Now That I Own the BBC

"Now That I Own the BBC" is a song by American pop and rock duo Sparks, which was released in Europe in 1995 and the UK in 1996 as the third and final single from their sixteenth studio album Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins (1994).

Sparks originally envisioned recording the song using different broadcasting company names in the title and lyrics, and releasing them as singles in their respective countries.

In a 1996 interview with VH1, Ron Mael revealed, "We were actually thinking at one point of making this a song that would be different in every single country.

[3] In 2024, to mark the 30th anniversary of the parent album, the original music video was released in HD on the band's YouTube channel.

Upon its release as a single in the UK, Dave Jennings of Melody Maker considered "Now That I Own the BBC" to be musically "one of the [duo]'s less memorable disco-pop doodles", but praised the lyrics as "a wonderfully wicked fantasy of revenge for years of unforgivable airplay deprivation" and "a truly magnificent flight of berserk imagination".