120. Pop Will Eat Itself - Def Con One (Chapter 22)

Two weeks at number one from 30th July 1988At some undisclosed point in 1988, Clint Mansell woke up from an appalling nightmare where his group were paid a fortune to soundtrack a McDonald’s advert. In exchange for this financial windfall, the group were mocked by the music press to oblivion, abandoned by their fans, forever associated with Ronald the corporate clown and a questionable fast food chain. RIP PWEI.Shortly after this dream, he read a newspaper article where he learned that in the event of a nuclear attack, McDonald’s would be at the forefront of food supplies to some crisis torn areas; so the maimed and seriously injured would have no choice but to tuck in to a Big Mac Meal for sustenance. This dystopian image clearly tickled the band, and they went ahead and wrote a whopping great nuclear winter McDonald’s song – “Big Mac, fries to go, gimme Big Mac and fries to go” they chanted, despite a paycheque from Maccy D’s not being forthcoming. They could hardly stand accused of…