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Gary Numan

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    Oh! Didn't I Say
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    Saints and Liars (Edit)
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    Here in the Black (Live at Brixton Academy)
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    I'm an Agent (Live at Brixton Academy)

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When the Sky Came Down (Live at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester)

Dec 2019
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The Pleasure Principle - The First Recordings

Oct 2019

Biography

With one hand on a Minimoog, and the other in a William S. Burroughs novel, Gary Numan became one of the most influential artists in synth pop. His signature sound is a wall of perfectly oscillating analog synthesizers running through simple melodies and generating tremendous alien drones. Accompanying these electric textures is his disaffected, plaintive voice. His lyrics create a world of technological and sexual alienation, drawing tensions between past and future, self and other. His songs are like the tears of a clown, fronting pop exuberance and melodies while cold, melancholic words and harmonies lay gloomily in the back.

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