Paul McCartney said The Beatles' "Helter Skelter" used a metaphor to portray the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. He also said that The Who influenced the song indirectly.

UPDATE (6/22): Helter Skelter: An American Myth will now premiere on July 26 at 10 p.m. EST. UPDATE (6/5): The release date for Helter Skelter has been pushed back and it will no longer premiere ...

Helter Skelter is part of Epix’s slate of original docuseries. The company aims to air around 50 hours of non-scripted content a year, as part of 100 hours of original content.

Helter Skelter: An American Myth Begins Sunday, 10 p.m., EPIX What’s needed is a purgative, which is what director Lesley Chilcott obligingly delivers with “Helter Skelter: An American Myth.” ...

Yet what “Helter Skelter” accomplishes, finally, is to give his crimes a renewed jolt of notoriety, with another prolonged tug on the same old strings. “Helter Skelter: An American Myth ...

Some covers of “Helter Skelter” seem defensible. Mötley Crüe are not the most tasteful band, but their “Helter Skelter” cover could simply be an homage to the origins of their genre.

‘Helter-Skelter’ Originally Meant a Long Slide Down Half a century ago, a Beatles song that reflected a turbulent time took its inspiration from carnival chaos.

Imagine “Hair” with a lot of Beatles covers and all the characters named after characters in Beatles songs. That’s Julie Taymor’s “Across the Universe,” which mi… ...

Visitors to the trade and entertainment fair enjoyed displays of motor cars, electrical goods, machinery, food and funfair amusements, including a Helter Skelter, Crystal Maze and a water chute ...

When Vincent Bugliosi's "Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders" was published in 1974, it was as much a sensation as the crimes and trial that it chronicled.

"Helter Skelter," Vincent Bugliosi's book about the Manson family killings of the 1960s, is going to be made into a TV movie by CBS for a second time, the Hollywood Reporter says.