Listen to Rob Zombie & Marilyn Manson's blistering cover of The Beatles' 'Helter Skelter'
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Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson have premiered a blistering cover of The Beatles’ 1968 anthem ‘Helter Skelter’.
The cover was unveiled last night (11th July) to coincide with the opening date of Zombie and Manson’s Twins of Evil: The Second Coming tour at the DTE Energy Music Theatre in Michigan where they performed the song live.
Explaining how the cover came about, Zombie told Rolling Stone: “We had been talking about doing something together for these shows - that he should come onstage during my set and we’d do a song. But we couldn’t think of what song.
“After we talked, later that night I was home and I just thought, the obvious song is ‘Helter Skelter’… It’s so obvious that neither one of us thought of it! And then I figured, well, rather than us just doing it onstage, why don’t we take it one step further and record it and put a new spin on it? That way, rather than just doing some impromptu jam together, now the fans will go, ‘Oh, there’s the song I’ve already heard, and now they’re doing it.’”
Reflecting upon how they laid down the song in the studio, Zombie said: “Well, my thought when it comes to covers is to stick close to the original. Because in my mind, what’s the actual point of doing a cover if no one can recognize it? So with our version, I think it varies as much as it can from the original, but not so much that it becomes a different song.\
“We used my band, and Manson and I did our parts separately. I was on the East Coast and he was in, like, Spain or something, on tour. We were communicating the whole time, but it wasn’t possible to get in the studio together.”
Cast your ears on the track here: