Bill Drummond of the 80s multimedia art project The KLF has gone on record saying he loves Lady Gaga.
“I listen to stuff by accident. I love Lady Gaga,” he told The Quietus. “ Just as a pop phenomenon. I find that interesting, from what I’ve heard. But I mean, we both know I’m never going to be listening to a Lady Gaga CD or download or walking round the streets listening to it on an iPod, but I can still enjoy it.“But there’s a retro thing to it that I don’t really... theoretically I don’t like the idea of retro.”
The KLF were themselves a pop sensation throughout the 80s and early 90s with hits such as ‘What Time Is Love?’ ‘3AM Eternal’ and ‘Last Train To Transcentral’, but unlike their contemporaries they were deliberately repetitive and derivative in an effort to highlight the ridiculousness of pop music at the time.
In 1988 they followed their own advice in a book called ‘The Manual’ - which taught you how to have a number one single - and came up with their first number one, ‘Doctorin The Tardis’ under the name The Timelords.
The song was just built up of samples of various songs and centered around the Dr. Who theme.
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