Eat that, Cowell!

You've heard of starmakers, the Cowells and Walshs of this world, moulding and promoting prospective pop idols like puppeteers? Well, ex KLF duo Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty are claiming to have gone at least one step further in declaring that "they plucked a young Buddy Holly impersonator [Pete] Doherty from obscurity and made him a media darling" in "one of the largest hoaxes in British history". Genius.

Incidentally, in the latest installment of the A-Z Of Music feature on The Art Of Noise, Del profiles Drummond and Cauty's musical career.

According to a friend of mine who knows Drummond quite well, he's "just a really nice down-to-earth guy who drives a clapped-out Range Rover and eats raw carrots and apples". Not the sort of person you expect to be a media terrorist, now, is he?

(Thanks to Simon for the link.)