HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILL DRUMMOND!
Happy birthday to Bill Drummond, born in Butterworth, South Africa on this day in 1953.
excerpt from the wiki : From the outset, the KLF adopted the philosophy espoused by esoteric novels The Illuminatus! Trilogy, making anarchic situationist manifestations, including the defacement of billboard adverts, the posting of cryptic advertisements in NME and the mainstream press, as well as unusual performances on Top of the Pops. In collaboration with the Extreme Noise Terror at the BRIT Awards in February 1992, they fired machine gun blanks into the audience and dumped a dead sheep at the aftershow party. This performance pre-announced The KLF's departure from the music business and, in May of that year, they deleted their entire back-catalogue. Drummond and Cauty established the K Foundationand sought to subvert the art world, staging an alternative art award for the Worst Artist of The Year, and burning one million pounds sterling.
you just knew something was happening when music referenced Mu Mu and Tammy Wynette was employed singing hip hop dance music . . . . . . I was of course intrigued! Art, book publishers and music . . . . . .
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