Peter Capaldi seems to have been revisiting his days as a punk singer, just like a time-travelling Doctor Who.
40 years ago, the actor released his first solo album.
After being inspired by Dr Robert of the Blow Monkeys, the 63-year old, famously used an electric guitar to play the role of the Doctor in Tardis’s Tardis, he returned to the studio and recorded St Christopher.

Peter Capaldi persuaded Doctor Who writers to let him play his guitar in an episode of The Magician’s apprentice on BBC2.
Black and white photographs from the early 1980s show the star performing at the Glasgow School of Art as part of the DreamBoys – screaming into a microphone with a slicked back quiff and wearing a knitted tank top.
He played the guitar alongside fellow students Temple Clark, Roderick Murray and Craig Ferguson, who went on to host the Late Late Show in America, with the quartet gigging in Glasgow’s thriving music scene.
They may have released music and been played by the late John Peel, but Capaldi said they had the ‘worst possible name’.
‘We were trying for a nightmarish Kafkaesque or Dr Caligari feel, not a troupe of Chippendales-type male strippers,’ he told the Observer.
“We did okay. John Peel played our record and it was part of a vibrant scene.
‘But after a while, we were banging our heads against a brick wall.’

Peter Capaldi (center) performing with The Dreamboys in Glasgow’s Third Eye Centre, Glasgow in 1979
Capaldi pursued an acting career, portraying the foul-mouthed Malcolm Tucker and Twelfth Doctor on Doctor Who. He also enjoyed film roles in The Personal History Of David Copperfield and Paddington.
But at 63 he is belatedly releasing his debut solo album after buying ‘a cheap electric guitar’ and making demos while shooting The Suicide Squad in Atlanta.
‘I was in a band at art school and our obsessions back then were melancholia, punk, synthesisers, power chords, rain and being pale and interesting,’ he said.
‘I fell back into that studenty groove. Although when you’re making your first record at 63, some of rock ’n’ roll’s traditional subject matter is closed to you. Don’t worry, I don’t suddenly think I’m a rock star. It was just some friends doing stuff they enjoy that got a bit … elaborate.’

Peter Capaldi recorded his new album, titled St Christopher, after being encouraged by his friend Dr Robert from the Blow Monkeys
Capaldi’s cousin, Lewis Capaldi, is also a musician with his debut album, Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent, the best selling album of 2019 and 2020.
Peter Capaldi convinced Doctor Who writers that he could show his playing abilities on BBC Series.
He played Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony in the Tardis and strummed an electric guitar on board a tank too.