That decision should not just be based on the studio that can offer you the five consecutive days the earliest and at the best rate. We are afraid those on the dole who have let their rent go into arrears, their electricity go unpaid and with the creeping paranoia about this evil society, will be the same ones who if they were to achieve sudden wealth would in no time at all be owing insurmountable back debts to the tax man, have managers demand their percentage long after the money was spent and swapping their paranoia about society for paranoia peppered with bitterness that they had been “ripped off” all the way along the line. From now on, we will refer to all computer desks as SSL (it’s a bit of a Hoover/ Sellotape situation).

Tell him there will be a couple of times when you will have to issue cheques before others have come in. 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. But Higgs carries off his various flights of fantasy with such aplomb, chutzpah, and obvious erudition that you’re prepared to travel with him on any tangent or to whatever strange outpost he arrives at.Between you sipping this cup of tea and getting to Number One you are going to be involved with a lot of people along the way and from all these people you can learn a lot. I liked how the book started off as a very matter-of-fact account of crazy activities, and then turned into a grand theory of everything that happened at the end of the 20th century partway through. Remember, Top of the Pops is all powerful and has outlasted all the greats (Cliff being the exception to the rule). The chapter summarizes the beginnings and endings of cultural climates, citing key events beginning with Darwinism's impact on the pillar of faith in the late nineteenth century to The Great War, the conflict of the 40s, the conformity of the 50s, the liberation of the 60s, the hedonistic self-indulgence of the 70s, and the shift toward material wealth in the 1980s.

Higgs takes as the pivot for this book the most notorious event of The KLF’s career: when they deliberately destroyed one million pounds worth of banknotes in a fire on a remote Scottish island. After that do whatever you do on a Sunday evening but before you go to sleep that night you are going to have to come up with a name for your record company.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! 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? Not only are all ages in chart pop equal, chart pop never changes, it only appears to change on its surface level. Forse la migliore lettura dell'ultimo anno, un libro sensibile e attento a masticare onnivoramente sincronicità tra differenti discipline. Although a Number One single cannot sound like an indie trash record, they do not have to sound like they have cost a million to make, unlike a Number One LP.

If you only read one biography this year about a band that fired a machine gun over an audience at the Brit awards before burning a million pounds on a remote Scottish island, make it this one. 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.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. From international hit singles and legal wrangles with ABBA to mysterious rituals conducted on far-flung corners of the British Isles and abandoned road movies, the duo questioned, accused and entertained in equal measure.