Omar from Houston, Txonly problem is I dont see how a drummer can get blisters on his fingers for playing too long, at least not as many as a guitarist or bassist can...

In the days before the book’s release, O’Neill was expecting criticism. He figured he’d be called a conspiracy theorist, and he’d be dragged for asking more questions than he could answer. And in particular, he worried that it would be said he had waited for Vincent Bugliosi — a man he interrogated, confronted and generally pissed off enough for the former prosecutor to call O’Neill his adversary — to die before he could publish, since he was wary of potential lawsuits. ( Bugliosi died in 2015.) Steve from L.a., CaHaving read (many years from now) 3 times 'Paul's only authorized biography.It was all about how loud they could get the drums.He was using the symbol(helter skelter) as the rise and fall of the roman empire.Paul says it wasn't a joke when "RINGO" yelled (I've got blisters on my fingers).Paul says Ringo was drumming so ferociously on all those takes that his hands were actually bleeding at the end of the session Peter Griffin from Quahog, RiIf Jose thinks you can have oral sex on a slide, well, he's messed up. Wasn't that the truth. Vincent Bugliosi (btw, isn't that the best name?) is not only a gifted author he was also the Prosecuting attorney in the Mason trail. What better person to write this book! Plus, he put Manson away for good. Ken from Louisville, KyThe original demo was a much more slower version. It turned "heavier" in the studio.

Chas from Webster, NyMy band's doing a metal cover of this. It's gonna be sweet when it's done. We really want to do justice to this classic. Frank from Granchester Meadows, GreenlandI could be wrong, but i think the original length of time on this, before they edited it down was something like 25 minutes---------i can imagine Ringo really DID have blisters on his fingers! Throughout the trial, the killers often giggled and exchanged grimaces with Manson, showing no remorse for their crimes. Takashi from Tokyo, JapanEm, you are sadly mistaken. I bought the RARITIES album and it sounds exactly like Lennon.(he plays guitar, duh)

Krissy from Boston, MaIt was not John who screamed at theend it was ringo. Why would John scream that? G from Pittsburgh, PaJust to add on to what Kristen said, on the iTunes VH1 clip a fan asks Ringo, "At the end of Helter Skelter, is it you or John that says they have blisters on their fingers?" Ringo replies, "It was me" and then shouts "I got blisters on my fingers!" as the crowd cheers and claps.

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Paul from Cheshire , UkAlso reiterate comments made By John from Falmouth. The Beatles played multiple times at the MerseyView club on top of Frodsham Hill which had the biggest white Helter Skelter at the front of it. I was also always told this was the the initial concept for this great song. WOW, what a way to start 2021 lol. First read of the year and a 5 star read at that! Also based on the...mess, let's say...that was 2020—what better way to start this year than to read about the Manson Murders?? Phillips, Stephen (July 12, 2019). "What really happened in the Manson murders? 'Chaos' casts doubt on Helter Skelter theory". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved April 18, 2020. On November 18, 1969 Vincent Bugliosi, age thirty-five was handed the job of prosecuting the perpetrators of the slayings at Cielo and Waverly Drive.

There could be a question of whether the author is always completely impartial. There’s the chance that it’s from a slightly biased viewpoint or that he could be using a little bit of bravado to overstate his own importance, but I don’t really get that impression. He clearly shows some disdain towards some of the police for their perceived ineptitudes during the investigation but that isn’t necessarily unwarranted. While humanity had proven its ability to produce madness, one of the most insane and well publicized is the Manson Family and their reign of terror in Southern California in the late 1960s and the legacy that still haunts us today. While I was somewhat familiar with Manson and the crimes committed by his followers, It was not until I read Helter Skelter that I realized all the facts. Believe me, if you think what you know already is horrifying, just wait until you get the whole story. Nonfiction Book Review: Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill with Dan Piepenbring". Publishers Weekly. March 18, 2019 . Retrieved April 18, 2020. I keep borrowing the white album of my friend so i can hear it. I haven't got this one yet cos i can't find it anywhere! The Manson girls look just like the girls we all went to highschool with. So the question is, how did he turn them into killers?The Manson family was also included in an episode of American Horror Story: Cult, the seventh season of the popular anthology series that aired in 2017. Quotes For 50 years, the Manson Family murders have had a hold on America, and yet, many people know very little about them. Some are surprised to find out that Charles Manson himself didn’t actually commit any of the nine murders, which took place in Los Angeles on August 9th and August 10th, 1969. Similarly, they’re surprised to find out that it took two months for the cult leader and his followers to be apprehended; and when they were, they were initially arrested for car theft, not murder. It was only after Susan Atkins started bragging to her cellmates about participating in the murder of Sharon Tate that the threads started to unravel, and the legend, as we know it, began to be written. Charles Manson was Charles Milles Maddox born on November 12, 1934, in Cincinnati to Kathleen Maddox, a 16-year-old girl who was both an alcoholic and a prostitute. O’Neill questions whether Terry Melcher, 27, was honest about the extent of his relationship with Charles Manson. Bettmann Archive

Bugliosi is one of the most famous attorneys and true crime authors of our time. The fact that he was the prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial gave him a first hand view of the proceedings. Because of this, Helter Skelter is probably the most well researched and presented true crime stories I have ever read. It even sounds like Manson was more impressed with Bugliosi than his own defense attorneys! Michael from Oxford, EnglandI can't think WHY this song was the third least popular Beatles song in the 70's (behind "Revolution 9" and "You Know My Name [Look Up The Number]"). Does anyone else have any ideas? After setting the gruesome scene, Bugliosi & Gentry take us into the investigative phase. This includes the troubled biography of Charles Manson, who spent most of his pre-Tate-LaBianca life in jail (of course, he spent all of his post-Tate-LaBianca life there as well). At this point, Bugliosi begins to appear more often, and the style turns to the first-person, as he shares his knowledge, insights, and opinions. And he has plenty of opinions. He does not blunt his judgment that LAPD nearly made a botch of the investigation. It’s unusual to see a prosecutor say anything negative towards law enforcement, at least in public, so Bugliosi’s take was rather refreshing. Of course, based on a history of racism, corruption, and incompetence, maybe he’s just going after the low-hanging fruit. K from Nowhere, OnLet's put the blisters comment aside and talk about how awesome this song is. Especially the end - it's cool to have 1 false ending, but it takes skill to have 2. If you're like me and you knew about the Manson Murders—or maybe you are just familiar with Manson and his 'family' by name or association with 60's 'hippie' culture (which interestingly, hippies reject due to their non-violence!)—and you want to know more, this is the book for you. The reader of this book has to like detail, because Bugliosi gives a LOT of it. He was, after all, the prosecuting attorney for the People vs Charles Manson. So his writing is very much from the lawyer's perspective, giving descriptions like they are legal documents and describing what happened, rather than speculation or personal feelings. From time to time he does slip in his personal impressions but very carefully so as not to persuade the reader—much like we are the jury to whom he is speaking in the trial.Charlie was always preaching love. Charlie had no idea what love was. Charlie was so far from love it wasn’t even funny. Death is Charlie’s trip. It really is.” Mark B. Stoned from Desperate Hot Springs, CaYes, the false endings on this song and on Strawberry Fields Forever are incredible. It was this line of questioning that led O’Neill down the path he describes as “conspiratorial.” Why, after constant run-ins with the law, did all the members of the family keep getting out? “The law afforded special privileges to everyone in Manson’s orbit,” O’Neill writes. “Once I was absorbed in the Family’s origin story, I found evidence everywhere of a curious leniency, always helped along by the hand from the outside.” Bugliosi, who wrote this book, does a wonderful job laying out the evidence and also explaining our legal system pitfalls. The crimes themselves, though interesting in a ghoulish, shiver inducing way, are in a sense immaterial when compared to the feral genius of Charlie Manson.