Maxwell's Silver Hammer Strikes Again

From the Associated Press:

PHILADELPHIA - Four teenagers charged with beating a 16-year-old boy to death plotted the killing for weeks and listened to the Beatles song "Helter Skelter" several dozen times before the murder, according to an alleged confession read in court.

Must have been that whole "you may be a lover but you ain?t no dancer" business. More evidence that allegedly music-inspired mayhem depends far more on popularity than actually explicit lyrical violence.

Comments

[fyodor]

I wonder, will McCartney ever try and take lead credit for Helter Skelter now that it's struck again??

Also recalls the title of a song by Negativland: Helter Stupid!!

But boy, that Welch has the best Beatles links!!

[Lefty]

The Bible is present in far more homes of wacked out killers than Helter Skelter records. The delusional cite God and the Devil much more often than the Beatles or Marilyn Manson.

[Anonymous]

Actually, in recent history more people have been killed by those possessing and professing the Communist Manifesto than any other book.

[mike]

No, I see the connection. Trying to decipher meaning in inscrutable words, even if only to get at what the author was trying to get at can break the reasoning faculty and drive you nuts. Like reading Chomsky.

[Douglas Fletcher]

I heard that a few years back Charlie Manson finally got ahold of a CD player and a copy of the Beatles "White Album." And what did he think?

"Man, the audio clarity on these CD's is incredible! I guess they weren't talking to me after all!"

(credit to Fred Willard)

[Jim Walsh]

As Sam Kinison once pointed out, Manson would've gotten the same message from the Monkees: "Last Train To Clarksville, whitey..."

Ah Sam...we hardly knew ye...