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	Gary Numan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gary Numan (born Hary Anthony James Webb on March 8, 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, composer and electropop pioneer.
		Numan is also known for his love of flying, and has owned several aircraft, most famously, since 1984, a radial-engined Harvard trainer often seen in formation aerobatic displays, and seen here http://www.numanisation.com/theradialpair.html.
		Numan was a passenger in one of these aircraft when it made an emergency landing on a main road in England, in 1981.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gary_Numan (2723 words)

	Gary Numan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Numan's mastery of hype and visual effects became further apparent when he began putting together his first videos, Numan being among the earliest wave of artists to take advantage of this new medium of musical promotion.
		Numan announced his retirement to pursue his life-long interest in flying, becoming a professional pilot and taking off on a trip around the world.
		Gary Numan was skilled at selling himself, but his success really stemmed from what, at the time, was a fresh approach to pop music: wrapping a futuristic message within layers of electronic sound, and setting it all to a strong dance beat.
	www.80smusiclyrics.com /artists/garynuman.htm (609 words)

	Exile (Gary Numan album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its release continued a surprise critical upswing in Numan's career which began three years earlier with the release of Sacrifice.
		Unlike Sacrifice, Numan’s theme in Exile was not so much atheistic as heretical; it did not deny the existence of God but, instead, his proclaimed goodness.
		Numan toured the UK and US in support of the album to largely sell-out crowds, a concert recording from this period called Live at Shepherd’s Bush Empire (US title Live in London) eventually being released in 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Exile_(Gary_Numan_album) (556 words)

	VH1.com : Gary Numan : Biography
		For his part, Numan just kept on recording, and by the late '90s, he'd become a hip name to drop; prominent alt-rock bands covered his hits in concert, and a goth-flavored brand of industrial dance christened darkwave looked to him as its mentor.
		Numan was born Gary Anthony James Webb on March 8, 1958, in the west London section of Hammersmith.
		Numan returned in the fall of 1980 with Telekon, his third straight chart-topping album in Britain, and scored two Top Five hits with "We Are Glass" and "I Die: You Die"; "This Wreckage" later reached the Top 20.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/numan_gary/bio.jhtml (1041 words)

	Gary Numan: album reviews and ratings
		Nowadays, Gary Numan's influence is perhaps as far-reaching as that of the performers who initially inspired his own work.
		Numan, a post modernist to the extreme, enfolded this strange album in an image of juxtaposition; a be-suited, fedora wearing, ghostly persona sitting before a wall of purple neon tubes that says much about the content.
		Numan's melodic sensibilities were essentially minimal, but it fit his aesthetic perfectly.
	musicfolio.com /modernrock/garynuman.html (3242 words)

	Ink 19 :: Gary Numan
		Numan took the sterile, synthesizer music of Kraftwerk and developed a new wave of music that could expand on the "No Future" rhetoric of the punk movement.
		Twenty years later, Numan has remained a prominent fixture on the dark end of the electronic/industrial fringe, spawning various encomiums (Random, a Tribute to Gary Numan was released by Beggars Banquet last summer) and endless remixes of his work.
		Flanked by a four-piece band, and dressed to the nines in a long coat fashioned from an iridescent fl fabric, Numan was immediate and commanding in his presence from the moment he took the stage.
	www.ink19.com /issues_F/98_06/live_ink/gary_numan_nf.html (766 words)

	Gary Numan
		Numan's music relied more on literary allusions rather than teen angst, and parallels could be drawn between his work and that of science fiction writers Philip K. Dick and William S. Burroughs.
		The next major difference came to light when Numan was first exposed to synthesizers during a recording session, prompting Numan to put aside his guitar in favor of the instrument which would carry him into the '80s.
		Still, Numan packed them in, and the media caught on to Numan's out-of-this-world act and was eager to add to the mystique.
	www.tripletsandus.com /80s/lyrics/garynuman.htm (888 words)

	Ink 19 :: Gary Numan
		Gary Numan's career in music is a remarkable one, and not necessarily because of his longevity in the world of "alternative" music, although that is a component of it.
		Numan has created his own music industry, of sorts, and that couldn't be more apparent than with the existence of his very loyal fans.
		For those of you fairly unfamiliar with Numan, as I was, expecting a sort of reprise of Gary Numan's Saturday Night Live performance of "Cars," would have gotten a big surprise from the first note of the performance onwards.
	www.ink19.com /issues_F/98_08/live_ink/gary_numan_nf.html (507 words)

	Gary Numan - Uncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was during this time Gary Numan was at his coolest, though he remains to this day at a level of 'pretty freakin cool'.
		Numan is also known for his love of flying, and has built several aircraft, in one of which he famously crashed into a passenger.
		For whatever reason, Gary Numan has acquired various Super Powers, some of which he may not possess, most of which he does not have the legal right to have.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Gary_Numan (557 words)

	Remote Control - Artist - Gary Numan
		At the end of the '70s Gary Numan, a 20-year old ex-punk from west London was virtually alone in seeing the possibility of a "synthesiser star." In late 1978 Beggars Banquet released Tubeway Army's self-titled debut, mixing electronics with post-punk guitar and solid, no frills drumming by Gary's uncle Jess Lidyard.
		Within weeks, Numan was posing on TOTP in harsh white light, bringing a touch of showbiz camp to the clipped, motorik repetitiveness of the song.
		Numan supported Pulp at V96 in the same year and wrote Exile, a return to the electronic chill of his earlier work.
	www.remotecontrolrecords.com.au /artistDetail.asp?ArtistID=129 (904 words)

	Gary Numan live at Universalbuzz.com!!!
		One of the founding fathers of synth-pop, Gary Numan's influence extends far beyond his lone American hit "Cars," which still stands as one of the defining new wave singles.
		Even after new wave had petered out, Numan's impact continued to make itself felt; his dark, paranoid vision, theatrically icy alien persona, and clinical, robotic sound were echoed strongly in the work of many goth-rock and (especially) industrial artists to come.
		Gary Numan was born Gary Anthony James Webb on March 8, 1958 in the west London section of Hammersmith.
	www.universalbuzz.com /catalogresults.asp?showall=yes&ArtistNumber=66 (663 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Gary Numan
		Gary Numan (Webb) originally rose to UK prominence in 1979 with a frigid synthesizer dance hit, "Are 'Friends' Electric?" His basic sound — subsequently very influential in the dance music and new romantic spheres — began with precise, antiseptic synth handling much of the instrumental work, topped off with lobotomized deadpan vocals singing science-fiction lyrics.
		Numan's former backing group became Dramatis, and tried a little of everything — mock symphonics, electro-disco, mainstream pop —; on the mistitled For Future Reference.
		Numan then began issuing albums and singles on his own Numa label, feeding faithful UK fans, who responded by sending every new item briefly into the lower ends of the charts.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=gary_numan (912 words)

	O.D. Mag - Prose - Gary Numan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was Gary Numan that took synth-pop to the heights that the Beatles took rock-n-roll.
		Instead Gary put out two more respectable albums, "I Assassin" and "Warriors." But, their direction veered so far from his earlier output, as a result, his singles and album sales dropped significantly.
		Gary, was subsequently, also dropped from his label, Beggars Banquet.
	www.odmag.com /OD/Prose/numan.htm (955 words)

	Gary Numan - Exile
		Gary Numan's recent revival is proving to be something of a mixed blessing.
		Numan's credibility was resurrected as he reinvented himself, shedding the accumulated baggage of the previous ten years.
		Gary's good at these - he's had plenty of practice, and has a long track record of settling his scores in music.
	www.awrc.com /review/n/exile.html (990 words)

	Metropolis Records: Gary Numan
		Gary Numan has never been on firm, 'authentic' ground as a songwriter.
		Numan was virtually alone in seeing the possibility of a 'synthesizer star' and much to the critics' initial anguish, he achieved success almost overnight.
		The only other member of the band was Gary's best friend Paul Gardiner (who died of a heroin overdose in 1984) but their record label refused to let Numan take on solo status just yet.
	www.metropolis-records.com /artists/?artist=numan (1859 words)

	Thaemlitz: Replicas Rubato
		By the time Gary Numan's first album with Tubeway Army was released in November of 1978, it was as much a commentary on the U.K.'s post-Glam scene as it was symptomatic of that time's gender- and sexuality-blurring snares.
		Numan's lyrics were also haunted by a reluctant awareness that this post-Glam schizophrenia of desire was conveniently fashionable, implicated in a music marketplace which both facilitated and undermined the sincerity of his first-person narratives.
		Numan's use of "they" and "them" as terms of both association and opposition (which I associate with "police" and "Gay men" respectively) conveys an environment of suspicion, deceit and self-fear which for many men plagued all Gay interactions.
	www.comatonse.com /writings/replicas.html (3671 words)

	AFENet - The Interactive Gary Numan Site
		Numan then decided that he wouldn't do this as the "abusive and vile few" would have won, and that the vast majority of fantastic and loyal fans would be let down.
		The relationship between Gary Numan and Artful records appears to be on the verge of disintegration.
		Numan has also revealed that the cancellation of his appearance at the Inland Invasion Festival was partly due to the situation with Artful.
	www.afenet.com /news.shtml (2414 words)

	Gary Numan - Jagged : album review
		Interestingly Numan has evidently taken note of his influence, because Jagged takes elements from the current techno scene (notably his co-producer Ade Fenton), as well as borrowing heavily from the goth poppery of Marilyn Manson.
		Numan's vocals are superb throughout, still disconnected obviously, but in songs such as In A Dark Place and Haunted he conjures up soaring choruses that fill your head to bursting.
		There's plenty here to keep the Numan faithful happy, and the cyber goth feel to the album should hook plenty of new fans who perhaps thought that Gary Numan was just that bloke that did Cars (and provided Sugababes with a sample).
	www.musicomh.com /albums5/gary-numan-3_0206.htm (589 words)

	Gary Numan : Telekon - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Gary Numan's follow-up to the flawless The Pleasure Principle was 1980's Telekon.
		Telekon would also turn out to be the last true classic Numan album, as monetary problems and an unfocused attempt to try different musical forms (as well as a short-lived retirement) would steer him away from his original vision.
		Numan experimented with funk for the first time in his career ("Remind Me to Smile"), but there were still plenty of chilling synth excursions to keep the Numan faithful satisfied -- "This Wreckage," "The Aircrash Bureau," "I'm an Agent," and "I Dream of Wires" are all choice cuts.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,140118,00.html (312 words)

	Gary Numan
		Numan says he arrogantly squandered his success when he announced his retirement from touring in 1981, a move he regrets.
		As a licensed pilot, Numan made the headlines again in 1981 when he landed in India as part of a globetrotting expedition with co-pilot BOB THOMPSON and was arrested.
		Numan says he hopes to secure a North American publisher for his autobiography Praying To The Alien, already out in the U.K. He's most excited about his current North American tour, viewing it as a fresh start.
	www.octopusmediaink.com /GaryNuman.html (1004 words)

	Gary Numan: Live in London - PopMatters Music Review
		And then there are folks like Gary Numan, who never really reach the point of total irrelevance, and who somehow manage to keep going despite the fact that people stopped paying attention a long while back.
		If Numan's yelping falsetto can be grating in high quantities, he can still be admired for having assembled an especially tight touring group, in particular guitarist Steve Harris.
		If the past few years are any indicator, Numan's influence will continue to be a dominant force on the pop landscape for many years to come, even if Numan himself will continue to dwindle into the hazy gray of late-career obscurity.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/n/numangary-liveinlondon.shtml (886 words)

	Rolling Stone : Gary Numan
		But it was Numan who brought in the most outwardly serious and devoted fans, including a mass of goth guys and girls who crowded around the stage to obediently mouth the words to every one of the set's eighteen tunes while politely reaching up to touch the star.
		First, there was the Foo Fighters' cover of Numan's "Down In the Park" on the Songs in the Key of X collection of "music from and inspired by the X Files." That came out in 1996, the same year that a British beer commercial helped put "Cars" back on the charts on Numan's native turf.
		Numan was, however, quite a bit more engaging than the old robotic Numan of the Eighties, who was infamous for relying on some of the most elaborate stage props since ELO to get his songs across.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/5920680/gary_numan (432 words)

	YouTube - Cars - Gary Numan
		The song was the first release credited solely to Gary Numan after he dropped the band name Tubeway Army, with which he had released four singles and two LPs, including the number 1 hit "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and its parent album Replicas.
		According to Numan, the song's lyrics were inspired by an incident of road rage: "I was in traffic in London once and had a problem with some people in front.
		Numan has regularly performed the song on stage from 1979 to the present day and it appears on all but one of his official live albums to date; many remixed versions have also been released over the years (see Live versions and remixes).
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=oEyyZa35QSM (743 words)

	Gary Numan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Originally appearing under the group name Tubeway Army, Numan enjoyed enormous success in the UK at the close of the 70s.
		At his peak, Numan was one of the bestselling artists in Britain and his albums The Pleasure Principle and Telekon both entered the charts at number 1.
		Gary Numan: The Authorized Biography, Ray Coleman, Praying To The Aliens, Gary Numan with Steve Malins.
	musicstore.mymmode.com /artist.do?artistID=6794 (279 words)

	Gary Numan Guitar Tabs and Chords @ Guitar Masta.net
		Gary Numan (born Gary Anthony James Webb on March 8, 1958) is a British singer, songwriter and electropop pioneer.
		Numan rose to prominence at the tail end of the 1970s, initially recording under the band name Tubeway Army.
		The Pleasure Principle was a rock album with no guitars; instead, Numan used synthesisers fed through guitar effects pedals to achieve a phased, heavy metal tone.
	www.guitarmasta.net /n/numan,_gary (342 words)

	Criminal Records - Gary Numan : Jagged
		On 2006's JAGGED, influential synth-pop artist Gary Numan is firmly entrenched in the dark side.
		Numan is clearly committed to weighty industrial arrangements on this album, as best evidenced on the heavy, brooding "Halo," which washes listeners in a wave of distorted guitar lines and pounding rhythms.
		Perhaps more than any other Numan release, this disc will appeal to metal and Goth fans, revealing that the veteran performer remains both relevant and creatively restless nearly 30 years into his recording career.
	www.buymusichere.net /rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=93&upc=78238804132&pt=1 (174 words)

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