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"Helter Skelter" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 album The Beatles (also known as the "White Album"). It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney .
"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 ...
The album opens with a live cover of the Beatles' "Helter Skelter". Its inclusion on the album was intended by the band to reflect the confusion of The Joshua Tree Tour and their new-found superstar status. Bono opens "Helter Skelter" with this statement: "This is a song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles. We're stealing it back".
Several mixes have different track lengths; the mono mix/edit of "Helter Skelter" eliminates the fade-in at the end of the song (and Starr's ending scream), [90] and the fade-out of "Yer Blues" is 11 seconds longer on the mono mix. Several songs have missing or different overdubs or effects which differ from the stereo mixes. [91]
The term Helter Skelter was taken from the Beatles' homonymous song, which Manson purportedly interpreted as concerned with the war. [7] The song was on the band's self-titled double album , also known as the "White Album", which Manson heard within a month or so of its November 1968 release.
The song may have inspired the Beatles' "Helter Skelter". Paul McCartney recalls writing "Helter Skelter" after reading a review of The Who Sell Out in which the critic claimed that "I Can See for Miles" was the "heaviest" song he had ever heard. McCartney had not heard the song but wrote "Helter Skelter" in an attempt to make an even "heavier ...
In both the United States and Britain, Rock 'n' Roll Music was accompanied by a single compiled from songs on the album. The US single (Capitol 4274), was originally planned as "Helter Skelter" on the A-side and "Got to Get You into My Life" on the reverse, but when the Helter Skelter TV movie was announced for April 1976, Capitol thought better of the connotations and flipped the sides.
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."