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[[Charles Shaar Murray]] wrote in ''[[The Independent]]'' that "[Bill] Drummond is many things, and one of those things is a magician. Many of his schemes - one example is described as "a private joke that's so private I don't even get it myself" - involve symbolically-weighted acts conducted away from the public gaze and documented only by Drummond himself and his participating comrades. Nevertheless, they are intended to have an effect on a worldful of people unaware that the act in question has taken place. That is magical thinking. Art is magic, and so is pop. Bill Drummond is a cultural magician, and 45 is his logbook."<ref>[[Charles Shaar Murray|Murray, C.S.]], ''[[The Independent]]'' ([[London]]), [[26 February]] [[2000]], p10.</ref> |
[[Charles Shaar Murray]] wrote in ''[[The Independent]]'' that "[Bill] Drummond is many things, and one of those things is a magician. Many of his schemes - one example is described as "a private joke that's so private I don't even get it myself" - involve symbolically-weighted acts conducted away from the public gaze and documented only by Drummond himself and his participating comrades. Nevertheless, they are intended to have an effect on a worldful of people unaware that the act in question has taken place. That is magical thinking. Art is magic, and so is pop. Bill Drummond is a cultural magician, and 45 is his logbook."<ref>[[Charles Shaar Murray|Murray, C.S.]], ''[[The Independent]]'' ([[London]]), [[26 February]] [[2000]], p10.</ref> |
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[[Steven Poole]] wrote in ''[[The Guardian]]'' that "45 is a further attempt to bury the myth [of The KLF]. Throughout, Drummond poses as an ordinary middle-aged man who lives in the country, drinks lots of tea and spends his mornings in the nearest library, with coffee breaks in the shopping centre. Yet the myth motors on, pitilessly. When he goes to Serbia to appear on an underground music station, he brings a recording of an unreleased KLF song called `[[The Magnificent]]'. Soon it `had not only become the theme tune of the station [[B92|[B92]]], but the anthem of the democracy movement . . . A track we recorded in a day, never released as a single, thought was crap and had forgotten about had taken on a meaning, an importance in a `far- off land'.'" In summary, Poole said, "At its best [45] has flashes of twisted brilliance reminiscent of [[Iain Sinclair]] or [[Will Self]], but the majority is most interesting because the author was one half of the KLF. Of course, that is more than enough glory for one lifetime. Yet the fact remains that this book will forever labour under the shadow of those horned men and their gleefully apocalyptic music."<ref>[[Steven Poole|Poole, S.]], ''[[The Guardian]]'' ([[London]]), [[26 February]] [[2000]], p8.</ref> |
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==Notes & references== |
==Notes & references== |
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| Author | Bill Drummond |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Little, Brown |
Publication date | February 24 2000 |
| Publication place | UK |
| Pages | 368 |
| ISBN | [[Special:BookSources/%5B%5BSpecial%3ABooksources%2F0316853852%7C0316853852%5D%5D |0316853852]] Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
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45 is a non-fiction book by Bill Drummond.
45 was widely reviewed in the British press. The Times said that "It is usually a disaster when pop stars write books.... But Bill Drummond was never your average rock star", describing the book as "A series of loosely related vignettes forming the rambling diary of one year, it initially feels far removed from the scam-mongering stunts that we have come to expect. Drummond portrays himself as a shambling, absurd figure, saddled with the twin obsessions of pop music and art.... [he] has the inimitable wisdom of a true maverick."[1]
Charles Shaar Murray wrote in The Independent that "[Bill] Drummond is many things, and one of those things is a magician. Many of his schemes - one example is described as "a private joke that's so private I don't even get it myself" - involve symbolically-weighted acts conducted away from the public gaze and documented only by Drummond himself and his participating comrades. Nevertheless, they are intended to have an effect on a worldful of people unaware that the act in question has taken place. That is magical thinking. Art is magic, and so is pop. Bill Drummond is a cultural magician, and 45 is his logbook."[2]
Steven Poole wrote in The Guardian that "45 is a further attempt to bury the myth [of The KLF]. Throughout, Drummond poses as an ordinary middle-aged man who lives in the country, drinks lots of tea and spends his mornings in the nearest library, with coffee breaks in the shopping centre. Yet the myth motors on, pitilessly. When he goes to Serbia to appear on an underground music station, he brings a recording of an unreleased KLF song called `The Magnificent'. Soon it `had not only become the theme tune of the station [B92], but the anthem of the democracy movement . . . A track we recorded in a day, never released as a single, thought was crap and had forgotten about had taken on a meaning, an importance in a `far- off land'.'" In summary, Poole said, "At its best [45] has flashes of twisted brilliance reminiscent of Iain SinclairorWill Self, but the majority is most interesting because the author was one half of the KLF. Of course, that is more than enough glory for one lifetime. Yet the fact remains that this book will forever labour under the shadow of those horned men and their gleefully apocalyptic music."[3]
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