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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.
Musicologist Walter Everett describes "Got to Get You into My Life" as "always ... one of the LP's most popular tracks" due to the success of its cover recordings, the first of which was a 1966 UK top-ten hit by Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers, co-produced by McCartney, and the 1976 single release of the Beatles' original in countries ...
The magazine praised the guitar work in "Helter Skelter". [212] The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. [213] In September 2020, Rolling Stone ranked The Beatles at number 29 on its new list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". [214]
Sir Paul McCartney brought his former Beatles bandmate Sir Ringo Starr on stage at London's O2 Arena to play the band's classic hits on Thursday night (19 November). The pair performed Helter ...
‘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.”
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".
Since the Beatles retired from live performances two years before The White Album's release, the pair have played "Helter Skelter" together only at McCartney's solo shows following the band's ...
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.