Death of a Rock Star
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Death of a Rock Star
From Kurt Cobain to Whitney Houston, Michael Hutchence and Amy Winehouse, these are their stories - powerful, poignant and raw. This series will change how you feel about them.
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David Bowie
David Bowie is dying, and no-one knows it. No journalists, no fans. Just the chosen few. His wife. His grown-up son, his young daughter. A handful of...
Richey Edwards
Richey Edwards is the frontman of the Manic Street Preachers. But he's quiet. A little pale. And one day... he's gone. For some fans, the possibility...
Sam Cooke
Sam Cooke's music makes you feel nostalgic for a time you never knew. Perfect little love songs that take you back to the innocence of the late Fiftie...
Mama Cass
Cass? She’s the one the band can’t do without. Those 40 million records sold? The six top ten hits? It’s her voice that powers them. Her charisma that...
Keith Moon
‘Moon the Loon.’ That’s the nickname. The bloke who drove a Rolls-Royce into a swimming pool. Who liked blowing up toilets and trashing hotel rooms. M...
Billie Holiday
Lady Day was the greatest singer of a generation. A sound they’ll try and copy for years to come. A girl who starts with nothing, who runs with pimps...
Avicii
It’s the era of the superstar DJ. And Tim Bergling, or Avicii, is A-list. He’s on an endless carousel. Lights, music, screams, good times. Whirling fa...
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix is the most famous rock star in the world. The biggest showman. A god, in a new musical universe. But he doesn't look like that anymore....
The Notorious B.I.G.
Biggie Smalls was the King of New York. But his reign doesn’t last long. Less than three years after his coronation, he’s shot dead. A very modern reg...
Bon Scott
In the real world, you’d be scared of Bon Scott. But in the world of rock and roll, he’s perfect. He's on a Highway to Hell and you’re ready to strap...
Dennis Wilson
Dennis Wilson's a Beach Boy. He’s always there, but...not there. The drummer, but not the one who drums on their biggest records. His face on the albu...
Nick Drake
Maybe you know Nick Drake. The songs, the sound. How he wants to be famous but won’t do what it takes. How he’s never a pop star, but people love him...
Tupac
Tupac Shakur. He’s a gangster and a genius. A cliched death, but a unique life. America’s grim reality and its sacred dream, all in one. Shots fired o...
Janis Joplin
Sweet Janis Joplin. She should never have strayed so far from the apple tree of her youth. But if she was still with us, surely she’d say: what chance...
Jim Morrison
With Jim Morrison, everything’s always somewhere between truth and myth. You don’t know what’s real, it’s all bent together. There’s things that make...
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain doesn’t look like the spokesman for an angry generation. Then he starts picking at his guitar and singing. Rasping, like a chainsaw cuttin...
Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly came and went so fast. Inspired the Beatles, inspired the Stones. His songs soundtrack so many lives, but he was the first of the rock’n’r...
Ian Curtis
Some bands could be from anywhere. You can’t hear their home in the bassline, feel the streets and skies in the guitars. But Joy Division and Ian Curt...
Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes
You can’t talk about TLC without talking about all three. But there’s always a point to every triangle, and TLC’s is Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes.
John Lennon
It’s an unusually warm December day in New York City. Mild enough to linger on the sidewalk. To make time for people. But today is different. Because...
Sid Vicious
WARNING: This episode contains graphic descriptions and references to drug abuse.
Sid Vicious. The name is potent, a kind of manifesto in...
Chester Bennington
WARNING: This episode contains references to suicide.
In The End. If you’ve heard any Linkin Park song, it’s that one. Chester Bennington...
Eva Cassidy
It’s all back to front, with Eva. The radio only notices when she’s gone. You hear her and she’s not there to explain why she sings like this, what’s...
Marvin Gaye
WARNING: This episode contains references to suicidal thoughts and drug abuse.
You know what they say about boys. They just want their fa...
Prince
A lot of rock stars, you think you know them. You don’t think you know Prince. There’s so many stories, but they’re so mad, or funny, or just impossib...
Marc Bolan
Marc Bolan was the elfin prince of glam rock. He was bard of the British underground, spinning fairy fantasies of other worlds with made up words, an...
Bob Marley
This is the unforgettable story of the last days of Bob Marley. When you come to the end, you think back to the beginning. You think to what made you...
Elvis
He might be the most famous man who ever lived. He changed our world forever. But when you get that big, there’s always someone who wants to exploit y...
Jeff Buckley
It’s impossible to forget Jeff Buckley. Once you hear that voice, you fall into the myth and you keep going. But some things never make sense. Why did...
Amy Winehouse
WARNING: this episode contains references to addiction and eating disorders.
In some ways, there’s not much to unravel when it comes to A...
Kirsty MacColl
This should be a sweet story about a sweet girl, an incredible singer and songwriter. But there’s nothing neat in the story of Kirsty MacColl, and may...
Michael Jackson
In a strange, unforgettable, disturbing life, this maybe the strangest time of all. This is Michael Jackson, after his trial in 2005. Living in Bahrai...
Dolores O'Riordan
Sometimes it feels like rock stars see the end coming, long before we do. Dolores O’Riordan says her biggest flaw is binge drinking, like she knows wh...
Freddie Mercury
He should never have made it as a rock star, not where he came from and how he grew up. But Freddie Mercury was maybe the most natural front man of al...
Karen Carpenter
WARNING: this episode contains references to eating disorders.
It’s all about what’s hidden away, with Karen. She sings songs that are s...
Otis Redding
This is a story about a singer like no-one before or since - what his voice could do to you, how it still makes you feel, 50 years later. But it’s abo...
George Michael
George Michael’s unforgettable story is about lots of things – about being an immigrant’s son, about an awkward kid transformed by music. About a supe...
Keith Flint
WARNING: this episode includes references to suicide.
He was maybe the last pop star who could scare grannies and make kids cry. Keith Fl...