Brian Wilson Is Smiling Again (The Brian Wilson Story, Chapter 10)

Sometimes you can find redemption, but you have to find it for yourself. No one is going to give it to you. You can’t find it in a movie or a song. You can only find it inside yourself. In …

Brian Wilson Is Free (The Brian Wilson Story, Chapter 9)

Brian’s lost masterpiece, Smile, continues to lurk in the background. It’s there when Brian’s troubled and talented brother, Dennis, takes one last swim in the Pacific Ocean blue. It’s …

Brian Wilson Is…Back? (The Brian Wilson Story, Chapter 8)

The Beach Boys stage an intervention to get Brian the help he needs just as he reaches what he thinks is the bottom. He’s pulled out of the darkness …

Brian Wilson Is Sailing On (The Brian Wilson Story, Chapter 7)

Brian continues to lose control. And not just of his band and the music he makes. He loses self-control and becomes so dependent on drugs that he …

Brian Wilson Isn’t Himself (The Brian Wilson Story, Chapter 6)

After months of frustration, the Beach Boys abandon Smile to work on new music. But for Brian it’s not that easy. He’s quickly losing control. He’s …

Brian Wilson Is…a Son (The Brian Wilson Story Chapter 5)

Brian’s troubled relationship with his controlling and abusive father comes into focus. Paul McCartney stops by a California recording studio to chew …

Brian Wilson Is in the Deep End (The Brian Wilson Story, Chapter 4)

Brian is haunted by the Monterey Pop Festival, John Lennon’s voice, and the disapproval of his fellow Beach Boys. He finally goes off the deep end – literally, straight into the deep end of …

Brian Wilson Is Trapped (The Brian Wilson Story, Chapter 3)

The pressure builds in Brian's mind as he continues to work on Smile with the Beach Boys. His vision is completely out of step with what the others …

Brian Wilson Is Seeing Vibrations (The Brian Wilson Story, Chapter 2)

Before the Beach Boys began to work on Smile, Brian Wilson was already expanding his mind with the aid of LSD. The drug proved to be a point of contention with other band members, who …

Brian Wilson Is Burning Up (The Brian Wilson Story, Chapter 1)

Things are pretty calm around here at the moment, but sometimes they get a little shaky. Where are we? We're inside the mind of Brian Douglas Wilson, of course, the genius behind the Beach …

Presenting Blood on The Tracks - The Brian Wilson Story

In 1966, Brian Wilson planned to follow up the Beach Boys' groundbreaking album Pet Sounds with an even bigger musical statement. He was writing a …

Bob Dylan’s Restless Farewell (A Bob Dylan Story, Chapter 10)

Trees grow tall, leaves fall, rivers dry up, and flowers die. New people are born every day. Life doesn’t stop. Sometimes things can change in an instant—a gunshot to the head, a man losing …

Is Bob Dylan Real? (A Bob Dylan Story, Chapter 9)

Nine days after his near-fatal accident, Bob Dylan has become increasingly consumed with his own mortality. He sees the world as a much older, and …

Bob Dylan Is Lucky Wilbury (A Bob Dylan Story, Chapter 8)

As Bob Dylan’s physical injuries continue to heal, there is a growing concern that mental problems are only beginning to surface. He struggles with an identity crisis. Did he really …

Bob Dylan Is a Dead Man (A Bob Dylan Story, Chapter 7)

Bob Dylan continues to recover from his motorcycle accident in upstate New York. He thinks of the things he’s done that he’s not proud of. The depths to which he’s sunk, only to find that …

Bob Dylan Is Pretending to Be Bob Dylan (A Bob Dylan Story, Chapter 6)

Courtrooms, contracts, lawyers, and loss. Stalkers, divorcees, punk rockers, and the wrong harmonica. These are the things on Bob Dylan’s mind as he continues to endure a secret recovery at …

Bob Dylan Is Born Again (A Bob Dylan Story, Chapter 5)

On the fifth day of his recovery from a motorcycle accident, Bob Dylan begins to hallucinate. He claims he’s not only seen our Lord and savior, but that he’s had a close encounter with …

Bob Dylan Is Rolling Thunder (A Bob Dylan Story, Chapter 4)

When a man wears a mask, he’s gonna tell you the truth. That’s what Bob Dylan is thinking about as he continues his recovery from his motorcycle accident: being masked and not-so-anonymous …

Bob Dylan Is a Nashville Cat (A Bob Dylan Story, Chapter 3)

Bob Dylan continues to spend his days recovering from his accident thinking about change. And not just artistic change, but physical change. From New York he goes to Nashville in his mind, …

Bob Dylan Is a Hell’s Angel (A Bob Dylan Story, Chapter 2)

As Bob Dylan continues to recover from his accident, he remembers another motorcycle crash, one that took the life of a biker with a suspiciously familiar name. Robert Zimmerman, president …

Bob Dylan Is Judas (A Bob Dylan Story, Chapter 1)

In July 1966, Bob Dylan crashed his Triumph 500 motorcycle in upstate New York. As he recovers in the privacy of a doctor’s home, he thinks about the …

Blood on the Tracks Season 3: A Bob Dylan Story Trailer

In 1966, Bob Dylan crashed his Triumph motorcycle on a road in upstate New York. And then he disappeared. For ten days, as Dylan recovered privately in the house of a local doctor, no one …

John Lennon & Holden Caulfield (The John Lennon Story, Chapter 10)

Holden Caulfield, the fictional narrator of J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, comes to life to explain exactly why Mark David Chapman’s plan didn’t …

John Lennon and Mark David Chapman (The John Lennon Story, Chapter Nine)

Go inside the mind of the man who received messages from both God and the Devil. The man who thought he would step into the pages of a dog-eared …

John Lennon & Dick Cavett (The John Lennon Story, Chapter 8)

As the 1970s came to a close, John Lennon famously withdrew from the public eye to focus on his family life. He was no longer appearing on television shows and peace rallies to rail against …

John Lennon & David Bowie (The John Lennon Story, Chapter 7)

As the 1970s wore on, John Lennon found himself at a crossroads. Was he a pop singer or an artist? Would he continue to be a musician at all, or …

John Lennon & Elton John (The John Lennon Story, Chapter 6)

Elton John and John Lennon had a special relationship. It very well may have been the deepest and closest relationship that John had with another …

John Lennon & Harry Nilsson (The John Lennon Story, Chapter 5)

Was Harry Nilsson a bad influence on John Lennon? Or was John Lennon a bad influence on Harry Nilsson? Harry ponders this very question as he takes a …

John Lennon & Keith Moon (The John Lennon Story, Chapter 4)

Keith Moon, wild man drummer for the Who, has plenty of his own stories to tell, from chopping up hotel rooms with a hatchet to dunking a Lincoln …

John Lennon & Phil Spector (The John Lennon Story, Chapter 3)

To settle a copyright lawsuit, John Lennon begins a disastrous recording project with one of the most disastrous producers in the biz: Phil Spector. The former “tycoon of teen” attempts to …

John Lennon & Richard Nixon (The John Lennon Story, Chapter 2)

As John Lennon becomes the most famous political dissident in America, President Richard Nixon becomes increasingly paranoid. Nixon defends his …

John Lennon & Yoko Ono (The John Lennon Story, Chapter 1)

John Lennon’s second wife and creative muse, Yoko Ono, recalls their time as one of the most simultaneously beloved and feared couples of 1970s New …

Blood on the Tracks: The John Lennon Story Trailer

John Lennon: Rebel. Radical. Revolutionary. The story of John Lennon’s post-Beatles years in the turbulent, political, and violent 1970s is told from …

The Phil Spector Story, Chapter Ten: Phil Spector and Phil Spector

As Phil Spector faces the rest of his life in prison for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson, the memories in his head swirl around in a perfect storm of confusion, resentment, misguided …

The Phil Spector Story, Chapter Nine: Phil Spector and Lana Clarkson

Actress Lana Clarkson meets Phil Spector for the first and last time on a fateful and fatal night in February 2003. She doesn’t know who he is, but …

The Phil Spector Story, Chapter Eight: Phil Spector and Darlene Love

Darlene Love was the anonymous voice behind many of Phil Spector’s earliest chart-topping teenage pop symphonies; songs like “He’s a Rebel” and “He’s the Boy I Love” bear Darlene’s …

The Phil Spector Story, Chapter Seven: Phil Spector and John Lennon

From Let It Be to Imagine to an infamous “lost weekend” in Los Angeles, no Beatle had more face time with Phil Spector than John Lennon. John reminisces on being drunkenly tied to a bed, …

The Phil Spector Story, Chapter Six: Phil Spector and Debbie Harry

Debbie Harry, Blondie frontwoman and siren of the ‘70s NYC punk scene, talks about making the jump from the Big Apple to the City of Angels, with stops at The Whisky, KROQ, American …

The Phil Spector Story, Chapter Five: Phil Spector and Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen recalls his time with Phil Spector as a time of great confusion and soul searching. It’s also a time of bad omens, punctuated by being …

The Phil Spector Story, Chapter Four: Phil Spector and Ike Turner

Ike Turner goes deep about getting high, about his myriad marriages and drug busts, and about his tempestuous relationship with ex-wife Tina Turner. Game recognizes game when his path …

The Phil Spector Story, Chapter Three: Phil Spector and Keith Richards

The Rolling Stones’ bad boy guitarist dishes deep on his love for Ronnie Bennett, as well as the lengths he went to in order to keep it a secret from …

The Phil Spector Story, Chapter Two: Phil Spector and Ronnie Spector

Leader of the Ronettes, voice behind “Be My Baby,” and the former wife of Phil Spector, Ronnie Spector peels back the curtain to expose the darker side of one of the most infamous couples …

The Phil Spector Story, Chapter One: Phil Spector and Lenny Bruce

Phil Spector’s own personal Socrates, Lenny Bruce, reminisces on the unforgettable time he spent with the Tycoon of Teen. Lenny’s tales involve …

Blood on the Tracks: The Phil Spector Story Trailer

Phil Spector: Murderer. Musical genius. His story is told from the perspective of those who knew him best, his famous so-called friends. Blood On The …

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