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BackStory is a weekly public podcast hosted by U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Brian Balogh, Nathan Connolly and Joanne Freeman. We're based in Charlottesville, Va. at Virginia Humanities. There’s the history you had to learn, and the history you want to learn - that’s where BackStory comes in. Each week BackStory takes a topic that people are talking about and explores it through the lens of American history. Through stories, interviews, and conversations with our listeners, BackStory makes histo ...
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In this series, we’ve been spending time with artists who didn’t just make hits — they rewired popular music itself.
Some of them crashed.
Some of them burned out.
Some of them never got old enough to figure out who they might have become.
In the previous episode, we talked about Michael Jackson — a man whose genius was wrapped in pressure, pain, and dependency, and whose life ended in an overdose in a rented mansion in Los Angeles.
Today’s story easily could have ended the same way.
But it didn’t.
Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.
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