The episode was entitled An Unearthly Child and starred the wonderfully tetchy William Hartnell as the Doctor and Carole Ann Ford as his granddaughter Susan.
It wasn’t until four weeks later that the enemy who became synonymous with the series, the Daleks, entered the natons’ consciousness.
The title music was composed by Ron Grainer and its haunting, and at the time futuristic, nature was realised by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
It’s not given to many musicians to change the course of popular music, but Kraftwerk certainly did. While not inventing electronic music (Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop did that) they were the first to consider it as a new form of popular music. Sadly, founding member Florian Schneider died late last month.
I first heard of Kraftwerk in that famous Tomorrow’s World piece. At the time I thought their sound was a little soulless and wouldn’t catch on. It did.
Kraftwerk: Tour de France
Florian Schneider (Florian Schneider-Esleben:) 7/4/1947 – 21/3/2020. So it goes.
