The 17

[2] It has origins in his love of Prime numbers, and his idea of the seventeenth year as a stage of life between the "sweet, coy"[6] sixteen and the full adulthood of eighteen.

The 17 performed in London on 18 March 2012, recreating with the Syrian community an event which was originally planned to take place in Damascus, Syria.

Drummond explained: "it would best for all concerned if the Syrian leg of the tri-nation festival was postponed for a few weeks or maybe months, when things would have undoubtedly settled down.

For many new locations on The 17's World Tour, a Penkiln Burn notice is created with the IMAGINE score translated into the local language.

[14] For many locations on the World Tour, Drummond finds a place to graffiti the first line of the IMAGINE score translated in the local language.

[15] Bill Drummond's 2008 book, titled 17, "draws on the strands of thought that led [him] to instigate The 17", from his childhood, his art school years and his work in the music industry.

The book then documents The 17's first year including the choir's first performances, its reception and development by school children and Drummond's instigation of No Music Day.

Directed by Stefan Schwietert the finished film Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow and All Music Has Disappeared documents a final tour across the UK The Atlantic Archipelago, a series of performances of various incarnations of the 17 along a line drawn across a map of the British Isles from Skegness to Inishmore in line with much of Drummond's artistic practice.

Drummond and photographer Tracey Moberly premiered the film on July 3, 2016, at the junction of the tour line and the Prime Meridian the home of a singer Robert Wyatt and artist Alfie Benge in Louth, England, before a series of, frequently audienceless, screenings in the original Atlantic Archipelago locations, beginning on Skegness beach.