The strange, strange story of The Shaggs

Last night my friend Ally told me the strange story of The Shaggs. A girl-group in the 1960s, forced to make music by their overbearing father after his mother (a fortune teller) predicted that they would become the biggest pop group in the world. Their father pulled the girls out of school and forced them to practice constantly in the basement of their home. However, while being made to write music, the girls were not exposed to, or allowed to listen to music. The resulting album, titled Philosophy of the World is guaranteed one of the oddest most jarring things you've ever heard.

And here is an interesting interview with the sisters many years later:

http://www.shaggs.com/