Mysterious band The KLF burned £1million on remote island and fired machine gun at crowd

dailystar.co.uk:

3am Eternal and Justified and Ancient.Members Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty reportedly burned their debut album in woods in Sweden after Abba refused to let them use samples of Dancing Queen.

But by 1991 they were the bestselling British act in the world. It was their final acts as a band which attracted perhaps the most press attention.They haven't said a lot about the notorious million pounds, but Drummond recently said they didn't regret the move.At the time, it was widely condemned with people pointing out they could have donated the cash to charity.Cauty once said: “There’s plenty of people who want to give money to charity.

We want to do something we found more interesting with the money.”The pair had also reportedly said they wanted to create artwork with Drummond stating that burning the money “seemed the most powerful thing to do”.After winning the award for best band in 1992, no-one at the Brit Awards ceremony could anticipate the chaos that would ensue.The duo had invited hardcore punk band Extreme Noise Terror to collaborate with them for a new version of their hit song 3am Eternal, which resulted in conductor Sir George Solti walking out in disgust.Drummond, ended the performance by firing blanks from a machine gun over the unsuspecting audience.The final words were spoken by their radio plugger, Scott Piering: “The KLF have left the music business.”Later that night, the KLF left a dead sheep outside the venue of an aftershow party, with their Brit Award reportedly found buried in a field near Stonehenge in 1993.Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty deleted their entire back catalogue.They then wrote a vow of silence on a Nissan Bluebird which was pushed off a cliff at Cape Wrath.When they burned all that money on.