“Manson didn’t ‘kill the sixties’, as some have suggested. They committed suicide, ODed on excess, high expectations, and a belief that in getting rid of all repression – what I’ve called ‘giving way to strange forces’ – some pure, natural soul would emerge. They were wrong.”

“Manson didn’t ‘kill the sixties’, as some have suggested. They committed suicide, ODed on excess, high expectations, and a belief that in getting rid of all repression – what I’ve called ‘giving way to strange forces’ – some pure, natural soul would emerge. They were wrong.”

— Gary Lachman