In late August 1975, before a mammoth concert in Long Beach, California, about Led Zeppelin in full swing the group's press agent, Danny Goldberg , received a red-haired girl with a nervous tic grotesque, he wanted to talk with Jimmy Page . I was sure something terrible was coming could happen at the concert that night. According to him, the last time I had a hunch and saw how they killed a guy with a shot before his eyes. The girl, completely crazy, just went away when he claimed it was impossible to talk to Jimmy. During the concert that night nothing happened. But a week later, on September 5, the girl appeared in all the news for attempted murder-with a gun that was not actually charged, U.S. President Gerald Ford , during a rally in San Francisco. 
The girl was Lynette Fromme, one of the most adept and persistent convinced the family that Charles Manson met in the late sixties, where he was named Red. Interestingly, another girl from the clan renamed with a color, Sandra Good , Blue, he dragged his fanaticism for the rest of his life since the incarceration of Manson, and was even sentenced to ten years in prison in 1975 for sending threatening letters to corporations that "contaminated land". After the penalty, did not hesitate for a home near the prison of Cormoran, California, where he meets his imprisonment Manson for about forty years. Only two samples of one of the highlights of the end of the innocent magic of the sixties: the rarefied atmosphere, violent, subversive and delirious which led to the expansion of consciousness released by LSD in the middle of the decade, and particular character: Charles Manson. 
Convicted experienced anti-philosopher, and especially frustrated musician, Manson started to get stronger after his release from prison on March 21, 1967. Until then, the sum of their sentences was more than half his age, thirty-two years. In his last imprisonment in prison at McNeil Island (Washington)-for pimping, theft and check forgery, "he learned to play guitar by the famous gangster Alvin Creepy Karpis , who had been mistress. After his release he traveled to San Francisco, where he found the ideal breeding ground for rooting their paranoia and convert to the cause quickly fell disoriented young people in their networks. Expert in weak points of others, magnetic and seductive, and backed by an ideology itself was a hodgepodge of Eastern mysticism, Catholicism and delusions of all kinds, was surrounded by a large group of young people (mostly women) willing to worship as what he said was, "Christ and Satan at the same time." The Manson case is of interest not only as a paradigm of a feverish time, but also because it joins a synthesis of the best music that had that golden era. 
Manson gifted composer, but his personality changed too, moved along 1968 between some of the most important musicians and producers in California, who seduced with cocktails of drugs and girls and arranged. I had met Dennis Wilson the most debauchery of the Beach Boys in the spring of 1968. In fact, he lived with his young followers in his home in Sunset Boulevard 14,400, which meant that summer a cost of approximately $ 100,000 to Dennis. The drummer of the Beach Boys came to make such statements about Manson in the British magazine Rave in December 1968: "Sometimes it scares me the magician, Charlie Manson, a friend of mine (...) sings and plays and writes poetry. May soon be one of the artists of Brother Records catalog. "Despite his heterodoxy and rebellion, in Manson's dream was to become a famous musician and a millionaire. Dennis introduced him to famed producer Terry Melcher stronghold California pop sound of the late (and son of Doris Day ) and other producers and agents. It was always the same: all were drawn to the particular personality of Charlie, but soon perceived the same time sinister and violent wave that ended up away from their side. Although Manson did start some vague promises, in the end nobody wanted to bet on him and then his social resentment reached critical levels. Still, he had had time to record some songs more or less than the private study of Brian Wilson, in his own mansion at 1448 Laurel Way, and in two sessions, the first on 11 September 1967 and the second on August 9, 1968, with the sound engineer Stephen Desper flying and accompanied by six of the girls in her family, some of them participated in the murders of August next year that would world famous Manson and his clan. The songs posted on disc format a couple of years later. However, in January 1969, Manson had to add to the breakup of his musical dream theft Californian Dennis Wilson made his song "Cease To Exist", which changed the title "Never Learn Not To Love" for inclusion in the album of the Beach Boys 20/20 . Dennis always claim that the song was not Manson, but had made almost all of it. However, despite its sweetened arrangements have nothing to do with the dryness of the Manson version, the truth is that underneath is sensed an aroma perverted, insane, which is inconsistent with the spirit of the Beach musically friendly Boys. 
The disagreement with Dennis Wilson had occurred much earlier, when the latter, regardless of sex orgies easily reached those involved Neil Young and Mike Love - began to distance himself from the clan and stopped paying the rent of the house Manson was busy with the family. Manson and his followers were expelled by default in early autumn 1968. Then turned in a Volkswagen bus painted black to avoid attracting the attention of the police, the Spahn Ranch in Chatsworth, a place hidden in the desert of Death Valley about fifty miles east of Los Angeles, the mountainous area of \u200b\u200bSanta Susana, and had done times in old western town productions. The ranch, now abandoned, was owned by an eighty-three, George Spahn, who was persuaded to stay there in exchange for sexual favors, Lynette Fromme. Isolated, surrendered to Manson and his virulent ideas, and exposed to continuous doses of LSD, amphetamines and group sex, clan withdrew into himself and began to distance themselves from the reality as it allowed both the infinite silence of the desert. Still missing one ingredient detonators, the engine that fired the destructive ideas Manson, and this occurred in late November 1968, when Beatles released their White Album . 
Ian MacDonald explains perfectly Revolution in mind the decisive influence of the music of the Beatles in the lunatic thoughts Manson: "Trying to productions determined by chance at the same level as the material intentionally endowed of meaning is falling into a relativism that can only end in chaos, and chaos attracts psychopaths. " Indeed, gambling, creative freedom and boundless imagination began to star in the music of the Beatles, and by extension, all popular music, from 1966, constituted not only a glorious culmination of art, but also approach delusional interpretations dangerous or unhealthy. The exuberant musical style and White Album lighting served Charles Manson, that from here he reorganized his theories and found an alibi for their diligent peers abstract. "Revolution 9", for example, ceased to be the best approximation of the pop avant-garde music into a prophecy of the apocalypse soon. Manson said that blacks would rebel in the summer of 1969 that would kill all whites, would be the "Helter Skelter" Manson song perhaps related to the slaughter by their furious guitars hellish atmosphere (ignoring of course, the Helter Skelter was a typically British spiral slide). He and the family, however, hide in an underground lake that ran through the Valley of Death, "Manson borrowed this idea from an ancient legend of the Shoshone and Hopi Indians, who spoke of" hell hole "or" well bottomless "- and stay there until it became 144,000 descendants. Then would come back to earth and rule the world, as the black man inferior intelligence would have plunged back into chaos. For Manson, the Beatles were the four angels of Revelation and he was the fifth. Manson found more messages in the exceptionally strong "Piggies" by George Harrison , which he incited the mass murder of the wealthy, in "Blackbird", which prophesied the rise of the black man, and also in "Honey Pie" by the Beatles which expressed the desire to know (among other things, the song says "come to teach me the magic"). Manson and his family began sending letters to the Beatles to make an appointment, which evidently were not answered, "and the White Album was constant and required listening in the domains paranoid Spahn Ranch. On the other hand, these ideas of death and destruction were reflected in a collection of Volkswagens stolen and adapted to the desert as buggies sanders, in night patrols, with their corresponding checkpoints-in fuel tanks hidden under the rocks and, above all, in an assortment of knives, pistols and rifles (Charlie was an expert on arms). If the apocalypse would occur, it was desirable to be well prepared. 
Manson-The faithful of twenty girls and five boys-only showed an absolute faith in these prophecies, though many of them came from wealthy families and had college. Aggressive tendencies and sociopaths Manson began to run wild as 1969 progressed. In June, the prevailing idea of \u200b\u200bManson at the ranch was to be taught Black people how to start the revolution. On July 26, Charles Manson and three followers - Bobby Beausoleil, Mary Brunner , who was not then testify as an accusation, and Susan Atkins - made a visit to 964, Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles where he lived the music teacher Gary Hinman , whom they knew because they had received previously. Manson erroneously thought that Hinman had inherited $ 20,000. After two days of torture, and not getting results, Manson slit his ear and told Bobby Beausoleil, who, incidentally, in 1964 had played the devil in the film Kenneth Anger Scorpio Rising , and who had played guitar briefly in early 1965 in a Love , when they were still called The Grass Roots before the arrival of Bryan MacLean - he should kill. Beausoleil, stuck in a morass of LSD and satanic ideas, do not hesitate to stab to death and Hinman, of course, to start the peculiar mark of the clan house: on one wall, with the blood of Hinman, wrote "Political Piggy". Police arrested Beausoleil on August 6, the vehicle caught driving Hinman and find the murder weapon hidden in a tire. 
From here, things happened very quickly. Manson's resentment toward the music producers who had rejected him psychotic highs. The same Terry Melcher came twice to the Spahn Ranch in May to listen to the music of Manson, the second one he did with a friend who had a small digital recording equipment, but following a bout of verbal violence Manson against one of the followers to interrupt a song, Melcher decided not to return and dispose of the recordings and any kind of agreement. Beausoleil's arrest, on the other hand, could make the family become involved in crime. Manson decided to it was time for another "creepy-crawl" ('creepy crawling'), as he called night missions in which they introduced into houses and stole furniture or changing room while its inhabitants slept. However, this mission would go well beyond. Manson was looking for a crime that, first, could convince the police that Beausoleil was not responsible for the murder of Hinman and also serve as revenge for his failed desire for fame. All this, ultimately, aimed to warn blacks reached the time of Helter Skelter. 
That's how you get to the warm evening of August 8, when around midnight a 63 Chevy blue through the long avenue of Benedict Canyon Drive until you get to Heaven, where a passage is diverted to the right in the direction of travel and that leads directly to the number 10,050. The farm is isolated from others and hidden among the trees of Bel Air. At that time, the property is rented on behalf of Roman Polanski , who pays for her $ 1,000 a month and since July 20 is in London working on the film The Day of the Dolphin , who never completed. His previous tenants had been Terry Melcher and his wife, actress Candice Bergen , which for months now who did not live there, but in a house owned by Doris Day in Malibu. This was something that Manson knew perfectly well, as 23 March this year were twice in the house looking for Melcher (while Sharon Tate and photographer Shahrokh Hatami conducting a photo shoot, Tate could see Manson first time, obliquely, while Khatami spoke with him), reinforcing the idea that one purpose was to beat a good scare Melcher. Car drop three girls (all of them barefoot) and a young man, dressed in black and armed with a Colt Buntline Special revolver-very hard to get model-caliber 22 with silencer, several kitchen knives four inches long and a nylon rope. The young man climbs a pole, cut with pliers the telephone wires and then they all come into the estate from the bottom of the garden hedges. 
The property is divided into a main house on one level and another adjacent house, smaller, a few meters in front of the parking area, where we then lived William Garretson, 19, maintainer (for $ 35 a week) while the owner of the house, Rudi Altobelli Melcher-friend and music promoter and agent-millionaire, was out on the road. When intruders enter the garden, Garretson is in his apartment with Steve Parent, 18, who knows only a week ago, a boy about to start his college career and a fan of audio channels and, after selling a stereo, and is leaving. At home principipal, Voytek Frykowski , playboy 37 year old Polish artsy-but Polanski said of him that "it was a great friend, but a man of little talent" - sleeping on a couch in the living room after smoked marijuana, which has also made his girlfriend, Abigail Folger , young heir to a great owner of the coffee industry and fan of humanitarian charities, staying in your room. In another room are talking about the beautiful Sharon Tate, eight months pregnant and a half Jay Sebring, renowned stylist and hairdresser to the stars of Hollywood, also responsible for designing the distinctive hairstyle floating Jim Morrison - who years earlier had been his partner and with whom he maintained a strong friendship, and, moreover, was a black belt in karate and had been a student of Bruce Lee . On the bedside table, reading is the Sharon of those days: I have a baby . Jay Sebring is about to leave with his Porsche in black. Steve Young Parent also leaves the guard house, gets into his car, a white Rambler, and leads to the exit when in front of the headlights appears a tall and serious look that he calls stop while pointing a gun with a pistol. 
What happens then is the closest thing to a small-scale apocalypse. Charles Tex Watson , who had joined the family in the spring of 1968-thanks, by the way, Dennis Wilson, who introduced him to Manson after Tex help him with his car damaged, "had been a model student and as sports in college, in Copeville, Texas, before deciding to be a small vacation after graduation. Brain-fried by amphetamines and destruction Manson mantras that night was not only the only one that Manson had given instructions on what to do, but also became a ruthless murderer, ruthless, almost robotic and accounts for 90% of the stabbing that occurred that day and the next ("I'm the devil and I'll kill them all," he told a terrified tenants who previously did not understand what was going on). Susan Atkins -also known as Sadie Mae in the family environment, again under the influence of White Album - California, 21 , was a beautiful vampire, and unhealthy chameleon "in 1967 was hired as a stripper for Halloween Day celebration that made the famous Satanist Anton Lavey - whose dysfunctional life made sense that same 1967 when he met and fell in love Manson it immediately (to hear Susan's voice, refined and sweet, hard to understand that when Sharon Tate cried mercy for the life of your child, could say "There will be no pity for you, bitch.") Patricia Krenwinkel was an ugly girl, hairy, lacking self-esteem, and therefore was easy prey for Manson. Neither she nor Susan Atkins knew what they were doing that night But the discovery does not hesitate to join the feast with joy, with a horrified Sharon Tate, known for its naivety, which however was the last to die and had to see how those violently ended the lives of his friends one after another. Outside in the garden, was another girl in the family, Linda Kasabian, who not imagine the carnage that was taking place and subsequently in exchange for immunity became the main prosecution witness against Manson and the family. While driving back to the ranch, Patricia Krenwinkel told fellow slaughter as follows: "When it hurts and it is bone, it hurts your hand, then it is difficult Take the knife. "Months later, on trial for the murders, Susan Atkins said:" What I remember most is the noise that Sharon's blood was coming out of their wounds. "As in the previous murder of Gary Hinman, the murderers left another message. Susan Atkins, a towel soaked in the blood of Tate, write "Pig" on the front door. No one knows who the people you just killed. The macabre scene was discovered at following day by the housekeeper, Winifred Chapman , at nine in the morning (later in the trial refused to recount what he saw as "too much for me.") William Garretson, the guard is raised by police beatings. He had spent the night listening to music with his new team, without knowing anything. It is considered a suspect but was released immediately. Later, give samples of his quirky personality to support the ineffable Rosie Tate Polanski, who claimed to be the daughter that Tate was about to give birth-data that fell on its own, since they already knew that baby was going to be a kid and you thought Richard Paul call - and also to appear interviewed on a television special in 2000, considerably drunk and suggesting that he had actually heard screaming and saw Sharon Tate's murder Abigail Folger through your window. 
The next night, Aug. 9, the bloody "creepy-crawl" was repeated, this time a little east of Cielo Drive in the 3301 Waverly Drive, where lived a middle-aged couple, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca , owners of a supermarket and a boutique. Manson, angry, considering that the previous night's riot was unnecessary, he explained that this time would accompany them to teach them how to do things: "I'm not that terrified. Should they believe anything bad will not happen. Let them die quickly, as in a dream. " He walks alone to the house, entering through the back door which was open to marriage at gunpoint with a gun. Convinces them that only wants to steal and they do not happen at all. The left bound with leather straps and back to the car. Then comes the time again, Tex Watson and Patricia Krenwinkel, a new member, Leslie Van Houten , former queen of her high school in Monrovia, population of Los Angeles. As in the previous night, Manson's followers do not seem to want a quick and merciful death of their victims and rages again: Leno gets twelve cuts with a bayonet and fourteen cuts with a fork, which leaves Patricia nailed to his stomach after Tex will marked on the abdomen has the word "War." Rosemary takes the staggering figure of 41 stabs. Of course, the family firm can be seen with other inscriptions written in blood: "Death To Pigs" and "Rise" ('Lift' message to black) on the wall of the room, and "healt Skelter" (note the misspelling) in the refrigerator door (where Watson ate some chicken wings, as the girls cleaned the blood in the bathroom). Interestingly, many years later, in 1987, a daughter that marriage left orphaned, Suzanne Laberge , began visiting in jail Tex Watson, who in 1980 had founded a Christian movement called abounding Love Ministries (Ministry of Abundant Love). Suzan ended Watson not only forgiving, but also stating in his favor in subsequent parole hearings. Tex Watson, on the other hand, fled to his parents' home in Texas the day after the second slaughter, unable to understand what he had done and believing that Manson would end up killing him. And Manson, while carrying out the assassination of the LaBianca, left Susan Atkins and Linda Kasabian in Venice, also in Los Angeles, where he lived an actor with whom Linda had had sex and were also killed. Linda deliberately prevented by calling another door, which made a strange reply. They ended up aborting the plan, even before Susan Atkins had the courtesy to defecate in the stairwell. 
Despite the similarities between the crimes of Hinman and 8 and 9 August, the Police Department of Los Angeles failed to consider the connection-not even believe that the Tate and LaBianca crimes were related, and focused on the hypothesis of a revenge issue of drugs in the Tate (found a few drugs in the house and the Porsche of Jay Sebring) and an imitation in the LaBianca case. A few days after the crimes, on 12 August was a raid on the Spahn Ranch and arrested Manson and his acolytes, 25, accused of car theft, but a new error, in this case a warrant expired, he had once again remain in the wild (not bothered to check they were the real names and not pseudonyms used between them.) Manson began to get nervous and late August, he decided to kill an occasional member of the family, Donald Shorty Shea, 36, who had acted as an extra in Hollywood films and also in some porn productions, "because he thought he knew too much about family activities. Bruce Davis and Steve Grogan were responsible for ending it. Barbara Hoyt , with only seventeen and a few months in the family, could hear the screams of Donald at night from a stream, testimony that later became part of the prosecution and that the family tried to avoid giving in return a free trip to Hawaii. Hoyt, frightened, and accepted September 6, 1970 made the trip with Ruth Anne Moorehouse (a hard core of the family and willing to kill their first pig, "as he once told Dan DeCarlo , leader of a biker gang that was related to the family and that provided data to the police.) Back in Hawaii, Ruth Ann offered Hoyt a burger inside containing ten tablets of LSD. After overcoming a serious psychosis, Barbara Hoyt stopped having doubts and testified against the family, and still today cries recalling the cries of Shorty Shea in the parole hearings of any member. 
The clan was moving in the desert of Death Valley while searching for devil's hole where they would hide until the arrival of the Apocalypse. Finally they decided to stay in the Barker Ranch in Goler Wash, about 200 miles east of Los Angeles, and for that Manson convinced his owner promises to maintain the place and giving him the record of gold that the Beach Boys were obtained by Today! (1965), which in turn had given Dennis Wilson. Barker Ranch was an old mining, and miners who still lived in the neighborhood started complaining to the police of the threatening attitude of the group were all armed with knives in their belts, and their peculiar customs (the girls family nude sunbathing and all had sex without caring that there was someone close). This, together with evidence of car theft, fraud, forgery and even the burning of a bulldozer, led to a new police raid on 19 November in which Manson arrested and 24 people. Incidentally, this fact caused it to explode the string of revelations. All detainees were taken to the Inyo County Jail in Independence. Police discovered that the name of one of the girls, Susan Atkins, corresponded with Bobby Beausoleil information about who had accompanied him in the murder of Gary Hinman. With the aim of questioning, Susan moved to the women's prison in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, where his statement was not allowed to show responsibility. However, her cellmates, Shelly Joice Nadell and Ronnie Howard , listened stunned Atkins told how she and her colleagues had killed Sharon Tate murders and explained in great detail, including the fact that after Tate died, she had licked his fingers stained with blood ("It was the most intense sexual experience of my life" said Atkins of the killing later in the statements of the trial). Susan gave to his companions one pearl after another: "I felt so strong and the spirit was so clean that I wanted to crack the Tate's belly to remove the baby, take it and take care of me" and "wanted to empty eye sockets of all the victims and cast your eyes from the walls and cut off their fingers. " He also said something quite significant: "None of us can deny anything that Charlie orders you to do." The prisoners who heard the story of Atkins were soon give it to them to police. From here there were any arrests of family members involved in the murder, and the December 11, 1969 Manson first appeared in the Jury Room at the Court of Los Angeles, wearing a bizarre costume buckskin. 
The trial, held in room number 816 of the Court of Los Angeles, did not begin until June 15, 1970, and quickly became a media spectacle. Some of the girls in the family stood guard Standing at the gates of the Tribunal and sympathized with their leader, following any of the guidelines (to shave the hair, draw a cross between the eyes or sing their songs, something major would also indicted: Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten). Then it was revealed the fascination and the placing of the girls in the Manson family, and even Linda Kasabian, the main prosecution witness who said that "God has commanded me to tell the world that Manson is a false prophet", he acknowledged that he was still in love him. Another girl in the clan, Catherine Gillies, testified that she had killed the night of the crimes, but did not because not needed. Death threats of the family were the daily bread, and Manson soon demonstrated that the tactic was to blame for his defense without regard to his followers as responsible for the crime. The new incarnation of evil kept repeating in court their eternal mantra: "I am what you have done me to be" insulting "came to tell the judge, Charles Older , the following:" You are a black old smelly "- take weird yoga positions, complaining about not being allowed to defend himself, though at first he left himself, eventually concluding that he had to do minimal preparation, and even attack with a pencil to his own lawyer, Irving Kanerak . Another surprising note was the sudden disappearance at the end of November 1970 the defense attorney Leslie Van Houten, Ronald Hughes, a bohemian-looking hippy who until then had not intervened in any case as counsel, and who had refused to follow the legal tactic of blame to save Leslie Manson. Some time later, the trial ended on 29 March 1971 his body was found about 150 miles east of Los Angeles, inlaid between two boulders in Ventura County, in an advanced state of decomposition. Sandra Good, Blue, said he had killed the family, although officially the cause of death was "undetermined." A more bizarre yet was that the then U.S. president, Richard Nixon , undermining any notion of presumption of innocence, claimed in a press conference in Denver that Manson trial and alleged murderer, was still without certainly guilty as picked Los Angeles Time in its issue of August 4. 
How could it be otherwise, if Manson was also his musical side. On March 6, 1970 was issued the first official record of Charlie: Lie: The Love And Terror Cult , which includes fourteen of the songs were recorded in the private study of Brian Wilson, and was published by Phil Kaufman, a former cellmate of Manson and also one of those responsible for stealing the body of Gram Parsons the September 20, 1973. The disk folder shows the famous cover of Life of December 19, 1969, which appears Manson with a contorted face paranoia. As for music, any skeptical approach to the disc is immediately revoked when it begins the first song, "Look At You Game, Girl", which shows almost obscenely talented musician who was in Manson, under layers of violence and resentment . His nasal voice, important feature of the album, sings a soft song, and enough subtle lyricism. His compositions are often circular, hypnotic, almost mantras they contain a powerful magnetism, as is the case of "Ego", "Mechanical Man" or "Do not Do Anything Legal", and not make it very difficult to imagine how the atmosphere of music and LSD orgies family. The instrumentation is always very austere, just Manson's guitar, some percussion, the voices of their time girls and a style almost always close to the folk. Of note is the terrific "I'll Never Say Never To Always", a childish tone song but evil intentions, played only by girls "The laughter you hear at the end are particularly ominous, including Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkel, who later became killers. The catchy "Garbage Dump" speaks of the custom of the family to feed on the scraps of Simi Valley supermarkets threw back their containers, which Manson believed an act of anti-capitalist. Finally, you can not stop quoting "Cease To Exist" almost unrecognizable compared to the version of the Beach Boys, and much more dylaniana here and "Big Iron Door", a great song that sounds particularly grim counterpoint thanks of onomatopoeia. With the money from record sales-not many, just sold three hundred copies, "Manson tried to cover the costs of trial. Today's testimony is as malicious and stunned, but, again, recommended and not without talent, as he repeated in interviews, "Music is my religion" - one of the most frightening of the late sixties . 
Finally, on April 19, 1971 the members of the Manson Family defendants were sentenced to death (less Tex Watson, who could not be tried because at the time of the arrests were in Texas, thanks to influences that drove his family was able to avoid extradition to August, but in October was also sentenced to death.) In February 1972, however, the California Supreme Court overturned the death penalty in the state, and the sentences were commuted to life imprisonment. The Tate-LaBianca murders, and the very existence of a group like Manson and the family, assumed one of the events that finally ended with the opening of blind optimism and confidence of the decade. As Joe Boyd says in White Bicycle, "the loving spirit of 1967 evaporated in the heat of drugs chungas, violence, commercialism and political pressure." Upon learning the jury's decision, Susan Atkins shouted: "You better close your doors locked and watch out for your children." Already seen another adept, Lynette From, Red became a living scarecrow by which he earned a life sentence for trying to kill President Ford, the same happened with his spiritual sister, Sandra Good, Blue, that between the comings and goings the jail did not hesitate to appear on television talk shows to spread the messianism of its leader and, of course, threaten any commentator who dared contradict him. The cruelty and the viciousness of the crimes committed, moreover, public star hitherto seemed untouchable, not only signified the elevation of the altars Manson in popular culture, but also produced a shock of this magnitude members convicted today carried forty years in prison and been denied all motions for probation. Susan Atkins has not received the mercy which she denied Sharon Tate, and recently was denied freedom despite being the longest serving prisoner locked up in prison in California and have an incurable brain tumor, one leg amputated and the other paralyzed, and a life expectancy of only a few months. All of them have become the most visible sign of some dark times in the same year that would close on December 6 with the free concert of the Rolling Stones fateful Altamont and four deaths.
You can get the Manson album here:
Charlie Manson. Lie: The Love And Terror Cult (1970)
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