KLF is gonna rock you! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Pete Wylie (Wah!, The Mighty Wah!, Wah! Heat)

Big In Japan released one single: "From Y To Z And Never Again", in 1978. Drummond and Balfe started the label Zoo Records specially for this record, but later went on to release the first singles by Liverpudlian bands such as Dalek I Love You, The Teardrop Explodes and Echo & the Bunnymen. Dalfe later founded Food records, which released the first records by Jesus Jones, Dubstar and Blur.

Another member of Big In Japan that you might've heard of was Ian Broudie, who later formed the Original Mirrors and The Lightning Seeds. Even in the punk scene Big In Japan wasn't well liked.

In 1978 someone launched a petition that urged them to break up. When this garnered 2000 signatures the band cut their losses and called it a day.

Answer: Echo & the Bunnymen

The whole tour was shaped as a pair of rabbit's ears. You know, as in 'bunnymen'.

Answer: He wrote a song about him.

On his second solo album, "Fried" (1984), Julian Cope recorded a song called "Bill Drummond Said". On his 1987 solo record "The Man", Bill Drummond featured the song "Julian Cope is Dead", in which he goes into his plan to shoot Julian Cope in the head and thus make sure The Teardrop Explodes reach legendary status.

In his memoir, "45" (2000), Bill Drummond says of Julian Cope: "To have that sort of talent and waste it is a crime against Creation."

Answer: Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

The trilogy tells the tale of the Illuminati, who attempt to rule mankind and who receive individual power - become illuminated - by causing mass deaths. Their arch enemies are The Justified Ancients of Mummu (The JAMs), who represent the primeval power of Chaos.

The JAMs are engaged in a secret war to prevent the Illuminati from destroying the world. At the beginning the JAMs were members of the Illuminati, but they were expelled by a faction, using the slogan "Kick out the JAMs". Bill Drummond discovered that the Illuminati control all the record companies, which is why all music is very dull.

This also explains how they managed to incorporate the anti-JAMs gibe "Kick out the jams" into an MC5 song. That's why he and the JAMs started their own company to bring out good music, and combat the Illuminati. All aboard!

Answer: King Boy D and Rockman Rock

Drummond and Cauty rapped with thick Scottish accents, but it wasn't necessarily the lyrics that made their records so great. It was the shock-tactics, the little injokes, the brilliant pop-art statements and the subversive way they handled sampling. For example in 'Whitney Joins the Jams' they rap about how everyone keeps telling them how someone like Whitney Houston will never make a record with them.

But then her voice kicks in. Which is of course a sample from 'I Wanna Dance with Somebody'.

Answer: All of these

With all copies of their album '1987' aboard their car they set for Sweden. Bjorn'n'Benny refused to see them, so they drove to the nearest fjörd and set fire to all the copies. When an irate farmer noticed what they were doing he chased them away. They kept five copies though. Three they sold through advertisements in magazines, for 1000 pounds each; one they gave away and one they kept for themselves. Do I own a copy? Of course; a mere bootleg though.

A few months later they released "1987 (The JAMS 45 Edits)", with all the samples replaced by blanks and instructions on how to recreate the album at home.

Answer: Gary Glitter

The Timelords were fronted by Ford Timelord, a second hand American police car, that actually spoke and said: "Hi, I'm Ford Timelord. I'm a car, and I've made a record". The song combined two well-known melodies - the Dr. Who theme tune and Gary Glitter's 'Rock & Roll' - to create a post-modern monster hit.

It also used some hip phrases, like 'doctorin', which was a term lots of musicians used to describe sampling and manipulating sounds. Because the song was such a hit Drummond and Cauty decided to publish a manual on how to create a surefire hit single. "The Manual - How to have a number one the easy way" was published in late 1988.

The only people known to have used this manual to score a number one hit was the Swiss project Edelweiss, who ripped off Abba's "S.O.S.", combined it with the song "Edelweiss" from the movie "The Sound of Music" and scored a huge hit with "Bring Me Edelweiss".

Answer: Kylie Said to Jason

'Kylie Said to Jason' sounded not unlike previous JAMs singles, and wasn't a hit either. Next they changed tack and recorded "Chill Out" (1989), a precursor to the ambient-boom, filled with illicit samples and lots of sheep bleating. Very relaxing though. Cauty then teamed up with Dr. Alex Patterson, to form The Orb and record the track "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld"; which was almost as wigged out as the "Chill Out" album. Cauty and Patterson started recording an album, but they fell out and Cauty took the recordings he'd made with him, releasing them as the KLF album "Space" (1990). Drummond and Cauty started rethinking their direction once again, came up with the concept of 'stadium house' and released their 'Stadium House Trilogy'.

Answer: Tammy Wynette

The single was subtitled 'Stand By the Jams', as a reference to 'Stand By your Man'.

Answer: Extreme Noise Terror

At the afterparty the KLF didn't really mingle with the other guests, but merely left a dead sheep and eight gallons of blood in the lobby. On May 5, 1992, the KLF officially retired from the music business at the height of their fame, exactly 15 years after Bill Drummond made his first forays into music.

They were deadly serious and it wasn't a ploy to sell more records, because they deleted their entire back catalogue. For their further adventures as the K Foundation and more you'll have to wait for my next quiz on The Lords of Mu. Over & out.