When the Doctors of Madness broke up in fall 1978, the event was scarcely noticed and barely mourned. Within three years, however, and with the band still firmly in their grave, the group was being heralded not only as one of the crucial landmarks of the mid-'70s transition from glam rock to punk, but also as founding fathers of the latest musical convolution to shake the British landscape. Quite conceivably, the entire Futurist/electro movement of the age, that which thrust the likes of Ultravox, Simple Minds, Depeche Mode, and OMD to the fore, might never have occurred without the Doctors' existence, an achievement rendered even more remarkable by the Doctors' own avoidance of any of the principle trappings of the movement. In an age when synthesizers were regarded as the epitome of icy aloofness, the Doctors were glacial with barely a keyboard in sight.
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