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music industry veterans who first recorded together under the name Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (or the JAMS), then the Time-lords, and finally the KLF (or Kopyright Liberation Front). By the time they became the KLF, they were dabbling in ambient recordings that weren't making the top of the charts, so in late 1990 Cauty and Drummond moved back to acid house and earned the greatest success of their career. The single "What Time Is Love?" — the first volume in what became known as the Stadium House Trilogy — hit number five on the U.K. singles charts in August 1990. "3 A.M. Eternal" peaked at the number one spot in January 1991, and The White Room LP topped the album charts upon its release in March. The final single in the trilogy, "Last Train to Trancentral," also made Top Ten. The KLF's success carried into Europe during 1991, and even the Americans caught on by September, pushing "3 A.M. Eternal" to number five and The White Room into the Top 40 album charts. The U.S.-only "America: What Time Is Love?" reached number 57 in November 1991, and early in 1992 "Justified and Ancient" — the unexpected pairing of the KLF with country queen Tammy Wynette — almost reached the American Top Ten. Cauty and Drummond, the best-selling singles act in the world during 1991, were on the verge of becoming superstars.



In February 1992, KLF arrived at the Brit Awards to collect an award for the Best British Pop act. There, they absolutely horrified the audience with a hardcore thrash version of "3 A.M. Eternal" that also included Drummond spraying the crowd with blanks from an automatic rifle and the post-performance announcement, "The KLF have left the music industry." The duo also delivered the carcass of a dead sheep — plus eight gallons of blood — to the lobby of the hotel after-party, proclaiming to the industry and the press that they would no record again until peace reigned around the world. On the heels of the historic peace accord between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, KLF returned to the studio to record under the name 2K.