About A Girl
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About A Girl
About A Girl is a scripted narrative anthology series about women whose stories have long been eclipsed by the legends of their famous partners. Bowie, Elvis, 2Pac, Prince, Miles, Biggie. Each of these icons created some of the most celebrated and enduring music of the modern age. But there's more t...
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Introducing: HOLLYWOODLAND…
…the Hollywood and true crime spinoff from the award winning music and true crime podcast, DISGRACELAND, and the newest expansion from the folks at Do...
ENCORE - Anita Pallenberg & Keith Richards
A heat-seeking young beauty rockets through Europe, ricocheting off Fellini, Warhol, & Nico, before landing with Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. Bu...
ENCORE - Mayte Garcia & Prince
Mayte Garcia, a young dancer from Puerto Rico, meets Prince and slowly becomes immersed in his extraordinary world. Their collaboration becomes a roma...
ENCORE - Sharon Osbourne: Ozzy, Sabbath, and the Al Capone of Pop
Before she was a lightning rod television personality, Sharon Osbourne was a savvy music business operator under the tutelage of her maniacal father,...
ENCORE - Teena Marie & Rick James
With a guitar slung over her shoulder, Teena Marie walked into downtown LA and came out with a contract with Motown, where funk master Rick James was...
ENCORE - Carolyn Dennis & Bob Dylan
The gospel-fed daughter of one of Ray Charles’s Raelettes had no idea who this Bob Dylan character was when she was called to audition for his band. W...
ENCORE - Valerie Bertinelli & Eddie Van Halen
America’s girl next door meets the leader of America’s wildest rock band. As Valerie Bertinelli struggles with her career as an actress, Eddie Van Hal...
Presenting DISGRACELAND - George Harrison: Surviving the Beatles, the London Drug Squad, and a Home Invasion
We've paired this Disgraceland episode on George Harrison with About A Girl's episode on Patti Boyd. To learn more about Disgraceland, visit disgrace...
ENCORE - Pattie Boyd, George Harrison, & Eric Clapton
Pattie Boyd is one of the best known rock star partners, having married both Beatle George Harrison and then Harrison’s close friend Eric Clapton. She...
ENCORE - Marjorie Guthrie: Woody Guthrie, Martha Graham, Loss and True Love
Marjorie was the right hand of dance icon Martha Graham when she met Woody Guthrie. She took loving care of both as they each moved toward self-destru...
Suze Rotolo and Bob Dylan
The mysterious woman on the cover of the breakthrough album ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’ was a major influence on the legendary musician’s development...
ENCORE = Deborah Santana & Sly Stone & Carlos Santana
The daughter of a blues pioneer falls in love with two brilliant musicians. Sly Stone takes her out of her quiet life, but almost drags her into the d...
ENCORE: Linda Keith & Jimi Hendrix
Linda Keith was so determined to make Jimi Hendrix a star that she dumped Keith Richards. She got Hendrix a manager and a record deal, but then felt c...
Jackie DeShannon, Jimmy Page, & Elvis Presley
One of the most significant songwriters since the late 1950s, Jackie DeShannon was responsible for writing dozens of hit songs, but struggled to make...
ENCORE: Marianne Faithfull & Mick Jagger
A beautiful English girl drifts into pop stardom and the inner circle of the Rolling Stones in 1960s London. As the girlfriend of Stones frontman Mick...
ENCORE: Jenny Boyd & Mick Fleetwood
One of the ‘IT’ girls of Swinging London reconnects with her high school classmate, a talented drummer, striving to succeed. But his all-consuming obs...
ENCORE: Linda & Paul McCartney
Linda Eastman was born a free spirit, but she was also the daughter of a strict and demanding father, a poor Jewish boy who became a wealthy lawyer an...
Presenting About A Girl: Season 5
Host Nikki Lynette returns with a new season of About A Girl, a show about women in music history. Stay tuned for a new episode on October 27, whereve...
ENCORE: Queen Latifah: From Princess of the Posse to Queen of the Rap Scene
Before there was Queen Latifah the actress, there was Queen Latifah the hip-hop star. She ascended to royal status in rap at a time when the genre rev...
ENCORE - Eudoxie Mbouguiengue: Africa to Atlanta, Ludacris, and Advocating for the Abused
Eudoxie thought she was escaping torment and horror when she emigrated from Gabon to the United States as a young girl. But even through her marriage...
ENCORE: Beyoncé: Destiny's Child, Jay-Z, Fidelity and Feminism
Few musicians are as inescapable as the Beyoncé. But even if you’ve kept up with her immeasurable press coverage and airplay over the decades, this st...
ENCORE: Kelis: Musical Kaleidoscopes, Culinary Feasts, Nas, and Moving On
Kelis’s musical light was undeniable from the start, but it was still a struggle to shine as brightly as knew she could. She did get there, but little...
ENCORE: Tashera Simmons: DMX, 'X,' and the Battle for Earl Simmons
Tashera loved Earl Simmons from the moment she first saw him when they were kids. They reconnected as adults, but Earl’s transformation into DMX and,...
ENCORE: Shante Broadus: Snoop, Reconciliation, and Becoming the Boss Lady
Shante Broadus steered her husband Snoop Dogg from hapless criminal to cultural icon long before she established herself as his official manager. The...
ENCORE: Kidada Jones and Tupac Shakur — All About U
Los Angeles, the mid 1990s. Tupac Shakur is one of the biggest emcees in the world, a lyric poet of a rapper. Kidada Jones is the daughter of music le...
ENCORE: Faith Evans & The Notorious B.I.G.
Faith Evans met and married Christopher Wallace in 1994. Within a year, they both became stars. The new marriage suffered under their grueling work sc...
Shirley Collie Nelson: In and Out of Harmony with Willie Nelson
Shirley Collie helped launch Willie Nelson’s solo career back before the name “Willie Nelson” meant anything to anyone. As a guitarist and singer who...
Victoria Mary Clarke: Shane MacGowan, Kurt and Courtney, and the Angels in Disguise
Victoria Mary Clarke was shocked to find herself in love with legendary Pogues singer Shane MacGowan, incurring the sprawling wrath of the Cobains, an...
Kim Gordon: Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore, and New York Kool
Kim Gordon, the soft-spoken, hard-edged heroine of the 1980s New York City underground became a beloved icon of the 1990s alternative rock boom. Her m...
Claudia Lennear: Bowie, "Brown Sugar," and Black Womanhood in Rock and Roll
Claudia Lennear’s affair with Mick Jagger led to her dubious distinction as an inspiration for the Rolling Stones’ classic “Brown Sugar,” but her incr...
Introducing About A Girl Season 4 (Trailer)
About A Girl returns November 16th for a fourth season! Host Nikki Lynette brings to life 12 new stories of heartbreak and hope, detailing the lives o...
Mary Ford and Les Paul
Mary Ford did more for Les Paul’s career than most people know or care to admit. Before she met Les for a radio audition, Mary already had notoriety...
Britt Ekland and Rod Stewart
Britt Eckland became famous first as the wife of comic genius Peter Sellers, whose troubled and unstable inner life eventually drove her away. Then sh...
Gail Zappa & Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa ruled his kingdom of freaks, a prolific and obsessed man with many plans. But Gail was undeniably the woman behind the man, a role to whic...
Lisa Bonet & Lenny Kravitz
A simple story about two people falling in love and then growing apart, except one of them was trying to navigate being extremely famous and under the...
Rita Coolidge & Kris Kristofferson
Rita Coolidge soared as a singer and songwriter, working with Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton, Leon Russell, Bobby Womack, and Booker T. Jones. She was denie...
Carrie Snodgress & Neil Young
Carrie Snodgress turned her back on Hollywood so fast that she didn't even attend the Academy Awards when she was nominated for Best Actress. Her drea...
Introducing About A Girl Season 3
Host Nikki Lynette returns on May 16th to bring you 12 fascinating and dramatic stories of women whose pivotal roles in music history and pop culture...
Rachel Humphreys & Lou Reed
Lou Reed was fascinated and inspired by all kinds of real people who existed on the edges of society — junkies, street hustlers, gender non-conformist...
Tammy Wynette & George Jones
When Tammy Wynette was a young girl, she dreamed of singing with George Jones at the Grand Ole Opry. Her single-minded drive to be a star brought her...