ALEISTER CROWLEY WHO WAS CONSIDERED BY THE BRITISH PRESS AS " THE WICKEDEST MAN IN THE WORLD" WAS BORN IN LEAMINGTON, WARWICKSHIRE, IN 1875.

I'M NOT GOING TO WRITE HIS BIOGRAPHY HERE. ALL I WILL SAY IS THAT HE WAS A POET, WRITER, JOURNALIST, MOUNTAINEER, EXPLORER, CHESS PLAYER, GRAPHIC DESIGNER, DRUG EXPERIMENTER, PRANKSTER, LOVER OF WOMEN, BELOVED BY MEN, YOGI, MAGICIAN, PROPHET ,PHILOSOPHER.... IN ALL, AN ARTIST. HE INDULGED IN PERFORMING SEX MAGIC, TAKING HEROIN, OPIUM,HASHISH AND THE LIKE, PERFORMING BLACK, RED AND WHITE MAGIC AND CREATING HIS OWN RELIGION., CALLED "THELEMA" HE WAS THE "ENFANT TERRIBLE" OF THE EDWARDIAN AVANT-GARDE IN LONDON AND PARIS.

SOME OF HIS WORKS ARE

MOONCHILD

THE BOOK OF TOTH

THE INVESTIGATIONS OF SIMON IFF

THE BOOK OF LIES

THE BOOK OF THE LAW.

AND VOLUMES OF POETRY, BOOKS AND ESSAYS ABOUT SPIRITUALISM, MAGICK, MYTHOLIGY AND THEOSOPHY AMONG OTHER TOPICS.

CROWLEY HAS BEEN SINCE THE SIXTIES A POWERFUL INFLUENCE IN ROCK AND ALTERNATIVE MUSIC.

HE HAS NOW BEEN REDISCOVERED AND REINTERPRETED BY ROCK STARS ,PUNKS, HIPPIES AND LATELY, HEAVY METAL , GOTHIC AND HARD ROCK BANDS.

IT ALL BEGAN WHEN THE ROLLING STONES AND THE BEATLES, STARTED WRITING SONGS ABOUT HIM AND USING HIS IMAGE FOR MULTIPLE PURPOSES.

THE BEATLES

FORMED IN 1960. THEY PUT CROWLEY'S PHOTOGRAPH IN SGT. PEPPER'S COVER IN JUNE, 1967.

THE ROLLING STONES

FORMED IN 1962, THE MEMBERS OF THE BAND WERE ALLWAYS INCLINED TO DARK SUBJECTS BORDERING SATANISM. "THEIR SATANIC MAJESTY REQUEST" COVER ALBUM IN 1967 PUT THEM IN EVIDENCE. . TWO YEARS LATER MICK JAGGER WAS COMPOSING THE MUSIC FOR A KENNETH ANGER FILM " INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHER"

LED ZEPPELIN

FORMED IN 1968. IN THEIR FOURTH ALBUM8 (1971) WHICH DOESN'T HAVE A NAME BUT ONLY FOUR SYMBOLS STANDING FOR EACH MEMBER OF THE BAND, THE OLD MAN IN THE COVER IS ALEISTER CROWLEY.

MOST OF THE MYTHS ABOUT THE BAND PRACTICING BLACK MAGIC AND SATANISM COME FROM SATANIC MESSAGES SUPPOSEDLY HIDDEN IN A COUPLE OF SONGS IN THIS ALBUM : "STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN " AND "FOUR STICKS" ; AND OF THE FACT THAT JIMMY PAGE BOUGHT IN 1972 BOLESKIN MANOR, CROWLEY'S LOCH NESS STATE. HE KEPT IT UNTIL 1992.

DAVID BOWIE REFERS TO CROWLEY IN "QUICK SAND",  FROM THE ALBUM "HUNKY DORY" (1971)

STING.

THE TRACK SYNCHRONICITY II (1983) IS SAID TO BE PARTLY INSPIRED BY SOME STRANGE EVENTS THAT HAPPENED IN BOLESKINE MANOR WHILE JIMMY PAGE LIVED THERE.

RAUL SEIXAS ( 1945- 1989)

WAS A BRAZILIAN ROCK COMPOSER, SINGER AND SONGWRITER. IN 1971 HE BEGAN A RELATIONSHIP WITH ESOTERIC WRITER PAULO COELHO WHO WROTE SOME OF THE LYRICS FOR SEVERAL OF SEIXAS' ALBUMS. AT THAT TIME HE WAS INTRODUCED TO ALEISTER CROWLEY'S WORK. THIS INFLUENCE EXTENDED NOT ONLY TO HIS MUSIC BUT TO THE CREATION OF " THE ALTERNATIVE SOCIETY" WHICH WAS AN ANARCHIST COMMUNITY , BASED ON CROWLEY'S BELIEF. THIS SOCIETY WAS BANNED AND ALL THE MEMBERS IMPRISONED.

OZZY OSBOURNE HAS A SONG IN THE ALBUM "BLIZZARD OF OZZ" ( 1980) , THAT'S CALLED MR. CROWLEY

Mr. Crowley, what went down in your head
(Oh) Mr. Crowley, did you talk to the dead
Your lifestyle to me seemed so tragic
With the thrill of it all
You fooled all those people with magic
(Yeah)You waited on Satan's call

Mr. Charming, did you think you were pure
Mr. Alarming, in nocturnal rapport
Uncovering things that were sacred, manifest on this earth
(Oh)Conceived in the eye of a secret
Yeah, they scattered the afterbirth

Solo

Mr. Crowley, won't you ride my white horse?
Mr. Crowley, it's symbolic of course
Approaching a time that is classic
I hear that maidens call
Approaching a time that is drastic
Standing with their backs to the wall

(Solo)

Was it polemically sent?
I wanna know what you meant
I wanna know
I wanna know what you meant, yeah

IRON MAIDEN.-  ENGLISH HEAVY METAL BAND FROM LEYTON, EAST LONDON (1975). IN THEIR ALBUM "SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON " (I988) THERE IS A SONG CALLED "MOONCHILD" AFTER ONE OF CROWLEY'S NOVELS.

MICHAEL JACKSON'S ALBUM " DANGEROUS" FEATURES A DRAWING OF  CROWLEY ON THE COVER. IT WAS RELEASED IN 1991

ALPHAVILLE IS A GERMAN SYNTHPOP GROUP FORMED IN THE 80'S. THEY PENNED A SONG ABOUT CROWLEY'S WIFE, ROSE, (ROSE KELLY) WHICH MAKES CODED REFERENCES TO A NUMBER OF THELEMIC OCCULT IDEAS.

MINISTRY-. AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL METAL BAND FORMED IN 1981. IN THEIR ALBUM " LAND OF RAPE AND HONEY", IN A SONG CALLED "GOLDEN DAWN" CROWLEY'S VOICE IS USED.

COIL-. EXPERIMENTAL BRITISH GROUP FORMED IN 1982. IN THE VIDEO FOR THE SONG "TAINTED LOVE" , THE PHRASE " LOVE IS THE LAW, LOVE UNDER WILL" ( CROWLEY´S BOOK OF THE LAW) IS FLASHED IN THE LAST MINUTES.

CURRENT 93.- BRITISH EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC GROUP FORMED IN 1982, TAKES THEIR NAME FROM A MYSTICAL TERM REFERING TO THELEMA.

PRIMAL SCREAM.- SCOTTISH ALTERNATIVE ROCK BAND FORMED IN1982. PENNED A SONG " STAR" QUOTING CROWLEY (EVERY WOMAN AND EVERY MAN IS A STAR ) . RELEASED IN THE ALBUM "VANISHING POINT" IN 1997.

CELTIC FROST-. SWISS BLACK METAL BAND FORMED IN 1984. ALBUM "TO MEGA THERION", (CROWLEY), RELEASED IN 1985

JEWEL THRONE

Once prayed to my gods, searching for the whistled memories
Empty eyes are staring now, to my feet a land of sorrow
I'm the king, sitting in the dark hiding from the shadows of the wind
Waets of might, wine of fire, I was called to taste
Silver horses brought us here, to the edge of the universe
We left the falling walls as the stars' collapse began
Now I rest on the highest steps, revealed the eternal frontier
As I gaze from the Jewel Throne to the portal of infinity
Fallen have the "chosen ones", debris remain in the dust
Far behind, beyond the sands, the wind sings to those who fell
Forever now, my hands laid down the poisoned weapons
I will pray to my gods, searching for the mysteries

JOHN FRUCIANTE-. LEADER OF "HOT CHILI PEPPERS" IS AN ADMIRER OF CROWLEY.HE WROTE "666", I'M AROUND","EMPTINESS" AND "LOOK ON "  INSPIRED IN HIM.

TIAMAT-. HEAVY METAL GROUP FORMED IN SWEEDEN IN 1988. "PREY" ALBUM (2003) SONGS, "LIGHT IN EXTENSION" AND " PENTAGRAM" ALSO INSPIRED BY CROWLEY

FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM.- BRITISH GOTH ROCK BAND FORMED IN STEVENAGE, HERDFORSHIRE,1984. IN "THE NEPHILIM" ALBUM RELEASED IN 1988, THERE'S A SONG CALLED "MOONCHILD". AND THE "ELIZIUM" ALBUM (1990) FEATURES A SAMPLE TAKEN FROM A PHONOGRAPH CYLINDER OF CROWLEY READING ONE OF HIS WORKS.

EDGUY.-  GERMAN POWER METAL BAND (1992).   FROM THE ALBUM "VAIN GLORY OPERA" (1998) SONG "SCARLET ROSE" REFERING TO CROWLEY

MARILYN MANSON.- FROM DEBUT ALBUM "POTRAIT OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY" (1994) SONG "MISERY MACHINE" ABOUT THELEMA.. ALSO ALBUM "ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR", REFERS TO CROWLEY'S WORKS ( THE BOOK OF THE LAW)

MISERY MACHINE.

Man in the front got a sinister grin, careen down highway 666
We wanna go, crush the slow, as the pitchfork bends the
needles grow
My arms are wheels, my legs are wheels, my blood is pavement
We're gonna ride to the abbey of the Thelema, to the abbey of the
Thelema
Blood is pavement
The grill in the front is my sinister grin, bugs in my teeth make
me sick sick sick
The objects may be larger than they appear in the mirror
My arms are wheels, my legs are wheels, my blood is pavement

We're gonna ride to the abbey of Thelema, to the abbey of Thelema
Blood is pavement
When you ride you're ridden, when you ride you're ridden
I am fueled by filth and fury
Do what I will, I will hurry there, there
My arms are wheels, my legs are wheels, my blood is pavement

Blood is pavement

MANIC STREET PREACHERS. (1992) -FEATURED CROWLEY IN THEIR VIDEO FOR THE SONG "YOU LOVE US" FROM THE ALBUM "GENERATION TERRORISTS" ( 1992)

MURDER CITY DEVILS -. AMERICAN GARAGE- PUNK BAND FORMED IN 1996. ALBUM "THELEMA" ( 2001) AFTER CROWLEY'S OWN RELIGION AND BELIEF.

THE CORAL- ENGLISH BAND FORMED IN 1996 IN HOYLAKE, NEAR LIVERPOOL. THEIR MUSIC IS A BLEND OF OLD -FASHIONED, 1960'S PSYCHEDELIA, AND FOLK WITH MODERN ROCK INFLUENCES. IN THE ALBUM "MAGIC AND MEDICIN",(2003), SONG "LIEZAH" REFERS TO CROWLEY'S DIARIES.