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"Doctorin' the Tardis" () is an electronic novelty pop single by The Timelords ("Time Boy" and "Lord Rock", aliases of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, better known as The KLF). The song is predominantly a mash-up of the ''Doctor Who'' theme music, Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll (Part Two)" with sections from "Blockbuster!" by Sweet and "Let's Get Together Tonite" by Steve Walsh. The single was not well received by critics but was a commercial success, reaching number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in June 1988, and in New Zealand, and charting in the Top 10 in Australia, Ireland and Norway. 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)''. ==Context== 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 single continued The JAMs' strategy of plagiarising and juxtaposing popular musical works. 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 Glitter, the ''Doctor Who'' theme song, ''Doctor Who's'' Daleks and the TARDIS, Sweet's "Blockbuster!" and Harry Enfield's character 'Loadsamoney'.〔KLF Online, Sample City toolkit. Issue 1 - Doctorin’ The Tardis ((link ))〕 The song features riffs from the 1973 hit "Block Buster!" by Sweet and from Gary Glitter's 1972 debut hit "Rock and Roll Parts 1 and 2". Its name is a reference to "Doctorin' the House" by Coldcut. Drummond and Cauty often claimed that the song was the result of a deliberate effort to write a number one hit single. However, in interviews with ''Snub TV'' and BBC Radio 1, Drummond offered a more plausible explanation. "We went into the studio on a Monday, thinking we were going to make a house track, a regular underground dance house track using the Doctor Who theme tune... () we () realised it was in triplet time and you can't have house tracks in triplet time. The only beat that would work with it was the Glitter beat. By Tuesday evening we realised we had a number one and we just went totally for the lowest common denominator". Radio 1 interviewer Richard 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... you know, something that Timmy Mallett understands'".〔Bill Drummond interviewed by Richard Skinner on ''Saturday Sequence'', BBC Radio 1, December 1990 ((MP3 ))〕 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".〔KLF Communications (1988) ''Info Sheet Two'' ((link )).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Doctorin' the Tardis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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