Helter Skelter

During the Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet union escalated because of the political ideologies of democracy and communism. In the case of the Vietnam war the US government backed south vietnam ed by the nationalist Ngo Dinh Diem and the communist led north vietnam, two halves which claimed to be the rightful leaders. In the midst of the Vietnam war the Sixties became the essential period in both revolutionizing social norms and ending the Vietnam war. The…

someone else. While on probation, Charles Manson had another child but with another woman. Charles Manson began killing a year after he was released from prison on March 21st, 1967. Not only did drugs have an impact on Charles’ mind, but the song “Helter Skelter” from The Beatles helped influenced his killings. This time period is when Manson started to grab people and pull them into the cult known as “The Family.” A common pattern between the people Manson chose for his cult shared an…

FADE IN: INT. TRAIN - DAY Cliff is sitting on the train looking out the window at the Louisiana landscape. A dirty man sitting next to CLIFF is pulling his feet to his face so he can bite off his toenails. Cliff pulls out his wallet and stares at an old picture of MARIA, STAG and himself. They are all making goofy faces at the camera. DIRTY MAN Who’s that? CLIFF Just some friends. Old friends. DIRTY MAN She looks like she smells nice. CLIFF Uh, yeah... she does. DIRTY MAN Can I have it?…

The Beatles were one of the most popular and influential rock and roll groups of all time. This iconic band blazed new trails for popular music through their relentless imaginative and experimental songs that caught attention on an international scale. The Beatles gained the hearts of millions in 1963, the start of Beatlemania, and continued to captivate their fans for the next seven years. Their total domination over the music industry remains unrivaled to this day due to their ability to…

surprisingly even songs by the Beatles. On a side note I’m not exactly sure how he got the idea from the Beatles. I mean, did he listen to “We all live in a Yellow Submarine” and just thought I should kill People? To be fair though the song was actually “Helter Skelter” and according an article by the University of Virginia, he thought he was the second coming of Christ, and … Suffice to say he was not the most stable of people. But the Beatles directly didn’t say kill people in their song, and…

Baldwin 1 Courtney Baldwin Ms. Pino AP English 11- P3 11 January 2015 The Martyr’s Remembrance (Moment 1); Chapter 2; Nature There is a distinct difference between wanting to taste nature and wanting to spit out sociality. The sole fact of preferring butterflies over being a social butterfly does not justify the assumption that one is escaping their situation, it rather transfers that they are intrigued by a different reality. In the novel, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless has…

Paul The Vocalist June 14, 1965. If this had been the only day by which to judge Paul McCartney’s abilities as a singer, he would still be known as one of the finest vocalist in rock history. On this day Paul recorded three songs - ‘I’ve Just Seen A Face’, ‘I’m Down’, and Yesterday. Three songs as different as night and day, and just days before his twenty-third birthday McCartney displayed his absolute mastery of the art. “I could do Little Richard's voice, which is a wild, hoarse,…

Musical Analysis of “The Beatles”, the self-entitled White Album The first song of the album, “Back in the USSR”, written by Paul McCartney, directly parodies and references the Beach Boys, with subtler allusions to Chuck Berry and Ray Charles. It is set in the key of A major and has a 4/4 meter. Song form consists of an intro, four verse sections, each followed by a refrain, a bridge that follows only the second and third refrains, and an outro. The melody is undoubtedly bluesy, but…

Early forms of hard rock can be heard in the songs “Helter Skelter” by The Beatles “You Really Got Me” by the Kinks and “ Can see f Miles” by the Who. Jimi Hendrix the musician at the same time produced a form of blues-influenced psychedelic rock, which combined elements of jazz, blues, nd rock and roll, rerating…

Manson was ironically a hippie and took the beetle song Helter Skelter a lot to seriously and decided to make his family by “then sold them on his vision of an apocalyptic race war” (“The Devil Inside” by Charlie Gills ) yes Manson wanted a race war by having poor white people kill rich white people. His plan of…