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The KLF's New Book May Explain Why They Burned Over a Million Dollars

The English band's publisher says '2023: A Trilogy' may contain some answers.
Photo of an advanced, redacted press copy of the KLF's new book.

Rave pranksters the KLF might finally explain why they incinerated £1,000,000—equivalent to $1,262,100—in Scotland 23 years ago in their forthcoming book. 2023: A Trilogy will be released by Faber & Faber on August 23, and a new press release from the London publishing house said that it "may or may not answer some of the questions raised 23 years previously."

At the end of 1995, one year after the burning on August 23 1994, the KLF made an official vow of silence in regard to the event. It has since gone down as one of the most notorious stunts in dance music history.

Faber & Faber also sent out the Publisher's Preface and Appendix to 2023: A Trilogy today, but they did not contain any answers. Instead, they offer some (very confusing, very postmodern) backstory for how the book came to be, involving the USSR, another KLF project called the People's Pyramid, and references to their acid opera Turn Up The Strobe.

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