Never Learn Not to Love

John Carvill johncarvill at gmail.com
Fri Aug 21 15:26:29 CDT 2009


> and something Charlie missed--the beautiful segue of Helter Skelter
> into Long Long Long--one of Harrison's most haunting songs--one of
> those songs where such simple lyrics are so heightened by lets face it
> a strange stew of sounds and impressions--beatles records (the white
> album in particular) have such wonderful seques--like Pynchon's
> radical shifting of moods in his writings--fabulous stuff if u can
> pull it off

True. Ironic that Manson took something so positive and life-affirming
as a Beatles record, which was also absolutely integral to 'The
Sixties', and used it to help bring about the death of the era.



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