Numan has recently completed a four-date run of gigs in Australia and will be touring the UK in the coming months.

Numan is a positive atheist and has incorporated anti-religious motifs and images in his music.

Numan is known for his love of flying, a passion which has featured in some of his music videos (" Warriors ", " I Can't Stop ").

Numan said " Every village and town in England has a bunch of thugs running around in it.

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.

Most recently ( 2009 ), Kane has toured Australia acting as support for electro legend Gary Numan.

Numan joined Twente at the close of the 1990 – 91 season where he has scored goals even as a defender.

Slade has worked with Gary Numan, Tom Jones, Olivia Newton-John ( as co-members of the band Toomorrow ), and Uriah Heep.

The album has been cited as influencing the goth rock, darkwave and science fiction elements of work by artists such as Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, Gary Numan, John Foxx and Nine Inch Nails.

" Because Numan once again owns the rights to this footage, it is speculated that he has refused the broadcast rights to the clip.

His style of house music has been compared and inspired by the likes of Kraftwerk, Prince, Gary Numan, and Nitzer Ebb.

Blue has cited Gary Numan, Type O Negative, and Black Sabbath as the album's influences.

The song was a hit for The Drifters in 1963, reaching # 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has been covered by many artists such as The Coasters, The Dave Clark Five, The Chipettes, Eric Carmen, Bobby Darin, Percy Faith, Tom Jones, Johnny Mathis, James Taylor, Gary Numan, Tito Puente, Lou Rawls, Buddy Rich, Paul Rodgers with Jeff Beck, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Sly & the Family Stone, Livingston Taylor, Neil Young, and Widespread Panic.

Meanwhile, Karn had become a sought-after session musician and worked with artists such as Gary Numan, Kate Bush, and Joan Armatrading.

Allegedly, Numan actually took his new pseudonym from a local Yellow Pages where a plumber called " Arthur Neumann " was listed, the singer abandoning the German spelling, to become Numan.

Numan signed a one year contract with Aston Villa FC to become their scout in the Netherlands and surrounding areas in mid-2011.

* " Cars " ( song ), a 1979 single by Gary Numan

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

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.

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.

In 1991, Numan ventured into film-scoring by co-composing the music for The Unborn with Michael R. Smith ( the score was later released as an instrumental album in 1995, Human ).

Fear Factory produced a cover of " Cars " ( featuring a prominent guest appearance by Numan himself ) for the digipak version of their album Obsolete.

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.

The band, along with wife Gemma, helped Numan celebrate by bringing a large cake onstage.

In 1978, Gary Numan, a member of the group, found a minimoog left behind in the studio by another band, and started experimenting with it.

Synthpop's early steps, and Gary Numan in particular, were also disparaged in the British music press of the late 1970s and early 1980s for their German influences and characterised by journalist Mick Farren as the " Adolf Hitler Memorial Space Patrol ".

By this time, The Human League's role as UK electronic pioneers was usurped by Gary Numan when his single " Are ' Friends ' Electric?

* Outland ( Gary Numan album ), a 1991 album by Gary Numan

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

Tubeway Army was a London-based punk rock and New Wave band led by lead singer Gary Numan.

" was also the only song released by Tubeway Army to be a hit single, making the band technically a one-hit wonder ; however, the success of Gary Numan often overshadows the band, leaving them off most one-hit lists.

Lyrically the record touched on dystopian and sci-fi themes similar to those employed by authors such as Philip K. Dick, of whom Numan was a fan ( the opening lines of the song " Listen to the Sirens " are a direct lift from the title of Dick's book Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said ).

Following swiftly on in early 1979, excited by the possibilities of synthesizers, Numan took Tubeway Army back into the studio to record a follow-up album, Replicas.

", a song by Gary Numan on the album The Pleasure Principle

* " Asylum ", a song by Gary Numan from The Pleasure Principle

Tracks included parodies of Supertramp (" Scatological Song " by Supertrash ), Michael Jackson (" Up the Wall " by Jack Michaelson ), Status Quo (" Boring Song " by Status Quid ), The Police (" Too Depressed to Commit Suicide " by The PeeCees ), David Bowie (" Quite Ahead of My Time " by David Bowwow ), Gary Numan (" Are Trains Electric?

* As a result of a quarrel between Numan III, the Lakhmid ruler, and the Persian Chosroes, the Persian border with Arabia is no longer guarded.

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.

The Pleasure Principle was a rock album with no guitars ; instead, Numan used synthesisers fed through guitar effects pedals to achieve a distorted, phased, metallic tone.

While angry like his punk contemporaries, Numan suppressed his anger and " got really hung up with this whole thing of not feeling, being cold about everything, not letting emotions get to you, or presenting a front of not feeling ".

During this period, Numan generated an army of fans calling themselves " Numanoids ", providing him with a fanbase which maintained their support through the latter half of the 1980s, when his fortunes began to fall precipitously.

In 1980 Numan topped the album charts with Telekon, with the concurrent singles " We Are Glass ", " I Die: You Die " and " This Wreckage " reaching No. 5, No. 6 and No. 20, respectively.

Moving away from the pure electro-pop that he had made his name with, Numan then experimented with jazz, funk and ethereal, rhythmic pop.

Numan supported the album with a concert tour in America in late 1982 ( where he was living as a tax exile ), which were his first series of live shows since his farewell at Wembley.

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 signed to IRS Records and his final studio album of the 1980s, the edgy, industrial-funk Metal Rhythm ( 1988 ) found favour with fans and scored some positive reviews in the UK music press, but it sold poorly despite two hit singles.

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.

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 2002, Numan enjoyed chart success once again with the single " Rip ", reaching No. 29 in the UK chart and in 2003 with the Gary Numan vs Rico single " Crazier ", which reached No. 13 in the UK chart.

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 stated " think of Jagged and Pure, but faster, with bigger choruses, more energy, and more aggression " to describe the album's intended sound.