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!

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

Numan's personal tribute to his former cohort was the song " A Child with the Ghost ", on the album Berserker ( 1984 ).

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

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

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 ".

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

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

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

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 ?".

Numan's vocal part is sung in an almost expressionless, robotic style.

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.

* Musician Paul Gardiner ( 1958-1984 ), bass player in Gary Numan's Tubeway Army, died in Northolt

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

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.

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 ).

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.

( 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 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.

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.

He also played on Gary Numan's Dance album as well as Sinéad O ' Connor's first record.

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.

Alan and Ted formed Cloaca, ( which also had Stefan Heller on bass guitar, Simon Thomas on vocals and guitar and eventually were joined by Mike Christer on guitar ), a band which played many gigs in the west London area supporting the likes of Gary Numan's ' Tubeway army ' and ' Henry Strand and the Westway Band ' featuring The Clash's Mick Jones and Joe Strummer.

He also tours as the guitarist in Gary Numan's live band.

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.

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 ).

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.

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 ".

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the September 2011 Q & A section of Numan's official web site, in answer to the question " Is it true you now hate England and want to leave?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.