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stomach t1_irw94gf wrote

Reply to comment by jrex703 in Sharon Tate at the Premiere of Rosemary’s Baby - 1968 by gwynsbooty

mccartney wrote Helter Skelter

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MutinyMate t1_irwag98 wrote

Not sure why you got downvoted, he absolutely did!

Paul was inspired by a review of an upcoming album by "The Who". When the album wasn't as he'd imagined, he wrote what he expected which was the sound of Helter Skelter.

Source: lifetime fan whose heard TONS of these small tangential stories

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stomach t1_irwe15z wrote

-yet another Beatles song which practically invented a new sub-genre in rock-

thanks for the anecdote, hadn't heard that one. he musta been really disappointed in that album to out-rock them so hard lol

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jrex703 t1_irwevs8 wrote

But then my joke doesn't work. I mean it already didn't, but it works even less.

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