![]() ![]() I mean, there are still some people we want to interview. Plus, going back and talking to everybody seemed like a very daunting project. McNeil: Well, because it is so big and we didn’t think people would talk to us. You said you were hesitant to work on this book. McNeil and McCain spoke with Rolling Stone about the lonely process of reporting on creepy subject matter, why the “Helter Skelter” theory is (mostly) bullshit, and how if you give someone enough acid you can make them believe anything you want. Since then, that interpretation of events has been credibly questioned. The story was detailed in Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi’s Helter Skelter, the best-selling true crime book of all time. The theory that Manson had orchestrated the murders to incite a race war based off hidden messages in the Beatles’ White Album became the prevailing narrative. ![]() They’re almost done, they swear.įifty years ago, followers of hippie cult leader Charles Manson shot, bludgeoned and stabbed to death five people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate, in a seemingly random home invasion in the Hollywood Hills. For more than 20 years, the duo has been working on 69, the follow-up to Please Kill Me, their 1996 definitive history of the New York punk scene. “It’s people making bad decisions in real time,” McNeil says. That’s why Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain wanted to publish an oral history of the Manson Family murders and the late Sixties. There’s nothing like the impact of hearing an outrageous story from someone who experienced it firsthand. ![]()
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