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DragonKing Dark: The death of Steve Irwin

We continue our 100 darkest moments in pop culture history podcast series with a look at the shocking, sudden, accidental death of television star “The Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin. Irwin gained worldwide fame with his various TV shows and specials looking at the

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DragonKing Dark: The Black Sox scandal

Our continuing series on the 100 darkest moments in pop culture history takes a look at a moment where that completely affected professional baseball. The “Black Sox scandal” was a gambling and game-fixing scandal where members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of throwing the 1919 World

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DragonKing Dark: The killing of John Lennon

Our series of 100 darkest moments in pop culture history continues this week with the murder of John Lennon. The Beatles were icons of pop music. Having broken up years earlier, the individual members of The Beatles had gone on to various other

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DragonKing Dark: The death of Roberto Clemente

Legendary baseball star Roberto Clemente spent much of his time involved in charity work. Managua, the capital city of Nicaragua, was struck by a massive earthquake on December 23, 1972. Clemente arranged emergency relief flights. He soon learned, however, that the aid packages

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DragonKing Dark: The killing of Marvin Gaye

Our list of 100 of the darkest moments in pop culture history continues with the killing of Marvin Gaye, an influential singer and musician who gained worldwide fame for his work with Motown Records. He was fatally shot three times by his father,

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DragonKing Dark: The killing of Sam Cooke

DragonKing Dark continues our look at 100 of the darkest moments in pop culture history by looking at the killing of legendary singer Sam Cooke. On December 11, 1964, singer Sam Cooke was gunned down in Los Angeles, California. The original story and

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DragonKing Dark: Woodstock ’99

Continuing our 100 darkest moments in pop culture history, we look back at Woodstock ’99. This event, which recently got the HBO documentary and podcast treatment, there was one death, numerous sexual assaults, arson, and a general mockery of pop culture and toxic fandom

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DragonKing Dark: The death of Eddie Guerrero

Image: WWE We continue our series discussing 100 of the darkest moments in pop culture history by looking at the death of pro wrestling star Eddie Guerrero. However, Guerrero’s death differs from others we have looked at so far. Eddy (yes, that is the

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DragonKing Dark: The murder of Tupac Shakur

The 100 darkest moments in pop culture history continues on DragonKing Dark with a look at the shooting death of 25-year-old rapper Tupac Shakur. To say that 2Pac was controversial would be a huge understatement. But, he was also talented and had a

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DragonKing Dark: The death of Brandon Lee

The next installment in our 100 darkest moments in pop culture history goes back to March 1993 when Brandon Lee, actor and son of legendary pop culture icon Bruce Lee, was killed on the set of the dark gothic comic book inspired movie

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DragonKing Dark: The day the music died

It was shocking, tragic, and immortalized in song. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper (and nearly Waylon Jennings) were killed in a plane crash during a concert tour. Cut down before their prime years began, the shocking truth is that this

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