in the end, the love you take...is equal to the love you make

The way I see it, The Beatles were present at both the birth and death of the idea that was the 60's. If that single, resounding, earthshattering, opening chord of the film Hard Day's Night represented its jubilant beginnings...then the words "Helter Skelter" ruthlessly scrawled in blood across the wall of a hilltop home in Los Angeles most certainly signaled its end.