Bill Drummond

...song is gospel music driven by house music rhythms, incorporating a sample of Petula Clark's 1964 single "Downtown ". In 1987, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty formed The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (The JAMs), and busily released...

In this article: The KLF, Down Town, Downtown, Jimmy Cauty, Petula Clark, NME, James Brown, Axel F, and All You Need Is Love

...demise and subsequent legendary status. The song has commonly been seen as a reply to the Cope song "Bill Drummond Said". As a B-side, Drummond wrote and recorded "The Managers Speech" in which he lamented the state of the music industry...

In this article: Jimmy Cauty, The KLF, K Foundation, What Time Is Love, Queen of the South, Illuminatus!, The Teardrop Explodes, Echo & the Bunnymen, and Ian Broudie

45 is a non-fiction book by Bill Drummond, referred to by The Guardian as a "charmingly barking ma memoir". It collects various short stories written by Drummond between 1997 and 1998. The Urge To Paint (or Have I Got The Strength To 'Just...

In this article: The Guardian, Steven Poole, Charles Shaar Murray, KLF, Democracy, B92, The Magnificent, Iain Sinclair, and Will Self

...the music industry can be about as exciting as shopping for paper towels. But if you have 30-minutes to listen to this riveting talk by Bill Drummond, you'll know every major event that's happened in the industry in the last 130+ years and...

In this article: The Manual, The KLF, and No.1

KLF star's tower opens for village festival Bill Drummond, who owns the Curfew Tower in Cushendall Community festivals are held all over Northern Ireland but few can boast the involvement of a modern music pioneer. Bill Drummond...

In this article: Cushendall, KLF, Northern Ireland, Democracy, 3am Eternal, BRIT Awards, Echo and the Bunnymen, and Georg Solti

"Fuck the Millennium" or "***K the Millennium" is an electronic protest song that was released as a single in 1997 by 2K (Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, better known as The KLF and The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu). Based upon The KLF's acid...

In this article: Jimmy Cauty, The KLF, Fuck the Millennium, What Time Is Love?, Jeremy Deller, Illuminatus!, and Respondent

...fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure. 17 centres around Bill Drummond's latest (harebrained ?) scheme, The17. Drummond has always been highly ambivalent about the (pop) music world, seeking to...

In this article: The Observer, Oxfam, Big in Japan, Echo and the Bunnymen, K Foundation, and KLF

Robert Sandall talks to professional controversialist and KLF founder Bill Drummond With Bill Drummond now, you feel, it's very much a case of 'cometh the time, cometh the man.' Agreeably sane and reasonable: Bill Drummond By his past...

In this article: Jimmy Cauty, KLF, Echo and the Bunnymen, Suicide, The Sun, 3AM Eternal, Select, and Illuminatus!

...vehicle for all manner of artistic concepts or polemical designs. To names such as Malcolm McLaren and Tony Wilson we can add Bill Drummond, former record executive, manager of Echo and the Bunnymen and mastermind of the KLF, here parading...

In this article: Last Choir Standing, K Foundation Burn a Million Quid, Strawberry Fields Forever, Land Rover, IPod, Gavin Bryars, Jimmy Cauty, Echo and the Bunnymen, and Tony Wilson

...music in favour of 17-person choirs | Music | The Guardian 'I'll never willingly put on a CD again' The latest idea of the KLF's Bill Drummond - to reject all recorded music in favour of ad hoc 17-person choirs - is as barmy yet...

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