Speaker 1: John Lennon was a musical genius and one of the
Speaker 1: most beloved cultural figures of the twentieth century. His songs
Speaker 1: inspired dreamers to imagine, his search for the truth gave
Speaker 1: power to the people. But some thought he dreamed too much.
Speaker 1: Others thought he was too powerful, so he was followed,
Speaker 1: he was threatened, he was declared a danger to the
Speaker 1: United States, and in nineteen eighty he was assassinated. Blood
Speaker 1: on the Tracks returns with season two The John Lennon's Story,
Speaker 1: premiering Thursday, August nineteen. Blood on the Tracks is part
Speaker 1: true crime, part historical fiction, part spoken word, low five
Speaker 1: beat noir, brought to you by me Jake Brennan, host
Speaker 1: of the award winning music and true crime podcast Disgrace Land.
Speaker 1: Season one of Blood on the Tracks, the Phil Specter Story,
Speaker 1: followed the pop chart rise and murderous fall of the
Speaker 1: most notorious record producer of all time, Phil Specter, through
Speaker 1: the eyes of the people closest to him. Season two
Speaker 1: of Blood on the Tracks, as the John Lennon Story,
Speaker 1: will focus on the former Beatles final decade in America,
Speaker 1: told by the fictionalized voices of David Bowie, Harry Nilson,
Speaker 1: Richard Nixon, Phil Spector, Yoko Ono, Mark David Chapman, and more.
Speaker 1: It is a tale full of paranoia, police raids, kidnappings,
Speaker 1: wire taps, lost weekends, extortion, and murder. This evening, John
Speaker 1: Lennon arrived at the emergency room at Roosevelt Hospital. You
Speaker 1: were unable to restore the life of Mr Lennon. There's
Speaker 1: a special agent, Jim Steele with the Federal Bureau of Investignation. Okay,
Speaker 1: subject is Lennon John Winston. Oh no, this information protains
Speaker 1: to a period ending September. Interview. Subject is Moon John.
Speaker 1: I like to think everything I just told you happened
Speaker 1: in that ferry order, because the stories just work well together.
Speaker 1: That way, I could have just told it all in reverse.
Speaker 1: All I know is that the more John and hung
Speaker 1: around the rest of us, the crazyer he became. Relationships
Speaker 1: with John could be strange. John no longer wanted me around,
Speaker 1: I guess. So we made a deal and both got
Speaker 1: what we wanted. I got ninety grand from a capital
Speaker 1: records exact and exchange for handing the tapes over, and
Speaker 1: John got to move on without me. We simply weren't
Speaker 1: prepared for what was coming and When it hit, it
Speaker 1: seemed to come out of nowhere. Just like John Lennon,
Speaker 1: This podcast sounds like nothing you've ever heard before because
Speaker 1: you can't push the needle into the red without leaving
Speaker 1: a little blood on the tracks. Listen to Blood on
Speaker 1: the Tracks starting on August nineteenth on the I Heart
Speaker 1: Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever did your podcasts