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3 giorni fa · Gary Anthony James Webb (born 8 March 1958), known professionally as Gary Numan, is an English musician. He entered the music industry as frontman of the new wave band Tubeway Army. After releasing two studio albums with the band, he released his debut solo studio album The Pleasure Principle in 1979, topping the UK Albums Chart.
1 giorno fa · Gary Numan at Limelight 1, Belfast. It’s almost 45 years to the day since Gary Numan appeared with Tubeway Army in one of the all-time memorable Old Grey Whistle Test performances, promoting the then-new album Replicas. The band, led by some shamanic, androgynous alien cyborg, felt like a transmission of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders as ...
4 giorni fa · Well, from his performance last night (Saturday) in Norwich, it is not a concern at all, because that voice sounds EXACTLY as it did back in the day when Gary Numan fronted Tubeway Army and had a big hit with “Are Friends Electric?” in 1978 – and then his solo career launched with a big bang on the back of the smash hit “Cars”.
10 ore fa · Gary Numan, Academy, Glasgow ****. Given his fidelity to delivering hits, connoisseur cuts and fan favourites, Gary Numan doesn’t really need an excuse to showcase some of his earliest material ...
4 giorni fa · But, by the end of the Seventies, in a music industry hungry for change, Numan and his band, Tubeway Army, hit all the right notes. In 1979, they shot to fame when their single, ...
5 giorni fa · Others, like The Clash, The Jam and The Cure, resolved to stay the course, giving themselves new challenges while carving out successful careers. Above all, the post-punk landscape was populated with cult heroes. ‘Moving Away From The Pulsebeat’ takes a whistlestop trip through that landscape as the dust settled on the apocalyptic overhaul ...
5 giorni fa · <p>"We're in the building where they make us grow, and I'm frightened by the liquid engineers, like you."</p><p>For this episode, I look back at one of Gary Numan's best-known and best-loved songs, 'Metal', from 1979's The Pleasure Principle.</p><p>The track was the first song on the album with lyrics, and was inspired by the writings of Philip K Dick, about a machine with a desire to be human ...
