Sir Paul McCartney today told a shocked British press that the relationship between The Beatles and Charles Manson goes far deeper- and earlier- than previously believed. The ex-Beatle now says that "Charlie" was well-known to them when Manson lived with their good friend Terry Melcher. John Lennon and Paul McCartney, it turns out, were well-acquainted with Manson and his ideas. McCartney even admits that they wrote some of the "White Album" lyrics with Manson specifically in mind. "We heard from Terry and others that Charlie had this crazy idea called Helter Skelter, and since in our country that refers to a slide, we decided to fuck with his head. So we wrote Helter Skelter as a metaphor for the rise and fall of civilizations, such as the one we were trying to bring on. Mostly just to mess with Charlie's head. We meant no harm, other than, well, you know... our intent to trigger a worldwide racial conflict and give rise to Charlie's new movement of truly free people," says McCartney. McCartney also said that parts of Abbey Road were about Manson as well. Specifically, they learned from Dennis Wilson, the content of the graffitti on the door at the Spahn Ranch. It read "1234567 All good children go to heaven." The album, which came out months after the graffitti-covered door was seized in the ranch raid, contains that line as a mantra. "We were not telling Charlie to start it himself, though," Sir Paul adds emphatically. "How were we to know he'd be too dumb to play it backwards at the correct speed?" Manson allegedly tried to start the imagined war, believing his "army of teenaged suburban white girls" would eventually make him ruler of the planet. "We thought he was pretty groovy, and in fact John told me that Charlie was the Walrus," said McCartney. "Oh well."
