The KLF were one of the seminal bands of the British acid house
movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Beginning in 1987,
Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty 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. 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. With The KLF's profits, Drummond
and Cauty established the K Foundation and sought to subvert the art
world, staging an alternative art award for the worst artist of the
year and burning a million pounds sterling in The K Foundation burn a
million quid. Although Drummond and Cauty remained true to their word
of May 1992—the KLF Communications catalogue remains deleted—they have
released a small number of new tracks since then, as the K Foundation.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KLF
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1841:
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that captive Africans who seized control
of La Amistad, the trans-Atlantic slave-trading ship carrying them,
had been taken into slavery illegally.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amistad_(1841))
1862:
Ironclad warships USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fought to a draw in the
Battle of Hampton Roads.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads)
1916:
General Pancho Villa led Mexicans raiders in a cross-border attack
against Columbus, New Mexico, prompting a punitive expedition from the
U.S. military.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Villa)
1945:
A bomb raid on Tokyo started a firestorm, killing 100,000.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_in_World_War_II)
1959:
Barbie, the world's best-selling doll, debuted at the American
International Toy Fair in New York City.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie)
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Wikiquote of the day:
Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to
the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page
sells that book. The last page sells your next book. -- Mickey
Spillane
(
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mickey_Spillane)