I only have a passing knowledge of music group The KLF, and a side interest in Discordianism in general, so this short book ultimately does a good job combining the two in the best way it possibly could given the metric ton of deliberate misinformation strewn about by all parties involved. Sometimes, the music is just a means to an end – in their case, a million-quid bonfire that Higgs suggests may be “a magical act that forged the 21st century”. With each new generation in pop music there comes along some sort of revolution where supposedly the kids are able to get up and do it for themselves: skiffle bands, protest singers, beat groups, punk rockers, U2 and Casio kids.

Either way, this is one music biography you do not want to miss as it will have you questioning your own self-evident truths. That said, you must be willing to risk everything – that’s everything you haven’t got as well as you have got – or nothing will happen. Dadaism, Situationists, book of the Principia Discordia, Discordianism, the Illuminati, Alan Moore, Dr who and much more mesh together into a quasi-cohesive narrative. Certainly more convincing than the straight rational idea that the KLF were ‘just attention-seeking arseholes’.There is so much here that stopped me in my tracks and made me think, and there were times when ‘examples’ seemed a little farfetched and stretched a little beyond belief. I probably won't read a book this year that'll affect me as profoundly as this has in terms of how I view the world. They would always prefer to lend more money so as to help pay off the interest on the earlier loans. The other common way that recording studios are classified is whether the desk is computer assisted or not. See the philosophical input not only of Robert Anton Wilson, but also Jung, Alan Moore and Timothy Leary.

At first glance the author of this semi-biographical novel is here to solve a mystery for a bizarre and senseless act apparent protest \ rebellion. This is the story of The KLF but this ain't your daddy's garden-variety, run of the mill celebrity biography, oh no! Was this destruction of the remaining savings from their music career - “the act they can never explain or get over” - some form of confrontational artistic statement?One outcome of this competition is for the studios to continually get themselves as far into hock as their banks will let them go, enabling them to invest in the latest recording studio hardware.

You can begin any Sunday evening by listening to Bruno Brookes introducing the Top 40 Show between 4pm and 7pm.Unless they are able to sustain or repeat at regular intervals their quoted financial luck they will soon be back to a no money situation. If you have all that done and it’s not yet one o’clock, start listening to the “Hits” and “Now” compilation LPs from end to end. If there are any other records you want to add to the pile make sure there is a very good reason why they should be there and make sure they were never released as indie records or had any punky associations. The strong ones were able to provide plafforms for the artists who were able to build up large and loyal followings to develop and prosper, even have moderate hit single success.

The celebrated, of course, are apt to fall into a world of drugs, drink, broken marriages and bankruptcy but even this is given the glamour treatment instead of the squalid misery that it is in reality. It was always understood that it was only the major record companies that had the infrastructure, the money, the efficiency, the might, the power and the means of persuasion to take singles all the way to THE TOP.

That was from the first reading - it feels off to add the update here when people have already liked it and may not like that, so I'm putting that in comments. Subirono un'azione legale dagli ABBA per l'uso di un sample e offrirono un finto disco d'oro ad una prostituta svedese sosia di Agnetha Fältskog, prima di distruggere in un rogo tutte le copie del loro primo album, scatenando le ire di un contadino che li allontano con gli spari. m. What Time is Love' and ‘ Last Train to Trancentral ' and being puzzled as these tracks were something special. I don't know who the hell Ben Goldacre is, but, quote attributed to him on the cover has to be a joke. Jamie Reynolds of Klaxons admitted in an interview to reading The Manual and stated that he "took direct instructions from it.