Published by HarperCollins, 1984, illustrated, large format,122 pages, condition: very good.
NEIL SAYS: "This book is the only luggage I'm going to need as I go through the departure gates of reality."
"The journey in this book is a total mind and body experience. The best way to describe it is as a state of complete blissed-out blotto. You are beyond ego, beyond thought, beyond hassles. There are no visions, no words, no smells, no magazines, no TV, no video, no pigs, no washing up, no jobs, no toilets, no troubles, no toilet troubles. All is blankness and all is truth. It's really nice.
"Books of the Dead are heavy magic so no one better read this until the year 2384 which, numerologically speaking, will be when people will have got their heads together enough to understand this book."
"Touch this book and run your fingers through my mind."
The Young Ones is the hit British TV series, now the newest sensation on MTV. Neil is one of the stars of The Young Ones, and Neil's Book of the Dead is his final message to mankind.
If you've seen The Young Ones, this is a must-read. If you haven't seen it, stop what you're doing, buy some lentils, make lentil soup, watch The Young Ones, THEN find and read this book.
The Young Ones is a British sitcom written by Rik Mayall, Ben Elton, and Lise Mayer, starring Adrian Edmondson, Mayall, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan, and Alexei Sayle, and broadcast on BBC2 for two series, first shown in 1982 and 1984. The show focused on the lives of four dissimilar students and their landlord's family on different plots that often included anarchic, offbeat, surreal humour. The show often included slapstick gags, visual humour and surreal jokes sometimes acted out by puppets, with each episode also featuring a notable selection of guest stars and musical numbers from various performers.
The Young Ones helped bring alternative comedy to British television in the 1980s and made household names of its writers and performers. The show became a notable icon of 1980s British popular culture, and it received its own game and a home-media release while becoming the first non-music-related programme to appear on MTV in the United States in 1985. The show was voted number 31 in the BBC's Best Sitcom poll in 2004.
