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Classic Rock has a feature on Glenn Hughes’ appearance on a KLF track America: What Time Is Love?, although there is little that we didn’t know from before.

All they needed was someone with a screaming voice to match the song’s beefed up sound. Enter Glenn Hughes.

“We were originally supposed to be doing the song with Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses, but he never turned up to the session,” The KLF’s Bill Drummond tod Joel McIver, co-author of Hughes’ 2011 autobiography Deep Purple And Beyond: Scenes From The Life Of A Rock Star. “I can’t remember who the fuck suggested Glenn, but as soon as they did I said, ‘What, that guy who I saw fronting Trapeze in 1971? Great idea!’”

Read more in Louder Sound.

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