10 iconic Gorillaz moments
Monkey business
Winning a Guinness World Record
A Guinness World Record is an award we’d all secretly love to hold. Being the best in the world, ever, at something is a decent achievement for anyone’s CV. So when the release of the group’s debut album selling seven million copies bagged them the Guinness World Record for Most Successful Virtual Band in 2001 it was a moment to celebrate. I mean, look at the competition: there was Alvin and the Chipmunks, Mystik Spiral from Daria and that boy band Bart Simpson joined that was secretly a covert propaganda machine for the Navy.
