The Timelords- Doctorin' The Tardis

In 1986, Bill Drummond was pretty well established in the British music scene.
He had co-founded Zoo Records, played guitar in the Liverpool band "Big In Japan", and was the manager of "Echo and the Bunnymen" and "The Teardrop Explodes".
At the time, he was talent scout for record label WEA.
On July 26 of that year, he resigned his position.
He stated, "I am nearly 33 1/3 years old.  It is time for a revolution in my life. There is a mountain to climb the hard way, and I want to see the world from the top."
Incidentally, 33 1/3 revolutions per minute is the speed at which a vinyl LP revolves on a turntable.
So he released a well-received solo LP  that was more folksy than anything called "The Man".
On New Years' Day 1987, while taking a walk, he decided to make a hip-hop record.
He called his friend, fellow musician, Jimmy Cauty, and "The Justified Ancients of MuMu" was formed.
They released a couple of albums with Drummond doing most of the vocals.  However, their favorite instrument of choice was the digital sampler with which they would plagiarize the history of popular music.
They sampled everyone from The Beatles to Samantha Fox to Abba to Whitney Houston.
In 1988, Drummond and Cauty became "Time Boy" and "Lord Rock", and released a hit single "Doctorin' the Tardis".  This prompted them to release a book entitled, "The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way)".
Also in 1988, under the names "King Boy D" and "Rockman Rock" they released a few singles as The KLF.
You may remember "3AM Eternal" with the hook "KLF is gonna rock ya".
After successive name changes and a plethora of highly influential dance records, Drummond and Cauty ultimately became, as The KLF, the biggest-selling singles act in the world for 1991.
On February 12, 1992 they performed a live version of "3AM Eternal" at the Brit Awards.
Drummond and Cauty had planned to throw buckets of sheep blood all over the audience but was prevented from doing so by the BBC.  Instead, the performance was garnished by a cigar-chomping, kilt-wearing Drummond firing blanks from an automatic weapon just over the crowd's heads.  As the band left the stage, their promoter made an announcement on the PA system:  "The KLF have now left the music business."  Later that night, the band dumped a dead sheep at one of the after-parties.  It had a message tied around it's waist:  "I died for ewe--bon appetit."