Speaker 1: I'm Penelope Spherris. I'm a film director. I want to
Speaker 1: tell you a story about a friend of mine, Peter Ivers.
Speaker 1: In the early seventies. Peter was a Harvard graduate just
Speaker 1: breaking into the Los Angeles music scene.
Speaker 2: Peter was a true artist ahead of his time.
Speaker 1: He scored Ron Howard's directorial debut.
Speaker 3: I didn't know one thing about Peter Rivers.
Speaker 1: I just said, okay, let's meet him. He wrote music
Speaker 1: for David Lynch's eraser Head, and then he landed a
Speaker 1: gig that would change the course of his life and
Speaker 1: possibly lead to his death. Peter became the host of
Speaker 1: a public access music show called New Wave Theater. It
Speaker 1: showcased la punk bands in all their glory, and it
Speaker 1: quickly grew in popularity.
Speaker 3: The crowd started getting bigger and bigger, and then there
Speaker 3: was John Belushi under there was Harold Ramis, and there
Speaker 3: was Beverly.
Speaker 1: Daangel and then it all went to hell.
Speaker 2: Suddenly it was like, did you hear Peter Ivers got murdered?
Speaker 3: She said, Peter's been murdered.
Speaker 1: Peter Rivers is dead.
Speaker 3: This was somebody who was so full of life. How
Speaker 3: could they be gone?
Speaker 1: Peter Ivers was murdered on March third, nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 1: His death was a devastating moment for Hollywood, the LA
Speaker 1: Punk scene, and all of us who knew him, and
Speaker 1: it raised a question that forty years later, we still
Speaker 1: don't know the answer to who killed Peter Ivers. The
Speaker 1: crime scene was corrupted and.
Speaker 3: I just remember falling to the floor, blood curdling scream,
Speaker 3: and I just I couldn't stop.
Speaker 2: I was terrified that if had killed Peter, and thought
Speaker 2: that I was suspicious of him, that it could be
Speaker 2: bad for me.
Speaker 1: This is Peter and the Acid King, a podcast about
Speaker 1: the unsolved murder of my friend Peter Ivers. Oh and
Speaker 1: one last thing. We're going to at least try to
Speaker 1: find that shithead that did it.
Speaker 3: I mean literally since a week it happened, I thought
Speaker 3: you did it.
Speaker 2: They did an interview and they didn't even never suspect.
Speaker 1: Listen to Peter and the Acid King starting September twenty
Speaker 1: fifth on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you
Speaker 1: get your podcasts.