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45

Bill Drummond. Trafalgar Square Publishing, $22.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-316-85385-9

""[F]rom the outer edges of pop"" comes 45, a hilarious, self-scrutinizing memoir of sorts by member of British pop-band KLF Bill Drummond (coauthor of Bad Wisdom), writing in his 45th year. Fueled by a blurry but purposeful ""love of pop's backwater"" (also defined as ""unsuccessful... [d]eluded... cheap and nasty and mistaken"" pop music), he travels several times to Helsinki sometimes with his kids, often with heavy metal rocker Mark Manning, aka Zodiac Mindwarp to record such bands on the label he owns. Mainly, Drummond proffers what every pop-music intellectual and intellectual fan of pop music dreams of a jaded, devotional, well-wrought tribute to and mockery of his ridiculous and glorious art. ( July 15)