Paul McCartney said The Beatles’ “Helter Skelter” used a metaphor to portray the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. He also said that The Who influenced the song indirectly. One of these claims is ...

The Beatles’ often-covered songs tended to be soft ballads like “Yesterday,” “Michelle,” and “Here Comes the Sun.” One of The Beatles’ rare rockers that became a standard was “Helter Skelter.” There ...

Few songs can claim to be ground zero for heavy metal. Black Sabbath’s eponymous 1969 album opener is largely accepted as the genre’s starting point, but Blue Cheer's "Summertime Blues," released in ...

Fans of both artists freaked out when Manson and Zombie dropped the surprise cover yesterday (July 11). It’s no coincidence that the track premiered the same day as the horror-infused duo began their ...

A 50th-anniversary re-release of "The White Album" contains a trance-like, 13-minute version of the Beatles' "Helter Skelter." Even longtime fans of the band, which broke up in 1970, will have their ...

The Beatles song “Helter Skelter” was played as evidence in the courtroom of the notorious murder case against Charlie Manson and his followers on this day in 1971. Hibbing native Vincent Bugliosi was ...

“Well, that put me off doing it forever,” McCartney told NME in a new interview. “I thought, I’m not doing [‘Helter Skelter’], you know, because it was too close to that event, and immediately it ...

In the summer of 1969, Charles Manson and some of his followers took part in a two-night killing spree that left seven innocent people savagely murdered. However, the infamous cult leader is debunking ...

"We had been talking about doing something together for these shows — that he should come onstage during my set and we'd do a song," Zombie told Rolling Stone. "But we couldn't think of what song." ...

Beginning tonight (July 11) the tour nobody thought would ever happen again kicks off in Detroit, at the exact venue where Zombie and Manson famously hurled insults at each other onstage at the ...