Main character in Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(1962, later filmed by Milos Forman with Jack Nicholson as McMurphy.
The book and film are amongst the Manics' favourites.Randle Patrick McMurphy is a rebellious inmate of a psychiatric hospital who fights back against the authorities' cold attitudes of institutional superiority. It's the classic antiestablishment tale of one man asserting his individuality in the face of a repressive, conformist system--and it works on every level.
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