Haunting Tunes From Mythical Beings, Hidden Worlds, and Other Curious Sources
By Doug Skinner
£18.99 / £25
272 pages, 2-colour
ISBN: 9781913689858
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In the third and final volume of his personal reflections on Trash Aesthetics, Ken Hollings tells the story of three kings who squandered everything they had in a grandiose spectacle of waste. King Ludwig II of Bavaria, ‘King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’ Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson, the ‘King of Pop,’ all shared the same doomed innocence. Their lives and early deaths were connected through individual displays of unfettered extravagance that brought them to the very edge of ruin. Each of them lived out their personal ideals of beauty and pleasure – even after the money was gone.
In his reworking of Dante Alighieri’s Paradiso, Hollings presents Heaven as a place of rebellious but tragic self-indulgence.
About the Author
Ken Hollings is a writer and broadcaster based in London. As well as the first two parts of the Trash Trilogy, he is the author of The Bright Labyrinth, Welcome to Mars, The Space Oracle and Destroy All Monsters. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies as well as in features and series for BBC Radio 3, Radio 4 and Resonance 104.4 FM. He teaches at the Royal College of Art and Central St Martins College of Art and Design.
