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The Prodigy
Political self-awareness
At the beginning of April, a concert took place at the Astoria Hall in London.
one of the most "killer" groups of our time - American
Biohazard. Tickets for the show were bought by punks, metalheads,
hardcore fans and young gentlemen, not even in bed
parting with a skateboard - in general, everyone should be
It’s clear who Biohazard’s music is intended for. However, for
a few hours before the concert the doors of the hall were besieged by a crowd
ravers - their confidence that they will arrive any minute
"special guests" was passed on to the rest of the public, and therefore some
time, polar representatives of the audience did not pay any attention
attention to each other, and stared at the approaching limousines.
The Metalheads had no doubt that they were waiting, naturally.
"Metallic" James Hetfield or, at worst, Max
The Cavalier from Sepultura was the only thing that worked a little
not nerves, but why the hell are punks and idiot ravers making noise,
like crazy, at someone else's holiday?! However, as it turned out,
holiday"classless" was planned: Biohazard arrived at the show
a man whose appearance a year ago would have passed at best
unnoticed, at worst - representatives of the musical opposition
They would have broken his skull. I'm talking about Maxim Realit from The
Prodigy (then with the article "the").
That evening, the once hostile audience fraternized like soldiers.
from the trenches of the First World War - when Biohazard and
Maxim Reality, who joined them, performed hit No. 1The Prodigy
"Breathe", to everyone - at least those present in Astoria
- it became clear that rock and “dancing” are capable of peaceful
coexistence. A little later, managers and promoters of groups
"extreme" direction made an unpleasant conclusion:
it turns out that they do not have a monopoly on “their” public and,
Moreover, an experienced pop singer will at any moment make even
the most rabid grunger. The grangers were also amazed
such a turn of affairs, and the headless citizens said that
Biohazard is also bullshit, and we went through the closets in search of music from
the effect of valerian.
Thus, today, Prodigy turned out to be
the only one in the history of dance thatnatural and
painlessly crossed the border and invaded
carefully protected territory - representatives of the "great and
mighty rock" repeatedly carried out raids in the opposite
direction, but every time it was either disapprovingly perceived
their audience, or “pathetic and insignificant” people returned from campaigns
people,” as old Panikovsky used to say. AndProdigy not only
brought with them a horde of loud-mouthed prisoners who had fallen in love with them, but
proved that a computer sampler is just as valid
rock band instrument like guitar, bass and drums.
History The Prodigy began in the summer of 1988, when 16-year-old
LIam Howlett sent the school to hell. The musical situation
era is well known: hip-hop came out “new”, and
there was no real rock in the full sense of the word (if,
Of course, the lost one did not know in what places to look for him, or not
mistook poodle-like cover characters for rock heroes
"metal" publications).
"I've never been a fan of metal," he will say later
Xaulett, - I have itassociated only with dirty hair and
tattered leather jackets, it was the fashion of the maddened
masturbation of sixth-graders." Let with this statement
"metalheads" are sorting it out, andLiam Howlettmeanwhile, he started
master the wisdom of multi-channel recording and in every possible way
had fun with sound dubbing and effects (most recently he
publicly thanked his father, who “for eight years in a row
used a stick to force me to take piano lessons"). He lived and
experimented the great Howlett in Essex County - having learned that
This is also where a certain rap group called Cut To Kill grows, a great
wished to join my efforts with the efforts of this team.
It so happened that even the combined efforts were not enough to
move this weight from its place. And then the disappointed Liam, whom
then seventeen years had already passed, I got to the first in my life
rave party at the local club "Barn". According to the hero,
the event fundamentally changed his life: his own
internal energy did not enter into the contradiction with acceleration,
which gave compact reactors "ecstasy", andLiam nikom
not visible"flying saucer" hovered among hundreds of the same
indifferent UFOs. Every evening he disappeared into a friendly
desert, from which he returned only in the morning, before lunch
slept, then bought money with money accumulated from his previous life
records and “unscrewed” them into little sounds.
Around the same time, from long European wanderings to his native
Essex returned following the hippie trail (and then the
biker) romantic Keith Flint - returned and was annoyed to learn that
his once favorite place, where it was equally easy to think about
eternal and didn’t think about anything, the ravers sat down. But nothing
all that remained was to continue to trudge every evening to the Barn and
look out for the regulars dear to your heart in the dancing shadows
ghosts of the past. Among them he found a hefty fellow,
turned out to be an electrician named Leeroy Thornhill,and just
a girl with a cute nickname "Sharky", that is, "Shark".Later
several days Flint quite accidentally heard from
pleasant sounds from a van parked next to the club - he
went to them and found Liamwho was fiddling with the tape recorder.
Asking him to play some amazing music again, Flint
received at my complete disposal two whole cassettes, on which
hand Howlett was scrawled "Prodigy" (this is for the venerable
the music lover immediately realized that the recording was made on
sound synthesizer "Moog" model "Prodigy").
Shocked by what he heard, Flint turned to Liam
proposal to organize a group in which Howlett would write and
played his music, and he, Keith Flint,and his friends, an electrician
They would dance to this music
in every possible way seducing and tempting the guests of the unheard-of musical
feasts to join the happy whirlpool. Howlett
accepted the offer, but insisted that the new group include
"coordinator" or MC, as is customary among rappers, and invited
this position of Mr. Maxim Reality, well-known in circles
hip-hop and reggae of the neighboring Essex hole of Petersburg. At the end
1990The Prodigy gave their first concert and signed
contract with XL Records.
The rave groups that existed during the indicated period did not represent
no interest for rock fans, although one cannot say
so that the reporting period is full of great events and deeds
masters of electric string instruments. In the year whenThe Prodigy
signed a contract for future musical dominance,
the incomparable Whitesnake are already in a half-disintegrated state
headlined the Monsters of Rock festival in Donington, Biohazard
successfully performed in front of thirty spectators... True, Faith No
More traveled all over Europe promoting their album "Real Thing",
and Nirvana performed in England for the first time - as already mentioned, everyone
depends on where you're looking for rock. And is it fate that you found?
In February 1991, The Prodigy released their first single "What
Evil Lurks", which reached 31st place in dance
charts in England. Then things started to get serious
character: at first, the offended "Shark" left the group (no oneagreed to give her a place at the microphone, however, no one
heard her sing and didn’t even want to listen), and soon - in
August 1991, the group's second single "Charly" headed
national dance charts, and The Prodigy had a crowd
imitators. Maybe "Charly" was the revolutionary single of his
time, but rock fans are more likely to remember him - if at all
will be remembered as another infantile rave singer, which
loaded the entire European radio airwaves. By November 1992The
Prodigywere no longer on tour, and at the very end of the year they
debut album "The Prodigy Exprience" entered 12th place
English hit parade.
Biohazard increasingly turned their attention to capitalism
Onyx. However, according toLiam Howlett,"they tried to change the world of rock
thread", and for this, innovators in guitar parts are increasingly using overlays
put classic riffs on the rap sound, and mixed the 4/4 rhythm
on the funk. You can say it another way: only that fate changed,
who wanted change, but was he originally rock - that's it
already differentquestion. Howlett formulated a fair postulate:
"Great old rock bands don't need revision - if you
love Led Zeppelin, you will dance perfectly to their stuff,
this is practically dance music." Meanwhile, rave was already losing
their energy and dynamics, and teenagers, overwhelmed by all sorts of rubbish, are under
unobtrusive supervision of representatives of the "law enforcement agencies"
danced to anything, as long as the rhythm was monotonous and
repetitive. It seems that something had to be changed in the music itself
too, and these changes were made, but rock music these changes
didn't touch!
There is a legend: having played at one of the festivals before
with a crowd of 20 thousand fans, the musicians The Prodigy set off
stroll through the park where the festival was taking place and came across
stage, on which, in front of a slightly smaller, but much more - almost
Biohazard worked to the point of mania - with an excited audience.
Having finished watching their program, Howlett exclaimed: "That's what we need,
Only we will do it much better!”
When the second album The Prodigy "Music was released in July 1994
For The JiltedGeneration", it became absolutely clear that the group
completely abandoned the previous concept. Of course, music
remained "dance-oriented", but she became darker,
became heavier and - oh horror! - live ones appeared in the toolkit
hard guitars. The disc was perfect for its time:
the parade of “persons and organizations” at the rock music stands was becoming increasingly
more magnificent, politicians around the world meddled in each other’s affairs
friend, having achieved as a result that regional conflicts,
in fact, turned into real local wars - into this very
the moment when it seemed that Bosnia and Chechnya were about to merge into
one theater of the third world war, The Prodigy and English
indie band Pop Will Eat Yourself recorded the song "Their Law",in
which diagnosed the situation and made a recommendation
treatment of the disease: "Fuck 'em and their law" - "let them go together
with their law!" In the same way, the song and the album "Music For
Jilted Generation", which she entered, also referred to
the problem of police brutality sweeping England.But all these
links of one chain. And the chain itself is worthy of being called “political
self-awareness" - what is it, visitors to discos are unlikely
know, and few people remember this phrase from the glossary
pre-perestroika times. Despite the fact that we have nothing in politics
we don’t understand, but we haven’t had consciousness for a long time, political
self-awareness still remains in some places.
"Music For The Jilted Generation"made the charts of England and
several more European countries and within a month it became “golden”. But
The biggest success awaited The Prodigy at concerts
venues: after only two or three performances of the group within
promotion programs for this album The Prodigy announced "the most
the strongest of the currently existing “live” groups on the planet! Keith Flint
behaved at concerts simply like a completely crazy person,
and Maxim Realitymimicked the audience so accurately that they
hanging in clusters on the wire fencing of the stage. Was made and
an important step in a purely musical direction: as part of a group
Guitarist Jim Davis appeared. And on June 23, 1995, already being
"the highlight of the program" of the rock festival inGlastonbury,The Prodigy
played live two of their hits No. 1 "Vodooe People" and "Poison", and
Planet Rock has surrendered to the mercy of “strangers”: not a single rock band in
Glastonbury didn't have even a hundredth of the success of the "disguised"
ravers."
The world's leading music publications wrote about the phenomenon: Rolling
Stone and Musician - regular readers of these magazines responded
on publication with dissatisfied letters: since when do they feed us
stories about second-rate music and not even about music at all!
When the presenter published such an article in his issue
"metal" magazine of England "Kerrang!", some subscribers
promised to kill the editor-in-chief. Like it or not, but
The Prodigyturned out to be one of the most controversial groups of our
time - none of the fans have yet dared to trample her in
dirt for "a departure from the ideals of dance music", but opponents
ready to execute the group for brazenly trampling holy boundaries!
In March 1996The Prodigy released their first
long silence single "Firestarter" - for the first time Keith Flint sang
open sound (this is the name of the vocal technique that
used by most singers, about whom it is usually said that
they "just sing") and this turned out to be enough for
the single immediately flew to first place on the charts, and its circulation
in England alone, exceeded half a million. It seems it was already
second refusal The Prodigy to participate in the TV program "Top Of"
The Pops" - if the TV people somehow survived the first one, then
this time they had to play a video clip on air, from
which made even the most steadfast viewers go crazy -
the famous photograph of an absolutely crazy Flint with a pierced
with a sewing needle in the nasal septum - this is from that clip! B
people were of the opinion that Mr. Flint needed
professional medical care. After the release of the new album
"The Fat Of The Land" part of the people came to the conclusion that The
Prodigywould be a good idea to invite him to work in parliament.
Rock lovers with little experience internally accepted The Prodigy,
especially after groups likeSmashing Pumpkins and
The Presidents Of The USA included the anthem "Firestarter" in their
concert programs and made several cover versions of it. Very
many (given that by mid-August the circulation of"The Fat Of
The Land"has already exceeded 15 million, then we can talk about
"very, very many") were seized by the fever of "prodigymania", and
heroes of the occasion Howlett and Flint,throughout their
careers carefully hiding their personal lives from the press, suddenly
realized that just as many are inclined to see in them the embodiment
Antichrist. Or John Lennon, which is essentially the same thing. When
they tried to compare their success with the fantastic career of one
famous American group, whose leader died tragically
a few years ago, Keith Flint said: "So what, I have nothing
It's worth putting a bullet in your head." To which LIam Howlett replied:
"No, I'd rather get married, that's more accurate."
In the meantime, guitarist Jim Davis fits very well into
concerts The Prodigy - firstly, he is not allowed to play like him
I want that, secondly, he has not yet learned to jump around the stage with
with the agility of a paranoid. And the group selected a replacement for him in the form
giving the impression of being consumptive, but at the same time very
mobile and fitful punk Jizza Butt - Butt in moderation
aggressive, and he has his own opinion regarding what
this is the truth of life. Although fans Buttknow him from the group
English Dog, which simultaneously delighted the ears of a maximum of two
hundreds of sound connoisseurs were probably horrified to see them
the idol performs with The Prodigy in front of 50 thousand
"knucklehead ravers."
In the summer of 97Prodigy (note, no longer The Prodigy)
dominated all major European festivals, including
a new alternative V97 that is being held in England for the second year.
A little earlier, the group signed a two-million (in dollars) contract
with Madonna's Maverick company, through which their album was releasedand in
USA, and conducted the largest tour of Australia - behind the first
place in the English album charts and 100 thousand viewers on
Glastonbury '97. Unfortunately, no one has come up with this yet
the name of the music playedThe Prodigy,so that
the group is ahead, no one dares to speak out yet. More precisely,
Maybe that’s why they don’t speak out.
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The Prodigy
Political self-awareness
At the beginning of April, a concert took place at the Astoria Hall in London.
one of the most "killer" groups of our time - American
Biohazard. Tickets for the show were bought by punks, metalheads,
hardcore fans and young gentlemen, not even in bed
parting with a skateboard - in general, everyone should be
It’s clear who Biohazard’s music is intended for. However, for
a few hours before the concert the doors of the hall were besieged by a crowd
ravers - their confidence that they will arrive any minute
"special guests" was passed on to the rest of the public, and therefore some
time, polar representatives of the audience did not pay any attention
attention to each other, and stared at the approaching limousines.
The Metalheads had no doubt that they were waiting, naturally.
"Metallic" James Hetfield or, at worst, Max
The Cavalier from Sepultura was the only thing that worked a little
not nerves, but why the hell are punks and idiot ravers making noise,
like crazy, at someone else's holiday?! However, as it turned out,
holiday"classless" was planned: Biohazard arrived at the show
a man whose appearance a year ago would have passed at best
unnoticed, at worst - representatives of the musical opposition
They would have broken his skull. I'm talking about Maxim Realit from The
Prodigy (then with the article "the").
That evening, the once hostile audience fraternized like soldiers.
from the trenches of the First World War - when Biohazard and
Maxim Reality, who joined them, performed hit No. 1The Prodigy
"Breathe", to everyone - at least those present in Astoria
- it became clear that rock and “dancing” are capable of peaceful
coexistence. A little later, managers and promoters of groups
"extreme" direction made an unpleasant conclusion:
it turns out that they do not have a monopoly on “their” public and,
Moreover, an experienced pop singer will at any moment make even
the most rabid grunger. The grangers were also amazed
such a turn of affairs, and the headless citizens said that
Biohazard is also bullshit, and we went through the closets in search of music from
the effect of valerian.
Thus, today, Prodigy turned out to be
the only one in the history of dance thatnatural and
painlessly crossed the border and invaded
carefully protected territory - representatives of the "great and
mighty rock" repeatedly carried out raids in the opposite
direction, but every time it was either disapprovingly perceived
their audience, or “pathetic and insignificant” people returned from campaigns
people,” as old Panikovsky used to say. AndProdigy not only
brought with them a horde of loud-mouthed prisoners who had fallen in love with them, but
proved that a computer sampler is just as valid
rock band instrument like guitar, bass and drums.
History The Prodigy began in the summer of 1988, when 16-year-old
LIam Howlett sent the school to hell. The musical situation
era is well known: hip-hop came out “new”, and
there was no real rock in the full sense of the word (if,
Of course, the lost one did not know in what places to look for him, or not
mistook poodle-like cover characters for rock heroes
"metal" publications).
"I've never been a fan of metal," he will say later
Xaulett, - I have itassociated only with dirty hair and
tattered leather jackets, it was the fashion of the maddened
masturbation of sixth-graders." Let with this statement
"metalheads" are sorting it out, andLiam Howlettmeanwhile, he started
master the wisdom of multi-channel recording and in every possible way
had fun with sound dubbing and effects (most recently he
publicly thanked his father, who “for eight years in a row
used a stick to force me to take piano lessons"). He lived and
experimented the great Howlett in Essex County - having learned that
This is also where a certain rap group called Cut To Kill grows, a great
wished to join my efforts with the efforts of this team.
It so happened that even the combined efforts were not enough to
move this weight from its place. And then the disappointed Liam, whom
then seventeen years had already passed, I got to the first in my life
rave party at the local club "Barn". According to the hero,
the event fundamentally changed his life: his own
internal energy did not enter into the contradiction with acceleration,
which gave compact reactors "ecstasy", andLiam nikom
not visible"flying saucer" hovered among hundreds of the same
indifferent UFOs. Every evening he disappeared into a friendly
desert, from which he returned only in the morning, before lunch
slept, then bought money with money accumulated from his previous life
records and “unscrewed” them into little sounds.
Around the same time, from long European wanderings to his native
Essex returned following the hippie trail (and then the
biker) romantic Keith Flint - returned and was annoyed to learn that
his once favorite place, where it was equally easy to think about
eternal and didn’t think about anything, the ravers sat down. But nothing
all that remained was to continue to trudge every evening to the Barn and
look out for the regulars dear to your heart in the dancing shadows
ghosts of the past. Among them he found a hefty fellow,
turned out to be an electrician named Leeroy Thornhill,and just
a girl with a cute nickname "Sharky", that is, "Shark".Later
several days Flint quite accidentally heard from
pleasant sounds from a van parked next to the club - he
went to them and found Liamwho was fiddling with the tape recorder.
Asking him to play some amazing music again, Flint
received at my complete disposal two whole cassettes, on which
hand Howlett was scrawled "Prodigy" (this is for the venerable
the music lover immediately realized that the recording was made on
sound synthesizer "Moog" model "Prodigy").
Shocked by what he heard, Flint turned to Liam
proposal to organize a group in which Howlett would write and
played his music, and he, Keith Flint,and his friends, an electrician
They would dance to this music
in every possible way seducing and tempting the guests of the unheard-of musical
feasts to join the happy whirlpool. Howlett
accepted the offer, but insisted that the new group include
"coordinator" or MC, as is customary among rappers, and invited
this position of Mr. Maxim Reality, well-known in circles
hip-hop and reggae of the neighboring Essex hole of Petersburg. At the end
1990The Prodigy gave their first concert and signed
contract with XL Records.
The rave groups that existed during the indicated period did not represent
no interest for rock fans, although one cannot say
so that the reporting period is full of great events and deeds
masters of electric string instruments. In the year whenThe Prodigy
signed a contract for future musical dominance,
the incomparable Whitesnake are already in a half-disintegrated state
headlined the Monsters of Rock festival in Donington, Biohazard
successfully performed in front of thirty spectators... True, Faith No
More traveled all over Europe promoting their album "Real Thing",
and Nirvana performed in England for the first time - as already mentioned, everyone
depends on where you're looking for rock. And is it fate that you found?
In February 1991, The Prodigy released their first single "What
Evil Lurks", which reached 31st place in dance
charts in England. Then things started to get serious
character: at first, the offended "Shark" left the group (no oneagreed to give her a place at the microphone, however, no one
heard her sing and didn’t even want to listen), and soon - in
August 1991, the group's second single "Charly" headed
national dance charts, and The Prodigy had a crowd
imitators. Maybe "Charly" was the revolutionary single of his
time, but rock fans are more likely to remember him - if at all
will be remembered as another infantile rave singer, which
loaded the entire European radio airwaves. By November 1992The
Prodigywere no longer on tour, and at the very end of the year they
debut album "The Prodigy Exprience" entered 12th place
English hit parade.
Biohazard increasingly turned their attention to capitalism
Onyx. However, according toLiam Howlett,"they tried to change the world of rock
thread", and for this, innovators in guitar parts are increasingly using overlays
put classic riffs on the rap sound, and mixed the 4/4 rhythm
on the funk. You can say it another way: only that fate changed,
who wanted change, but was he originally rock - that's it
already differentquestion. Howlett formulated a fair postulate:
"Great old rock bands don't need revision - if you
love Led Zeppelin, you will dance perfectly to their stuff,
this is practically dance music." Meanwhile, rave was already losing
their energy and dynamics, and teenagers, overwhelmed by all sorts of rubbish, are under
unobtrusive supervision of representatives of the "law enforcement agencies"
danced to anything, as long as the rhythm was monotonous and
repetitive. It seems that something had to be changed in the music itself
too, and these changes were made, but rock music these changes
didn't touch!
There is a legend: having played at one of the festivals before
with a crowd of 20 thousand fans, the musicians The Prodigy set off
stroll through the park where the festival was taking place and came across
stage, on which, in front of a slightly smaller, but much more - almost
Biohazard worked to the point of mania - with an excited audience.
Having finished watching their program, Howlett exclaimed: "That's what we need,
Only we will do it much better!”
When the second album The Prodigy "Music was released in July 1994
For The JiltedGeneration", it became absolutely clear that the group
completely abandoned the previous concept. Of course, music
remained "dance-oriented", but she became darker,
became heavier and - oh horror! - live ones appeared in the toolkit
hard guitars. The disc was perfect for its time:
the parade of “persons and organizations” at the rock music stands was becoming increasingly
more magnificent, politicians around the world meddled in each other’s affairs
friend, having achieved as a result that regional conflicts,
in fact, turned into real local wars - into this very
the moment when it seemed that Bosnia and Chechnya were about to merge into
one theater of the third world war, The Prodigy and English
indie band Pop Will Eat Yourself recorded the song "Their Law",in
which diagnosed the situation and made a recommendation
treatment of the disease: "Fuck 'em and their law" - "let them go together
with their law!" In the same way, the song and the album "Music For
Jilted Generation", which she entered, also referred to
the problem of police brutality sweeping England.But all these
links of one chain. And the chain itself is worthy of being called “political
self-awareness" - what is it, visitors to discos are unlikely
know, and few people remember this phrase from the glossary
pre-perestroika times. Despite the fact that we have nothing in politics
we don’t understand, but we haven’t had consciousness for a long time, political
self-awareness still remains in some places.
"Music For The Jilted Generation"made the charts of England and
several more European countries and within a month it became “golden”. But
The biggest success awaited The Prodigy at concerts
venues: after only two or three performances of the group within
promotion programs for this album The Prodigy announced "the most
the strongest of the currently existing “live” groups on the planet! Keith Flint
behaved at concerts simply like a completely crazy person,
and Maxim Realitymimicked the audience so accurately that they
hanging in clusters on the wire fencing of the stage. Was made and
an important step in a purely musical direction: as part of a group
Guitarist Jim Davis appeared. And on June 23, 1995, already being
"the highlight of the program" of the rock festival inGlastonbury,The Prodigy
played live two of their hits No. 1 "Vodooe People" and "Poison", and
Planet Rock has surrendered to the mercy of “strangers”: not a single rock band in
Glastonbury didn't have even a hundredth of the success of the "disguised"
ravers."
The world's leading music publications wrote about the phenomenon: Rolling
Stone and Musician - regular readers of these magazines responded
on publication with dissatisfied letters: since when do they feed us
stories about second-rate music and not even about music at all!
When the presenter published such an article in his issue
"metal" magazine of England "Kerrang!", some subscribers
promised to kill the editor-in-chief. Like it or not, but
The Prodigyturned out to be one of the most controversial groups of our
time - none of the fans have yet dared to trample her in
dirt for "a departure from the ideals of dance music", but opponents
ready to execute the group for brazenly trampling holy boundaries!
In March 1996The Prodigy released their first
long silence single "Firestarter" - for the first time Keith Flint sang
open sound (this is the name of the vocal technique that
used by most singers, about whom it is usually said that
they "just sing") and this turned out to be enough for
the single immediately flew to first place on the charts, and its circulation
in England alone, exceeded half a million. It seems it was already
second refusal The Prodigy to participate in the TV program "Top Of"
The Pops" - if the TV people somehow survived the first one, then
this time they had to play a video clip on air, from
which made even the most steadfast viewers go crazy -
the famous photograph of an absolutely crazy Flint with a pierced
with a sewing needle in the nasal septum - this is from that clip! B
people were of the opinion that Mr. Flint needed
professional medical care. After the release of the new album
"The Fat Of The Land" part of the people came to the conclusion that The
Prodigywould be a good idea to invite him to work in parliament.
Rock lovers with little experience internally accepted The Prodigy,
especially after groups likeSmashing Pumpkins and
The Presidents Of The USA included the anthem "Firestarter" in their
concert programs and made several cover versions of it. Very
many (given that by mid-August the circulation of"The Fat Of
The Land"has already exceeded 15 million, then we can talk about
"very, very many") were seized by the fever of "prodigymania", and
heroes of the occasion Howlett and Flint,throughout their
careers carefully hiding their personal lives from the press, suddenly
realized that just as many are inclined to see in them the embodiment
Antichrist. Or John Lennon, which is essentially the same thing. When
they tried to compare their success with the fantastic career of one
famous American group, whose leader died tragically
a few years ago, Keith Flint said: "So what, I have nothing
It's worth putting a bullet in your head." To which LIam Howlett replied:
"No, I'd rather get married, that's more accurate."
In the meantime, guitarist Jim Davis fits very well into
concerts The Prodigy - firstly, he is not allowed to play like him
I want that, secondly, he has not yet learned to jump around the stage with
with the agility of a paranoid. And the group selected a replacement for him in the form
giving the impression of being consumptive, but at the same time very
mobile and fitful punk Jizza Butt - Butt in moderation
aggressive, and he has his own opinion regarding what
this is the truth of life. Although fans Buttknow him from the group
English Dog, which simultaneously delighted the ears of a maximum of two
hundreds of sound connoisseurs were probably horrified to see them
the idol performs with The Prodigy in front of 50 thousand
"knucklehead ravers."
In the summer of 97Prodigy (note, no longer The Prodigy)
dominated all major European festivals, including
a new alternative V97 that is being held in England for the second year.
A little earlier, the group signed a two-million (in dollars) contract
with Madonna's Maverick company, through which their album was releasedand in
USA, and conducted the largest tour of Australia - behind the first
place in the English album charts and 100 thousand viewers on
Glastonbury '97. Unfortunately, no one has come up with this yet
the name of the music playedThe Prodigy,so that
the group is ahead, no one dares to speak out yet. More precisely,
Maybe that’s why they don’t speak out.
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