Helter Skelter
Creator: Paul
John: Lead guitar, bass, saxophone, backing vocals
Paul: Bass, lead guitar , lead vocals
George: backing vocals, rhythm guitar
Ringo: drums
Mal Evans: trumpet
Recording location: Abbey Road< /p>
Recording time:
On July 28, 1968, the rehearsal version was recorded
On September 9, 1968, more takes were recorded, including take 21 Considered the best
Recorded on September 10, 1968
First released: November 22, 1968, the White Album (UK)
< p>Lyrics:When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride
< p>Till I get to the bottom and I see you again.Yeah yeah yeah.
Do you, don't you want me to love you
I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you
Tell me tell me tell me come on tell me the answer
You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.
Helter skelter!
Helter skelter!
Helter skelter!
Yeah.
Will you, won't you want me to make you
I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you
Tell me tell me tell me the answer
You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.
Look out!
Helter skelter!
Helter skelter!
Helter skelter!
Oooh.
Look out, cause here she comes.
When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide
And I stop and I turn and I go for a ride
And I get to the bottom and I see you again.
Well do you, don't you want me to make you
I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you
Tell me tell me tell me the answer
You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.
Look out!
Helter skelter!
Helter skelter!
Helter skelter!
Look out!
Helter skelter!
She's coming down fast!
Yes she is!
Yes she is...
(Ringo: I've got blisters on my fingers!)
Other versions:
Anthology 3 (1996) Helter Skelter (Part of take 2)
The reason Paul wrote this song was to support the band The Who.
In October 1967, the Who released the single 'I Can See For Miles'.
Public opinion represented by Chris Welch, the critic of "Melody Maker", made vicious comments and attacks on it.
It said that the composition was rough, dirty, noisy, and extremely weird. It was full of cursed guitars and hoarse and harsh voices, and the songs were so abnormal that they made people crazy, etc.
Paul felt very angry, because after listening to this song, he found that it was not at all what the critics said, but was very direct and technical.
In order to support The Who, Paul decided to write a song and go against the critics.
Paul wanted to write a song that could really "make people crazy".
He decided to make it deliberately weird, wild, loud and noisy. "Because I like noise."
When the Beatles first recorded 'Helter Skelter' in July 1968, they recorded a take that was nearly half an hour long.
What is included in Antholgy 3 is part of this version.
In September, they started recording the song again, throwing all excuses aside, and made a shorter version.
At the end, Ringo can be heard shouting, "My fingers are blistered." ('I've got blisters on my fingers')
This song is also often considered the first heavy metal rock song.
Paul then slowly became a pioneer of heavy metal... Sorry.
Many British listeners believe that a helmet skelter is a spiral sliding toy.
(It’s like a little person sliding down from the top, I’ve seen it too.)
In 1976, this song was released as the B-side of the single, and the A-side was Got to Get You Into My Life
This song is also famous for another reason. It was linked to a Beatles-related cult.
Charles Manson and Manson Family
Charles Manson was born in 1934. In the 1960s when the Beatles craze was taking off, Charles Manson, like many teenagers at that time, was extremely obsessed with the music of the Beatles.
But besides the guitar, he was also obsessed with another very popular thing - drugs.
He is the son of a prostitute. He was born illegally in the United States. He has committed numerous crimes when he was young. His file is marked as "dangerous" and "never trustworthy."
While out on bail, he got married twice and started a family like a normal person, but both marriages also ended in failure.
The brutal murderous organization Manson Family does not really refer to a family, but a murderous group composed of a group of followers (mostly young, wealthy, middle-class women) who admire him.
By 1969, the organization had 25 main members and 60 ordinary party members.
After listening to White Album in 1968, Charles Manson believed that it was a warning from the Beatles about racial conflicts in the United States. (Is it Blackbrid who caused this idea? Cry)
He has a very ridiculous idea that the four Beatles are the four angels mentioned in the New Testament, who use songs to tell the world that they should escape to Go into the desert to escape the carnage.
He mentioned that in the near future, there would be an uprising in the name of Helter Skelter, and smeared these words with blood at a murder scene.
He gave Manson-style weird interpretations to many of the songs in it, and Helter Skelter was even considered by him to have sounded the clarion call for the revolution of the new era.
Manson, who is obsessed with the Bible, mixed passages from the Book of Revelation with Beatles music to come up with a set of prophecies about the so-called black and white war in the end of the world:
Black people will kill everyone. White people took their place and ruled the world, and the Manson family survived because they benefited from Manson's great wisdom and hid in Manson's version of Noah's Ark, Death Valley.
The black man who won the revolution made the whole world a mess because of his congenital IQ defect, so he had to go to Death Valley in the desert to find Manson and beg him to take over.
So the prophet who had transformed into Xiaoqiang led the Xiaoqiang family to reorganize the human homeland and finally entered a new era.
(This is probably a good example of over-interpretation of Beatles lyrics)
In 1969, the action began.
The first victim was the mansion of Roman Polanski, the famous director who wrote and directed the 1968 horror film "The Devil's Baby". In addition to Polanski's escape from filming, other properties included Five people, including his pregnant wife Sharon Tate, were brutally murdered. A total of 102 stab wounds were found on the body of the deceased, all of whom had been shot several times. He was extremely painful before his death;