 The single reached number 30 on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.Along with White Album tracks such as "Revolution 9", "Helter Skelter" and "Piggies", "Revolution 1" was interpreted by Californian cult leader Charles Manson as a prophesy of an upcoming apocalyptic racial war between the establishment and the Black community that would leave him and his followers, the Manson Family, to rule America on counterculture principles.In an attempt to initiate this revolution, the Family carried out a series of murders in Los Angeles in August 1969.