Dead Kennedys Breakup: Lawsuits, Loyalty and the Punk Business War

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The episode dives into the 1986 split of San Francisco’s Dead Kennedys, unpacking creative and financial tensions, a landmark obscenity trial, and the legal battles over royalties that followed. It shows how punk ideals collided with the realities of record labels and touring economies in the late‑80s.

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