With his former backing band, Chris John Payne ( Keyboards, Viola ) Russell Bell ( Guitar ) and Ced Sharpley ( Drums ) now reformed as Dramatis, Numan contributed vocals to the minor hit " Love Needs No Disguise " from the album For Future Reference.

2003 also saw Numan performing the vocals on a track named " Pray For You " on the Plump DJs album Eargasm, which was well received.

Numan lent his vocals to the track " My Machines " off Battles's 2011 album " Gloss Drop ".

* Gary Numan ( also known as " Valerian "; birth name Gary Anthony James Webb ) – vocals, guitar, keyboards / synthesizers

Nine Inch Nails performed " Cars " several times during their Wave Goodbye Tour in 2009, featuring Numan on vocals.

Gary Numan ( vocals ), Rob Dean ( guitar ), Roger Mason ( keyboards ), Mick Karn ( saxophone, bass ), Paul Gardiner ( guitar ), Roger Taylor ( drums ), Cedric Sharpley ( drums ), Tim Steggles ( percussion ), Sean Lynch ( programming ).

Track 11 is the same as the version that appeared on the limited edition of Obsolete, but features only Gary Numan on vocals.

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 one UK hit " Are ' Friends ' Electric?

* Classic Roland CR-78 eighties tracks part 1: Hall & Oates, Gary Numan, OMD, Soft Cell, Phil Collins ( by Harlem Nights Music )

One of the other tracks, " Big Science 1-2-3 " is in the style of Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson or Gary Numan.

This effect can be heard on tracks such as " Seconds " by The Human League and " I Dream of Wires " by Gary Numan.

* " Tracks ", a song by Gary Numan on his album The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan ( born Gary Anthony James Webb on 8 March 1958 ) is an English singer, composer, and musician, most widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits " Are ' Friends ' Electric?

A few months later Numan found success in the charts on both sides of the Atlantic with " Cars ", which peaked at No. 1 in the UK in 1979 and No. 1 in Canada and No. 9 in US in 1980.

According to Numan, this was an unintentional result of acne ; before an appearance on Top of the Pops, he had " spots everywhere, so they slapped about half an inch of white makeup on me before I'd even walked in the door.

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 ).

Now battling against the increasing public perception that he was a spent force, Numan issued a series of albums and singles on his own record label, Numa.

By 1994, Numan decided to stop attempting to crack the pop market and concentrate instead on exploring more personal themes, including his vocal atheism.

Numan re-evaluated his career and went in a harsher, more industrial direction with his songwriting on the album Sacrifice — for the first time he played almost all the instruments himself.

Nine Inch Nails covered the song " Metal " on The Fragile remix album Things Falling Apart as did Afrika Bambaataa ( with Numan himself ) on the album Dark Matter Moving at the Speed of Light.

In late 2006, Numan announced on his website that recording would begin on his new album in January 2007, with Ade Fenton co-producing.

Numan also launched a Jagged website to showcase the new album, and made plans to have his 1981 farewell concert ( previously released as Micromusic on VHS ) issued on DVD by November 2006 as well as releasing the DVD version of the Jagged album launch gig.

Numan did win on the overall leaderboard, though he lost the final race to AC / DC lead singer Brian Johnson.

In November 2007, Numan confirmed via his website that work on a new album, with the working title of Splinter, would be under way throughout 2008, after finishing an alternate version of Jagged ( called Jagged Edge ) and the CD of unreleased songs from his previous three albums ( confirmed to be titled Dead Son Rising on 1 December 2008 via official mailing list message ).

Before coming on stage, Trent Reznor explained how Numan was " vitally important and a huge inspiration " to him during the past 20 years.

Numan then went on to play two songs with Nine Inch Nails ; " Cars " and " Metal ".

On 2 September 2009 at the Hollywood Palladium, Numan joined Reznor on stage to perform " Metal " and " Cars " near the end of the Nine Inch Nails set.

Numan served from 20 April to 6 July 1965.

Gary Numan performing in 2007

Sköld played guitar on the band's 2007 world tour, Rape of the World, with Rob Holliday ( formerly guitarist / bassist for Curve, Gary Numan, The Mission and The Prodigy ) taking over bass duties.

The album was also accompanied by a striking blue-and-white visual image, a tour, a live album / video and produced two hit singles, but it divided critics and fans and commercially was Numan ’ s least successful release to that date.

1989 saw the release of the Sharpe + Numan album Automatic.

After Outland ( 1991 ), another critical and commercial disappointment and his second and last studio album with IRS, Numan reactivated Numa Records, under which he would release his next two albums.

However, even Numan considers his 1992 Machine + Soul, a misguided attempt at a purely commercial release recorded solely to pay off debts, a career low point.

The track has been a UK Top Twenty hit for Numan in three successive decades: on its original release in 1979 ( making number one ); in 1987 as the ' E Reg Model ' remix ( making number 16 ); and again in 1996 following its use in an advertisement for Carling Premier beer ( number 17 ).

Numan has regularly performed the song on stage since its original release and it appears on all but one of his official live albums to date.

This prompted the singer, Gary Numan to go solo and in the same year he release the Kraftwerk inspired album, The Pleasure Principle and again topped the charts for the second time with the single " Cars ".

", prompting their singer, Gary Numan to go solo and release the album, The Pleasure Principle from which he gained a number one in the single charts with " Cars ".

This prompted the singer, Gary Numan to go solo and in the same year he release the Kraftwerk inspired album, The Pleasure Principle and again topped the charts for the second time with the single " Cars ".

* Gary Numan recorded his Touring Principle show on September 28 and is widely recognised as the first release of a live concert video.

Sounding like a combination of early Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Gary Numan and Brian Eno, the album received fairly good reviews upon its release.