Henry Rollins and Charles Manson were pen pals


	Henry Rollins and Charles Manson were pen pals

coonhnd

9-9-2008 2:43 AM

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henry rollins, charles manson, music, crime, people, strange

coonhnd says:

Would love to have read on of the letters

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#999966;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/600f0590-e2ef-4a30-ace3-5a3c98f445eb/30760058-AA48-4407-B28E-A51027658661/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nme.com/news/henry-rollins/39436" href="http://www.nme.com/news/henry-rollins/39436" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nme.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nme.com/news/henry-rollins/39436"><H1 class="headline"><SPAN>Henry Rollins and Charles Manson were pen pals</SPAN></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nme.com/news/henry-rollins/39436"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nme.com/img/A1CA6F48-2E84-4E54-B0E7-D51A1522ADF4" alt="Henry Rollins                                                                        Pic: PA Photos" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nme.com/news/henry-rollins/39436"><DIV>
				<A class="artistLink" href="http://www.nme.com/artists/black-flag">Black Flag</A> frontman <STRONG>Henry Rollins</STRONG> has revealed that he exchanged letters with the serial killer <STRONG>Charles Manson</STRONG>.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nme.com/news/henry-rollins/39436"><DIV>
<STRONG>Rollins</STRONG> told <STRONG>NME.COM</STRONG> that the pair wrote to each other a few times in the '80s after <STRONG>Manson</STRONG> took a shining to <STRONG>Rollins</STRONG> after seeing him on <STRONG>MTV</STRONG>.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nme.com/news/henry-rollins/39436"><DIV>
<STRONG>Rollins</STRONG> explained the strange pen pal team up, saying: "He wrote me a letter out of the blue once and he said, 'I saw you on <STRONG>MTV</STRONG> and I thought you were pretty cool'.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nme.com/news/henry-rollins/39436"><DIV>
"So we corresponded a few times in 1984; I'd just tell him about what we were doing with our new record and he'd send back semi-lucid responses.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nme.com/news/henry-rollins/39436"><DIV>
"He made references to <A class="artistLink" href="http://www.nme.com/artists/the-beach-boys">The Beach Boys</A> stealing his ideas, which sounded like sour grapes, and told me to tell everybody else to take care of wildlife. That must have been the old hippy in him talking."</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nme.com/news/henry-rollins/39436">"His letters would always have swastikas on them so they were easy to spot."
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