As already mentioned, the Doctor Who theme music has been interpreted, re-arranged and modified many times but perhaps never quite so successfully as it was in 1988 when a sentient Ford Galaxie named Ford Timelord spoke to a couple of his friends and inspired them to create this #1 Best-Seller, Doctorin' The TARDIS.
Using the Doctor Who theme with the Glitter Band's Rock & Roll (Part 2) as its core (and riffing on Cold Cut's Doctor In the House for its title) the song also features samples from Blockbuster by Sweet and a whole host of ring-modulated distorted vocals to produce one of the worst novelty songs ever written. Which is fine, as that's the point.
Doctorin' the TARDIS was the brainchild of Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond - later known as The KLF, also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu furthermore known as The JAMS - who also wrote The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way), a work that pretty much does as the title suggests. At the heart of the book is a case-study of Doctorin' The TARDIS, used to illustrate their method (which essentially involves using cheap technology and samples to produce catchy, mindless pop songs.) Given the song's success (and that of Austrian band Edelweiss, who were devotees of The Manual) it proves their methods work...
Doctor Who returns to our screens this Saturday.
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