The KLF
Band
Country: Great Britain
Carier start: 1987
Genre:
Country: Great Britain
Carier start: 1987
Genre:
Bill Drummond (at that time - a successful music functionary) and not too successful rock musician Jimmy Cooty joined forces in 1987. The project was named The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, but almost immediately two more titles were launched - The Timelords and Kopyright Liberation Front (aka just KLF). The music Bill and Jimmy recorded was reminiscent of hip-hop and acid house, often mixed with Drummond's socially leftist rap and invariably stuffed with illegal samples. Long fragments of songs by Whitney Houston, Samantha Fox and even ABBA were used. For such liberties, the group was repeatedly brought to trial for copyright infringement. The first big hit was The Timelords' single "Doctorin The Tardis", built around a theme from the television series "Dr Who". In Britain, the track rose to number one on the charts and even had some success in the United States. Around the same time, Drummond and Cooty published The Manual, a cynical tale of how to record a number one hit with no money or talent. Many pop stars such as Scooter, Ace of Base and Chumbawamba later admitted to using "Manual" as a guide to action.
In 1990, the KLF launched an attack on two fronts. On the one hand, the duo released the conceptual ambient album "Chillout", which was immediately recognized as a masterpiece, on the other - with a little combing of the arrangements, they began to storm the pop Olympus. The singles "Last Train To Trancentral", "What Time Is Love" and "Justified And Ancient" made it to the top five in the United Kingdom, while "3 AM Eternal" topped the chart, also becoming the fifth in the United States. The affair ended with the release of The White Room, two leftist bullies, Drummond and Cooty became the top-selling artists of 1991. The deed was done.
On February 12, 1992, at the BRIT Awards, KLF put on their last show. During the performance of the song "3AM Eternal", metallers Extreme Noise Terror took the stage with KLF, and to a deafening guitar roar, Bill Drummond, dressed in a kilt, shot the audience with a machine gun. Of course, with blank cartridges. "Ladies and gentlemen! KLF have left the music industry! ”Announced a final voice from offstage. Since then, Drummond and Cooty have really kept their nose out of show business. Although they played a little music (Cotey, for example, briefly reunited with ex-colleague from The Orb Alex Patterson) and were engaged in shocking art projects, the most striking of which was the real burning of a million pounds.
In 1990, the KLF launched an attack on two fronts. On the one hand, the duo released the conceptual ambient album "Chillout", which was immediately recognized as a masterpiece, on the other - with a little combing of the arrangements, they began to storm the pop Olympus. The singles "Last Train To Trancentral", "What Time Is Love" and "Justified And Ancient" made it to the top five in the United Kingdom, while "3 AM Eternal" topped the chart, also becoming the fifth in the United States. The affair ended with the release of The White Room, two leftist bullies, Drummond and Cooty became the top-selling artists of 1991. The deed was done.
On February 12, 1992, at the BRIT Awards, KLF put on their last show. During the performance of the song "3AM Eternal", metallers Extreme Noise Terror took the stage with KLF, and to a deafening guitar roar, Bill Drummond, dressed in a kilt, shot the audience with a machine gun. Of course, with blank cartridges. "Ladies and gentlemen! KLF have left the music industry! ”Announced a final voice from offstage. Since then, Drummond and Cooty have really kept their nose out of show business. Although they played a little music (Cotey, for example, briefly reunited with ex-colleague from The Orb Alex Patterson) and were engaged in shocking art projects, the most striking of which was the real burning of a million pounds.
Awards
BRIT Award
1992 - Best British Group
The BRIT Award awarded to the best British band at the same ceremony became the only one for KLF. KLF's appearance on the list of nominees for the 1993 Juno Award for Best Single (with the song "Justified And Ancient") looked like hello from the other world. It seems that if Drummond and Cooty had got this prize, the statuette would have remained untouched.
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