The story of Gorillaz begins in 1997. Stu-Pot was a mentally deficient keyboard enthusiast and star employee at Uncle Norm s Organ Emporium. Satanist hoodlum Murdoc Niccals decided to ramraid Uncle Norm s Organ Emporium to procure synthesizer equipment in order to establish a chart topping musical group. However, Murdoc ended up driving his Vauxhall Astra through the building and directly into Stu-Pot, permanently damaging (fracturing) Stu-Pot s left eye and putting him into a catatonic state. Murdoc was sentenced to 30,000 hours of community service, plus 10 hours every week of caring for the vegetabilised Stu-Pot. Not long after, Murdoc again injured Stu-Pot in a car accident in Nottingham s Tesco parking lot when attempting a 360°, which permanently damaged Stu-Pot s right eye, but revived him from his coma. Murdoc then recruited the newly recovered (albeit still mentally defective) Stu-Pot as the keyboardist and vocalist for his group, re-dubbing him 2D for the matching pair of dents in his head from the accidents.
     
      Murdoc then found a drummer for the group in a So... (More GORILLAZ Biography)