The Rise and Fall of The KLF (Part 1)

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In the history of popular music... There have been rebels. There have been revolutionaries. And there have been madmen. But there has never been anyone quite like... The KLF. This is the story of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty... Two musical anarchists with a plan to take over the world. In a Britain divided by Thatcherism... Where acid house was terrifying the establishment... And the music industry was making millions... They hijacked pop culture. Wrote a manual explaining how to manufacture a number one single... And became one of the biggest bands on the planet. They conquered the charts. Sold millions of records. And turned the British music industry upside down. But just as they reached the very top… They decided to destroy everything. At the 1992 Brit Awards, they fired blanks into the audience. Dumped a dead sheep outside an aftershow party. And announced they were leaving the music business forever. They deleted their entire catalogue. Abandoned their career. But their most extraordinary act was still to come... On a remote Scottish island in the dead of night... They burned one million pounds of their own money. This was no publicity stunt. A milli