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The KLF (also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, furthermore known as The JAMs, The Timelords and other names) were a British acid house band of the late 1980s and early 1990s.〔IMO Records. ("The KLF Biography" ), ''IMO Records' Retrieved on 29 February 2011.〕 Beginning in 1987, Bill Drummond (alias King Boy D) and Jimmy Cauty (alias Rockman Rock) 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. The KLF released a series of international hits on their own KLF Communications record label, and became the biggest-selling singles act in the world for 1991.〔Bush, J., KLF biography, ''Allmusic'' ((link ))〕 The duo also published a book, ''The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way)'', and worked on a road movie called ''The White Room''. From the outset, they adopted the philosophy espoused by esoteric novel series ''The Illuminatus! Trilogy'', gaining notoriety for various anarchic situationist manifestations, including the defacement of billboard adverts, the posting of prominent cryptic advertisements in ''NME'' magazine and the mainstream press, and highly distinctive and unusual performances on ''Top of the Pops''. Their most notorious performance was a collaboration with Extreme Noise Terror 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 one million pounds sterling. Drummond and Cauty remained true to their word of May 1992; the KLF Communications catalogue remains deleted in the UK, but ''The White Room'' is still being pressed in the U.S. by Arista. They have released a small number of new tracks since then, as the K Foundation, The One World Orchestra and most recently, in 1997, as 2K. ==History== In 1986, Bill Drummond was an established figure within the British music industry, having co-founded Zoo Records,〔Reynolds, Simon, ''Rip It Up And Start Again: Post-punk 1978–1984'', ISBN 0-571-21570-X〕 played guitar in the Liverpool band Big in Japan,〔"Big In Japan - Where are they now?", ''Q Magazine'', January 1992 ((link ))〕 and worked as manager of Echo & the Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes.〔"Tate tat and arty", ''New Musical Express'', 20 November 1993 ((link ))〕 On 21 July of that year, he resigned from his position as an A&R man at record label WEA, citing that he was nearly 33⅓ years old (33⅓ revolutions per minute being significant to Drummond as the speed at which a vinyl LP revolves), and that it was "time for a revolution in my life. There is a mountain to climb the hard way, and I want to see the world from the top".〔"Special K", ''GQ'' magazine (April 1995), quoting "a ringingly quixotic press release" issued by Drummond in 1986 ((link )).〕 He released a well-received solo LP, ''The Man'', judged by reviewers as "tastefully understated,"〔Robbins, I., "KLF", ''Trouser Press'' magazine ((link )). Retrieved 20 April 2006.〕 a "touching if idiosyncratic biographical statement"〔Wilkinson, R., "''The Man'' review", ''Sounds'', 8 November 1986 ((link )).〕 encapsulating "his bizarrely sage ruminations",〔du Noyer, P. (1986), "''The Man''" review, ''Q'' magazine, December (?) 1986 ((link )).〕 and "a work of humble genius: the best kind".〔 Artist and musician Jimmy Cauty was, in 1986, the guitarist in the commercially unsuccessful three-piece Brilliant〔 - an act that Drummond had signed to WEA Records and managed.〔LeRoy, D., Brilliant biography, ''Allmusic'' ((link ))〕 Cauty and Drummond shared an interest in the esoteric conspiracy novels ''The Illuminatus! Trilogy'', and, in particular, their theme of Discordianism, a form of post-modern anarchism. As an art student in Liverpool, Drummond had been involved with the set design for the first stage production of ''The Illuminatus! Trilogy'', a 12-hour performance which opened in Liverpool on 23 November 1976.〔The production was staged by Ken Campbell's "Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool". Ian Broudie recalled meeting Drummond during the period of time that the play was staged, in a January 1997 interview with ''Mixmag'' (()). Drummond mentioned Campbell and the play in an interview by Ben Watkins, published by ''The Wire'' magazine in March 1997 (()). Campbell spoke about his production in an interview given to James Nye, first published in ''Gneurosis'' 1991, available at (Frogweb: Ken Campbell ) . Retrieved 2 March 2006.〕〔Logan, B., "Arts: Gastromancy and other animals: Ken Campbell has a new show at the National Theatre - but he'd rather tell Brian Logan about dogs that talk and sucking spirits up your bottom", ''The Guardian'' (Manchester), 29 August 2000, "Guardian Features Pages" section, p14.〕 Re-reading ''Illuminatus!'' in late 1986, and influenced by hip-hop, Drummond felt inspired to react against what he perceived to be the stagnant soundscape of popular music. Recalling that moment in a later radio interview, Drummond said that the plan came to him in an instant: he would form a hip-hop band with former colleague Jimmy Cauty, and they would be called The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The KLF」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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