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Cauty and Drummond subsequently documented the making of the record and provided tips and instructions for anyone wishing to emulate their success in a book, The Manual: How To Have A Number One Hit The Easy Way. Throw in a playground-friendly chant of “Doctor Who-ooo, Doc, Doctor Who” and a few Dalek-style renditions of popular catchphrases of the day and hey presto! Instant number one single. To prove the point, he and Cauty set about welding together sections of The Sweet’s Blockbuster, Gary Glitter’s Rock ‘n’ Roll and the theme from Doctor Who. Seeing that their experiments in sampling had been taken up and given a pop sheen by the likes of Bomb The Bass and S-Express, the ever-wily Drummond realised that this could be taken to even more populist extremes. The duo travelled to Sweden to symbolically set light to the albums, an event which inspired the later recordings Build A Fire and Burn The Bastards.Īfter releasing further singles and a second album, Who Killed The JAMS?, Drummond and Cauty laid the Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu to rest at the end of 1987 and set their sights on mainstream chart success. The single was eventually released in a heavily edited form, but Abba took great exception to the sample of Dancing Queen on the album track The Queen And I and insisted that all copies of the album be destroyed. Cauty had previously been a member of the ironically named mid-’80s chart also-rans Brilliant, while Drummond was already a music business veteran, having been a member of Big In Japan (alongside Holly Johnson and future Lightning Seeds main man Ian Broudie), managed The Teardrop Explodes and recorded a solo album for Creation in 1986, amongst other ventures.įormed on New Year’s Day 1987, the Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu’s first single All You Need Is Love and album 1987: What The Fuck’s Going On? were critically acclaimed, but strangled at birth by a million apoplectic copyright lawyers when they spotted that the recordings seemed to be an attempt to sample every record ever made, from the Beatles’ All You Need Is Love to Samantha Fox’s Touch Me (I Want Your Body).
The Timelords were an off-shoot of art terrorism duo The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu, consisting of Jimmy Cauty (‘Rockman Rock’) and Bill Drummond (‘King Boy D’).
Writers: Nicky Chinn, Mike Chapman, Ron Grainer, Gary Glitter, Mike Leander, The Timelords.
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