According to Bugliosi's theory, Manson often spoke to the members of his "family" about Helter Skelter in the months leading up to the murders of Sharon Tate and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in August 1969, an apocalyptic war arising from racial tensions between Black and White people. Bugliosi described his theory at trial and in his subsequent book Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders.
It is mostly based on the testimony of Paul Watkins, as a motive for the series of murders that were committed by the Manson Family in order to convict Charles Manson of conspiracy to commit murder. "But when it gets to your gut, the album that is still the most interesting to listen to - to put on and lose yourself in - is still 'The White Album.The Helter Skelter scenario is a theory put forward by Vincent Bugliosi, the lead prosecutor in the Tate–LaBianca murder trial. "If you debate Beatle albums, you can get into all kinds of things intellectually," he says. Which, suggests Garbarini, is why it continues to hold a special fascination. That mixture of affection and anger, support and dissent, echoes through the songs themselves, giving "The Beatles" an emotional intensity beyond the group's other albums. Even if they were hating each other's guts at the time, they would come together and support each other on those songs."
'Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey,' 'Birthday,' 'Back in the U.S.S.R.' - those are real Beatles songs."Īdds Garbarini, "The paradox was that they were more individual than they had ever been, and yet when they would work together on a song - and this was something they all told me, too - what would result was more than the sum of the parts. "But actually, more than half the album isn't like that. "The cliche about 'The White Album' is that it was four solo albums put together," says Flanagan. Some songs - Paul McCartney's "Blackbird," John Lennon's "Julia," George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" - were virtual solo projects, with little or no input from the other three members. Just how together the Beatles were when they made "The Beatles" is still heavily debated by fans and critics.
"Yet he still told me he loved 'The White Album,' because at least they were playing like a band again," says Garbarini. Drummer Ringo Starr, for instance, almost quit the Beatles during the making of "The White Album," citing the almost unbearable tension between the four in the studio.
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