Killer Soundtrack - Season 1

Award-winning music producer Phil Spector is responsible for some of the most successful albums in music history. However, Spector had a reputation for violent and threatening behaviour that could no longer be ignored when Lana Clarkson was found dead in his house from a single gunshot wound.

Jeffrey Dahmer is one of the most notorious serial killers of all time. Singer-songwriter Max Cavalera witnessed police make their gruesome discoveries at Dahmer's apartment and later wrote the song 'Jeffrey Dahmer' with his band Soulfly.

Sophie Lancaster was beaten to death because she dressed like a Goth and listened to metal and punk music. In response to this hate crime, the English metal scene backed the Sophie Lancaster Foundation and championed the idea of acceptance and community through music.

Punk icon, and Sex Pistols bass-guitarist, Sid Vicious and girlfriend Nancy Spungen were tragic romantics locked in a mutually abusive relationship that always seemed destined to end in tragedy.

The Hillside Stranglers were a pair of violent cousins who murdered women and left their bodies in the Hollywood Hills. Initially, law enforcement officers were unaware two serial killers were on the loose and, at the time of recording their song.

When a jury acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of using excessive force during Rodney King's arrest, a mass protest against police brutality, injustice and racial discrimination ensued and quickly turned into a riot.

Four unarmed students were shot and killed, and another nine wounded, by members of the Ohio National Guard at a peace rally held at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. The Kent State shootings was a seminal moment in the founding of the band Devo.

Sixteen-year-old Brenda Spencer began shooting at children from her house to the Cleveland Elementary School, San Diego, with a semi-automatic rifle her father had given to her as a Christmas present.

Jack the Ripper terrorised the residents of White Chapel, London, in 1888. His bloody murders have attracted attention and captured inquisitive minds for generations since, even as the subject of children's nursery rhymes.

Infamous mobster Al Capone lived a life of crime, and yet he has become part of popular culture and inspired numerous art forms. Notably, Capone's clubs and speakeasies nurtured Chicago's burgeoning jazz scene, and he allegedly penned original music whilst incarcerated at Alcatraz Prison.