Doctor Who fandom has spread across every corner of the Earth. To celebrate the return of the show to its eighth season, the cast took a worldwide trip to meet fans.
Some of those fans are rock stars you know and love, and sometimes they let you know in the lyrics of their songs. Bands like...
5. Radiohead Lines from the song "Up On the Ladder" have appeared here and there in various Radiohead sites as far back as the OK Computer days. It wasn't until In Rainbows came around that the song in total made it onto a release, and one big change that had been made from the opening lyrics that had been teased before was the inclusion of a reference to the Tardis. This happened just as the revival show was starting to really take off.
4. Massive Attack In 1991 Massive Attack created the first trip-hop album, though nobody called it at the time. The title track of Blue Lines is one of the great smooth-groove electronic songs of the world, and near the end point Tricky comes out of nowhere with the line "Blues get big, Massive are even larger. Save enough space into the tricky Tardis." A clear reference to the bigger-on-the-inside aspect of the blue time ship.
3. Goldfrapp One of the happier, more life-affirming entries in the Goldfrapp discography is Head First from 2010. In the song "I Wanna Life," Goldfrapp tells us that she's in a bar that goes on forever like a Tardis. Strangely enough, Doctor Who is also a Goldfrapp fan, or at least Eighth Doctor companion Lucie Miller is. She mentioned her love of Goldfrapp in a 2007 short story called "Remain In Light."
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