They were the bestselling singles band in the world. They had awards, credibility, commercial success and creative freedom. Then they deleted their records, erased themselves from musical history and burnt their last million pounds in a boathouse on the Isle of Jura. And they couldn’t say why.

This is not just the story of The KLF. It is a book about Carl Jung, Alan Moore, Robert Anton Wilson, Ken Campbell, Dada, Situationism, Discordianism, magic, chaos, punk, rave, the alchemical symbolism of Doctor Who and the special power of the number 23.

Wildly unauthorised and unlike any other music biography, THE KLF is a trawl through chaos on the trail of a beautiful, accidental mythology.

“We suggest this book it for its advocation of doing something regardless of whether you understand your motivations for doing so or not, and, amongst other things, the following quote: ‘And how else could they do it? They couldn’t give it away or spend it, because that’s what money wants. It wants to circulate. That’s what gives it power. Physically destroying it is the only way to stop it. But before it can be stopped there first needs to be the idea that it can be stopped, that it isn’t invincible… It was about the idea that money could be defeated.’”
— Tom Prater and Sam Playford-Greenwell