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: Manson covers Manson
It was
inevitable, Marilyn Manson is doing a cover of his name sake Charles Manson.
Marilyn recorded an acoustic version of Sick City, a song written by
the Murder Cult leader. The track has been made available for download
from the Marilyn Manson website.
Mariyln
is not the first to cover songs written by the leader of Family. Guns
n Roses sparked controversy when they did a cover of Charles Mansons
"Look At Your Game Girl," in 1993 for their Spaghetti Incident album. Charles
Manson besides being a cult leader in the 60s that led his followers to
kill on demand, was an aspiring singer-song writer. Dennis Wilson
of the Beach Boys fell under his seductive spell, and his band recorded
one of Mansons songs, Cease to resist (originally titled Cease to Exist)
before the now famous Tate-LaBianca murders made the short hippy guru a
household name in 1969.
Charles
Manson hoped the ritualistic murders would start off a race war he called
Helter Skelter that would inevitably leave Manson and his followers to
rule the world. Mansons theology came from a drug induced and twisted
interpretation of the Catholic Bible mixed with music from the Beatles.
Manson, believed the Beatles urged him and his followers to start Helter
Skelter though hidden messages in the bands White Album.
Marilyn
is hard at work on his follow up to 1998s Mechanical Animals LP. However,
There are no plans at this point by Marilyn to include the Charles Manson
song the new album.
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