Answer: It wasn’t written for the Beach Boys, but “Never Learn Not To Love” (on the Beach Boys’ 20/20 album) was indeed written by Charles Manson, and for a brief time in 1968, about a year before the Tate-LaBianca murders, Manson and Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson were acquaintances.

Rumor or Fact, I found this one in the article referenced. YIKES!!

In prison, Manson wasn’t ignorant of music; he befriended Alvin “Old Creepy” Karpis of the Ma Barker gang, who taught him guitar. Another inmate, Phil Kaufman, gave him a contact name of someone at Universal Studios in Hollywood; years later, Kaufman would make news for hijacking the body of Gram Parsons and cremating it in the Joshua Tree desert. Manson developed something of an obsession with the Beatles, claiming he could come on twice as big, if given the chance, Karpis once noted.

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