The KLF
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KLF's Bill Drummond to make London appearance News NME.COMKLF's Bill Drummond to make London appearance | News | NME.COM KLF's Bill Drummond to make London appearance Man who set fire to GBP1 million to give book talk on Thursday (Sept 18) Bill Drummond, leader of '80s avant-garde pop group The... In this article: Bill Drummond, The KLF, London, Waterstone's, and Gower Street |
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Wikipedia | August 24, 2009
Shag Times
...Time Is Love" and "3 a.m. Eternal". Following Shag Times, The KLF became Drummond and Cauty's main vehicle; the only future release by The JAMs was the industrial techno single "It's Grim Up North". Allmusic claimed that Shag Times was...
In this article: Shag Times, Timelords, Bill Drummond, Jimmy Cauty, Doctorin' the Tardis, Disco 2000, Allmusic, It's Grim Up North, and What Time Is Love
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Independent.co.uk - Music | July 24, 2008
Bill Drummond: A life on the edge
...Tardis', under the guise of The Timelords. It goes to No 1. 1990 - Caulty and Drummond form KLF and release 'What Time Is Love', '3AM Eternal' and 'Last Train to Transcentral'. The singles become worldwide hits. 1991 to 1993 - Enlists...
In this article: Bill Drummond, 1998 World Cup, 3AM Eternal, Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid, Justified and Ancient, What Time Is Love, and Tracey Emin
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K Foundation
K Foundation The K Foundation was an art foundation set up by Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty (The KLF) in 1993, following their 'retirement' from the music industry. The Foundation served as an artistic outlet for the duo's post-retirement...
In this article: K Foundation, Bill Drummond, Jimmy Cauty, Turner Prize, Rachel Whiteread, Brilliant, Jura, and NME
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Burn the Bastards
...burning of GBP 1 million. On 5 March 1988, Drummond and Cauty released The KLF's debut single "Burn the Beat", an instrumental house music version of "Burn the Bastards", on their own KLF Communications label. The single also featured...
In this article: Burn the Bastards, Bill Drummond, Jimmy Cauty, Who Killed The JAMs, Dance to the Music, ABBA, UK, New Year's Eve, and Dancing Queen
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Bill Drummond
...1987, Drummond and Cauty's independent record label had been named "KLF Communications".) As The KLF, Drummond and Cauty would amass fame and fortune. "What Time Is Love?" - a signature song which they would revisit and revitalise several...
In this article: Bill Drummond, Jimmy Cauty, K Foundation, What Time Is Love, Queen of the South, Illuminatus!, The Teardrop Explodes, Echo & the Bunnymen, and Ian Broudie
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Brutality, Religion and a Dance Beat
...song name, plus a chorus. The band comprised future and past successful musician then Jayne Casey, guitarists Bill Drummond (later with The KLF), Ian Broudie (later of Care and The Lightning Seeds) and Clive Langer (of Deaf School), bassist...
In this article: Big in Japan, Big in Japan, Bill Drummond, Clive Langer, Ian Broudie, The Lightning Seeds, and Deaf School
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Strawberry Switchblade
...signed to Zoo Records, another independent label. The band's first single, "Trees and Flowers", was released after they met Bill Drummond, a Scottish musician who went on to form The KLF. The single was released in July 1983, and sold over...
In this article: Strawberry Switchblade, Rose McDowall, Glasgow, Bill Drummond, Warner Music Group, Orange Juice, The First Class, and Japan
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Extreme Noise Terror
...KLF Communications and won Single of the Week from both the NME and Melody Maker. ENT also worked on the abandoned KLF album The Black Room (the KLF had previously released an ambient album called The White Room), but when Drummond and KLF...
In this article: Extreme Noise Terror, Bill Drummond, Trap Them, John Peel, Napalm Death, Europe, Mark "Barney" Greenway, and Doom
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What Time Is Love?
...audience. The KLF co-founders Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond began releasing music in March 1987, under the pseudonym The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (The JAMs), named after a cultish organisation from The Illuminatus! Trilogy novels.
In this article: What Time Is Love?, Bill Drummond, UK, US, NME, Fuck the Millennium, Jeremy Deller, Glenn Hughes, and Jimmy Cauty
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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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