Jingszo !

Randi, who as the ‘Amazing Randi’ had a long career as a magician and escapologist, also has the musical distinction of being the man who cut off the head of rock musician Alice Cooper with a magician’s guillotine. Nowadays, however, he uses exposure rather than execution, the scientific method rather than sleight of hand, to further the aims implicit in his adopted role of writer and psychic investigator – a career change which was greatly helped in 1986 by a $270,000 grant from the prestigious MacArthur Foundation.