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

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Higgs refers to 1991-94 as the "Age of Extremes," bracketed by the end of the Cold War and by the birth of first popular web browser.

The period of the early-to-mid 1990s is frequently overlooked in our cultural histories,’ Higgs says, ‘yet it was far more potent and strange than it is usually given credit for. You only have to make the smart move, find the right key, make the right contact, be discovered for what you are. Here they played the offending song outside ABBA's publishing company and presented a fake gold disc (marked ‘for sales in excess of zero’) to a prostitute who, they argued, looked a bit like one of the women from ABBA.It is you, though, who will be responsible for bringing back those lost tastes, smells, tears, pangs, forgotten years and missed chances. Higgs approaches the short career of the early 90s top 10 provocateurs like Adam Curtis brainstorming with Thomas Pynchon, exploring all manner of magical thinking and conspiracy theories.

They have only done this, not because they like being nicer, but to seduce you into coming in and borrowing more money. I read that, I noted down the golden rules of pop, and applied that to what we're doing and made sure that that always applies to everything we do.Mass appeal records can always transcend any apparatus they are played on; the exp ensive set up is only for judging coffee table records. Although all studios want to attract as much business as possible, they do not want to advertise their presence to local thugs who might fancy breaking in and getting their hands on a few thousand pounds worth of gear. You can begin any Sunday evening by listening to Bruno Brookes introducing the Top 40 Show between 4pm and 7pm. 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. Certain cynics will point fingers and whinge that the indies of today will be just the majors of tomorrow.