Brickman hadn't been joking. He genuinely wanted to see the phosphorescent plankton glowing in the Pacific. Phillips thought the idea was amusing enough, especially given the mescaline. They drove to the beach with director Michael Sarne, watched the water glow, and went home separately. The next morning, columnist Joyce Haber called. "Thank God you're alive," she said. "What the hell are you talking about?" Phillips asked her.
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Phillips panicked for a specific reason. When investigators arrived at the scene, they found the sheet music to his song "Straight Shooter" resting on the music stand of the grand piano. A grand piano mere feet from where Sharon Tate's body lay. He'd been in that house. His music was there when the bodies were found.
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Phillips bought a gun. He hired extra security. He brought ex-wife Michelle and their daughter Chynna back to live with him. He and his circle hired psychics and numerologists to investigate. Then he found out that Roman Polanski, away in Europe when the murders happened, had briefly suspected him. Polanski had been having an affair with Michelle Phillips and thought John might have killed Sharon as revenge. The paranoia of that summer in Hollywood ran in every direction.
During the trial, Manson listed both Phillips and Mama Cass Elliott as potential defense witnesses. He apparently believed the band was close enough to him to testify on his behalf.
The Band That Almost Didn't Survive the Summer of 1969
The Mamas & the Papas were already dissolving before that August night. The murders didn't cause the end. They accelerated it. Phillips watched the Woodstock Festival on television from a locked-down Hollywood while the rest of the music world celebrated in a field in New York. "I knew that we had helped pave the way for Woodstock," he wrote, "but it seemed to be a long way off now."
"California Dreamin'" is still playing.
The reason was bioluminescent plankton.
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