![]() While The Beach Boys covered one of Manson’s songs, Melcher rejected Manson for a record deal. After the career criminal-turned cult guru learned to play guitar in prison, he became friends with Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys and, more notably, with Byrds producer Terry Melcher, the son of actress Doris Day. Perhaps because of the eagerness of young Hollywood to embrace the counter-culture in films and music, Manson was able to gain a foothold in the Los Angeles entertainment scene. Of course, Voyteck is not the daddy, but this is Hollywood.Īccording to American film critic Karina Longworth, American popular culture of the late 1960s wasn’t just the backdrop for Manson’s crimes but may have been something of an accomplice. Daddies do this sort of thing, listen for the heartbeat. This is Tate with Voyteck Froykowski, the photo supposedly taken by Jay Sebring. Sharon Tate and Jay Sebring, Cielo Drive, 1969. The Manson family’s rampage, with its undercurrents of sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, satanism and Manson’s proposed race war, would terrorize the Hollywood community and the rest of America as the 1960s came to an end. But over the next few years, she would become best known, first, as the girlfriend of well-known Hollywood hair-stylist Jay Sebring and next as the wife of hot-shot director Roman Polanski.Įven a co-starring role in one of 1967’s top box office hits, Valley of the Dolls, did little to boost Tate’s fame outside of being known as one-half of the internationally jet-setting super couple led by Polanski, who was basking in the acclaim of directing Rosemary’s Baby.Īnd, in the end, Tate would go down in history for her most tragic role of all: as the most famous victim of a grisly 1969 killing spree perpetrated by Charles Manson and his followers. In the early 1960s, Sharon was the luminously beautiful daughter of an army intelligence officer who decided to try and make it as an actress in Hollywood. ![]()
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