Ed nailed it! Fuckin' thought I was losing it there for a moment. Thanks pal. And Starkey does shout "I've got blisters on my fingers" at the tail end of Helter Skelter. I watched this young tart do a rendition of Helter Skelter on Rockstar Supernova or whatever the fuck it's called last night (first time I ever tuned in to that show - honest) and she made the this audacious claim before the start of that number that Helter Skelter was the first 'punk rock' song ever written. I thought, "what the fuck....". You know, I've actually read that Paul McCartney had read somewhere in the late sixties that The Who were considered the loudest group in the world. In in answer to that claim he composed Helter Skelter (which is British speak for an amusement park slide). But the first punk song ever written? That's stretchin' it because even if Helter Skelter was written today, it would most certainly be put out by one of the many garden variety punk bands that exist today I agree, however, the 'punk ethic' as we understand it today didn't really exist as a concept or artform in 1968. For anyone to make the claim that Helter Skelter is first punk song is complete crap.