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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Two artists share this page: singer-songwriter Charles Manson and the powerviolence band named after him.

1) Charles Milles Manson (born November 12th 1934, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States) is an inmate serving life in the California penal system since his conviction in 1970 for involvement in multiple murders. Before the murders, he was on the distant fringe of the Los Angeles music industry, chiefly through a chance association with Beach Boy Dennis Wilson. After his arrest, recordings of songs written and performed by him were released commercially, attributed to The Manson Family. The Beach Boys themselves had already recorded one of Manson’s songs, “Cease to Exist”, as “Never Learn Not To Love”, although without credit to Manson. More recently, artists including Guns N’ Roses and Marilyn Manson have covered songs by Manson.

Manson had met Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson and his associate Terry Melcher, the son of actress Doris Day. Gram Parson’s manager Phil Kaufman recorded Manson’s songs on a reel to reel tape, and the Beach Boys somehow ended up rearranging a Manson composition (recorded on September 11, 1967) in 1968. The song chosen was Manson’s song “Cease to Exist”, which the Beach Boys retitled “Never Learn Not to Love”, and much to Manson’s chagrin, when it appeared as a b-side, his name was left off the credits.

According to Van Dyke Parks, Manson came around and threatened Dennis Wilson and Melcher, but Wilson kicked Manson’s ass.

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