Just after midnight on Aug. 9, members of the Manson Family arrived at a secluded home in Los Angeles’ Benedict Canyon and murdered actress Sharon Tate and four others.
Tate, who was eight months pregnant, was also just 26 years old.
View this post on InstagramThe two-night killing spree shattered Hollywood’s era of carefree counterculture, becoming one of the most infamous chapters in La La Land's history and forever intertwining the era’s bohemian optimism with evil darkness.
By contrasting the fictional struggles of a fading TV star named Rick Dalton and his stunt double, Cliff Booth, with the very real tragedies of the innocent people who were killed that summer, Tarantino was able to give that horrific chapter a cathartic alternate ending.
Like all of Tarantino’s films, needle drops played a massive role in his storytelling.
Filling the film with late-’60s rock from Deep Purple, The Bob Seger System, Paul Revere & The Raiders, and more, Tarantino fueled his climax with Vanilla Fudge’s psychedelic hit, “You Keep Me Hangin’ On.”
It was a masterful move.
GQ seemingly agreed, because the outlet ranked the shock-and-rock pairing as the greatest needle drop of all time.
“Augmenting the cartoonish—and righteously ultraviolent—action [is] “You Keep Me Hangin' On” by Vanilla Fudge, which builds to its emphatic guitar-laden crescendo as Booth and his trusty pitbull Brandy punch, chomp, and head-smash their way through the would-be murderous cultists,” GQ wrote. “And it wouldn't go half as hard without Mark Stein's soaring vocals, that shrieking keyboard, and Carmine Appice's unrelenting drums.”
According to Rolling Stone, Tarantino and his music supervisor, Mary Ramos, chose the Vanilla Fudge hit for its unique, slow-building musical arc, which mirrors the pivotal scene it soundtracks.
That over-the-top quality is what makes the needle drop work. The song begins with the familiar sounds of a Motown classic, then turns menacing as Tarantino’s Hollywood fairy tale descends into a bloody revenge fantasy.
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