9 Feb
2002
9 Feb
'02
9:31 a.m.
Anyway, I decided to post on this website just to clear up a widely-held myth: THE KLF DID NOT BURN A MILLION POUNDS. Well, not quite. The day after that legendary art-publicity stunt, a guy walking along Jura Beach towards the boathouse found an abundance of half-burnt fifty pound notes scattered amongst the seaweed. Some of the notes were in fact intact, and he managed to collect together a few thousand of your finest pounds sterling.
If you watch the film carfully, you can see unburnt notes being daken up the chimney by the draught - so they did go through the motions of burning a million quid, but not all of it actually got burnt.