and, with a new foreword by Drummond, in 1998. The book has also been translated into German, and was released as an audiobook (read by Bela B., drummer of the punk band Die Ärzte) in Germany in 2003, with Drummond voicing the foreword, a motivational piece about reaching out for one's dreams today as ‘tomorrow is always too late’. In 2010, the book was published in Czech. The Austrian dance music band Edelweiss took the book as a primary influence: they read the book, borrowed ABBA's "SOS", and sold five million copies worldwide with "Bring Me Edelweiss". It also proved to be an influence on 2000s British girl group The Pipettes who formed after reading the book in order to explore "the idea of being a pop machine." Jamie Reynolds of Klaxons admitted in an interview to reading The Manual and stated that he "took direct instructions from it.... Get yourself a studio, get a groove going, sing some absolute nonsense over the top, put a breakbeat behind it, and you're away! That's what I did! That's genuinely it. I read that, I noted down the golden rules of pop, and applied that to what we're doing and made sure that that always applies to everything we do. That way, we always come out with a sort of catchy hit number." Editions (1988) (1989) (1998) (German version, 1998) (Czech version, 2010) An audiobook in German language was released in 2003. Footnotes External links The Manual - Tom Robinson (Archived) 1989 non-fiction books The KLF Books by Bill Drummond Books by Jimmy Cauty Books about musicians Books about pop music Music books