The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds

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Centre while doing Top of the Pops, everybody involved in this music game has some sort of insight or angle on it all. Wildly unauthorised and unlike any other music biography, THE KLF is a trawl through chaos on the trail of a beautiful, accidental mythology. Incredible writing about the birth and rise of counterculture from the 50s to the end of the century told through the lens of a couple of lunatics in Liverpool.

You are going to need to book five consecutive days lock out in a manual operated (non SSL) desk, twenty four track studio hopefully starting from the following Monday. Banks have spent millions over the past few years trying to destroy the public’s old impression of the bank manager in bowler, brolly and pinstripe, to the approachable and amiable sort of chap who will attempt at all times to say “Yes! The thread with a lot of this stuff is that something was crushed that would never come back - no, it's that you were too old to understand what came next, just like the people YOU were railing against didn't understand you. Using coin operated telephones is crap for the obvious reasons: there are usually queues, are often vandalised and the money runs out thus making you look like an inefficient dick head and not a future Number One.All eras in pop music are golden ages, or will be looked upon as such by the only generation that matters at any given time. For Higgs, The KLF was created to challenge the norm yet it may have claimed their sanity but maybe through Magic, the process of creating something, it helped ease their burden.

The majority of Number One’s are achieved early on in the artist’s public career and before they have been able to establish reputations and build a solid fan base. There will be points in the forthcoming months when you might not have the change in your pockets to get the bus into town at the same time as you are talking to people on the telephone in terms of tens of thousands of pounds. I am going to bang on about The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds rather a lot. There are hundreds of recording studios scattered across the country, from the north of Scotland to deepest Cornwall.In years to come people will stagger home down lonely streets singing your song to the strains of regurgitated vindaloo, all memory of who was behind the song lost. From now on, we will refer to all computer desks as SSL (it’s a bit of a Hoover/ Sellotape situation). Don’t hide behind any naive “no compromise” shields, the only thing you must not compromise on is your final goal: that Olympian slot on Top of the Pops. But even then the disgruntled purists amongst the loyal following desert in disgust at having to share their private club with the unwashed masses.

I don't know who the hell Ben Goldacre is, but, quote attributed to him on the cover has to be a joke. The studio manager (as opposed to the studio owner) is the person who looks after all aspects of the smooth and efficient running of the studio. By being true to their agents of chaos roots it’s clear that the KLF were ahead of their time in many ways as they were rebelling against a system they had been in for over 20 years and seen destroy many lives.They then destroyed most of the remaining copies of the album by setting fire to them in a field and were promptly shot at by a farmer for their trouble. During a ten year period bridging the 1980s and 1990s, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty created pop masterpieces at a prodigious pace, leaving behind a body of work unlike anything created before or since. Although the latest subculture might be useful to give each potential chart record its attitude gloss, it must be remembered that this particular attitude might put as many people off the otherwise perfectly acceptable pop record, as be attracted to it.

What can be achieved when no great financial rewards or long term career prospects allowing for creative freedom can be hoped for, let alone guaranteed? The problem, of course, is almost everything that came out of the Summer of Love is as bad as everything else in life, only worse because the sanctimonious old hippies like to pretend they aren't as bad as their fathers, so the whole thing is sort of predicated on a lie. First checking to see they have the facilities you require, the studio will then try to flog you down time or odd days here and there. Brian Eno says that what you put around a work of art can be as interesting as what you put into it; the implication being that context can determine response in ways that may not at first be altogether evident. 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.Because it is only by following the clear and concise instructions contained in this book that you can realise your childish fantasies of having a Number One hit single in the official U.