Talk:The Magnificent

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[edit] Article potential

I think there is potential for a decent-sized non-fancruft article here. The motivation for the article is that "One World Orchestra" are not K Foundation but a distinct Drummond/Cauty outfit which isn't properly covered. It would include Robbie Williams, Bosnia/Serbia contradictions, their long-felt desire to cover The Magnificent Seven theme, and their Million Quid Malarky. There's a whole chapter of 45 dealing with it, as well as the following interesting exchange from K Foundation Burn a Million Quid. So there can be decent context, evolution and composition sections, but we would need to find some reviews. We've got the following sources:

• Library of Mu
  • Help diary - track was planned to be first on album;
  • The Fleka obituary;
  • Lamacq interview - including that they phoned him to appeal for Robbie fans to participate during the track's evolution;

• Excerpt from K Foundation Burn a Million Quid
  • 5 December 1995
  • Member of Audience: "If you think it's no good that you're giving a million to charity and that, why did you put that crap song on that crap fucking compilation record for charity? Why raise £1 milion—what the fuck was the point of it?"
  • Cauty: "No, you're right, you're right—it was a mistake; we should never have done that."
  • ...
  • Drummond: "We got asked on the Thursday, would we go into the studio to record a track for the Help album and help the kids in Bosnia? Already we'd agreed that we were going to Serbia that same week to show our film of us burning a million quid to the Serbians ... and we'd been told that the Help album was trying to raise a million quid. … So when we got asked to do this track for this album … we were attracted to the idea that on one side we were doing this track for the kids, to raise a million, while we were actually on the 'other side' showing the film of us actually burning a million and asking if it was a crime against humanity. For some twisted reason we felt that was good. … [W]e phoned up this radio station called Radio B92 in Serbia that was promoting our visit and asked this DJ called Fleka if he'd got anything he'd like to say to the world via a charity record for kids in Bosnia. … We recorded his statement down the phone. We also agreed with Fleka that the track could be a jingle for his show. … Nothing justifies the track—it was a pile of shit but it did serve as a reminder why we should never go back in the studio again—'cos we knew we were past it…"

• 45
  • (Have to be careful here) In which Drummond claims that, according to BBC World Service, the track became the anthem not just of B92 but also of the Serbian democracy movement.

--Vinoir 19:02, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Hey, it's a good job I decided to wikistalk your contributions as this wasn't on my watchlist :P (it is now). Will think about it and reply tommorow. Sounds like there's some potential, and perhaps it could be done at the same time as cleaning up the K Foundation article. As you've probably noticed, I've resumed trawling through my new press clippings library today and I imagine a lot of KF material will pop up. --kingboyk 21:37, 19 June 2006 (UTC)