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From wide-eyed fun to white-knuckle rides to hell, here are your favourite songs about fairgroundsFairgrounds: places of cheap thrills, danger and excitement, gawdy colours and sharp practices. But places of fun, essentially.So why did punks such as Siouxsie and the Banshees and Hüsker Dü cover Helter Skelter? It's because of what the song stands for: destruction, collapse, nihilism and horror. It occupies a dark place in pop culture, thanks to Charles Manson's notorious appropriation of the t...

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