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Charles Manson's deeply dark and twisted interpretation of The Beatles' "White Album"
Fifty years ago today, the Manson Family carried out the grisly Tate-Labianca murders that essentially crushed the hippie dream with a tragic nightmare starring failed songwriter and psychopath Charles Manson. At Manson's trial, prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi argued that the cult leader was inspired by his misreading of The Beatles' White Album. Indeed, "Healter Skelter [sic] had been smeared in blood on the LaBiancas refrigerator. Over at Rolling Stone, Kory Grow does a track-by-track analysis of Manson's bizarre misinterpretation of The White Album. From Rolling Stone:
Read the restAlthough he would deny being into the Beatles years later (I am a Bing Crosby fan, he declared in 1985 despite inmates at a prison Manson stayed at in the early Sixties claiming he was obsessed with the Beatles), Manson discussed the group enough with his followers that his warped reading of the Fab Fours most adventurous album resounded throughout the trial. Bugliosi interviewed several Manson Family members, including those who were not facing criminal charges, and found consistency in their descriptions of his mythology surrounding the White Album and the garbled connections he made between it and the Book of Revelations, which depict end-times.
This music is bringing on the revolution, the unorganized overthrow of the establishment, Manson told Rolling Stone in 1970. The Beatles know [whats happening] in the sense that the subconscious knows.
From the beginning, Charlie believed the Beatles music carried an important message to us, Manson Family member Paul Watkins wrote in his book, My Life With Charles Manson.
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