Gary Numan
Gary Numan was born in Hammersmith, England, United Kingdom on March 8th, 1958 and is the Pop Singer. At the age of 66, Gary Numan biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, and networth are available.
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Gary Anthony Webb (born 8 March 1958) better known as Gary Numan, is an English singer, guitarist, composer, and record producer.
He made his first foray into the music industry as the frontman of the new wave band Tubeway Army.
After releasing two albums with the band, he debuted his debut solo album The Pleasure Principle in 1979, occupying the UK Albums Chart.
With the No. 66 in the late 1970s and early 1980s, his commercial success hit a peak in the late 1970s and early 1980s.1 singles "Are 'Friends' Electric?"
Numan is considered a pioneer of electronic music by his distinctive sound, which is based on heavy synthesiser hooks fed through guitar effects pedals, and he has a large fanbase.He is also known for his distinctive voice and androgynous "android" appearance.
The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors gave him the Ivor Novello Award, the Inspiration Award, in 2017.
Early life
Gary Anthony Webb was born in Hammersmith, London, on March 8th. His father, who worked at Heathrow Airport, was a British Airways bus driver. He wasn't born until he was seven years old when his relatives adopted John, his uncle (father's nephew), who would also play in Numan's backing band. He was educated at Town Farm Junior School in Stanwell, Ashford County Grammar School, and Slough Grammar School, as well as Brooklands Technical College in Weybridge, Surrey. He joined the Air Conditioning Corps as an infant and spent time in various capacities, including forklift truck pilot, air conditioning ventilator fitter, and account clerk.
When Numan was 15, his father bought him a Gibson Les Paul, which became his most treasured possession. He played in various bands for a brief period of time and then browsed through advertisements in Melody Maker for bands to join. He appears to have unsuccessfully auditioned for the then-unknown band the Jam before joining Mean Street and the Lasers, where he met Paul Gardiner. The former band members, Jess Lidyard on drums and Gardiner on bass, all morphed into Tubeway Army, and were signed to Beggars Banquet Records. Valerian was his first pseudonym, presumably in reference to the hero in the French science fiction comic book series Valérian and Laureline. Numan was selected by a plumber whose surname was Neumann from an advertisement in the Yellow Pages.
Personal life
Numan is an atheist. Since being elected Prime Minister and Margaret Thatcher, he was outspoken supporter of the Conservative Party and Margaret Thatcher. He later expressed regret for his public assistance, referring to it as "a noose around my neck." He has stated that he does not identify himself as left- or right-wing, and that he does not endorse Tony Blair or David Cameron. "I'm not socialist," he said, "I'm not socialist, I'm sure that." I don't believe in sharing my money." Numan isn't particularly involved in politics and distances himself from political discourse.
Numan married Gemma O'Neill, a member of his Sidcup fan club. They have three children. Persia, a student at the University of Leeds, sang on Numan's 2017 album "My Name Is Ruin" and appeared in the film. Numan and his family lived in Essex, Heathfield and Waldron in East Sussex, and in October 2012, they relocated to Santa Monica, California.
Numan was given antidepressants and anxiolytics at age 15, after a string of outbursts in which he'd "scream and scream, get in people's faces, and crack stuff," he said. His wife suggested Asperger syndrome in the 1990s after reading about the condition and doing a series of online tests, but he hasn't been diagnosed. In an interview with The Guardian in April 2018, he revealed that he had been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome at the age of 14. "Polite talk has never been one of my top points," he said in a 2001 interview. I discovered out that I had a mild case of Asperger's syndrome, which means I have a difficult time dealing with people. For years, I couldn't understand why people thought I was rude, but now it makes sense."
Numan's autobiography, Praying to the Aliens, was released in 1997 (updated in 1998) in collaboration with Steve Malins, who also wrote the liner notes for the majority of Numan's albums in the late 1990s, as well as executive producing the Hybrid album in 2003.
On October 22, 2020, an updated autobiography, (R)evolution: The Autobiography, was published, taking his career up to date from Praying to the Aliens.
Music career
Numan came to fame in the 1970s as a lead singer, composer, and record producer for Tubeway Army. They were signed by Beggars Banquet Records in 1978 and quickly released two singles, "That's Too Bad" and "Bombers," neither of which charted.
Numan's fascination with dystopian science fiction and synthesisers appeared on his self-titled, new wave-oriented debut album later this year. Despite the fact that Tubeway Army's third album, the dark-themed and slow-paced "Down in the Park" (1979), never made it to the charts, it became one of Numan's most popular and oft-covered songs. It was featured on the soundtrack for the 1980 film Times Square, with other contemporary hits on the soundtrack, and a live version of the song can be seen in the 1982 film Urgh. A Music War. Following exposure in a television commercial for Lee Cooper jeans with the slogan "Don't Be a Dummy," Tubeway Army's Tubeway Army announced the single "Are 'Friends' Electric?" In May 1979, a student at the University of Newfoundland was born in May 1979. At No. 1, the UK Singles Chart got off to a slow start in the lower reaches of the chart. It has gradually risen to No. 1 in the 71st year, despite the fact that it has risen to the top of the charts. At the end of June, 1 was on the 1st of June, and it stayed at that position for four weeks in a row. Replicas also reached No. 1 in July, the company's parent company Replicas. No. 1 on the albums chart.
Numan's next album was already recording with a new backing band, which was ironic at this point. Numan premiered four new songs in a John Peel session in June 1979 rather than promoting the new album or the Tubeway Army group name was changed, at a time of high success.
"Cars" also reached No. 1 in September. In the United Kingdom, there is only one. In North American charts, the single also found success, where "Cars" only lasted for 2 weeks at No. 1. On the Canadian RPM charts, #1 is the most popular, and he has risen to No. 1 for the first time. In 1980, the United States had 9 people in the United States. Both "Cars" and the 1979 album The Pleasure Principle were released under Numan's own stage name. The album debuted at number one in the United Kingdom, with a sell-out tour (The Touring Principle) following; the concert footage that it inspired is often cited as the first full-length commercial music video release. The Pleasure Principle was a rock album with no guitars; instead, Numan achieved a distorted, phased, metallic tone by using synthes. "Complex," the album's second single, debuted, made it to No. 1. On the UK Singles Chart, there are 6 places.
Numan's 1980 debut with Telekon, and the albums "We Are Glass" and "You Die" were released prior to the album, achieving No. 1. No. 5 and No. 1 are among the numerous people who have lost 5 and No. 6. In December, the album "This Wreckage" appeared on the charts, achieving the top 20. Telekon, Numan's last studio album, reintroduced guitars to Numan's music and showcased a diverse range of synthesisers. He embarked on his second major tour ("The Teletour") in the same year as the Touring Principles last year, with a much more elaborate stage display than the Touring Principle. He announced his retirement from touring at Wembley Arena in April 1981, supported by experimental musician Nash the Slash and Shock, a rock/mime/burlesque troupe whose members included Barbie Wilde, Tik and Tok, and Carole Caplin. At this time, there was a live two album from the 1979 and 1980 tours that had no. The UK charts have ranked No. 2 in the UK charts. Both albums were also released as Living Ornaments 79 and 78 were also charted. The decision to resign would be short-lived.
Numan began playing jazz, funk, and ethereal, rhythmic pop, deviating from the pure electropop that he had been surrounded with. Dance (1981), his first album after his 1981 farewell concerts, was released. The album debuted at No. 1 on the charts. With an eight-week chart run and one hit single ("She's Got Claws"), the three figures appear on the UK charts, with one hitting single ("She's Got Claws"), which debuted at No. 3 on the charts. 6. Several notable guests appeared on the album; Mick Karn (bass guitar), Rob Dean (guitar), and Princess Roger Mason (keyboards) of Japan; Roger Mason (drums) of Queen and Prince Taylor (drums) of King.
Chris Payne (keyboards; viola), Russell Bell (guitar), and Ced Sharpley (drums) have reformed as Dramatis, Numan contributed vocals to the album "Love Needs No Disguise" by his long-term bassist Paul Gardiner, which also made the charts, with his backing band "Stormtrooper in Drag." However, Numan's career had started slowly, and he was eclipsed commercially by former support act Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, as well as the Human League's Duran Duran, and Depeche Mode. Each album featured a new "image," none of which captured the public's interest to the same degree as 1979's lonely android.
The album I, Assassin (1982) fared less well than Dance than Dance. Despite releasing the top ten hit "We Take Mystery (To Bed)" and two top 20 hits, the album reached No. 1 on the charts. The chart below shows the 8th on a six-week cycle. The heavily punkish funk style continued to gain traction in the American club scene, as Numan's "Farewell Concerts" began in April 1981.
Warriors (1983) expanded Numan's jazz-influenced style and featured contributions from avant-garde guitarist Bill Nelson (who fell out with Numan on recording and refused to be named as the album's co-producer) and saxophonist Dick Morrissey (who also appeared on Strange Charm and Outland). The album reached its high point at No. 59. 12, released two hit singles, including the top 20 title-track, and Assassin, like I, spent six weeks on the charts. Warriors was Numan's last album on record for Beggars Banquet Records, and it was backed by a 40-date UK tour (again with support from robotic mime and music duo Tik and Tok).
Numan's own record label, Numa, released a series of albums and singles later. The first album on Numa, 1984's Berserker's first foray into music computers/samplers, in this case, the PPG Wave. The album was accompanied by a new blue-and-white photographic photograph (including Numan himself with blue hair), a tour, a live album/video/EP, and a single version of the UK top 40 when released as a single. Despite this, the album divided critics and followers, and commercially speaking, Numan's least commercially successful launch to that point.
Sharpe & Numan's 1985 venture with Bill Sharpe of Shakatak was more fruitful. The single "Change Your Mind" reached No. 1 in March. On the UK Singles Chart, 17 is 17th. The live album White Noise, which was released during the Berserker Tour, and a live EP with tracks taken from it have ranked No. a few months later. On the charts, the 29 and the 27th respectively stand out.
The Fury (1985), Numan's new album, charted barely higher than Berserker, barely over the top 30. The album heralded a change of appearance, this time with Numan in a white suit and red bow tie. The three singles from the album ("Your Fascination," "Call Out the Dogs," and "Miracles") were among the top ten on the UK charts.
With "This Is Love" in April and "I Can't Stop" in June, Numan scored two top 30-hits on the UK Singles Chart in 1986, but the album Strange Charm, which followed the same title in June, spent two weeks on the album chart, peaking at No. 2. 59. A version of the song "I Still Remember" from the previous album was introduced in November as a charity single and stalled at No. 1. On the singles chart, the number 74 is 74.
Sharpe & Numan chart hits with "New Thing from London Town," which was part of Bill Sharpe's two new Sharpe & Numan chart collaborations. No. 52 in 1986 and "No More Lies" at No. 3; No. In 1988, the country's highest rate of suicide was 35. Numan performed vocals for three singles by Radio Heart in 1987, a venture of brothers Hugh and David Nicholson, formerly of Marmalade and Blue, which enjoyed varying success ("Radio Heart" No. No. 35 "London Times" has no answer. "All Around the Country" says 48. (81). An album was also released, credited to Gary Numan's appearance on "Radio Heart," although Numan appeared on three tracks but failed to chart. Also in 1987, Numan's old label Beggars Banquet unveiled the best-of-compilation Exhibition, which debuted at No. "Cars" has risen to 43nd on the UK Albums Chart, as well as a remix of "Cars." The remix, dubbed "Cars (E Reg Model)," debuted at No. 1 on the charts. Numan's last top 20 hit didn't arrive until the 1996 re-release of the same song.
Numa Records, which had been a flurry of hopeful enthusiasm following the introduction of Numan's 1986 album Strange Charm, has been discontinued. Numan would reopen the record label in 1992, but it was then shut down in 1996. Numa Records' commercial flop, Numan's own fortune, which he estimated at £4.5 million, was drained in comparison to Numa's. Numan then joined the United States in the United States. Metal Rhythm (1988), his last studio album of the 1980s, sold very well. After the album's lead single, the band changed the album's name to New Anger, changed the album's color from black to blue, and remixed several of Numan's songs in honor of Numan's wishes. Sharpe & Numan Automatic album Automatic was released by Polydor Records in 1989, but the Sharpe & Numan album Automatic failed to achieve much commercial success, briefly rising at No. Among the charts and peaking at No. 1.0. 59 years old.
Numan ventured into film-scoring with Michael R. Smith and co-composing The Unborn's score (the score was later released as the 1995 album Human). Numan reactivated Numa Records after Outland (1991), another critical and commercial loss, as well as his second and last studio album with I.R.S., under which he would debut his next two albums. On a 1993 arena tour, he endorsed Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (who opened for him in 1979). Numan decided to avoid attempting to crack the pop market and instead focus on more personal interests, such as vocal atheism. Gemma, his future husband, was advised to shed the influences of the more recent years. Numan's career re-evaluated his career and veered toward a more commercial direction with his songwriting on the album Sacrifice, on which, for the first time, he played almost all the instruments himself. Numan's harder and darker music emerged just as Numan-influenced bands like Nine Inch Nails were enjoying their first rush of fame, as Numan-influenced bands such as Numan's were enjoying their first rush of fame. The influence, according to Numan, was reciprocal. "Closer" is his favorite Nine Inch Nails song, according to him, and "Head Like a Hole" has the best chorus ever.
Sacrifice was Numan's last album before he sold Numa Records permanently. Exile (1997) and Pure (2000), his next two studio albums, were well-received and helped to restore his critical standing, as did Random, a tribute album. Random was published shortly before Exile and Feature Artists, including Damon Albarn and Jesus Jones, who had been inspired by Numan. Numan performed in the United States in favor of Exile, his first stateside concerts since the 1980s.
Numan achieved fame with the single "Rip" in 2002, peaking at No. 2nd in the charts. 29 on the UK Singles Chart, and again in 2003 with the Gary Numan vs. Rico single "Crazier," which debuted at No. 10 on the charts, gaining No. 1 in the U.K. In the United Kingdom charts, 13 are ranked 13th. Rico contributed to the release of "Hybrid," which featured reworkings of older songs in a more modern industrial style as well as new ones. Curve, Flood, Andy Gray, Alan Moulder, New Disease, and Sulpher were among the remixes produced by these artists and producers. Numan appeared on the Plump DJs' album Eargasm in 2003, as well as "Pray for You" by the singer. Numan took charge of his own company affairs once more in 2004, launching the brand Mortal Records and releasing a series of live DVDs. Numan's album, Jagged, was released on March 13, 2006. On March 18, an album launch gig took place in London, followed by tours in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States in support of the release. Numan also built a Jagged website to showcase the new album, and made plans to have his 1981 farewell concert (previously announced as Micromusic on VHS) released on DVD by November 6, 2006, as well as the DVD version of the Jagged album launch event. In December 2006, Numan undertook a Telekon 'Classic Album' tour in the United Kingdom.
Numan appeared on four tracks on his debut solo album, Submission, which includes "The Leather Sea," "Slide Away," "Recall," and the first single to be taken from the album, "Healing." "The Leather Sea" was the second single to be published in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2007.
He sold out a 15-date UK & Ireland tour in spring 2008, during which he performed his 1979 number-one album Replicas in its entirety, as well as all Replicas-era music, including B-sides. Due to the fact that it coincided with Numan's 30th anniversary in the music business, the tour also lifted the artist's profile in the media once more.
Numan declared via his website in November 2007 that he would continue working on a new album under the name of Splinter, after completing an alternate Jagged (called Jagged Edge) and a CD of unreleased songs from his previous three albums (confirmed to be Dead Son Rising on November 1st 2008). Splinter was expected to be released in early 2010 according to him.
Numan was supposed to appear in a handful of American live dates in April 2010, including a Coachella Festival appearance in California, but had to cancel due to the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud's air traffic in Europe. As a result, the tour was not only postponed but extended, and Pleasure Principle 30th Anniversary Tour's American and Mexican dates started on October 17th, 2010. Firestone Live in Orlando, Florida, Florida, was the source.
Numan toured Australia in May 2011 performing his seminal album The Pleasure Principle in its entirety to commemorate its thirtieth anniversary. He was joined by Australian electronic band Severed Heads, who came out of retirement specifically for the shows.
Numan lent his vocals to the track "My Machines" on Battles' 2011 album Gloss Drop. He was selected by Battles to appear at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival in Minehead, England, which they co-curated in December 2011. In an interview with Numan, the album Dead Son Rising was released on September 16, 2011 with a complete tour split in two halves, 15-21 September and 7-11 December; Numan praised Lewis for being the best supporting act in his 30 years of touring, later describing the tour in a tour diary and specifically requesting Lewis to join him for an American tour in 2012.
Numan also gave narration for Aurelio Voltaire's short film Odokuro in 2011.
On October 14, 2013 a new album Splinter (Songs From a Broken Mind) was released. It was the first time an album to do so for 30 years, and it made it to the top 20 in the United Kingdom. It was a huge U.S., Canada, UK, Ireland, and Ireland tour that began in 2014 to include Israel, New Zealand, Australia, and Europe. In late 2014, a new US leg took place.
Numan collaborated with Jayce Lewis and his Protafield project on the Protafield's Redesign" track in June 2014. Numan also performed vocals for the song "Long Way Down" by Masafumi Takada, which featured lyrics written by Rich Dickerson for the video game The Evil Within. On October 14, 2014, the game was announced. In November 2014, Numan appeared at the Hammersmith Apollo, funded by Gang of Four, in London.
On their debut album "The Great Sun," Numan collaborated with industrial pop group VOWWS for "Losing Myself in You."
Numan was one of many collaborators on Jean-Michel Jarre's album Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise, cowritten by Jarre and Numan on May 6, 2016.
Numan was named the recipient of the 2016 Moog Innovation Award by Moog Music on May 10th. The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors awarded Numan an Ivor Novello Inspiration Award on May 18, 2017.
Numan launched "My Name Is Ruin" in 2017 and went on tour in September. Numan's album Savage (Songs from a Broken World) was announced on September 15th and charted at number one in the United Kingdom and ranked at number two. He was named the recipient of the 2017 T3 tech legends award.
In Cleveland, Ohio, United States, Numan's tour bus hit and killed an elderly man on September 24. The driver was not arrested right away. Numan had intended to appear at the Cleveland House of Blues that evening but decided against doing so "inappropriate" considering the day's tragedy.
In 1920, his next album Intruder was released. The title track was announced earlier, on January 2021. Numan spoke about the book's origins with author Guy Mankowski, who has a chapter on Numan's legacy in his book Albion's Mythical History: Snapshots of England's Pop Rebels and Strangers, as part of an interview series on influential English artists for Zer0 Books.
Numan began a 17-venue UK tour between late April and late May 2022, following his US Intruder tour in late 2021 - early 2022.
Aviation career
Numan joined the Air Training Corps as a youth, deciding whether he wanted to be a pilot or a pop star. He began learning to fly at Blackbushe Airport in 1978, but his pilot license was not granted until 1980, thanks to his music career. Numan's first aeroplane bought for £12,000, a Cessna 182, on December 18, 1980. Numan founded Numanair, a small charter flight company based in Blackbushe, on July 1, 1981, and obtained a Cessna 210 Centurion (registered G-OilS) and a Piper Navajo (registered G-NMAN). In 1981, Mike Mackonochie, who drove a Van Diemen RF81 in Numanair's Numanair livery in the Formula Ford 1600 class, indulged his passion for motor racing.
Numan and co-pilot Bob Thompson travelled around the world in his Piper Navajo in November and December 1981. Numan and Thompson were arrested in India on suspicion of smuggling and espionage, and the first attempt in the Cessna 210 Centurion had resulted. This aircraft was written off on 29 January 1982 when it ran out of fuel near Southampton and made a forced landing when Numan was flying on it as a passenger.
Numan bought a Harvard T-6 trainer aircraft registered G-AZSC in 1984 and had the aircraft painted to look like a Japanese Zero fighter. He also obtained a display pilot's licence and flew the aircraft on the UK air display circuit. The Radial Pair, along with his friend Norman Lees, who also owned a Harvard, formed the Radial Pair, who performed synchronised aerobatics from the 1992 air show season. As the Harvard Formation Team with Numan choreographed their aerobatic routines, they teamed up with other Harvard owners to fly up to five aircraft later in the day.
Numan was granted certificates for piston and turbine helicopters as well as a rated multi-engine multi engine rating. He was an aerobatic flying instructor and was selected by the Civil Aviation Authority as an air display pilot evaluator. Since several of his relatives and coworkers were killed in unrelated flying accidents, he gave up flying in 2005. "I loved going to air shows, you'd bond really closely with your colleagues," he said in an interview in 2009. And then it came to an end. I'd turn up and not know anyone. It's been depressing. I'd eat in the pilot's tent, and there would be all the people I didn't recognize. You'd be looking forward to someone calling to speak with them, but they'd be dead."
Numanair continued operating, but after 31 years, Numan and his family immigrating to the United States, it was dissolved on June 18, 2013.