Tubeway Army's third single, the dark-themed and slow-paced " 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 ; it was featured with other contemporary hits on the soundtrack for the movie Times Square, and a live version of the song can be seen in the movie Urgh!

However, Numan's career had begun to experience a gradual decline, and he was eclipsed initially by acts such as Adam Ant, and later by The Human League, Duran Duran, and Depeche Mode.

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 Mad Max-influenced black leather costume against a post-apocalyptic backdrop, but this latest image change was scorned by the music press.

The first album released on Numa, 1984 ’ s Berserker was also notable for being Numan's first foray into music computers / samplers, in this case the PPG Wave.

This year also saw the death of Paul Gardiner, who was Numan's bassist and friend since his Tubeway Army days, from a fatal heroin overdose on 4 February 1984.

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.

" Cars " remains Numan's most enduring song ; it was a hit again in 1987 ( remixed by Zeus B.

Numan's new album Dead Son Rising was released on 16 September 2011 which had a full U. K tour split in two halves, 15 – 21 September and 7 – 11 December, Both parts were supported by Welsh soloist Jayce Lewis in an interview during the tour ; Gary praised the Welshman to being the best supporting act ever in his 30 years of touring, later documenting the tour in a Tour diary and publicly inviting Jayce to join him for an American tour in 2012.

* Musician Paul Gardiner ( 1958 – 1984 ) of Gary Numan's Tubeway Army was born in Hayes

Word spread that Fear Factory was performing the song and as a result Gary Numan's manager contacted them.

Numan had been a fan of Ultravox and Currie was also asked to play on Numan's début solo album, The Pleasure Principle, and its subsequent tour.

Palladino was featured on Gary Numan's 1982 album I, Assassin, in which his fretless bass playing made a prominent contribution to the overall sound of the album.

In the early 1980s, Ivor Biggun released " Bras on 45 " ( a. k. a. " Bra Size 45 "), a novelty song about a woman with large breasts, which was very close to sounding like a Stars-on-45-style medley of recognizable songs, including Gary Numan's " Cars " and Ian Dury's " Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick ".

The track was based around Gary Numan's five times UK chart hit, " Cars ".

Numan's second term was under President Abdul Rahman al-Iryani, from 3 May to 24 August 1971.

Dance was an ironic title for one of Gary Numan's latter-period recordings.

One track from this period was released, a cover version of Gary Numan's " Friends ".

A £ 4. 5 million deal took him to Rangers in May 1998, but Numan's time in Scotland was then blighted by injuries that forced him to sit out many games.

By 2000, Numan's career at the international stage appeared to wane and his automatic leftback spot was open to his contenders Winston Bogarde and Giovanni van Bronckhorst.

Numan's song ' A Child With The Ghost ' is about Paul Gardiner and also featured on Tik & Tok's album ' Intolerance ' ( 1984 ).

However, he appeared on the song " Moral " on Numan's 1981 album, Dance.

In 1996 Carling Premier used Gary Numan's 1979 song Cars, and sponsored his tour of that year.

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 synthesisers.

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 highly successful tour also raised Numan's profile in the media again due to the fact that it coincided with his 30th anniversary in the music business.

A good deal of Gary Numan's work, specifically the album Exile, is laden with misotheistic themes.

The lack of success compared with the success of Gary Numan's work at that time had brought matters to a head.

Karn contributed to recordings by other artists, playing bass guitar on Bill Nelson's Vistamix, bass guitar and saxophone on Gary Numan's 1981 album Dance, and also played with Kate Bush and Joan Armatrading.

McDonald felt that the Foo Fighters cover of Gary Numan's " Down in the Park " and Elvis Costello's " My Dark Life ", along with Mark Snow's theme for the series, were the highlights of the compilation.

Wilson also sang lead vocals on Red Album b-sides " Life's What You Make It " ( a Talk Talk cover ), a cover of " Love My Way " by The Psychedelic Furs, and lead vocals in parts of Weezer's cover of Gary Numan's " Are ' Friends ' Electric ?," which he had sung live with Weezer in 2005.

", which relied on a sample of Numan's " M. E.

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, fetching high prices on auction sites.

Other musicians, and at least one comedian, who have sung Numan's praises in recent years include Beck, Grant Nicholas, Tricky, Damon Albarn & Matt Sharp, Jarvis Cocker, Queens of the Stone Age, David Bowie, Noel Fielding and Afrika Bambaataa, who spoke of the influence Numan's music had 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.

Since then they have performed a 30th anniversary show on 14 January 2010 as part of the annual Sydney Festival, and in May 2011 the group supported Gary Numan in a tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of Numan's album The Pleasure Principle.

He is bandleader Gary Numan's uncle, and played on the band's self-titled debut album and on the highly successful Replicas, which featured the hit " Are ' Friends ' Electric ?".

The music video featured Numan's then-current backing band, including Billy Currie from the band Ultravox, though he had not actually played on the recording of " Cars ".

Upon request, Numan's management flew him out to the Vancouver studio for a three-day span to record vocals on " Cars.

" Cars ( Numanoid Mix )," a version containing only Numan's vocals, appeared on the Hatefiles rarities compilation in April 2003.

" Cars " and the 1979 album The Pleasure Principle were both released under Numan's own ( assumed ) name.

The final studio album of what Numan retrospectively termed the " Machine " section of his career, Telekon reintroduced guitars to Numan's music and featured a wider range of synthesisers.

Numan's next album, The Fury ( 1985 ), charted slightly higher than Berserker, produced four hit singles and featured another new image of white suit and red bow tie.

Numa Records, which had been launched in a flurry of idealistic excitement, folded after the release of Numan's Strange Charm album ( 1986 ).

Metal Rhythms 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 ).

( 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.

* The Pleasure Principle ( 1979 ) ( Numan's first album under his own name )

* Gary Numan's 1979 album Replicas ( under the name Tubeway Army ) is essentially built around the Minimoog.

In 2003 Flood re-worked Cars for Gary Numan's album Hybrid.

* Two tracks on Gary Numan's 1994 album Sacrifice refer to the book: " Love and Napalm ," taken from one of the chapter titles ; and " A Question of Faith ," which includes the line " I'll be your exhibition of atrocity.