Paul Watkins, the pretty boy girl recruiter. Charlie would say, “Paul I’m horny. Go get me a new girl,” and Paul would go get one. He wasn’t book smart, but he had his own brilliant way of discovering the weaknesses of most people he met and turning them into brainwashed zombie followers. He was a career inmate. He purposely committed crimes with the highest federal punishment (for instance like stealing the US Mail which has mandatory sentencing much higher than say stealing cars) to make sure he stayed in jail longer. When he was released from the prison for the last time, he begged the warden to let him stay. He understood prison, but he couldn’t understand the real world. Jim from Indio, CaWatch the movie MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR on YouTube, or wherever... at about 31 minutes into it, Ringo and his Aunt Jessie get into a pretend fight, and Ringo starts screaming at her. Now compare that to the sound of whosever screaming the blisters comment at the end of HELTER SKELTER. Then come up with your own conclusion as to whether that's Ringo or not :) Don from Philadelphia, PaThat couldn't be Ringo who screams "I've got blisters on my fingers." 'cause it dosen't sound like him at all. It has to be John. This is a great song.

Alan from New Baltimore, MiIt sounds like John and you can get blisters from playing guitar. But since the two living members say Ringo, I'll believe them. This is a good Paul song, maybe his best with the Beatles! He was an awesome bass player (listen to Something)but he only had about 5 solo songs I liked after the Beatles. Maybe I'm Amazed, Hi Hi Hi, Band on the Run, Too Many People, and maybe a few others. How are you going to get the establishment? You can’t sing to them. I tried that. I tried to save them, but they wouldn’t listen. Now we got to destroy them.”’ written and narrated by Vincent Bugliosi himself, the prosecutor who successfully handled this particular case, he has taken great care to be thorough in relaying all the facts in this book (without sounding dry), including: There were other connections that summer, which suggested to O’Neill something more sinister was happening. The Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic (HAFMC) opened in June, spearheaded by Dr. David Smith, as a place for the rapidly expanding hippie population to find cheap medical care. That Charlie and his girls would go on a regular basis (free love meant free STDS, which often needed treating) is no secret; Bugliosi wrote about it himself in his brief section on this period. But, as one contemporary (Emmett Grogan, founder of hippie collective the Diggers) wrote in his memoir, there was something unnerving about the operation. “Just because no one was made to pay a fee when they went there, didn’t make it a ‘free clinic,’” Grogan wrote, according to Chaos. “On the contrary, the patients were treated as ‘research subjects’ and the facility was used to support whatever medical innovations were new and appropriate to the agency.” Paul from Cheshire , UkAlso reiterate comments made By John from Falmouth. The Beatles played multiple times at the MerseyView club on top of Frodsham Hill which had the biggest white Helter Skelter at the front of it. I was also always told this was the the initial concept for this great song.Izzy from Buffalo, Nyok, it says in pauls authorized biogrophy or something that RINGOS HANDS WERE BLEEDING AT THE END OF THE SESSION, AND THAT HE YELLED 'I'VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY FINGERS' because he needed HELP! and no, im not talking about the song. What stunned Virginia, she would later say, was that Susan described it "just like it was a perfectly natural thing to do every day of the week."

As well as providing an immersive insight into the case and his experiences, Bugliosi adds a human touch to his telling of events. There’s a degree of warmth in his portrayal of the victims. He paints them as the real people they were, faults and all, while presenting a pretty balanced view of the perpetrators. He doesn’t make excuses for them but he does try to understand what might have led them to this point, and how one man could convince so many to blindly follow his manifesto and to commit such violence without question and with little remorse afterwards. The reasons may often be absurd or absent, but Buglioisi always asks why.Steve from L.a., CaHaving read (many years from now) 3 times 'Paul's only authorized biography.It was all about how loud they could get the drums.He was using the symbol(helter skelter) as the rise and fall of the roman empire.Paul says it wasn't a joke when "RINGO" yelled (I've got blisters on my fingers).Paul says Ringo was drumming so ferociously on all those takes that his hands were actually bleeding at the end of the session In the summer of 1969, in Los Angeles, a series of brutal, seemingly random murders captured headlines across America. A famous actress (and her unborn child), an heiress to a coffee fortune, a supermarket owner and his wife were among the seven victims. A thin trail of circumstances eventually tied the Tate-LeBianca murders to Charles Manson, a would-be pop singer of small talent living in the desert with his "family" of devoted young women and men. What was his hold over them? And what was the motivation behind such savagery? In the public imagination, over time, the case assumed the proportions of myth. The murders marked the end of the sixties and became an immediate symbol of the dark underside of that era. a b Conrad, Peter (July 7, 2019). "Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill with Dan Piepenbring – review". The Guardian . Retrieved April 18, 2020. Atkins then used Tate’s blood to write the word “pig” on the front door. However, instead of this brutal massacre sating the pathological Manson, he criticized the murderers for being sloppy.

Robert from Brisbane, AustraliaIt's interesting that just before the person says it, you hear someone else say "I've got..." like they're cuing him in to say it. Listen closely, you'll see what I mean. Actually it sounds like John cuing Ringo in because first a normal volume SPEAKING voice like John's says "I've got..." and then you hear "I'VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY FINGERS!" So it was probably faked.Ringo confirmed it was him on VH1 Storytellers. Why would he lie. Come on people, this is 3 hours worth of playing we're talking about! Because of this connection, Los Angeles assistant District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi, who led the prosecution of Manson and the other killers, named his best-selling book about the murders Helter Skelter. Bugliosi's book was the basis for a film of the same title. Chas from Webster, NyMy band's doing a metal cover of this. It's gonna be sweet when it's done. We really want to do justice to this classic. Krissy from Boston, MaThis song is great. A lot of people don't know this but Helter Skelter was in act that happen in Calforina where this guy kiled tons of people. It was a very bloody and gross.