De La Soul returned as a guest on the third Gorillaz studio album, Plastic Beach alongside Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys on the song " Superfast Jellyfish ".

Gorillaz, the virtual pop band have shown support through a TV spot showing animated frontman, 2D, meditating with fellow supporters outside of the Chinese embassy, followed by a brief message encouraging people to join the Free Tibet Campaign.

Democrazy is a 2003 vinyl-only double EP by Damon Albarn, frontman of British rock band Blur, the animated group Gorillaz and most recently the unnamed band behind the album titled " The Good, the Bad and the Queen ".

He continued the relationship formed with frontman Damon Albarn by contributing guitar to Gorillaz ' 2005 album Demon Days.

* David Coulter, Multi-Instrumentalist and Producer / Music Supervisor ; ex-member of Test Dept and The Pogues, has played Musical Saw on numerous albums and live with a who's who of Contemporary Popular Music: Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, Tom Waits, Hal Willner, Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Faithfull, Tim Robbins, The Tiger Lillies.

Graham Coxon recorded a string of solo albums, while Damon Albarn dedicated his time to Gorillaz, the animated band he had created with Jamie Hewlett.

* 2D, the fictional character from Damon Albarn's virtual band Gorillaz, comes from Crawley, according to the back-story created for them.

Two modern examples of the " cartoon rock group " could include the British band, Gorillaz — a musical project created in 1998 by British musician Damon Albarn and British cartoonist Jamie Hewlett, and Dethklok, a fictional death metal band created by Brendon Small.

After the 1995 film, Hewlett went on to make his fortune creating Gorillaz with Blur's Damon Albarn.

* Blur's video for " For Tomorrow ", the video for " Kingdom of Doom " by Blur lead singer Damon Albarn's 2007 project The Good, the Bad and the Queen, and in the video for " Tomorrow Comes Today " by further side project Gorillaz

More recent work includes his involvement in the project The Good, the Bad & the Queen in 2007 with Damon Albarn, Simon Tong and Tony Allen and the Gorillaz album, Plastic Beach in 2010, which along with Albarn saw him reunite with Mick Jones.

Paul reunited with Damon Albarn and Mick Jones on the new Gorillaz album Plastic Beach, and is also the bassist of the Gorillaz live band supporting Plastic Beach, along with Mick Jones on guitar.

* Damon Albarn ( Blur / Gorillaz )

* Damon Albarn ( Blur ; Gorillaz )

On 29 May, Damon Albarn's Gorillaz topped the album charts with Demon Days.

* Damon Albarn ( Gorillaz )

The song " Time Keeps On Slipping ", featuring Damon Albarn, is said to have been the influence on the creation of the Gorillaz.

They came together when Galea created a dub remix of the Gorillaz ' " Tomorrow Comes Today " (" Tomorrow Dub ", which was released as a B-side on the " Tomorrow Comes Today " single ), which Gorillaz founder Damon Albarn liked so much that he asked Galea to remix the whole album Gorillaz.

On 15 November 2010, Damon Albarn revealed on the Radio 4 ' TODAY ' Show that Hallsands is the beach which inspired him and Jamie Hewlett to produce the Gorillaz Plastic Beach LP.

In an August 2008 Observer interview, Gorillaz band members Albarn and Hewlett revealed the nature and title of the project, Journey to the West, a movie adaptation of the opera of the same name based on a 16th-century Chinese adventure story also known as Monkey.

Albarn founded Gorillaz with Jamie Hewlett in 1998.

Gorillaz is a virtual band composed of four animated band members created in 1998 by Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl.

Tong appeared as a live replacement for ex-guitarist Graham Coxon in Blur, and as additional guitarist for Gorillaz ( both Jones and Tong played guitar for Demon Days Live ).

In Gorillaz: Rise of the Ogre, 2-D claims to have " played some divvy panpipes " for " Rock the House " during a track-by-track of the Gorillaz album.

He has also played on tour with Blur, Gorillaz and the unnamed supergroup responsible for The Good, the Bad & the Queen.

A song from the band Gorillaz is named " Clint Eastwood ", and features references to the actor, with the iconic yell featured in The Good, the Bad and the Uglys score heard at the beginning of the video.

* Gorillaz ' song " Dare " from their 2005 album Demon Days begins with a rapid, rising Shepard glissando.

* " People ," 2005 B-side from the virtual band Gorillaz single " Dare " ( song )

The song " M1 A1 ", from the self-titled 2001 Gorillaz album samples the pulsing synthesizers and cries of " Hello!

The song " Hip Albatross ", also by Gorillaz, features a clip of Terry Alexander's dialogue.

Furthermore, the artwork for the song " November has Come " off of the Gorillaz ' 2005 album Demon Days has a picture of a calendar pinned to a brick wall set to the month of October with all the dates marked off in red Xs ( reminiscent of the opening scene in Day of the Dead ).

Willis appeared in the music video for the song " Stylo " by Gorillaz.

He often fills in for rapper Mos Def on the Gorillaz ' song Stylo on the group's Escape to Plastic Beach World Tour & at the Glastonbury Festival in 2010.

Pazuzu appears on the album cover of the Gorillaz compilation album D-Sides and as a statue in front of the band's former recording studio, as well as in the promo video for the band's song Dare, the promo video for the song Rockit, and the unmade promo video for Rhinestone eyes.

Smith more recently provided guest vocals on the new Gorillaz album Plastic Beach, on the song " Glitter Freeze ", and joined the group Shuttleworth to record the World Cup song England's Heartbeat.

* Title song: " 19-2000 ( Soulchild Remix )" by Gorillaz

* a song by the Gorillaz on Gorillaz ( album )

* The vehicle is used in the music video to the Gorillaz song " Dirty Harry ".

In their song, " The Sounder ", the virtual band Gorillaz makes a reference to the Tokyo Dome, saying: " Gorillaz rock the dome just like the one in Tokyo.

* " 911 ", a song by Gorillaz, D12 & Terry Hall on the Bad Company soundtrack

The virtual band Gorillaz also used the guzheng in their song " Hong Kong " from the Help!

Used in Gorillaz song Hong Kong which appears on the albums Help!

The track " A Rappy Song " has often been mis-labeled as an unnamed Gorillaz ' track featuring Bootie Brown & Cee-Lo Green, however the song is little more than a remix made by a fan.