The KLF
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A day for savouring the sound of silence...has been given an annual stoking on November 21 with No Music Day, the brainchild of Bill Drummond, former frontman of dance band The KLF and seasoned cultural provocateur. (One of his most celebrated stunts, in 1994, consisted in... In this article: Bill Drummond, Zeitgeist, IPod, Linz, Reactionary, Rash, McDonald's, and Aldous Huxley |
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Wikipedia | November 02, 2009
The KLF
...and was covered by them on an EP . The group's Rock Concert Instruction Manual is a tribute to The Manual. "Looking 4 The KLF", a KLF tribute track by POP INC with a voice-over by British actor Simon Jones, has been issued by Modo and...
In this article: Bill Drummond, Jimmy Cauty, Illuminatus, What Time Is Love?, NME, Last Train to Trancentral, BRIT Awards, United Kingdom, and K Foundation
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Drowned in Sound - News | October 30, 2009
Rob Young - The Wire Primers: A Guide To Modern Music
...any more important. It feels weird to find Oxide & Neutrino's appropriation of the Casualty theme listed in a Wire Primer (it's sub-KLF opportunism, not detournement or subversion), and at best grime feels like a clumsy reprise of UK...
In this article: Rob Young, Noise, The Wire, The Fall, Simon Reynolds, No Wave, Mark E Smith, TS Eliot, and Alice Coltrane
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Wikipedia | October 13, 2009
All You Need Is Love (The JAMs song)
...when they named their early career retrospective compilation album Shag Times. Drummond and Cauty's output as The JAMs and later The KLF extensively referenced The Illuminatus! Trilogy, and their debut recordings were no exception. The...
In this article: All You Need Is Love, Bill Drummond, Jimmy Cauty, Illuminatus!, Samantha Fox, MC5, NME, The Beatles, and All You Need Is Love
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Wikipedia | October 07, 2009
The KLF discography
...edition remix and promotional singles have been excluded. The original vinyl LP came with the first KLF 'release', KLF Communications KLF 001: "The 1987 Completist List", the label's complete discography at the time. The Justified...
In this article: Jimmy Cauty, Timelords, Bill Drummond, Moody Boys, Disco 2000, Doctorin' the Tardis, What Time Is Love?, K Foundation, and TVT Records
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Guardian Unlimited | October 06, 2009
The Liverpool Everyman's man
...included Alison Steadman, Antony Sher and Julie Walters; the house playwrights were Willy Russell, Alan Bleasdale and John McGrath, while KLF founder Bill Drummond did the scenery. It was, as Russell recalls, "the kind of place where you...
In this article: Jonathan Pryce, Willy Russell, Liverpool, The Caretaker, Guardian.co.uk, Alan Bleasdale, and Winnie-the-Pooh
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Sunday Mirror | October 06, 2009
Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers and the top 10 unlikely musical collaborations
...of the hip hop/soft rock mash-up these two put together. It's an odd collaboration and was, not surprisingly, a commercial flop. The KLF and Tammy Wynette This is genius. Pure genius. Stadium house tinged with country (country house, if...
In this article: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Elton John, Eminem, Radiohead, Rap rock, YouTube, and Thom Yorke
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Telegraph.co.uk Telegraph Fashion | October 06, 2009
Paris Fashion Week: Chanel
...Prince, and the former supermodel, Claudia Schiffer, sat on hessian-covered benches. Primal Scream's "Get Your Rocks Off" and Klf's "Justified and Ancient" (with Tammy Wynette) roared from the loudspeakers, interspersed by the arrival of...
In this article: Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, Paris, Marie Antoinette, Justified and Ancient, Silver, Lara Stone, Freja Beha Erichsen, and Claudia Schiffer
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | September 16, 2009
Muse: The Resistance CD review
...album opens with the single, Uprising. With its hilarious glam-stomping beat, and Dr Who theme-ish synth line, it's reminiscent of the KLF's Doctorin' the Tardis. Bellamy has accurately described the song as "football hooligans chanting in...
In this article: The Resistance, Muse, Matt Bellamy, Queen, Uprising, Bohemian Rhapsody, Doctorin' the Tardis, Dr Who, and KLF
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BBC | August 03, 2009
Drummond base
...but few can boast the involvement of a modern music pioneer. Bill Drummond delivered a series of international hits as one half of the KLF and his machine-gun toting performance at the 1992 Brit awards ceremony remains the stuff of legend.
In this article: Bill Drummond, Cushendall, KLF, Northern Ireland, Democracy, 3am Eternal, BRIT Awards, Echo and the Bunnymen, and Georg Solti
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Wikipedia | March 24, 2009
Category:The KLF
...of the sampling outfit The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the KLF went on to release a series of world-wide hits on their own KLF Communications record label. The KLF left the music industry in May 1992, and deleted their back catalogue.
In this article: Jimmy Cauty, Bill Drummond, and K Foundation
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The KLF (also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (aka The JAMs), The Timelords and other names) were a band from the British acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Beginning in 1987, Bill Drummond (alias King Boy D) and Jimmy Cauty (alias Rockman Rock) released hip hop-inspired and sample-heavy records as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, and on one occasion (the British number one hit single "Doctorin' the Tardis") as The Timelords. As The KLF, Drummond and Cauty pioneered the genres "stadium house" (rave music with a pop-rock production and sampled crowd noise) and "ambient house". The KLF released a series of international top-ten hits on their own KLF Communications record label, and became the biggest-selling singles act in the world for 1991. The duo also published a book, The Manual, and worked on a road movie called The White Room.
From the outset, they adopted the philosophy espoused by esoteric novels The Illuminatus! Trilogy, gaining notoriety for various anarchic situationist manifestations, including the defacement of billboard adverts, the posting of prominent cryptic advertisements in NME magazine and the mainstream press, and highly distinctive and unusual performances on Top of the Pops. Their most notorious performance was at the February 1992 BRIT Awards, where they fired machine gun blanks into the audience and dumped a dead sheep at the aftershow party. This performance announced The KLF's departure from the music business, and in May 1992 the duo deleted their entire back catalogue.
- Name:
- The KLF
- Also Known As:
- The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The JAMs, The Timelords
- Origin:
- London, England
- Years Active:
- 1987–1992, 1995, 1997
- Former Members:
- Record Label:
- KLF, Arista, and other international licensees
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