{"id":543,"date":"2006-01-12T13:47:16","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T12:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=543"},"modified":"2009-11-03T12:25:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T12:25:31","slug":"song-for-ten-phil-spector-doctor-who-and-the-christmas-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/song-for-ten-phil-spector-doctor-who-and-the-christmas-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"“Song for Ten” – Phil Spector, Doctor Who and The Christmas Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ooohm the BBC are paying attention… a bit. Right at the end of “The Christmas Invasion” (David Tennant’s emergence as the Tenth Docotor on Christmas Day), when he’s choosing his costume and sitting down to his turkey there was a lovely pice of Phil Spector Wall of Sound ish <\/em>music playing that sounded very Christmassy, slightly familiar, but no bugger online had any idea what it was. Beyond ‘gorgeous.’<\/p>\n

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So everyone started hunting. Lots of names bandied around (such as the Mull Historical Society) but the big clue was in the MP3 Directors Commentary published on the BBC website, where Exec Producer Russell T Davies let slip that the song was, in fact, an original piece by Murray Gold, composer for the new Series.<\/p>\n

Ahhh! That means no hunting on the net is going to find a full version. It’s doubtfull there’s a full version anyway, it might just have enough to cover the 90 seconds it was needed for in the show. Pah.<\/p>\n

But not all is lost. The BBC Doctor Who<\/a> site has posted an interview with Gold, that features a link to a 30 second snippet of the track… which isn’t going to replace my audio grabbed version, but it’s a nice touch. Much like posting a clean version of the middle eight. Two things to point out. The first is when asked if it would ever be released, Gold said “If there’s ever an album of Doctor Who music from the series, I’m sure it would be on that.”<\/p>\n

And secondly, the singer, Tim Phillips, has his own site, with more music, and he’s perfect for TPN Rock<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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