Reighley, Kurt B. (26 May 1999). "Hear No Evil". Seattle Weekly. Archived from the original on 16 October 2007. K Foundation: Nailed To The Wall". The Face. January 1994. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/374 In numbering schemes: for instance, the debut single "All You Need Is Love" took the catalogue number JAMS 23, while the final KLF Communications Information Sheet was numbered 23; and Cauty's Ford Galaxie police car had on its roof the identification mark 23. Music press journalists were occasionally invited to witness the defacements. In December 1987, a Melody Maker reporter was in attendance to see Cauty reverse his car Ford Timelord alongside a billboard and stand on its roof to graffiti a Christmas message from the JAMs. [35] In February 1991, another Melody Maker journalist watched the KLF deface a billboard advertising The Sunday Times, doctoring the slogan " THE GULF: the coverage, the analysis, the facts" by painting a 'K' over the 'GU'. Drummond and Cauty were, on this occasion, caught at the scene by police and arrested, later to be released without charge. [123]

a b Doran, John (5 January 2017). "KLF Announce Return After 23 Year Absence". The Quietus . Retrieved 5 January 2017. Chill Out, an ambient house album which had its roots in Cauty's chill-out sessions with The Orb's Alex Paterson, was released in February 1990. Described by The Times as "The KLF's comedown classic", [29] Chill Out was named the fifth best dance album of all time in a 1996 Mixmag feature. [30] Tingen, Paul (January 1999). "Spike Stent: The Work of a Top Flight Mixer". Sound on Sound . Retrieved 17 March 2020.Bill Drummond explained his motivations in an interview: "It was an excuse to say a lot of things I wanted to say about how the industry worked. It was an excuse to go out and say to people all they can say to themselves: If you want to do something, go and do it! Don't wait to be asked, don't wait for a record company to come and want to sign you or a management company. Just go and do it. Also, it was saying: If you wanna have number one...you can have it. It won't make you rich, it won't make you happy, but you can have it." [1] Influence and reach [ edit ] Charles Shaar Murray wrote in The Independent that "[Bill] Drummond is many things, and one of those things is a magician. Many of his schemes... involve symbolically-weighted acts conducted away from the public gaze and documented only by Drummond himself and his participating comrades. Nevertheless, they are intended to have an effect on a worldful of people unaware that the act in question has taken place. That is magical thinking. Art is magic, and so is pop. Bill Drummond is a cultural magician..." [78] a b c Drummond, Bill (October 1987). "KLF Info Sheet Oct 1987". Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 11 March 2007. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/500 KLF Communications - Information Sheet 23". KLF Communications. May 1992. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 5 October 2007. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/514

After absconding from the Illuminatus! production in London, Drummond returned to Liverpool and co-founded the band Big in Japan. [9] [10] Other members included Holly Johnson ( Frankie Goes to Hollywood), Budgie ( Siouxsie and the Banshees), Jayne Casey ( Pink Military/ Pink Industry) and Ian Broudie ( The Lightning Seeds). [10] After the band's demise, Drummond and another member, his best friend [9] David Balfe, founded Zoo Records. Zoo's first release was Big in Japan's posthumous EP, From Y To Z and Never Again. They went on to act as producers of the debut albums by Echo & the Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes, both of which Drummond would later manage somewhat idiosyncratically. With Zoo Music Ltd, Drummond and Balfe were also music publishers for Zodiac Mindwarp and The Love Reaction and The Proclaimers. The production team of Drummond and Balfe was christened The Chameleons, who recorded the single "Touch" together with singer Lori Lartey as Lori and the Chameleons [17] and were involved with the production on Echo & the Bunnymen's debut album, released on the Korova label. In late 1988, the duo and released their first singles under the moniker The KLF, " Burn the Bastards" and " Burn the Beat" (both taken from the JAMs' last album). (From late 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 times in the coming years – saw its first release in July 1988, and its success spawned an album, The "What Time Is Love?" Story, in September 1989. [ citation needed]

Official Synopsis

The KLF, Das Handbuch, Der schnelle Weg zum Nr. 1 Hit, 2 audio CDs read by Bela B. Universal Music, 2003. ISBN 3-8291-1352-8.

Pavan K Varma’s “The Great Hindu Civilisation: Achievement, Neglect, Bias and the Way Forward”, Westland (2021) a b Harrison, Allan. "The White Room". Splendid (review). Archived from the original on 12 November 2006. a b Drummond, Bill (December 1990). "Saturday Sequence" (Interview). Interviewed by Richard Skinner. BBC Radio 1. Archived from the original on 24 May 2006. In a comprehensive examination of the KLF's announcement and its context, Select called it "the last grand gesture, the most heroic act of public self destruction in the history of pop. And it's also Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty's final extravagant howl of self disgust, defiance and contempt for a music world gone foul and corrupt." [5] Many of the KLF's friends and collaborators gave their reactions in the magazine. Movie director Bill Butt said that "Like everything, they're dealing with it in a very realistic way, a fresh, unbitter way, which is very often not the case. A lot of bands disappear with such a terrible loss of dignity". Scott Piering said that "They've got a huge buzz off this, that's for sure, because it's something that's finally thrilling. It's scary to have thrown away a fortune which I know they have. Just the idea of starting over is exciting. Starting over on what? Well, they have such great ideas, like buying submarines". Even Kenny Gates, who as a director of the KLF's distributors APT stood to lose financially from the move, called it "Conceptually and philosophically... absolutely brilliant". Mark Stent reported the doubts of many when he said that "I [have] had so many people who I know, heads of record companies, A&R men saying, 'Come on, It's a big scam.' But I firmly believe it's over". "For the very last spectacularly insane time", the magazine concluded, "The KLF have done what was least expected of them".Ewing, Tom (12 September 1999). "75. The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - "It's Grim Up North" ". Freaky Trigger . Retrieved 19 October 2023. Indie Top 20 Volume 8 (Sleeve notes). Various Artists. Beechwood Music. 1990. TT08. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link)