The Manson Family murders took place 50 years ago today. Read the theory on how cult leader Charles Manson's twisted Beatles obsession inspired the tragic event
“I mean, I knew [Tate’s husband] Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate and, God, it was a rough time,”Although he would deny being into the Beatles years later , Manson discussed the group enough with his followers that his warped reading of the Fab Four’s most adventurous album resounded throughout the trial.
Manson discovered the White Album in December 1968, while visiting Los Angeles on a sojourn from the freezing California desert. When he returned to Death Valley on New Year’s Eve, he began pressing his entourage for their reactions to the record. “Are you hep to what the Beatles are saying?” Family member Brooks Poston recalled Manson asking him, as reported in Bugliosi’s book,. “Helter Skelter is coming down. The Beatles are telling it like it is.
that “Rocky Raccoon” – a goofy, melodramatic number that began in India with McCartney, Lennon and Donovan making up a cowboy named Rocky Sassoon – was, to Manson, a veiled story of an African-American uprising. “‘Rocky’s revival’ – ‘re-vival,’ it means coming back to life,” Manson toldin 1970. “The black man is going to come back into power again.
“Helter Skelter” was a song that began from a rivalry with Pete Townshend, after the Who guitarist called “I Can See for Miles” one of the wildest recordings ever made in ainterview. “Just that one little paragraph was enough to inspire me, to make a move,” McCartney later said. “So I sat down and wrote ‘Helter Skelter’ to be the most raucous vocal, the loudest drums, et cetera.” He also once described it as “a ridiculous song … ’cause I like noise.
To Manson, the lyrics of “Revolution 1” meant that the once-ambivalent Beatles now condoned violent revolution.
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