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luckytraptkillt t1_irvqogx wrote

What a pleasant demeanor. Be a shame if a psycho convinced some followers to murder her and try and set the crime scene up in a way to cause a perpetual race war where black people win and earlier mentioned psycho who was hiding in the desert comes out and becomes a god king to them. Or whatever the Beatles were talking about.

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poohfan t1_irx2odf wrote

Technically, they never specifically set out to murder Tate. The house belonged to Terry Melcher, who Manson had a grudge against, for refusing to produce his album. Tate & Polanski were renting it from Melcher, but Manson didn't know that. Tate & her friends were really just in the wrong place at the wrong time, because the group was supposed to kill Melcher.

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magyarsvensk t1_irxvqjv wrote

Manson did know that. He visited the house looking for Melcher and found Tate there.

Even though his initial visit was motivated by a dispute with Melcher, it’s pretty clear that Tate was the target.

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jrex703 t1_irw4se1 wrote

Well if Catcher in the Rye had worked in a more timely manner, Lennon would never have written the song and Sharon Tate would still be alive.

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stomach t1_irw94gf wrote

mccartney wrote Helter Skelter

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MutinyMate t1_irwag98 wrote

Not sure why you got downvoted, he absolutely did!

Paul was inspired by a review of an upcoming album by "The Who". When the album wasn't as he'd imagined, he wrote what he expected which was the sound of Helter Skelter.

Source: lifetime fan whose heard TONS of these small tangential stories

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stomach t1_irwe15z wrote

-yet another Beatles song which practically invented a new sub-genre in rock-

thanks for the anecdote, hadn't heard that one. he musta been really disappointed in that album to out-rock them so hard lol

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jrex703 t1_irwevs8 wrote

But then my joke doesn't work. I mean it already didn't, but it works even less.

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luckytraptkillt t1_irw4ygu wrote

Haha holy shit blaming John Lennon is a wild take, let’s goooo

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jrex703 t1_irwfmbu wrote

If a psychopath had killed celebrity X for no reason earlier, then another psychopath wouldn't have been inspired to kill celebrity Y for no reason later. It's all very Pepe Silvia.

But McCartney wrote "Helter Skelter", so the joke doesn't work in the first place.

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