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{{Infobox Single
 
{{Infobox Single
 
| Name          = Helter Skelter
 
| Name          = Helter Skelter
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| Cover          = got-to-get-you-into-my-life.jpg
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| Cover          = suckmepedia.jpg
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| Artist        = The Beatles
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| Artist        = [[The Beatles]]
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| A-side        = "[[Got to Get You Into My Life]]"
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| from Album    = [[The Beatles (The White Album)]]
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| Released      = 22 November 1968
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| A-side        = "[[Got To Get You Into My Life]]"
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| Format        = [[gramaphone record|7"]]
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| Released      = '''Album:''' 22 November 1968<br />'''Single:''' 31 May 1976 (U.S.)
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| Recorded      = Abbey Road Studios<br/>9 September 1968
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| Format        = 7"
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| Genre          = Rock
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| Recorded      = [[Abbey Road Studios]]<br/>9 September 1968
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| Length        = 4:30 (Stereo LP) <br/>3:38 (Mono LP)
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| Genre          = hard rock
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| Label          = Apple Records
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| Length        = 4:30 (Stereo LP)<br/>3:38 (Mono LP)
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| Writer        = [[George Harrison]]
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| Label          = [[Capitol Records|Capitol]] 4274 (U.S.)
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| Writer        = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
 
| Producer      = [[George Martin]]
 
| Producer      = [[George Martin]]
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| Chart position =
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| Last single    = "[[Yesterday (song)|Yesterday]]"<br />(UK-1976) <br /> ------ <br/> "[[The Long and Winding Road]]" / "[[For You Blue]]"<br/> (US-1970)
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| Last single    = "[[Yesterday]]" (UK-1976)<br/>-<br/> "[[The Long and Winding Road]]" / "[[For You Blue]]"<br/>(1970)
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| This single    = "Got to Get You into My Life"<br />(1976)
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| This single    = "[[Got to Get You Into My Life]]" / "Helter Skelter"<br/>(1976)
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| Next single    = "[[Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da]]"<br />(1976)
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| Next single    = "[[Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da]]" / "[[While My Guitar Gently Weeps]]" <br />-<br/> "[[Julia]]" (US Edition) <br/> (1976)
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| Misc          = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Beatles into my life.ogg |format=[[Ogg]] |title=Got to Get You into My Life |Type=single}}
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| Misc          = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
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{{Extra tracklisting
 
{{Extra tracklisting
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| Album          = [[Help! (album)|Help!]]
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| Album          = [[The Beatles (The White Album]]
 
| Type          = studio
 
| Type          = studio
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| prev_track    = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
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| Tracks        = ;Side one
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| prev_no        = 7
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#"[[Back in the U.S.S.R.]]"
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| this_track    = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
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#"[[Dear Prudence]]"
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| track_no      = 8
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#"[[Glass Onion]]"
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| next_track    = "[[Penny Lane]]"
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#"[[Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da]]"
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| next_no        = 9}}
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#"[[Wild Honey Pie]]"
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#"[[The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill]]"
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#"[[While My Guitar Gently Weeps]]"
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#"[[Happiness Is a Warm Gun]]"
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;Side two
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#<li value=9>"[[Martha My Dear]]"
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#"[[I'm So Tired]]"
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#"[[Blackbird (song)|Blackbird]]"
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#"[[Piggies]]"
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#"[[Rocky Raccoon]]"
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#"[[Don't Pass Me By]]"
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#"[[Why Don't We Do It in the Road?]]"
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#"[[I Will (The Beatles song)|I Will]]"
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#"[[Julia (The Beatles song)|Julia]]"
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;Side three
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#"[[Birthday (The Beatles song)|Birthday]]"
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#"[[Yer Blues]]"
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#"[[Mother Nature's Son]]"
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#"[[Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey]]"
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#"[[Sexy Sadie (song)|Sexy Sadie]]"
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#"''Helter Skelter''"
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#"[[Long, Long, Long]]"
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;Side four
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#<li value=8>"[[Revolution (song)#Revolution 1|Revolution 1]]"
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#"[[Honey Pie]]"
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#"[[Savoy Truffle]]"
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#"[[Cry Baby Cry]]"
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#"[[Revolution 9]]"
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#"[[Good Night (song)|Good Night]]}"
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| Misc          = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Beatles helter skelter.ogg |format=[[Ogg]] |title=Helter Skelter |Type=song}}
 
}}
 
}}
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{{cquote|Umm, that came about just 'cuz I'd read a review of a record which said, 'And this group really got us wild, there's echo on everything, they're screaming their heads off.' And I just remember thinking, 'Oh, it'd be great to do one. Pity they've done it. Must be great-- really screaming record.' And then I heard their record and it was quite straight, and it was very sort of sophisticated. It wasn't rough and screaming and tape echo at all. So I thought, 'Oh well, we'll do one like that, then.' And I had this song called 'Helter Skelter' which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.'|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1968}}
 
{{cquote|Umm, that came about just 'cuz I'd read a review of a record which said, 'And this group really got us wild, there's echo on everything, they're screaming their heads off.' And I just remember thinking, 'Oh, it'd be great to do one. Pity they've done it. Must be great-- really screaming record.' And then I heard their record and it was quite straight, and it was very sort of sophisticated. It wasn't rough and screaming and tape echo at all. So I thought, 'Oh well, we'll do one like that, then.' And I had this song called 'Helter Skelter' which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.'|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1968}}
  

Revision as of 17:18, 18 June 2009

{{Infobox Single | Name = Helter Skelter | Cover = suckmepedia.jpg | Artist = The Beatles | from Album = The Beatles (The White Album) | A-side = "Got To Get You Into My Life" | Released = Album: 22 November 1968
Single: 31 May 1976 (U.S.) | Format = 7" | Recorded = Abbey Road Studios
9 September 1968 | Genre = hard rock | Length = 4:30 (Stereo LP)
3:38 (Mono LP) | Label = Capitol 4274 (U.S.) | Writer = Lennon/McCartney | Producer = George Martin | Last single = "Yesterday"
(UK-1976)
------
"The Long and Winding Road" / "For You Blue"
(US-1970) | This single = "Got to Get You into My Life"
(1976) | Next single = "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
(1976) | Misc =

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“ Umm, that came about just 'cuz I'd read a review of a record which said, 'And this group really got us wild, there's echo on everything, they're screaming their heads off.' And I just remember thinking, 'Oh, it'd be great to do one. Pity they've done it. Must be great-- really screaming record.' And then I heard their record and it was quite straight, and it was very sort of sophisticated. It wasn't rough and screaming and tape echo at all. So I thought, 'Oh well, we'll do one like that, then.' And I had this song called 'Helter Skelter' which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.' „

—Paul McCartney, 1968
“ That's Paul completely. All that (Charles) Manson stuff was built 'round George's song about pigs and this one... Paul's song about an English fairground. It has nothing to do with anything, and least of all to do with me. „

—John Lennon, 1980
“ The Who had made some track that was the loudest, the most raucous rock 'n roll, the dirtiest thing they'd ever done. It made me think, 'Right. Got to do it.' I like that kind of geeking up. And we decided to do the loudest, nastiest, sweatiest rock number we could. „

—Paul McCartney, 1985

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