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you have the right to do what you like with whatever culture is thrust at you,
Those that glimpse divine wonder will not be able to bear returning to the material world. The simplest way to understand this is to speak to a recovering heroin addict.
It was, all in all, an odd thing to spend £250,000 on.
I feel confident that in the event of us selling ten million albums we would definitely go out and buy a submarine... Just to be able to say 'Look we've got a submarine and 808 State haven't."
In the coming decade he was named 'Man of the Year' by the BPI, praised by Tony Blair and convicted of multiple sexual offences on underage boys, so in many ways Jonathan King could be said to personify the music industry.
than the genres being founded just a few decades early. They were noticeably less fertile.
i don’t buy that
Drummond and Cauty had left immediately after their performance, so a motorcycle courier collected the award on their behalf. The statue was later discovered by a farmer in Wiltshire, who found it buried in a field near Stonehenge. The farmer returned the statue, so Cauty and Drummond had to go back to Wiltshire and bury it deeper.
You might think this a remarkably high instance of such crimes for one story, and you would be correct.
i dunno it is late 20th-century Britain after all
The period of the early 1990s is far more potent and significant than it is usually given credit for.
"Drummond is many things, and one of those things is a magician. Many of his schemes [...] 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.
