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Birthday
January 5th 1969, Brian Hugh Warner was born to Brab Wyer and Hugh Warner in Canton Ohio,.Brain was the only child born between the two. -
Grandpa
Age 9, Brian goes into his grandpa's basement with his cousin for the first time were he finds his grandfather's sexual fetishes.Things like bestiality, graphic pictures of women, old rape kits as well as other sexual objects. Later it was one of the biggest influences for his album covers, songs and out looks on life in general. He would later tell rolling stone it was his frist real look into reality. -
Mark
Age 11, Brian was being sexualy assaulted by a nieghbor a few years older than him. Once the boy's parents were told about what he had been doing he was sent away to a boot camp, when he came back he killed Brians dog Aleusha, along with picking on him for years to come. -
School
Went to Hertage Christian Scool, were he was beat by the nuns as well as scared everyday of the lessons they were being taught about the world ending. ( This is what started his hate for the god, chruch and religion in general, the school was later closed for these reasons.) -
School
In grade 8 he had decided that he had enough of the christian school and started doing thing to get kicked out. Started with selling candy, that was not allowed in school.Ended with sellinng homemade magazines full of dirty jokes and sexual pictures. -
High School
Convinced his parents to let him go to public school during his 10th year in highschool. It was after leaving his hate towards christanity started in full, as well as his drinking and distrubed sexual thoughts for women.
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Grade 9
In grade 9, he thought his mother was breaking up the marriage, in turn starting hating his mother and pysicaly abusing his mother, giving her a broken nose.On top of this he became very sexually frustrated, friendless he started cutting him self and other forms of self mutilation everyday.
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Girlfriend
Meet his first girlfriend Jennifer at age 15, her old boyfriend punched him when he seen them sitting at a roller rink. A result in this hit was TJS ( temponomandbular joint syndrome) to this day still gives him headaches and a sore jaw. -
Black magic
After moving to public school Brian started hanging around with a boy named John, along with his older brother. One night john and his brother showed Brian an old shed were they did black magic, the ground was full of blood and dead animals. This was turning point in his life, becoming very deeply interested with black magic and drugs.
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John
Started in on his heavy drinking and drug use on the weekends with john. One weekend John and his older brother showed him a house were they did their animal slaughter for the black magic. After this night he became a member of the house, never killing but watching. -
Dad
At age 17 started hating his father after he gave him a personalized book with his name spelt wrong in it, Father also started beating him with a belt. His father blamed it on post vietnan was stress disorder. He became a mama's boy at this point. After age 19 he would never speak to his father again. -
Graduated
Transferred to Glenoak Highschool and graduated from there with excellent marks all over 80. Right after he graduated from highschool him and his family moved to Fort Lauderdale, were he went to Broward community college for journalism.
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Mom
Over the years his mother had been very over protecive, after moving out to go to school at age 20 she became olddly obsesed with his pet rats. Even giving one mouth to mouth when it was dieing. After mentally losing her mind, Brian had a very rocky relationship with her.
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Story
With bad depression, no friends and upset all around him he started writing short stories, with one being published in a small journal called 'The writers block 'the story was called moon on the water about an alcoholic and his cat. After having a story published he became a very confident in writing. Writing soon became his ecaspe when he was upset. -
Collage
At the age of 20 Brian decided that he was going to move out of his mothers house and attend Broward community collage where he studied journalism.
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Magazine
Lying his way into working as a senior editor at a magazine called today/ tonight while he went to collage.He started interviewing bands like red hot chili pepper, creed and nine inch nails. When working there he did an article on trent reznor called 25th parallel, He became friends with reznor during this time.
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The start
While at a house party in his second year of collage he meet a guy named Scott Putesky, Scott had been wanting to start a band, along with Brian. One night when scoot was over at Brians house he found the poems that Brian had been writing, they made them into song's. These song's would be played in small ars all over Miami.
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The Band
With talk of starting a band Brian and Scott where looking for another member. They didn't look far when they found
Brian Tutunick from his theater class. With Brian Waner singing, Scott playing guitar and Brian T. on bass they produced there first three demo tapes , using the poems they had turned into songs. -
Frist show
Changing their first names to iconic sex symbols and their last names to iconic serial killers ( this shoewed the good and evil side to everything in life.) They took stage as Marilyn Manson, Ovilia Newton- Bundy and Dasily Berkowitz. Played their first show at Chruch Hill Hide- A- Way. Around 20 people showed up to hear them play. -
Better band
After the first show didn't go how they planned they kicked Brian out of the band. They put poster up looking for more band members. This is how they found Stephen Bier aka Madonna Wayne Gacy who was the back up guitar player. Brad Stewart aka Gidget Gein, who replaced Brian there old bass player. Last came Fred Streithorst aka Sara Lee Lucas who was now the bands drummer. They called themselves marilyn manson and the spooky kids.
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First show
First show the full band marilyn manson and the spooky kids played together was at the Reunion Room, they lied and said they were a big time band and demanded 500 dollars to play. It was during this show that he meet his frist girlfriend Teresa, she waited after the show and talked her way into going back with the band to Freds house. -
Nacy
Started getting booked into playing in small bars and clubs.
They thought they needed an act while they performed so they added a psychotic fan and friend of his girlfriend Teresa to the band named Nacy, She let him doing humiliating thing to on stage to her as well as some crule beating on stage during every show.One show he sang welll he walked around holding her on a dog leash with her wearing very little. -
Pogo
Now with his band in fullswing started doing acid and other hard drugs to deal with the stress of working hard being in the band. At a party that his girlfriend had he meet a guy named pogo how became his bestfriend. It was at this same party that he cheated on his girlfriend with nacy. Than after she was kicked out of the band, she became insane over this harassing him to no end. Was having the police called him, calling over 70 times in a night along with other annoying things.
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Murder
After weeks and weeks of Nacy annoying him he and his friend pogo decided that they were going to kill Nacy. They spent weeks planning nacy's death, finaly one night they decided to go and set her house on fire. When driving to the house to follow though with the plan, the police were next door at an apartment building were there had been a brake in. Waiting for them to leave, they got tired and went home. To this day say's that he wishes he could have followed though with his plan.
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New Name
After his plan of killing nacy feel though and the loss of his girlfriend, he started to hangout with his friend Jeordie. He than interduced them to their frist manager John Tovar, who said the band name needed to become shorter. This is where the name Mailyn manson and the spooky kids changed to just Mariyln manson.
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Nine inch nails.
Weeks of playing in the small bars and clubs payed off when
DJ Scott David of WYNX-FM a broadcaster, also a abig fan of the band playing all there demo tapes on his radio station. This got the band noticed by trent reznor of the band Nine Inch Nails. The bands manager Bob slade asked them to open for Nine Inch Nail on their up and coming tour, -
Brad
On the Nine inch nails tour that marilyn manson was opening for there was alot of druge abuse from everyone in the band. But Brad stewart who played bass got into them the worst,he was told to clean up or was out of the band,After he overdoesed 4 times than almosted died, was kicked out of the band. His friend Jeordie was added in to play bass. (Named changed to twiggy Ramirez)
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Frist Album
Trent Reznor while on tour offerend Brian a contacrt with his new record company nothing recods, he worked with producer Roli moslman at Criterla Studios. After listening to the album called the manson family trent was not impressed and didn't sign the album to be relesed.
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Look Over
After the first album the manson family fell though, Manson asked trent to rework and help him with this ablum.Trent acepted and worked with the band for about 6 months to come up with the new record called the Portrait of an American Family. They released it to Interscope Records to look over their work.
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Satanist
Get's an interview with the doctor of evil aka Anton szandar LaVey who runs the chruch of satan. He was given the title by LaVey as the new reverend of the chruch of satan, due to this he was asked not to play in the delta center where they gave him 10 000 dollars not to play.
Brian had always wanted to be part of the chruch of satan ever since he was a teenager, and he was now running it. -
Jaiil
When playing for the first time with their new bass player twiggy ( Jerordie White) he ripped out pages of the book of mormon along with bring a women onto the stage and doing sexual acts with her on stage. After the show he was caught by the police and charged with misdemeanors and engaging in lewdness. The poicle were called by the Christian Coalitionthis helped to furthered his hate for religion.
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New Drumer
With there first album not doing so well, and now short a drummer due to manson setting the drummers kit on fire. Along with tension brewing, the first drumer quit. A week they got a call from their manager saying they were going to be opening for Danzig Spring and korn. The band inlisted a new drumer named kenneth wilson aka Ginger Fish,within a week they were off on yet another tour.
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Danzig Spring
On the tour he was tricked into doing meth he was than hooked on it. While he was high on meth they tied up a run away boy and video taped him confessing about using his sister as a pimp for money and how she got murdered due to this.They started doing this to other people and used their stories and made them into some of there songs.The people were willing to do this, all of them were women.
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Cemetery
At the end of the tour there was a party on Sun- Set Bovlevard, before the party they went to a cemetery were they heard the bones would stick up from the ground.The cemetery was old and the bones were sticking out of the ground.They got a bag full of bone grounded them up and tricked people at the party into smoking these bones thinking it was coke. As well as smoking them themselves for fun.
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Baby
A week after he got off tour, the band was ready to released their secong album Anitchrist Superstar.Two weeks later he found out that his girl friend of 6 years had been 3 months pregnant when she had decided to have an abortion without telling him. This put a huge strain on the relationship.
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Anitchrist Superstar
After months of working on songs, a near death drug overdoe and the leaving of one of the original band members Daisly Berkowitz (Scott) due to the fight, no sleeping and heavy drug use,their second album was released.It was porduced by reznor himself, it was called anitchrist superstar.
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Dead To The World
Weeks after the release of their secong album, it went platinum, Manson was also on the cover of rolling stone, where he was awarded best new artist accolade in 1996. Soon after the band was on their frist own tour traviling from Alaska to the United kingdom to asian ended in south America.The band was now known world wide, and was getting alot of attention, along with making 500 000 thousand for their frist tour, known as the Dead to the world tour.
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Beautiful People
The first big brake came from the release of the second album, the song beautiful people made it to number three on the album chats, it also made it to number one in the United Kingdom. With all this media coverage Joseph Lieberman took it upon him and said " That perhaps this was the sickest group ever promoted by main stream record comany." Instead this comment started fights among record comanys, giving the band more and more media coverage.
