Die Flayed Alive! Charles Manson
Edwin Pouncey, NME, 29 August 1992
Many reckon the swinging 60s ended the night followers of deranged hippy guru CHARLES MANSON broke into the home of Roman Polanski and brutally murdered its occupants — including Polanskis pregnant young wife Sharon Tate. Since then a huge influence on sicko rockers everywhere, the whole gory story has been re-cast as a full-blown opera — The Manson Family. EDWIN POUNCEY, naturally, had to investigate...
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