Class 80: Charles Manson and Rock & Roll

Charles Manson’s life and death occasioned several interesting legal issues. Quentin Tarantino’s fascinating Manson movie also reveals the role of rock music in the history of his cultish Manson Family. He wrote a song appropriated by The Beach Boys, and released one album with 14 songs, half of them unbelievably covered by other singers, making it perhaps the creepiest album provenance of any other rock album.