‘In my MIND and in my CAR…’

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A double-helping of Tom Baker-flavoured electro-pop excitement in a single YouTube video.

First up, the instrumental version of the Human League’s b-side tribute to the toothy Time Lord from 1981. That’s all very well, of course, but the main part (and if you want to skip past Phil Oakey’s synthery to get to it immediately, scrub forward to 4.00) is a brilliant use of Tom’s sterling work for BT in the early Naughties, when he read out any text sent to a landline.

Many utilised this function to hear the Fourth Doctor drop a few f-bombs, but the makers of this clip tried something a little more challenging: they made Tom sing – or rather, intone – the words to the Buggles’ ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’. The results are, as the great man himself might say, really rather good.