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Gary Numan (born Gary Anthony James Webb on March 8, 1958, in Hammersmith, West London) is an English singer, composer, musician and electropop pioneer. He is widely remembered for his chart-topping 1979 hit "Cars". Numan's signature style combines gloomy themes of depersonalization and alienation accompanied by energetic synthesizer work. â€œGarry Newmanâ€ redirects here. ... March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hammersmith is an urban centre in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in West London, England, approximately 5 miles (8km) west of Charing Cross on the north bank of the River Thames. ... Satellite image of the inner part of West London Ayad Dibis is the best in West London. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... For other uses, see Electronic music (disambiguation). ... The New Wave was a movement in American, Australian and British popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, growing out of the New York City musical scene centered around the club CBGB. The term itself is a source of much confusion. ... The text below is generated by a template, which has been proposed for deletion. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Industrial rock is a musical genre which is a fusion of post-industrial music and rock music. ... For experimental rock music, see experimental rock. ... The term singer-songwriter refers to performers who both write and sing their own material. ... â€œInstrumentalistâ€ redirects here. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... Piano, a well-known instance of keyboard instruments A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. ... For other uses, see Synthesizer (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Guitar (disambiguation). ... The electric bass guitar (or electric bass) is a bass string instrument played with the fingers by plucking, slapping,popping or using a pick. ... â€œPercussionâ€ redirects here. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Metropolis Records is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based record label, distributor, and mail-order store specializing in the electro-industrial, synthpop, futurepop, darkwave, and gothic musical genres. ... Beggars Banquet is an English independent record label that began as a chain of record shops owned by Martin Mills and Nick Austin, and is part of the Beggars Group of labels. ... I.R.S. Records was started in the US in 1979 by Miles Copeland (the older brother of Stewart Copeland, drummer of The Police). ... Eagle Records is a record label. ... Tubeway Army (1977â€“1979) were a London-based punk and New Wave band led by Gary Webb. ... From sleeve photograph of Tubeway Army single Bombers (1978) Paul Gardiner (1 May 1958 - 4 February 1984) was a British musician best known for playing bass guitar with Gary Numan and Tubeway Army. ... Shakatak is a light pop/jazz/funk group founded in the early to mid 1980s, from the UK. They scored a number of top 10 hits, including Easier Said Than Done (1981) and Down on the Street (1984). ... is the 67th day of the year (68th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hammersmith is an urban centre in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in West London, England, approximately 5 miles (8km) west of Charing Cross on the north bank of the River Thames. ... Satellite image of the inner part of West London Ayad Dibis is the best in West London. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Electropop (also called Technopop) is a form of synth pop music that is made with synthesizers, and which first flourished from 1978 to 1981. ... Cars is a 1979 song by Gary Numan, released as a single and on the album The Pleasure Principle. ...

Career

After education at Slough Grammar School, Numan rose to prominence at the tail end of the 1970s, initially recording under the band name Tubeway Army. After recording an album's worth of punk-influenced demo tapes (released in 1984 as The Plan), he was signed by Beggars Banquet Records in 1978 and quickly released two singles, "That's Too Bad" and "Bombers", neither of which charted. A self-titled, New Wave-oriented debut album later that same year sold out its limited run and introduced Numan's fascination with dystopian science fiction and, more importantly, synthesizers. Tubeway Army's third single, the cinematic "Down in the Park" (1979) also failed to chart but it would prove to be one of Numan's most enduring and oft-covered songs; a live version of it can also be seen in the movie Urgh! A Music War. After exposure in a television advertisement for Lee Cooper jeans with the jingle "Don't be a dummy", Tubeway Army released the single "Are 'Friends' Electric?" in May 1979. The single took seven weeks before it finally reached #1 at the end of June; the parent album Replicas simultaneously climbing to #1 in the album charts. Slough Grammar School (Language College) is a fully selective Foundation school in Lascelles Road, Slough (originally Buckinghamshire but now Berkshire), and since September 2002 formally named Slough Grammar School (Language College). ... Tubeway Army (1977â€“1979) were a London-based punk and New Wave band led by Gary Webb. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... For other uses, see demo. ... Beggars Banquet is an English independent record label that began as a chain of record shops owned by Martin Mills and Nick Austin, and is part of the Beggars Group of labels. ... Thats Too Bad is the debut single by Tubeway Army, the band which provided the initial musical vehicle for Gary Numan. ... Bombers is the second single by Gary Numan and his band Tubeway Army, released in 1978. ... The New Wave was a movement in American, Australian and British popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, growing out of the New York City musical scene centered around the club CBGB. The term itself is a source of much confusion. ... Tubeway Army is the debut album by Gary Numan and his band Tubeway Army, released in 1978. ... This article is about the philosophical concept and literary form. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... For other uses, see Synthesizer (disambiguation). ... Down In The Park is a 1979 single written and recorded by Gary Numan with his band Tubeway Army. ... Urgh! A Music War is a British film released in 1981 featuring performances of punk and New Wave music, filmed in 1980. ... A television advertisement or commercial (often called an advert in the United Kingdom) is a form of advertising in which goods, services, organizations, ideas, etc. ... Are Friends Electric? is a 1979 song by Gary Numan, released under the name Tubeway Army as a single and on the album Replicas. ... Replicas is an LP by Gary Numan and the Tubeway Army, released in 1979. ...

A few months later he repeated the feat with "Cars", which became a Top 10 hit in America in 1980 as well, and the 1979 album The Pleasure Principle, both released under Numan's own (assumed) name, which he had plucked from an advert in the "Yellow Pages". Topping both single and album charts simultaneously was noteworthy enough; doing so twice in the space of six months was astonishing. A sell-out tour ('The Touring Principle') followed; the concert video it spawned is often cited as the first full-length commercial music video release.^[1]^[2] The Pleasure Principle was a rock album with no guitars; instead, Numan used synthesisers fed through guitar effects pedals to achieve a phased, metallic tone. Self-produced in a fortnight for very little money, The Pleasure Principle sounded like nothing else, and remains one of Numan's most highly-regarded efforts today. A second single from the album, "Complex", made it to #6 in the UK charts. Cars is a 1979 song by Gary Numan, released as a single and on the album The Pleasure Principle. ... The Pleasure Principle is a 1979 New Wave / electronic album by Gary Numan. ... For the use in computing, see Yellow Pages (computing). ... Complex is a 1979 single by Gary Numan. ... The UK Singles Chart is currently compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British record industry. ...

Numan was pop music's first synthesizer star. He wore costumes and make-up and openly proclaimed his influences: David Bowie, Marc Bolan and contemporary electronic acts such as John Foxx's Ultravox. On stage his persona came across as aloof, alien and androgynous; in interviews, however, his disarmingly open manner caught many by surprise. Numan's great popularity and unabashed admiration of wealth alienated critics and even some fellow musicians; Yes recorded a sardonic song about him, "White Car," for their 1980 album Drama, a reaction to his habit of tearing around London in the white Chevrolet Corvette given to him by Beggars Banquet. His one-time idol, David Bowie, refused to appear with Numan on an episode of The Kenny Everett Video Show on which both were scheduled to perform. Numan bewildered the music press. He was a driven, creative, troubled 21-year-old loner who still lived with his parents. He was not punk. He was not quite New Romantic either, and retrospectives of the period tended to ignore him and his influence. Yet, during this period, Numan generated an army of fans calling themselves Numanoids, enough of whom would remain loyal to carry him through the latter half of the 1980s, when his fortunes began to fall precipitously (even before this time, and throughout his commercial peak, Numan was constantly vilified and ridiculed by the UK music press). David Bowie (IPA: []) (born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Ultravox (formerly Ultravox!) was one of the primary exponents of the British electronic pop music movement of the early 1980s. ... If referring to a flower, see disambiguation under bisexual Androgyny is the state of indeterminate gender, or characteristics of gender. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Drama is the twelfth album by British progressive rock group Yes. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The Chevrolet Corvette is the sports car that has been manufactured by Chevrolet since 1953. ... Kenny Everett as Sid Snot Kenny Everett (December 25, 1944-May 26, 1995) was a popular British entertainer, both on Radio and Television. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Punk fashion is the styles of clothing, hairstyles, cosmetics, jewelry, and body modifications of the punk subculture. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

1980s

In 1980 Numan again topped the album charts with Telekon, although the concurrent singles "We Are Glass", "I Die: You Die" and "This Wreckage" only reached #5, #6 and #20, respectively. The final studio album of what Numan retrospectively termed the "Machine" section of his career,^[3] Telekon reintroduced guitars to Numan's music and featured a wider range of synthesisers. The same year he embarked on his second major tour ("The Teletour") with an even more elaborate stage show than The Touring Principle the previous year. Although considered a success, Numan claimed the tour actually lost him a great deal of money because of the vast expense in mounting it. By this time he was weary of the pressures of fame and announced his retirement from touring with a series of sell-out concerts at Wembley Arena in April 1981, supported by Alternative musician Nash the Slash and Shock, a rock/mime/burlesque/music troupe whose members included Barbie Wilde, Tik and Tok and Carole Caplin. The decision to retire would be short-lived – in his autobiography he recalls walking out onto an empty stage after his final concerts and thinking, "What the fuck have I done?" – but it would have a fateful effect on his career, as Numan found the fickle pop audience quickly turned its attention to other artists. Telekon is a 1980 New Wave / electronic album by Gary Numan. ... We Are Glass is a Gary Numan single from 1980. ... This Wreckage is a song written and performed by Gary Numan. ... Wembley Arena at Night (Taken at a live WWE Show). ... Alternative rock (also called alternative music or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ... Nash the Slash Nash the Slash is a Canadian progressive rock, classical, and alternative musician. ... Shock is a music/mime/dance/pop group that was notable in the early 1980s for supporting English pop groups such as Gary Numan, Adam and the Ants, Depeche Mode and Famous Names, led by Steve Fairnie. ... Barbie Wilde is an actress, best known for appearing as the Female Cenobite in Hellbound: Hellraiser II - the second of eight Hellraiser films based on Clive Barkers novella, The Hellbound Heart. Barbie has also performed in cabaret in Bangkok; travelled to Bombay to appear in the Bollywood blockbuster, Janbazz... Robotic mime & music duo Tik and Tok (Tim Dry and Sean Crawford) began performing together with SHOCK: a rock/mime/burlesque/music troupe in the early 1980s with Barbie Wilde, Robert Pereno, LA Richards and Carole Caplin. ...

Turning his back on electropop, Numan experimented instead with jazz, funk and ethereal, rhythmic pop. His career quickly nosedived, eclipsed initially by Adam Ant, and later by Duran Duran, Culture Club, and Depeche Mode. He spent the decade in a creative malaise, trying to recapture his former chart glory with less distinguished albums some of which were stylistically derivative of artists like Robert Palmer and Prince. Each album saw a new "image", none of which captured the public's imagination to nearly the same extent as the lonely android of the late 1970s. His penchant for sharp suits and hats seemed faintly outmoded, while his later adoption of leather and shades seemed opportunistic. Electropop (also called Technopop) is a form of synth pop music that is made with synthesizers, and which first flourished from 1978 to 1981. ... For other uses, see Jazz (disambiguation). ... For other uses, including related musical genres, see Funk (disambiguation). ... For popular forms of music in general, see Popular music. ... For similar terms like Adam Adamant, Atom Ant, adamant, adamantium, etc, see Adamant (disambiguation). ... Duran Duran are an English rock band notable for a long series of popular singles and vivid music videos. ... Culture Club is a popular English new romantic rock group, that achieved considerable global success in the 1980s. ... Depeche Mode are an influential electronic band, who formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex, England. ... Robert Allen Palmer (January 19, 1949 â€“ September 26, 2003), born in Batley, Yorkshire, was an English singer. ... â€œThe Artistâ€ redirects here. ...

Numan had an embarrassing episode in 1981 involving his hobby of flying, which briefly put him in the UK news. Attempting a round-the-world flight in a twin engined Piper Navajo, Numan had to make a forced landing (reported in the press as an outright crash) in India, where he was arrested on suspicion of smuggling and espionage. Contrary to news stories at the time, Numan was not piloting the plane himself during the landing. During the late 1980s, he had his life threatened on several occasions by a mysterious stalker. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Spy and Secret agent redirect here. ...

Numan's first album after his farewell concerts, the bleak, atmospheric and experimental Dance (1981), charted as high as #3 on the UK charts, but it dropped out of the charts after only eight weeks; it featured guests Mick Karn (bass, saxophone) and Rob Dean (guitar) of Japan, Roger Mason (keyboards) of Models and Roger Taylor (drums) of Queen. The more upbeat and danceable I, Assassin (1982) fared less well than Dance: despite spawning three Top 20 singles, the album peaked at #8 and dropped out of the charts after six weeks. Numan supported the album with a concert tour in America in late 1982 (his first series of live shows since his farewell at Wembley). Warriors (1983) further developed Numan's jazz-influenced style and featured contributions from avant-garde musician Bill Nelson (who fell out with Numan during recording and chose to be uncredited as the album's co-producer) and saxophonist Dick Morrissey (who would play on most of Numan's albums until 1991). The album peaked at #12 and, like I, Assassin, spent six weeks in the charts. Warriors was the last album Numan recorded for Beggars Banquet Records, and was supported by a 40-date UK tour (again with support from robotic mime and music duo Tik and Tok) -- Numan's first live tour in the UK since his Wembley appearances in 1981. Numan's look for the album artwork and tour was a black leather costume against a sci-fi post-apocalyptic backdrop, but this latest image change was scorned by the music press despite the sell-out tour and aggressive vibrancy of his new sound. Dance is the title of a 1981 album by electropop artist Gary Numan. ... Mick Karn (born July 24, 1958) is an English musician, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, most noted as the bassist for the 1980s art rock band Japan, from 1974 to 1982. ... Models were an alternative rock group from Melbourne, Australia, formed in August 1978 and splitting in 1987. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Queen are an English rock band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, singer Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor, with bassist John Deacon joining the following year. ... I,assassin I, Assassin is the seventh album recorded and produced by British electronic music pioneer Gary Numan and the second album in the Experimental Trilogy. ... Warriors album Warriors is the eighth album by British musician Gary Numan that finalises the Experimental Trilogy which consisted of Dance and I, Assassin which was many considered by many to be a huge improvement in music quality and style along with also establishing Numan as keeping ahead of a... Experimental music is any music that challenges the commonly accepted notions of what music is. ... Bill Nelson (born William Nelson on 18 December 1948) is a prolific guitarist, songwriter, painter and experimental musician from Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, UK. He currently lives in Selby, Yorkshire, England, UK. // Nelson was educated at the Wakefield College of Art, where he developed an interest in the work of poet... Richard Edwin Dick Morrissey (May 9, 1940, Horley, Surrey - November 8, 2000, Deal, Kent) was a British jazz musician and composer. ...

Now battling against the increasing public perception that he was a spent force, Numan issued a series of albums and singles on his own record label, Numa. The first such album, 1984’s Berserker was also notable for being Numan's first foray into music computers/samplers, in this case the PPG Wave. Berserker moved away from the fluid, fretless sound that characterised Numan's previous three albums, featuring instead harder-edged electric bass and drum sounds. The album was also accompanied by a striking blue-and-white visual image, a tour and a live album/video, but it divided critics and fans and commercially was Numan’s least successful release to that date. 1984 also saw the death of Paul Gardiner, who was Numan's bassist and friend since his Tubeway Army days. Numan's next album, The Fury (1985), charted slightly higher than Berserker, and featured another new image of white suit and red bow tie. To date, The Fury is the last Numan album to crack the British Top 30. Berserker album Berserker is a 1984 album recorded and produced by Gary Numan and was the first Numan album to be released under his self-employed record label Numa Records. ... An AKAI MPC2000 sampler Playing a Yamaha SU10 Sampler A sampler is an electronic music instrument closely related to a synthesizer. ... Palm Products GmbH, commonly abbreviated to PPG, was a synthesizer manufacturing company. ... From sleeve photograph of Tubeway Army single Bombers (1978) Paul Gardiner (1 May 1958 - 4 February 1984) was a British musician best known for playing bass guitar with Gary Numan and Tubeway Army. ... Alternate cover 1998 U.S. release cover Alternate cover 1999 UK reissue cover The Fury is the 1985 album from electronic pioneer Gary Numan, which saw him continuing to explore the sampling-heavy industrial sound he had developed for the previous album Berserker (1984). ...

Collaborations with Bill Sharpe of Shakatak helped little, though one single the duo recorded, "Change Your Mind", did see chart action, reaching #17 in Britain. Numa Records, which had been launched in a flurry of idealistic excitement, folded after the release of Numan's Strange Charm album (1986). In addition to Numa's commercial failure, a lack of radio play (his records were removed from the BBC Radio 1 playlist) and sales drained the fortune (he estimated £4.5 million) Numan had amassed in the late 1970s. Numan signed to IRS Records and his final studio album of the 80s, the edgy, industrial-funk Metal Rhythm (1988) found favour with fans and scored some positive reviews in the UK music press, but it sold poorly. Metal Rhythm's sales were arguably confounded by the lack of strong promotion and IRS's inappropriate choices of singles (the record label also changed the album's title to New Anger, changed the album colour shade from black to blue, and remixed several of its tracks for its American release against Numan's wishes). 1989 saw the release of the Sharpe + Numan album Automatic. A more lightweight-pop effort than Numan's solo albums, Automatic fared less well than Metal Rhythm (and has been out of print since its initial release). Shakatak is a light pop/jazz/funk group founded in the early to mid 1980s, from the UK. They scored a number of top 10 hits, including Easier Said Than Done (1981) and Down on the Street (1984). ... This page redirects from Radio 1. See Radio 1 (disambiguation). ... In its most general form, a playlist is simply a list of songs. ... I.R.S. Records was a record label, started in the US in 1979 by Miles Copeland III along with Jay Boberg and Carl Grasso. ...

1990s

In 1991, Numan ventured into film-scoring by co-composing the music for The Unborn with Michael R. Smith (the score was later released as an instrumental album in 1995, Human). After Outland (1991), another critical and commercial disappointment and his second and last studio album with IRS, Numan reactivated Numa Records, under which he would release his next two albums. However, even Numan considers his 1992 Machine + Soul, a misguided attempt at a purely commercial release recorded solely to pay off debts, a career low point. The album sold only a few thousand copies. By 1994, Numan decided to stop attempting to crack the pop market and concentrate instead on exploring more personal themes, including his vocal atheism. His future wife Gemma encouraged him to strip away the influences of the previous years. Numan re-evaluated his career and went in a harsher, more industrial direction with his songwriting on the album Sacrifice; for the first time, he played almost all the instruments himself. The move was critically well-received, as Numan's harder and darker sound emerged just as Numan-influenced bands like Nine Inch Nails were enjoying their first rush of fame. The influence was two-way; Numan claimed that Nine Inch Nails' song "Closer" is his favourite hit single of all time, and influenced his music. Sacrifice was the last album Numan made before shutting down Numa Records permanently. His next two albums, Exile (1997) and Pure (2000), restored Numan's critical reputation; Numan even toured the U.S. in support of Exile, his first stateside concerts since the early 1980s. â€œAtheistâ€ redirects here. ... Sacrifice is a 1994 album by Gary Numan. ... â€œNINâ€ redirects here. ... Exile is a 1997 album by Gary Numan. ... Pure is a 2000 album by Gary Numan, following on from 1997s Exile. ...

Resurrection of career

After years of ridicule in the press, Numan found himself cited as "the godfather of electronic music" and an artist respected by his peers, with such musicians as Dave Grohl (of Foo Fighters and Nirvana), Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails), Marilyn Manson and the band Nancy Boy proclaiming his work an influence and recording cover versions of old Numan hits. The band Basement Jaxx had a huge hit in 2002 with "Where's Your Head At?", which relied on a sample of Numan's "M.E." - from The Pleasure Principle - for its hook. Fear Factory produced a cover of "Cars" featuring a guest appearance by Numan. Nine Inch Nails covered the song "Metal" on their album Things Falling Apart, as did Afrika Bambaataa (with Numan himself) on Dark Matter Moving at the Speed of Light. "Cars" remains Numan's most enduring song; it was a hit again in 1987 and 1996, in the latter case thanks to an appearance in an advert for Carling beer. In 2000 DJ Armand Van Helden sampled the track and mixed it up in his single "Koochy" which conquered the dancefloors. In 2002, UK pop trio Sugababes scored a #1 with "Freak Like Me" - a mashup of Adina Howard's "Freak Like Me" and "Are Friends Electric" from Numan's Tubeway Army. Other musicians who have sung Numan's praises in recent years include Beck, Grant Nicholas, Tricky, Damon Albarn, Jarvis Cocker, Queens of the Stone Age, David Bowie, and The Smashing Pumpkins (whose album "Siamese Dream" is based on the title of the Numan song "A Dream of Siam" from his 1982 album I,Assassin). Afrika Bambaataa has also talked about the influence of Numan's music on the fledgling American DJ scene: "In the late 70s and early 80s Gary had the rhythms that DJs wanted to get hold of and people waited for his records on the dance floor." 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In 2002, Numan enjoyed chart success once again with the single "Rip", reaching #29 in the UK chart and in 2003 with the Gary Numan vs Rico single "Crazier" which reached #13 in the UK chart. Rico also worked on the remix album Hybrid which featured reworkings of older songs in a more contemporary industrial style. 2003 also saw Gary Numan performing the vocals on a track named "Pray For You" on the Plump DJs album "Eargasm" which was very well received. In 2004 Numan took control of his own business affairs again, launching the label Mortal Records and releasing a series of live DVDs as a precursor to a critically well-received new studio album, Jagged, which was released on 13 March 2006. An album launch gig took place at The Forum, London on 18 March followed by UK, European and US tours in support of the release. Numan also launched a Jagged website to showcase the new album, and made plans to have his 1981 farewell concert (previously released as Micromusic on VHS) issued on DVD by November 2006 as well as releasing the DVD version of the Jagged album launch gig. Numan undertook a Telekon 'Classic Album' tour in the UK in December 2006, primarily to appease his more nostalgic fans and also to reserve his regular tours for more contemporary material. Size comparison: A 12 cm Sony DVD+RW and a 19 cm Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. ... Jagged is a 2006 album by Gary Numan, his first original album in over five years, following Pure in 2000. ... is the 72nd day of the year (73rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Race, Artificial Perfect, and the new album

On November 6, 2006, Numan took part in the Sky One reality show The Race. It pitted ten celebrities (five male, five female) against each other in a series of Formula One-style car races. These races were held at Silverstone over the next five days, and varied in racing styles, ultimately culminating in one final Grand Prix race on Sunday, November 12. is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and features ordinary people instead of professional actors. ... The Race was a television programme broadcast on Sky One in the UK in November 2006, hosted by Denise van Outen. ... Formula One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Motor racing and Motorsports redirect here. ... Silverstone Circuit is a racing circuit at Silverstone, England. ...

In the end, Numan did win on the overall leaderboard. Losing the final race, he and another contestant, AC/DC lead singer Brian Johnson, were tied in first for points. The winner of the championship was decided by who had the fastest lap time, which Numan had. As Numan wrote on his website, it was a very fair outcome, as Johnson would win the final race, but he would win the championship. Numan wrote he was dismayed to find the announcement of his winning the championship was cut out from the television broadcast. In addition, the overall standings were not shown.^[4] A 1957 Maserati 200SI at the Scarsdale Concours Maserati Birdcage 1959 Maserati 5000 GT Coupe Maserati Sebring This article is about the automobile manufacturer. ... 2005 Bigfoot monster truck racing in Arizona A monster truck is an automobile, typically a pickup truck, which has been modified or purpose built with extremely large wheels and suspension. ... Caterham is a town in the Tandridge District of Surrey, England. ... The Lotus Exige (pronounced: ex-seej) is a two-door, two-seat sports car made by Lotus Cars. ... This article is about about the band. ... Brian Johnson (born October 5, 1947 in Dunston, Gateshead, England) is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for the Australian hard rock band, AC/DC. He currently lives in Sarasota, Florida. ...

In late 2006, Numan announced on his website that recording would begin on his new album in January 2007, with Ade Fenton again co-producing, as he did with Jagged. Numan stated "think of Jagged and Pure, but faster, with bigger choruses, more energy, and more aggression" to describe the album's intended sound. As of August 2007, nothing new has been said about the album, though he mentioned on his website that he had found enough demos from the Exile, Pure, and Jagged sessions in his studio to flesh out into another album. Numan stated that this album in itself will not be "the new album", just a release for interested fans, confirming that his new studio album hasn't been scrapped for other interests.

Numan also contributed vocals to four tracks on the April 2007 release of Fenton’s debut solo album Artificial Perfect on his new industrial/electronic label 'Submission', including songs "The Leather Sea", "Slide Away", "Recall" and the first single to be taken from the album, "Healing". The second single to be released in the UK was "The Leather Sea" on July 30, 2007. is the 211th day of the year (212th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

Personal life

Numan married a member of his own fan club, Gemma O'Neill. In 2003, after a series of miscarriages and IVF attempts, the couple had their first child, Raven. In 2005 they had a second daughter, Persia. In March 2007 the couple had their third child, Echo.^[5] Miscarriage or spontaneous abortion is the natural or accidental termination of a pregnancy at a stage where the embryo or the fetus is incapable of surviving, generally defined at a gestation of prior to 20 weeks. ... Test tube baby redirects here. ...

He published his autobiography, Praying to the Aliens, in 1997 (updated edition 1998), in collaboration with Steve Malins (Malins also wrote the liner notes for most of the CD reissues of Numan's albums in the late 1990s, as well as executive producing the Hybrid album in 2003). Numan has recently moved to East Sussex from Essex.

Flying

Numan is known for his love of flying and has owned several aircraft, most famously, since 1984, a radial-engined Harvard WW2 trainer often seen in formation aerobatic displays. Numan was a passenger in one of these aircraft when it made an emergency landing on a main road in England, in 1981. This came shortly after successfully flying around the world, during which he was briefly imprisoned in India on suspicion of spying. His aerobatic flying career is also noted on the BBC TV series The Mighty Boosh, whose character Vince Noir (Noel Fielding) is a huge Numan fan, with a "Cars" ringtone on his mobile phone. Numan has recently stated that he likes to go sailing from time to time. Numan's brother is also a pilot and has flown aircraft such as the Bristol Blenheim at airshows. The T-6 Texan was a single-engine advanced trainer aircraft designed by North American Aviation, used to train fighter pilots of the United States Army Air Forces, United States Navy, Royal Air Force and other air forces of the British Commonwealth during World War II. The T-6 is... The Mighty Boosh is a British cult comedy about two friends who go on magical adventures. ... Noel Fielding (born 21 May 1973 in Westminster, London) is an English comedian and actor, best known for his role as Vince Noir in The Mighty Boosh. ...

Asperger syndrome

Numan has speculated on a number of occasions that he has a mild form of Asperger syndrome. In the April 29, 2001, edition of The Sunday Times he stated: Asperger syndrome (also referred to as Aspergers syndrome, Aspergers disorder, Aspergers, or AS) is one of five neurobiological pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and is characterized by deficiencies in social and communication skills, normal to above normal intelligence,[1] and standard language development. ... is the 119th day of the year (120th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International which is in turn owned by News Corporation. ...

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Discography

Singles and EPs

Thats Too Bad is the debut single by Tubeway Army, the band which provided the initial musical vehicle for Gary Numan. ... Tubeway Army (1977â€“1979) were a London-based punk and New Wave band led by Gary Webb. ... Bombers is the second single by Gary Numan and his band Tubeway Army, released in 1978. ... Down In The Park is a 1979 single written and recorded by Gary Numan with his band Tubeway Army. ... Are Friends Electric? is a 1979 song by Gary Numan, released under the name Tubeway Army as a single and on the album Replicas. ... Cars is a 1979 song by Gary Numan, released as a single and on the album The Pleasure Principle. ... Complex is a 1979 single by Gary Numan. ... We Are Glass is a Gary Numan single from 1980. ... This Wreckage is a song written and performed by Gary Numan. ... Stormtrooper in Drag is the debut single by Paul Gardiner, better known as the bass-player for Tubeway Army and Gary Numan. ... From sleeve photograph of Tubeway Army single Bombers (1978) Paul Gardiner (1 May 1958 - 4 February 1984) was a British musician best known for playing bass guitar with Gary Numan and Tubeway Army. ... Sheâ€™s Got Claws is a song by Gary Numan released in 1981 as a single and on the album Dance. ...

Albums

Tubeway Army is the debut album by Gary Numan and his band Tubeway Army, released in 1978. ... Replicas is an LP by Gary Numan and the Tubeway Army, released in 1979. ... The Pleasure Principle is a 1979 New Wave / electronic album by Gary Numan. ... Telekon is a 1980 New Wave / electronic album by Gary Numan. ... Dance is the title of a 1981 album by electropop artist Gary Numan. ... I,assassin I, Assassin is the seventh album recorded and produced by British electronic music pioneer Gary Numan and the second album in the Experimental Trilogy. ... Warriors album Warriors is the eighth album by British musician Gary Numan that finalises the Experimental Trilogy which consisted of Dance and I, Assassin which was many considered by many to be a huge improvement in music quality and style along with also establishing Numan as keeping ahead of a... Berserker album Berserker is a 1984 album recorded and produced by Gary Numan and was the first Numan album to be released under his self-employed record label Numa Records. ... The Plan is a prototype demo album that was produced by Gary Numan when he was in Tubeway Army. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Fury is the 1985 album from electronic pioneer Gary Numan his second album released under his self-owned Numa label. ... Alternate cover 1999 UK reissue cover Strange Charm is an album released by Gary Numan in 1986 as an LP, CD and a cassette by Numa Records. ... Exhibition (1987) is a double disc compilation album of Gary Numans most well-known hits released on the Beggars Banquet Records label. ... Sacrifice is a 1994 album by Gary Numan. ... Exile is a 1997 album by Gary Numan. ... Living Ornaments 81 is a live album recorded at a 1981 concert by Gary Numan. ... The Los Angeles electronic-industrial music group Spahn Ranch was formed in 1992 by Matt Green and his New York-based collaborator, Rob Morton. ... This biographical article does not cite any references or sources. ... Pure is a 2000 album by Gary Numan, following on from 1997s Exile. ... The cover of Curves first full length album, DoppelgÃ¤nger, from 1992 Curve was an English music group formed in 1991 chiefly around the collaboration of singer Toni Halliday and guitarist Dean Garcia. ... Alan Moulder (born 11 June 1959) is one of Britains premier alternative rock record producers. ... Mark Ellis a. ... Jagged is a 2006 album by Gary Numan, his first original album in over five years, following Pure in 2000. ...

Guest appearances

Videos

Notes

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References

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Contents

Career

1980s

1990s

Resurrection of career

The Race, Artificial Perfect, and the new album

Personal life

Flying

Asperger syndrome

Discography

Singles and EPs

Albums

Guest appearances

Videos

Notes

References

See also

External links

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1980s

1990s

Resurrection of career

The Race, Artificial Perfect, and the new album

Personal life

Flying

Asperger syndrome

Discography

Singles and EPs

Albums

Guest appearances

Videos

Notes

References

See also

External links

Career