Bill Drummond: 45
Charles Shaar Murray, Independent, The, 2000
"POP MUSIC," writes Bill Drummond, "has become like a cancer that has spread through my whole body and is now affecting my brain." Having been responsible for some seriously bizarre interventions into the popkulch arena during the last fifteen years, no-one can accuse him of not fighting back against the disease.
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