It’s like that guy, Son of Sam, who was having these talks with the dog,” Lennon said in the interview. In a 1980 interview with Playboy, however, John Lennon said he wasn’t troubled by the fact that the lyrics were interpreted in a destructive manner. You may be a lover but you ain’t no dancerįor their part, the Beatles said little about the invocation of their song as a justification by Manson. Tell me, tell me, tell me, come on tell me the answer I’m coming down fast but I’m miles above you ReutersĪccording to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, Helter Skelter means “in undue haste, confusion or disorder” or “in a haphazard manner.” And the lyrics to the Beatles song of the same name seem innocent enough.
It says ‘rise.’ It says ‘kill.’ Why blame it on me? I didn’t write the music?”Ĭharles Manson is shown in this picture from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation dated Jun. “The music speaks to you every day, but you are too deaf, dumb and blind to even listen to the music … It is not my music. “Is it a conspiracy that the music is telling the youth to rise up against the establishment because the establishment is rapidly destroying things? Is that a conspiracy?” Manson asked when he eventually testified on the stand for the crimes. Shortly before the murders took place, Manson allegedly told his followers “Now is the time for Helter Skelter.” Convinced the Beatles were sending him a message through their music, Mason invoked “Helter Skelter” to call his followers to action. Manson led his cult following, known as the Manson Family, to murder seven people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate in 1969, in an attempt to ignite a race war in the United States. After all these years, the meaning behind those two fateful words- and the Beatles song of the same name- remains murky. The cult murderer invoked the phrase “Helter Skelter” as inspiration for the murders of seven people on two August nights in 1969. Jailed for 44 years, Charles Manson made his way back into the national conversation after falling seriously ill and being transported out of prison Tuesday. Charles Manson is shown in this photo from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Jun.
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