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The Manual: How to Have a Number One the Easy Way is a 1989 book (ISBN 0863596169, 1899858652) released under the name of The Timelords, also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu furthermore known as The KLF. It is a tongue-in-cheek guide to scamming the music industry written by former music industry manager Bill Drummond. The book is written a step by step guide to achieving a No.1 single with no money, it is also a case study of the duo's 1988 UK novelty pop No. 1 "Doctorin' the Tardis," a mix of Gary Glitter, The Sweet and the Doctor Who theme.

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The Manual was re-released with a new foreword by Drummond in 2002.

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The Austrian Eurotrash band Edelweiss, who read the book, borrowed ABBA's "S.O.S.," and sold five million copies worldwide with "Bring Me Edelweiss". Bill Drummond also mentions that in the epilogue of the German release of "The Manual".

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The Timelords: :This article is about the musical group the Timelords. For alternate meanings, see Time Lord (disambiguation)....

The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu: The Justified Ancients of Mummu is one of the two protagonist 'secret societies' in the "Illuminatus!" series of books by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. In the books, the JAMs are in a seemingly endless struggle for control of human culture, government and power with their enemies, the Illumin...

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