Band Wrote an INNOCENT Song About A 'KIDDIE" Ride...Accidentally INVENTED Metal! | Professor of Rock

Two legends, Paul McCartney from the Beatles and Pete Townshend from The Who were talking shop back in the late 60s. Pete showed Paul his band’s new song I Can See For Miles and bragged that it was the loudest dirtiest rockiest song ever. Paul McCartney took his bragging as a challenge. He went back to the Beatles and challenged them to get loud and crazy and move the sound meter as far into the red as it would go. the Fab Four took the challenge so much so that the drummer Ringo Starr played as hard as he could for 8 hours straight and by the time he was done his fingers were bleeding mess. He had blisters all over them! The song was named after a kiddie ride… Helter Skelter and in the end, the Beatles may have accidentally invented heavy metal…It’s debatable. but in the end the song blew everyone away but then the kiddies ride song was stolen by a notorious killer… Charles Manson. The story or a scorcher next on Professor of Rock.

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Long before he was knighted by the Queen of England, Paul McCartney was casually reading a magazine article about Pete Townshend, and a comment from 'The Birdman' in that feature really struck him.

Townshend was quoted as lauding The Who’s freshly recorded “I Can See For Miles” as the “loudest, dirtiest, rockiest song EVER.”

McCartney loved Townshend’s description of his song, and the next time he went to the studio to work with the other 3 members of the Fab Four, he challenged the guys that they should push themselves to see just how loud and raucous they could get.

The Beatles tossed aside the love songs, the psychedelic mind-binders, or any catchy little pop ditty, and concentrated solely on moving the needle on the sound meter as FARRR in the red as it could go to create “Helter Skelter.” Macca wasn’t in awe of The Who’s “I Can See For Miles” like its composer was.

He heard the song as “straight-ahead” and “sophisticated.” For “Helter Skelter” McCartney wanted nothing but NOISE….a song that screamed- vocally and instrumentally. In some ways, the track became an angry counterpunch to critics who accused Paul of writing only sentimental ballads and referring to him as the “soppy” Beatle.

While searching for lyrical inspiration, McCartney focused on a cone-shaped slide at the Royal Norfolk Show, near Easton, Norfolk, England called “Helter Skelter.” It was a spiraling amusement fixture that Paul & his friends used to enjoy sliding down when they were kids.

Paul envisioned the Helter Skelter slide as a symbol of the oscillating 'highs & lows' of life…. Sometimes you climb to the top...and sometimes you get knocked back down to the bottom. One minute you're feeling euphoric, and the next you’re feeling miserable. "When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride
Till I get to the bottom and I see you again.”