I'm Penelope Spherris. I'm a film director. I want to tell you a story about a friend of mine, Peter Ivers. In the early seventies. Peter was a Harvard graduate just breaking into the Los Angeles music scene.
Peter was a true artist ahead of his time.
He scored Ron Howard's directorial debut.
I didn't know one thing about Peter Rivers.
I just said, okay, let's meet him. He wrote music for David Lynch's eraser Head, and then he landed a gig that would change the course of his life and possibly lead to his death. Peter became the host of a public access music show called New Wave Theater. It showcased la punk bands in all their glory, and it quickly grew in popularity.
The crowd started getting bigger and bigger, and then there was John Belushi under there was Harold Ramis, and there was Beverly.
Daangel and then it all went to hell.
Suddenly it was like, did you hear Peter Ivers got murdered?
She said, Peter's been murdered.
Peter Rivers is dead.
This was somebody who was so full of life. How could they be gone?
Peter Ivers was murdered on March third, nineteen eighty three. His death was a devastating moment for Hollywood, the LA Punk scene, and all of us who knew him, and it raised a question that forty years later, we still don't know the answer to who killed Peter Ivers. The crime scene was corrupted and.
I just remember falling to the floor, blood curdling scream, and I just I couldn't stop.
I was terrified that if had killed Peter, and thought that I was suspicious of him, that it could be bad for me.
This is Peter and the Acid King, a podcast about the unsolved murder of my friend Peter Ivers. Oh and one last thing. We're going to at least try to find that shithead that did it.
I mean literally since a week it happened, I thought you did it.
They did an interview and they didn't even never suspect.
Listen to Peter and the Acid King starting September twenty fifth on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.