Re: [KLF] KLF burn ?1,000000 retired quid

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Author: John Milne
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To: All bound for Mu-Mu Land.
Subject: Re: [KLF] KLF burn ?1,000000 retired quid
But - on the same subject - I've always wondered about the money they made
from "Tardis", too. I'm presuming they took home about a third of the
overall royalties (although subsequent cases like the Verve Vs the Rolling
Stones might suggest they took home less than that).

Was the royalties from "Tardis" really enough to not only fund a road movie
made with an Indiana Jones movie crew, but also all the failed projects and
small-selling indie releases from summer 1988 to summer 1990? BD says on
the Brandnew interview that, just prior to WTIL Live being released, the KLF
were basically at the last throw of the dice financially - without another
hit, they would have gone bankrupt.

But could the band really live, and produced many aborted art projects, for
two years of the Timelords' (ahem) divided royalties?

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Tim Tim <gunsofmu@???> wrote:

>
>
> Fair point, all the profit was theres they didn't have to hardly dish out
> any money
>
> to anyone else they had copyright on the songs and owned the label.
>
> They would have earned millions, in the documentary i'm of the opinion that
> b&J
>
> only let us see what they want us to see, they did seem remarkably calm
> about it all.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mark Reed <mpreed@???>
> To: klf@???
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 July, 2008 9:31:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [KLF] KLF burn ?1,000000 retired quid
>
>
> This always bothered me - apologies if it's been scraped through
> before - but if you look at the Omnibus programme, at approx. 07:08
> minutes in, they show the statement for KLF communications, displaying
> the 1,000,000 quid withdrawal, but two lines down there's clearly a
> deposit of 1,130,000 - i.e they withdrew a million then almost
> immediately deposited just over a million.
>
> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:40:27 +0100
> From: "Andrew Shinn" <andrewshinn@???>
> Subject: Re: [KLF] KLF burn ?1,000000 retired quid
> To: "All bound for Mu-Mu Land." <klf@???>
> Message-ID: <487E5CBB.31864.4D579F@???>
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> I've heard this before but I'm sure on the "Burn A Million Quid" film
> or on the Omnibus
> Documentary for the BBC there is a close up camera shot of the bank
> statement showing the
> ?1,000,000 withdrawal
>
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