It must be great, a really screaming record. In an interview with Radio Luxembourg in November 1968, he talked about the song’s origins: “I’d read a review of a record, which said ‘and this group…’ it was about some group, I can’t even remember, saying, ‘This group really goes wild and they just stuck echo on everything, they’re screaming their heads off,’ and I just remember thinking, Oh, it would be great to do one like that, it’s a pity they’ve done it. “Helter Skelter” went through a number of incarnations as Paul sought to create the heaviest Beatles track yet. It also didn't help the song much when the Los Angeles District Attorney, Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted the case, named his best-selling book Helter Skelter.Preparing to record “Blackbird” at Abbey Road Studio Two one evening, Paul McCartney warmed up with an early version of “Helter Skelter.” A light yet funky acoustic piece with a falsetto vocal, this nascent version sat at the opposite end of the spectrum to the screaming rocker that would eventually grace side three of The Beatles’ “White Album”. The murderers, as they did with the words 'pig' and 'piggy,' wrote 'Helter Skelter' on the walls with the victims blood.

In Mansion's mind, the phrase, 'coming down fast,' meant to him that the American radical conflict was soon to arrive. If one knows this information, the song makes perfect sense - how Mansion misinterpreted the lyrics again is a mystery, except for the fact that he was indeed quite deranged. The name Helter Skelter is a roller coaster in England, described there as a spiral slide. He got the idea from a newspaper review of a new song by 'The Who,' where their song received great reviews. On July 18, 1968, Paul and the other three Beatles were in the studio at Abbey Road, and Paul wanted to write a real rockin' song that would shock everyone.

Unfortunately, the song Helter Skelter, just like Piggies, has been linked to Charles Manson in the killings of Sharon Tate and others in 1969, but has nothing at all to do with anything like that.

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