Charles Manson had dreams of achieving fame through his music. He also had dreams of sparking off a revolution that would bring America crashing down in flames and sweep him into power. Not your typical pop star behaviour. He was famously imprisoned for the Tate/LaBianca murders as a response to The Beatles' song 'Helter Skelter' - music and murder have gone hand in hand throughout Manson's life. Mother a prostitute and father unknown, he was raised in reform schools and prisons, interspersing his life as a pimp with spells in custody and hanging out with the likes of The Beach Boys, Neil Young and Terry Melcher (Doris Day's son and The Byrds' producer), who all respected him as a singer/songwriter. Proclaiming himself as both Satan and Jesus, his evangelical pursuit of the Californian hippie dream masked a bizarre and dangerous network of evil. For the first time, Tommy Udo's chilling portrait of the man known variously as the fifth Beatle and the sixth Beach Boy examines how music - and, crucially, a lack of commercial success - lay behind Manson's iconisation as a figure of evil rivalled only by Osama bin Laden and Hitler.