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Helter Skelter" was voted the fourth worst song in one of the first polls to rank the Beatles' songs, conducted in 1971 by WPLJ and The Village Voice. [75] According to Walter Everett, it is typically among the five most-disliked Beatles songs for members of the baby boomer generation, who made up the band's contemporary audience during the 1960s.
The helter skelter was the subject and inspiration of the song of the same name by the Beatles from The White Album. Paul McCartney explained that he was "using the symbol of a helter-skelter as a ride from the top to the bottom--the rise and fall of the Roman Empire--and this was the fall, the demise, the going down."
Manson may have found hidden meanings in songs from earlier Beatles albums, [224] but, according to Vincent Bugliosi in The Beatles, Manson allegedly interpreted prophetic significance in several of the songs, including "Blackbird", "Piggies" (particularly the line "what they need's a damn good whacking"), "Helter Skelter", "Revolution 1" and ...
‘Helter Skelter’ This cut from the band’s self-titled 1968 record known to fans as “The White Album” was a real shock to people who only knew the Beatles from “Penny Lane.”
Meaning: The Beatles know Jesus Christ has returned to Earth and is in Los Angeles. [2]: 240 They want Manson to create his "song", that is, his album that will set off Helter Skelter. [7] Lyric: Oh, honey pie, you are driving me frantic / Sail across the Atlantic / To be where you belong Meaning: The Beatles want Jesus Christ to come to England.
The 1976 television adaptation of Vincent Bugliosi's book, also titled Helter Skelter, features several Beatles songs, including "Piggies" and Harrison's White Album track "Long, Long, Long", both performed by the group Silverspoon. [124] The song was also covered by Danbert Nobacon, [3] lead singer of the anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba. [125]
On the Beatles' 2006 remix album Love, the three-minute guitar coda from "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" is attached to "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!", and snippets of that song and "Helter Skelter" are mixed in with the repeated guitar riff. The abrupt ending of the original is retained, but it cuts to wind-like white noise, not to silence ...
"Helter Skelter" (song), a 1968 song by the Beatles "Helter Skelter", a 1990 song by Meat Beat Manifesto "Helter Skelter", a 1997 song by Edge of Sanity from Infernal