Never before had one band possessed the power or inclination to excite high street nightclubs and the contemporary art world simultaneously. Unwrap pop’s layers and what we are left with is the same old plate of meat and two veg that have kept generations of pop pickers well satisfied. 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. At some point in the future science will develop a commodity that will satisfy this emotional need in a more efficient way.

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. It is the worst book I’ve ever finished out of, don’t know, more than 500, perhaps 1000, I’ve never tried to count. The “cool cats” and hipsters of the early sixties might have thought modern jazz was going to finally break through when “Take Five” made the Hit Parade. A fact that is continually on the studio owner’s mind is that there are far more studios flogging studio time than there are clients willing to pay for it. Don't wait to be asked, don't wait for a record company to come and want to sign you or a management company.Or was it, as Higgs also terms it, merely the self-indulgence of a “pair of attention-seeking arseholes”? The formula will be untampered with and the success will be repeated a second, a third and sometimes even a fourth time. These owners are usually very enthusiastic and encouraging types who have a long, broad and deep love of all things musical; often they have been musicians themselves but have decided to knock their days on the road on the head and get into what they hoped would be the more lucrative and stable business of owning a studio. This is when, although you may be working in a studio for ten hours a day, the studio cannot sell off the remaining fourteen hours as down time to another client.

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. The common ingredient these records had that was far more important than the icing of “Now” style that covers the age old Golden Rules of Pop, is that they are being made by complete unknowns. Famous names like Alan Moore, JFK (and his assassination) and Echo and the Bunny Men also get dropped as does a strange trickster rabbit entity that seems to follow Drummond in the early years of his career.If not, get into any branch (the nearest to where you live will do as long as it’s one of the big five). This is the story of The KLF but this ain't your daddy's garden-variety, run of the mill celebrity biography, oh no! The trip draws from many potential influences, ranging from the obscure to the mainstream, including various semi-philosophies and train of thoughts. This book offers a variety of framing contexts through which to view the actions of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty over a period of twelve years or so around the back of the last century.