Arthur Koestler, Arthur Koestler

His band of the time, The Police, were to name one of their albums Ghost in the Machine after one of Koestler's books. Their album Synchronicity was also inspired by Koestler's The Roots of Coincidence , which discusses Carl Jung's theory of the same name. Koestler knew little about the burgeoning New Wave music scene, and is alleged to have said: Look at this. Did you ever see a magazine called the New Musical Express ? It turns out there is a pop group called The Police I don't know why they are called that, presumably to distinguish them from the punks and they've made an album of my essay The Ghost in the Machine . I didn't know anything about it until my clipping agency sent me a review of the record. Cesarani, David (1999) Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind . Free Press.

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