Sharing the day with another panoply of "names" including Zizi Jeanmaire, William Randolph Hearst, Sir Thomas Beecham, Duke Ellington, Sir Daniel Day-Lewis, Leslie Jordan, Jeremy Thorpe, Uma Thurman, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Celeste Holm, Emperor Hirohito, Tammi Terrell, Andre Agassi, Lonnie Donegan, April Stevens, Baron Jacob Rothschild, Toots Thielemans, Professor Heinz Wolff, conductor Zubin Mehta (who is 90), Willie Nelson, Tommy James of The Shondells, Rod McKuen, Jerry Seinfeld, Jo O'Meara of S-Club 7 and - erm - Bernie Madoff...
...it's Bill Drummond's birthday today. Who? I hear you ask...
He was, of course, the co-founder of that most wonderfully loopy of late 80s/early 90s electro rave combos, The KLF!
I need no more perfect excuse (as if I would need one) to play this, their most completely off-the-wall hit that resurrected the career of a forgotten diva. I love it!
There never was anything like it before, and I very much doubt there'll ever be anything like it again.
I have two KLF CDs. With exception to my club kid Day friends, you might be the only other person I know who knows the KLF. I love the song Justified ancient, and Tammy Wynette was such an odd choice but it worked. One of my favorite songs by them was Last Train to Transcentral and 3am Eternal. Boy does this take me back.......
ReplyDeleteThe KLF, being Scottish (and completely and utterly fruitloop), were a big thing over here - even after the hits dried up, when they made all the headlines through stunts like publicly burning a million pounds!
DeleteThey had a slew of Top 5 hits, and 3am Eternal was #1 for two weeks in early 1991 - at the perfect moment for me, when I had just escaped an unhealthy relationship and was out there a-clubbing and a-shagging... Jx