The first edition of the great book. The Manual: How To Have A Number One The Easy Way. Written by The Timelords aka KLF aka Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty. This is the book that gave the world the number one single Bring Me Edelweiss by Edelweiss. The book is legend!

Still amazing - yes - a bit outdated but i like the raw fun. ( )

The KLF’s story of how they blagged their way to a No 1 in 1988. A lot of the specific advice is now outdated, but it’s still compelling as to how easy it was to manipulate the charts. The sickening suspicion remains that the era of chart manipulation, of multiple formats and airplay and hype generating sales, was ushered in by music business insiders reading this, the old story of outsider methods ultimately being adopted by the mainstream If there’s one thing that you can still take from it though, it’s the hustler attitude. ( )

This infamous book is now available online in its entirety at http://www.kirps.com/web/main/resources/music/themanual It's written in a humorous, but very matter-of-fact, way. Sample: "The recording studio is the place where you will record your Number One hit single."