories, you'll end up telling someone else.

• 3:35Jake Brennan?

  All right, Discos, let's get into it. By 1973, when Queen's first self-titled album was released, a critic from the new musical Express tore it apart like a Wolverine breaking its fast. He compared the group's debut with a "bucket of urine." A few years later, in 1975, when Queen released A Night at the Opera, the LP containing what would become Queen's iconic masterpiece, Bohemian Rhapsody,

• 4:14Jake Brennan?

  melody maker described that track, Bohemian Rhapsody, as a pastiche of superficial ideas. The Sunday Times questioned the "legitimacy" of its audience's hearing, talking about Queen's audience there. Quantifying the success of Bohemian Rhapsody is unnecessary. But just a massively successful song, you can just look around and see and hear the impact of the song. That's how successful it is. Just open your eyes and your ears. It's been in our culture for the past 50 years. It has been impacting our culture for the past 50 years in movies, on TV, streaming billions of times over. It's been parodied, it's been mimicked, it's been covered.

• 4:59Jake Brennan?

  And of course, it is playing right now on a classic rock radio station near you. Now, critics, especially those who came up in the 1970s, will tell you that this doesn't change a thing. To a critic, creative merit cannot be measured by mass appeal. In fact, serious cultural critics will argue that achieving mainstream acceptance only proves that the art in question isn't serious, because commercial success is only rewarded to safe works of art that conform to what the mainstream audience wants. And that true art, art worthy of critical acclaim,

• 5:41Jake Brennan?

  can only be found in risk-taking works that push the medium, in this case, rock and roll, forward. So this, as my mother would say, is a crock of shit. The Beatles, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Stephen King's Salem's Lot, Steven Spielberg's Jaws, three examples, one an album, one a book, and another a movie, that all defy the definition of serious critical merit from serious cultural critics. Sergeant Pepper's abandoned traditional pop singlesong format and production for avant-garde orchestral arrangements and instrumentation. And the result was not only a creative masterpiece, but an instant commercial success as well.

• 6:25Jake Brennan?

  In Salem's Lot, Stephen King teamed his plot-driven horror with blue-collar character studies. It was a combination nobody asked for, nobody wanted, and nobody saw it coming. And initially, the critics relegated his bestseller to downseller, but once it went paperback a few months after its release, they came around. Spielberg's Jaws was an instant cultural phenomenon, a monster movie that didn't fully show the monster until the third act. It was a genius move, and a genius movie that no serious critic could deny. None of these works conformed to what mainstream audiences wanted in order to obtain mainstream success.

• 7:09Jake Brennan?

  Like Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, a song that still, to this day, defies explanation, these works were previously unimaginable by anyone but their creators. So why was Queen's work panned and the others weren't? That I can't answer. But I think it has something to do with the fact that most critics aren't writing about the thing they're writing about. They're writing about themselves. It's like when someone you know judges you in person, or someone you don't know online comes at you in a comment. The critique is almost never about you, it's about them. And that's what music and cultural criticism is all about.

• 7:52Jake Brennan?

  It's about the self-important critic. The writer from Rolling Stone magazine who called Led Zeppelin weak, the writer from Cream magazine who said The Stones' Exile was the worst studio album they'd made, or the writer from NME who compared Queen's debut to a bucket of urine. You'll notice I didn't mention these critics by name because, well, why give them the satisfaction? Most have been forgotten, yet the music lives on. Queen, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Steven Spielberg, Stephen King, The Beatles, pick your example, these artists risked failure by not only creating something previously unforeseen, but they dragged the culture along with them when they did it.

• 8:34Jake Brennan?

  It's one thing for an artist to hide behind the novelty of their creation and claim that the world just isn't ready for them. And it's quite another thing for an artist to take something equally novel and execute it so brilliantly that it cannot be ignored.

• 8:50Jake Brennan?

  This is the difference between great artists and good artists. And the critics would know that if they weren't so busy exercising their own creative failures in the pros of their reviews. Now, I'm going to put my critics hat on and completely contradict myself. Not really, but some might think so. The Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody is bad. That's my one word review. I'm going to let this week's Disgraceland episode do the talking for me on this one. Listen to that episode if you haven't already, and you will understand my opinion, my review, my one word review a little more fully. I gave it a one word review because I'm not making it about me. Okay. That's the point I'm trying to make. We talk about music biopics a lot here, and you know the ones that I like and dislike

• 9:32Jake Brennan?

  by now, but there's a ton of great non-music biopics that are worth discussing as well and recommending to you guys. And Zedd and I are going to be digging into them in the exclusive section of this after party at the end of the bonus episode for our all access members. Go to disgracelandpod.com to sign up to become an all access member if you're not one already. And you can unlock exclusive content like this plus ad free listening on this week's Queen episode, our full episode, we get into the following, okay? No studio on earth would have greenlit the real story of Bohemian Rhapsody. Some people might think they know the Queen's story because they saw the movie, but the movie didn't want to show you this other side of Queen. All right. Halloween, 1978, Queen's having a party to celebrate their new album, Jazz.

• 10:17Jake Brennan?

  You show up, a greeter meets you at the door, and the first thing you're offered is oral sex. Your choice, man or woman, Queen has got you covered. But this isn't all Queen is offering their guests on this night at their party. This is the Fairmont Hotel, by the way, in New Orleans. Inside, naked women are spread across banquet tables, smoking cigarettes somehow from their vaginas. Don't ask me how, I don't know, but there's more. There's little people walking around the room with silver trays of cocaine strapped to their heads. There are strippers dressed as nuns and dancing in bamboo cages. Fire eaters are swallowing flames while performers bite the heads off live chickens. I don't know if Ozzy was there, if this is where Ozzy got it from, but this was going on. There's also minstrels in blackface because strippers dressed as nuns just wasn't offensive enough.

• 11:01Jake Brennan?

  There's lobster, oysters, caviar, Cristal by the bottle. The final bill is 200,000 pounds, over a million dollars today. And to Freddie Mercury and to Queen, this was pretty much just a fucking Tuesday. All right. This is the real story of Queen. Bohemian Rhapsody, the biopic, it may have given you the songs, but it did not give you the story. Now, that's just a taste of the Queen episode, our most recent new full episode that we released this week. Go check that out. Now, coming up next in the feed, right after this bonus episode, we're rewinding to our Blink 182, Tom DeLonge story. Now, 2015, Tom DeLonge quit Blink 182, one of the planet's biggest rock bands to go

• 11:45Jake Brennan?

  and chase UFOs. But before he quit, back in 2014, Tom took a trip out to the desert, out to Area 51 in the middle of the night. Tom woke up in his tent because he heard voices outside, too many voices to count. They woke him up, and these voices, they were not human. These sounds were unearthly, but still, they were strangely familiar, murmuring, whispering, freaking Tom out. Now, whatever Tom DeLonge heard out in the desert on that night in 2014, it was enough to compel him to quit Blink 182 and dedicate his life to learning more and compelling those in power to share what they had already learned with the American public about those

• 12:27Jake Brennan?

  voices, about extra and ultra terrestrials, about UFOs and UAPs. Tom DeLonge was mocked mercilessly by an incurious press with headlines like Blink 182's Tom DeLonge describes alien encounters, says authorities tapped his phone. Tom DeLonge just proved he's gone completely insane during alien rant. I'm not going to say Tom DeLonge is batshit crazy, but Tom DeLonge ignored these stupid headlines, and he used a mix of his celebrity and skills at politicking to set a meeting with a bunch of government aerospace contractors. The stakes for this meeting could not have been higher. There were four layers of security, armed guards, white noise pumping in through the speakers to scramble any listening devices inside the dark, windowless room where they

• 13:12Jake Brennan?

  were meeting. One of the contractors told Tom he was a fucking lunatic, a conspiracy theorist that was wasting his time, and he got up and left the room. Other contractors followed, all but one, all but the lead contractor, who listened to more of Tom's pitch. When Tom finished, the government contractor, to Tom's amazement, agreed that slow disclosure of the UFO phenomenon via culture, via a rock star like him, rather than exclusively through the incurious traditional media, could perhaps responsibly bring the public around to the mind bending notion that yes, aliens are real. Tom was right. Now, if you want to know exactly how Tom DeLonge proved that he was right, and the

• 13:56Jake Brennan?

  road that Blink 182 took to put Tom DeLonge in position to make the moves he eventually made around the topic of UFO and UAP disclosure, be sure to check out this episode. Finally, next week, our next new episode is on the one and the only, the extremely talented and extremely unlikable, by my estimation anyway, David Crosby. Now, did you know David Crosby carried a loaded gun everywhere he went? Doesn't feel like he's the type of guy who would do that, but he did. And when cops asked why, he gave them two words, John Lennon. It was five years after Lennon was gunned down in the street, and David Crosby wasn't wrong to be scared. But he also wasn't just scared, he was paranoid.

• 14:40Jake Brennan?

  And that kind of paranoia was just what David Crosby was showing on the surface. Underneath was one of the gnarliest freebase addictions you'll ever hear about. A home invasion, a gunshot to the face, a getaway plane that turned the softest voice in rock and roll into an actual FBI fugitive who was arrested just down the road from where I'm sitting right now. All right, that's the David Crosby episode. When you're listening to this episode, be thinking about Crosby, be thinking about his bands, be thinking about the Byrds, Laurel Canyon in the 60s and 70s. How three guys from three broken up bands turned themselves into one of the greatest supergroups of all time, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

• 15:23Jake Brennan?

  And let us know, what's your favorite supergroup? Okay, it doesn't have to be a group that was actually massive, like, you know, Van Hagar or whatever. It can be, we can go indie here. When I say supergroup, I'm just talking more about super musicians coming together, joining forces, more so than I am sort of super popularity like Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The coming together of it all is what I'm interested. Give me a call, let me know your favorite supergroups. You might hear yourself in next week's after party. 617-906-6638, voicemail and text at disgracelandpod on the socials, [email protected] for email. I'll be back right after this with your answers to last week's question of the week, your

• 16:06Jake Brennan?

  voicemails, your texts, DMs, emails, and more.

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• 17:22Jake Brennan?

  All right, I'm back in the phone booth, the one across the hall. My coffee's getting cold. I don't know how that's possible. I just made this thing. Not hot enough. The older I get, the hotter I like my coffee. What's that all about? I feel like that's very David Lynchian. Anyhow, we got a show to do. Why am I blabbing about coffee? Um, okay, 617-906-6638. Last week's question of the week relative to our episode on Queen. We wanted to know who you think the real Freddie Mercury was and what the best biopic and what the best music biopic is.

• 18:05Jake Brennan?

  Let's go to Junior in the 714. Hey Jake, this is Junior 714. Appreciate what you're doing like always. One of my favorite biopics, Control, about Ian Curtis from Joy Division. We don't know much about Ian Curtis's life, only what we hear from the guys from New Order and his wife and books and biographies. But the movie was done in black and white because the director

• 18:35Speaker 00

  Says you don't get a lot of colored photos of Ian Curtis. Secondly, at the suicide scene, unfortunately, the idiot was playing on his turntable in the movie, which is documented. And he loved that album. But other than that, the movie was beautiful. It was believable and it was sad. Jake, take it easy. Good talking to you. Peace. Keep doing what you're doing. Rock and roll.

• 19:05Jake Brennan?

  Seven one four junior. Thanks, man. Uh, it's a dark one and um, I haven't seen it, even though we've produced an episode on, on Joy Division New Order. Uh, I have not seen this. It's dark. There's something, there's a real darkness there. I haven't quite given myself over to Ian Curtis because I don't know, man, not in the headspace and I kind of missed it when it was happening. I was a little too young, but I understand the greatness and I'm sure I've heard a lot of people, a lot of people just outside of disgraceland, just friends of mine, people I know in the world love this, this film. And I don't doubt that what you're saying is spot on junior. Thanks for getting in touch. This one from the seven three one.

• 19:50Speaker 07

  Me, the best biopic of an artist would have to be The Doors. Jim Morrison. Thanks.

• 20:00Jake Brennan?

  Seven three one. I love Oliver Stone's The Doors. People rag on it, they drag it. Um, and I kind of get it. It is sensationalized filmmaking, but it's kind of the best version of that. And it kind of broke the mold in a lot of ways. It really, really took the biopic, the music biopic Hollywood, uh, took it to Hollywood in a way that hadn't been done prior to that. I don't think, there's great biopics beforehand, but sort of don't have the spectacle that The Doors has. I heard a great thing about Val Kilmer when he died. You know, this just happened with Dolly Parton, where folks pass away and people jump online and start sharing stories. And it was somebody, um, I think it was Meg Ryan. I could be wrong.

• 20:44Jake Brennan?

  It was somebody who was ultimately cast in The Doors, I believe. And they're at casting and they're all kind of like, you know, it's like typically, you know, what you think of, they're all, you know, waiting in a hallway, sitting next to each other to go in and audition. And they're all just kind of in their street clothes, all the actors, not Val Kilmer. He rolled up in a, in a 1960s Mustang, just like Jim Morrison drove, like in full Morrison, like leather pants, shirtless, the whole thing. I think he had a bottle with him and he fucking stumbles. He's just fully in character for the audition. And of course he nailed it and he was great. He was amazing, amazing. Six one seven nine oh six six six three eight. You guys want to be part of the conversation? Hit us up.

• 21:25Jake Brennan?

  Jason in the four one six comes at us with this, uh, running through my woes in the four one six, great episode on Freddie Mercury. Obviously I grew up loving their music. I still keep my Moet shandon, eh shandon, am I pronouncing that correctly? In a pretty cabinet. The movie Bohemian Rhapsody is another story, but I ask you, which movie is the biggest perversion of music history? Bohemian Rhapsody or Amadeus? I can't answer this question, Jason, and I'm embarrassed by it because I love Amadeus, but I do not know the history of Mozart well enough to, to, to comment. So Jason, I'm asking you, write us back. Text us back and, and we will get into it here. Okay. Tell me, tell me what they got wrong.

• 22:10Jake Brennan?

  Tell me what the perversion was. I want to rewatch it. I love the movie. I really, really do. I think it's great. Appreciate it. Four one six, Jason. Eight oh eight text in, going to go out of the box here, but as far as accurate biopics, I'd say Almost Famous. Although the characters are fictional, it's pretty accurate to what Cameron Crowe experienced. So the one that's 100% accurate is Spinal Tap one plus two. For those who don't know, let's not ruin the twist. Okay, we will not. The Cameron Crowe thing, I haven't read his book, so I can't fully comment. I, you know, I was about, I'm supposed to make a comment about the sentimentality in Almost Famous. Usually when you say that, it means you're being negative and I'm not.

• 22:50Jake Brennan?

  I love that movie, but um, yeah, it makes you think that, you know, maybe it's not that accurate, but I haven't read the book. It sounds like you have, so I'm going to go with you. I like it. Thank you. Appreciate this eight oh eight. We got a cover. Almost Famous in, uh, this film should be played loud. Eventually we'll do that. Hey Jake, Bex from the four one O, just listened to the Allman Brothers episode. Great info, funny coincidence. I was listening to the episode while grocery shopping and Turn Back Time started playing after you mentioned Cher. Sometimes things just come together like that. Can't say enough how much I've been enjoying the show. Thanks. You got it, Bex. Six one seven nine oh six six six three eight.

• 23:33Jake Brennan?

  Y'all want to hit us up about biopics, about David Crosby, about super groups? Let's get into the super groups conversation. I want like, uh, like, uh, subgenre, super groups, punk rock scene, super groups, hardcore, hip hop. What do you got? Hit me. Don't say Wu-Tang. They were a group that became a super group. That's an interesting topic, however, though. Kind of like Fleetwood Mac. All right, listen. Bohemian Rhapsody, massive undertaking. Freddie Mercury's nearly six minute song consists of five distinct parts, including an operatic middle section, of course, required hundreds of vocal and instrumental overdubs. It was funny, it was sad, it was exhilarating, but executives from EMI Records in the UK

• 24:18Jake Brennan?

  and Elektra Records in the US demanded that it be edited for radio. So you know what happened? Freddie Mercury slipped a copy of the song to London DJ Kenny Everett, who played it something like 14 times over the course of a couple of days. And then listeners, they decided they loved it. They demanded that the radio stations keep playing it. They forced the record label's hands. So on Halloween in 1975, Bohemian Rhapsody was released as a single at its intended length, five minutes and 55 seconds. And one month later, it became a number one hit on the UK chart. How's that? There you go. A little history there for Bohemian Rhapsody from our Queen episode this week. I'll be back in a flash with your emails.

• 25:11Jake Brennan?

  All right, guys, we are rounding the corner, heading into the home stretch here in the after party, into the third act, so to speak. I cannot let you guys go though, without getting into some of these emails. Jessica writes in, hey, it's your friendly massage therapist friend. Queen is one of my all time favorite bands and I loved this episode. I loved how true you were to Freddie's life and personality. I was saying almost exactly what you were saying as this episode unfolded. I discovered Queen when I was about 13 and I became obsessed and had to know everything I could about Freddie and now I only date guys who look similar. Wow. You know what you like, Jessica. There you go. Thanks for the message. Stoked you liked the episode. Got a couple of comments on Instagram.

• 25:55Jake Brennan?

  This one from Michael, great episode. Any chance for an Elton John one coming soon? Eh, maybe, I don't know. That one's complicated for reasons I don't want to go into. Pete writes in, hey, uh, the Freddie Kenny and Die story was filmed for a British show called Urban Myths, which you can find on YouTube. And there's another story from Brian May that while recording, the show must go on. Freddie was in a bad way and I said, Fred, I don't know if this is going to be possible to sing. And he went, I'll fucking do it, darling. Vodka down and went in and killed it, completely lacerated his vocal. Uh, so the movie should have ended. There you go. All right, that's from, who's that from? Pete.

• 26:37Jake Brennan?

  Tim writes in, I'm going to say that the Liberace biopic is definitely the most accurate. Matt Damon definitely likes, okay, okay. All right. Oh, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim. All right. So I was talking about Salem's Lot earlier. This one comes from Delbert Brown. I think because I mentioned Salem's Lot with Zeth and the Hollywood land episode we did this week in the rap party. Delbert writes in, man, Salem's Lot was the first time as a terrified 10 year old that I could not sleep until I turned the last page and made sure that Barlow wasn't under my bed. Definitely a classic. My personal favorite though, is Duma Key.

• 27:20Jake Brennan?

  There's something so unsettling, yet sad and hopeful. And I couldn't put that one down either. Would definitely check it out. And as a Bostonian, you, not me, the girl who loved Tom Gordon is required while some of the survival tropes were thin. The fact that her love for a Red Sock fan keeps it going. Uh, the Mr. Mercedes trilogy is fantastic. Honestly, the Brendan Gleeson TV adaptation isn't too shabby either. It's good stuff. Hearts in Atlantis, a sleeper two. Okay, I'm going to go through this Salem's Lot. I don't remember it being this good. I really don't. I don't remember Stephen King being this good. And I say this as a Stephen King fan. I love Stephen King. I've read many of his books, many of his classic books, some of the new ones. I read Mr. Mercedes. Um, I don't remember it being a trilogy though, so maybe I only read one of the books.

• 28:04Jake Brennan?

  I read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon a long, long time ago. And I've, I've read a bunch of the classics, The Shining, et cetera. I think there's even a sequel to The Shining. I think I read that. I don't remember it being this good. I don't remember, I've always thought he was great. Don't get me wrong. But um, Salem's Lot is exceptionally good. And I did start, I tried reading a new Stephen King book recently and I got two chapters in and I put it down. I just, it just all felt very, it felt kind of tired to me, felt very rote. It felt not like Stephen King. So what I'm gonna do actually, after I finish Salem's Lot, Halloween's coming,

• 28:48Jake Brennan?

  St. Michael's Lent as well, I'm gonna read The Exorcist again, I'm gonna reread it. And, cause I wanna compare that to Salem's Lot, and then I'm gonna go and I'm gonna read Carrie after that, cause I have not read Carrie yet. Um, I read Cujo, I read Pet Sematary, Shining, like I said, different seasons. I'm gonna see if like Salem's Lot, so Carrie was number one, Salem's Lot was number two in Stephen King's releases, and I just wanna see if like, it was all heat in the beginning, all fastballs. See if, or Salem's Lot is an outlier, if it's just really the real exceptional one. I'm interested, fascinated by this all of a sudden. Thanks for

• 29:32Jake Brennan?

  indulging me. And Delbert, thank you for your email. I mentioned Hollywoodland. We have our first Hollywoodland episode that we ever, or second actually, Marilyn Monroe was one, our second was this one, Fatty Arbuckle, that's available for you, wanna check that out over there. We got into a great, kinda weird conversation, Zeth and I, in the Rap Party, did some recommendations on fantasy and scandal content, songs about fantasy, and movies about scandals, obviously relative to Roscoe, Fatty Arbuckle. Uh, get over to the Hollywoodland feed and subscribe to Hollywoodland if you're not already, on Apple Podcasts, iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Filming a new, I got all this new equipment here

• 30:15Jake Brennan?

  on my desk, I gotta put this together tomorrow, cause Zeth and I are kinda up in the production a little bit for this film, Should Be Played Loud, we're filming a new one, uh, next week, on Gross Point Blank, fantastic movie with an excellent soundtrack. If you're not watching our video podcast, this film should be played loud, get over to Patreon and sign up to become an All Access member, so that you don't miss the greatest podcast ever about, uh, movies and music, the movies you love and the music in them that you love, okay? It's just, it's the only movies and music podcast that matters. Joe Strummer said that, you can look it up, it's true, that's This Film Should Be Played Loud. You know what you also get if you're

• 31:00Jake Brennan?

  an All Access member? You get this conversation coming up right now with Zeth and I, about biopics that are not about musicians, but are fantastic. That's coming up right now. If you're not an All Access member, go to disgracelandpod.com to sign up and become one. We'll be back right after this.

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• 32:26Jake Brennan?

  All right, we are back and ready to split, but before we do, get into that archive of nearly 300 episodes of DisgraceLand. New listeners, 300, nearly, nearly 300 episodes of DisgraceLand on artists from every genre, pretty much. And, uh, I don't know, you got a favorite artist, and you're like, damn, why hasn't DisgraceLand covered Jeff Buckley? Well, we have, and you can go find that in our archive. Why hasn't DisgraceLand covered, um, Lil Peep? Well, we have, you can go find that in our archive. Why hasn't DisgraceLand covered Gigi Allen? There's a Gigi Allen biopic coming out. Why, why hasn't that been, that been covered? Well, we did, we did cover Gigi Allen, back in, I believe, season one. Matt will put the, uh,

• 33:07Jake Brennan?

  episode information in the show notes section of this here bonus episode, make it easy to navigate to those stories. Hit me up directly at disgracelandpod, 617-906-6638, voicemail and text, [email protected]. If you have an episode you're curious about, an artist you're curious about, you wanna know if we covered them or not, or if you think you have an artist that would make for a great episode of DisgraceLand, let us know. I gotta get out of here. Number one, this week, our new episode on Queen is available for you right now. Number two, in the rewind slot this weekend, our classic episode on Tom DeLonge in Blink 182. Number three, next week, our next new episode, that's on David Crosby. Numero quattro, Zeth is giving you those Hollywood and crime vibes in Hollywoodland, so make sure you're subscribed.

• 33:50Jake Brennan?

  I'm gonna give you my music recommendations in the Rap Party over in the Hollywoodland feed every week. Make sure you're subscribed to Hollywoodland on Apple Podcasts, or Spotify, or the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Someone just walked into my house, I can hear him blabbing over there. Number five, This Film Should Be Played Loud, our video podcast episode on Licorice Pizza is available for you right now. Our next episode on Gross Point Blank is coming September 23rd. Go to disgracelandpod.com, sign up to become an All Access member. I can lower my voice now they stop talking. Number six, 617-906-6638. Your voice keeps us digging into the dark corners of music history, so keep calling, texting with your answers to this week's question of the week, or with whatever else you wanna talk about. Number seven, don't forget Discos, this isn't just content, it's

• 34:35Jake Brennan?

  a community, a community of the obsessed, and no one cares about music, books, records, and the crime and grime that ties them all together like you do, and well, that's a disgrace. All right, back on November 2nd, 2018, Bohemian Rhapsody, the biopic, was released, and this is what America was listening to on that day, according to the Billboard charts. Number one, Thank You, next, Ariana Grande. Last week, not applicable, Weeks on Chirp, one, peak position, one. Number two, Girls Like You, Maroon 5, featuring Cardi B. Last week, one, peak position, one, Weeks on Chirp, twenty-four. Number three, Sicko Mode, Travis Scott, two,

• 35:19Jake Brennan?

  last week, two, peak position, two, Weeks on Chirp, fourteen. Number four, Happy, Marshmallow and Bastille, last week, twenty-three, peak position, three, Weeks on Chirp, twelve. Number five, Lucid Juice.

• 35:50Speaker 07

  Quit talking and start mixing. I'm Lacey Mosley, author, actor, stand-up comedian, creator, and host of Scam Goddess Podcast, the true crime comedy podcast, all about robbery, fraud, and those who practice it. Each week, I bring on an amazing guest. Ooh, I scammed them. What? I could talk to you for an hour. You're a generational yapper, like me. That's why I had to make yapping a job. And now you can catch full episodes of my show on YouTube. Start listening to Scam Goddess on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.