[kj] Abba covers

Papa Lazarou circuit_bender at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 10 12:44:10 EST 2005


I understand their sentiment, but there's a lot of other things you could do, to get rid of a million quid...more psychotic than Jaz?
 
http://www.klf.de/articles/?article=42
 
'On 23 August 1994, Drummond and his partner Jimmy Cauty travelled to the Isle of Jura and, before a sceptical invited audience, ritually burned 1 million - in notes - of their own cash. Both in their late thirties, they'd earned the money as the men behind one of the UK's most unlikely pop groups. In 1991, The KLF, an acronym for Kopyright Liberation Front, was the bestselling British act in the world. Riding the post-acid house boom in club music, they could do no wrong: every tune they touched turned to gold. But the next year, they opened the Brit Awards with a scathing performance, backed by a co-opted heavy metal band. At the end of it, a stunned audience heard them announce that "The KLF have left the music business". A freshly slaughtered sheep was laid at the entrance to the post-awards party, with a tag reading: "I died for ewe. Bon appetit." They had been presented with the coveted gong for best group, then immediately dissolved themselves. Then, in 1994, they burn
 ed most
 of the money they'd made up to that point. Why?'

fatpotanga <fatpotanga at gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, well a good slug of it. From what I’ve read journo’s were stuffing their pockets with as much as they could before the flames.
I saw a pic of the withdrawal receipt somewhere.

There’s making a statement and there’s making a statement.
I think I’d rather buy some scuzzy T shirt.



On 9/11/05 23:01, "Papa Lazarou" wrote:

Someone has to mention the KLF 'dancing queen'...did those boys really burn a million?


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