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DragonKing Dark: The Jackie Coogan Law

You know your life has taken a bad turn if the government has to name a law after you. That’s exactly what it was for child actor Jackie Coogan, who, after gaining huge success in various Charlie Chaplin films, went on to even

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DragonKing Dark: The death of George Michael

We continue our series of 100 of the darkest moments in pop culture history by taking a look at the death of one of the greatest vocalist of the 1980s-2000s, George Michael.  Starting his career with the duo Wham!, Michael rose to even

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DragonKing Dark: The death of Prince

I continue the DragonKingDark look at 100 of the darkest moments in pop culture history with the death of pop music legend, Prince.  He died just over six years ago of a fentanyl overdose. Since then, fentanyl has been a scourge in American

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DragonKing Dark: The death of Naomi Judd

We continue our series of 100 of the darkest moments in pop culture history by looking at the recent death of country music star Naomi Judd.  Judd was 76 years old and all of The Judds’ hit songs were behind them, so in

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DragonKing Dark: The death of John Denver

In my continuing series on the 100 darkest moments in pop culture history, I look back at the 1997 death of folk and country music star John Denver who was killed in an experimental aircraft crash at the age of 53. While Denver’s

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DragonKing Dark: Badfinger

We continue our series of the 100 darkest moments in pop culture history with a band that started off with a string of hit songs, signed to The Beatles’ record label, with songs written by The Beatles with many people believing they might

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DragonKing Dark: Honey Boo Boo

We continue our series of 100 of the darkest moments in pop culture history and this week, I am your father who is very disappointed in you. No, this week nobody died. No tragedy has befallen a cast member (aside from a few

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DragonKing Dark: The OJ Simpson case & trial

Where were you when JFK was assassinated or when Elvis died or when a man landed on the moon? How about when the OJ Simpson verdict came down? The NFL football star and actor was accused of murdering two people, including his ex-wife.

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DragonKing Dark: The death of WCW

Continuing our 100 darkest moments in pop culture history, I return to the world of sports entertainment (pro wrestling) to find out how one company became the most profitable and successful wrestling company in the world and then sank over half of genre

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DragonKing Dark: Milli Vanilli hoax

We continue our look at 100 of the darkest moments in pop culture history by looking at the late 1980s pop music act Milli Vanilli, who were busted as lip synching imposters after a hugely successful album and even a Grammy win. But,

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DragonKing Dark: The Mitchell Report

100 darkest moments in pop culture history continues with another black eye for Major League Baseball – the Mitchell Report. This 2007 report was officially titled The Report to the Commissioner of Baseball of an Independent Investigation into the Illegal Use of Steroids

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DragonKing Dark: What happened to Glenn Miller?

If you know any big band swing music, then it is probably by Glenn Miller and his orchestra. Some of the most recognizable instrumental hits were arranged and recorded by the biggest pop star of the early 1940s, Glenn Miller. He was every

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