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

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I can't really recommend this because it's so specific and tailored to a very particular kind of person. The precise function the major record companies will play in the music business as we turn the corner into the 21 st century is something we are not going to bother guessing at. On the ferry home they threw the remaining copies into the North Sea and performed an improvised set on the ferry, the only known live JAMs [as the KLF were then known] performance, in exchange for a large Toblerone. Thankfully, this book is as far from an official band narrative as you can get, and it is entirely fitting that The KLF be served with an account as baffling and mad as that which John Higgs has created here. We won’t deny that behind the majority of indie labels is a would-be Branson, whose stunted megalomania will undoubtedly be reflected on the way he brings up his children.

I just hope to all that is holy that this is the last time I get tricked into reading about psychogeography and the sun coming up when you're on pills. Now, we all know that pop music is not going to save the world but it does, undeniably, create a filing system for the memory banks.

This is short enough to be engrossing and whet anyone's appetite, but might not be detailed enough to truly delve into everything people would like to about the topics within.

Never before had one band possessed the power or inclination to excite high street nightclubs and the contemporary art world simultaneously.And with these events, Higgs declares, "this was the point when the constant creation of new musical genres that had characterized the 20th century came to an end.

Give him your name and the company you are from and with the information we have already given you start doing your first deal. They deleted their records, erased themselves from musical history and burnt their last million pounds in a boathouse on the Isle of Jura.

John Higgs overlays a standard chronological history of The KLF (a wonderful, and very successful, pop duo active in the late 1980s and early 1990s who adopted the philosophy contained in The Illuminatus! I knew a lot of the early story from having already read up on Julian Cope and Ken Campbell, though I didn't know how much of The KLF's imagery came straight out of the Illuminatus! The one star I am assigning to this book is a total insult to the other two books I’ve given one star to. The duo’s fanbase remains as strong as their mystique, and interest in their activities seems to grow year on year. Their Discordian background offered an interesting philosophy in challenging the norms but in light of the freeflow of information on the Internet, it may have got out of hand as people who do not recognise the changing world or are afraid of change look for rational (or irrational) explanations.