The "strange facts" you know about songs thread.

[TDC Nala]

Manson thought the song was "speaking" to him and wrote the words Helter Skelter on the wall in blood after the murders. The song was not about Manson.

Technically, he didn't write it. A gal named Patricia Krenwinkel did. Manson himself didn't hang around while they were murdering people. Manson taught his followers his self-determined "alternate meaning" of the Beatles song (and some others on the White Album, the lyrics of which they wrote on walls at murder scenes).

The song was actually written about a slide at an amusement park.

 

[fraggle551]

The songs "Halloween" & "I'll Back You Up" by the Dave Matthews Band are about the same girl. Go look up the lyrics & listen to them.

 

[Inigo]

Manson thought the song was "speaking" to him and wrote the words Helter Skelter on the wall in blood after the murders. The song was not about Manson.

Actually, no. He used the "Helter Skelter" fear of a "race war" to get his followers to implicate themselves in crimes, hoping that would keep them from turning on him and telling about a murder he thought he had committed. He had actually just wounded the guy, but thought the victim was a member of the Black Panthers. He had his followers brainwashed, and he thought if he got their hands dirty with murders too, they would never turn on him.

That's a short version of a long story. If you read the story by Susan Atkins or by other women involved in The Family, it explains a lot.