![]() In a KLF Communications information sheet, Drummond called "Doctorin' the Tardis" "probably the most nauseating record in the world" (a claim also made on the label of the record itself ) but added that "we also enjoyed celebrating the trashier side of pop". you know, something that Timmy Mallett understands'". Skinner called the record an "aberration", to which Drummond pleaded "guilty", adding that "we justified it all by saying to ourselves 'We're celebrating a very British thing here. Drummond recalled the experience in a BBC Radio 1 interview with Richard Skinner in late 1990. "We just had to go with it in the end" agreed Cauty. third day we realised we'd got a number one single". and I said 'that's a Glitter beat, we can't have a Glitter beat on a house record, that won't work at all'. Jimmy had been working on some rhythms for it and he played it for me in the car when we were driving down to the studio. "We were going to make a dance record", Drummond explained, "a house recording using the Doctor Who theme tune. However, unlike the cultish limited releases of The JAMs, in which Drummond's Clydeside rapping and social commentary were regular ingredients, "Doctorin' The Tardis" was an excursion into the musical mainstream, with the change of name to "The Timelords" and an overt reliance on several iconic symbols of 1970s and 1980s British popular culture, including Gary Glitter's " Rock and Roll Parts 1 and 2", the Doctor Who theme song, Doctor Who's Daleks and the TARDIS, The Sweet's " Block Buster!" and Harry Enfield's character Loadsamoney. The single continued The JAMs' strategy of sampling and juxtaposing popular musical works. The release of "Doctorin' the Tardis" followed a self-imposed break from recording of Drummond and Cauty's sampling outfit, The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (The JAMs). The Timelords followed up their chart-topping record with a "how to have a number one" guide, The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way). The single was not well received by critics but was a commercial success, hitting number one on the UK and New Zealand singles charts, and reaching the top 10 in Australia, Finland, Ireland and Norway. The song is predominantly a mash-up of the Doctor Who theme music and Gary Glitter's " Rock and Roll (Part Two)" with sections from " Blockbuster!" by Sweet. " Doctorin' the Tardis" is a novelty single by the Timelords ("Time Boy" and "Lord Rock", aliases of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, better known as the KLF).
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