Numan has become acknowledged and respected by his peers, with such musicians as Dave Grohl ( of Foo Fighters and Nirvana ), Trent Reznor ( of Nine Inch Nails ), and Marilyn Manson proclaiming his work an influence and recording cover versions of old Numan hits.

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 ).

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.

" ( reached # 50 in the US ) featured on the soundtrack of the film Times Square the other artists were performed on the film, including Gary Numan, Roxy Music, Ramones, The Cure and The Cars.

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.

Numan performed " Cars " using a set of two dozen automobiles and their horns in an innovative 2010 commercial for DieHard.

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

The song " Down in the Park " is credited as being performed by Gary Numan although technically it was recorded when Numan was using the band name Tubeway Army.

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

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

The influence was two-way ; Numan claimed that Nine Inch Nails ' song " Closer " is his favourite hit single of all time, and influenced his music.

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 the second series episode " I Know What Alan Did Last Summer " he enthusiastically plays " air-bass " to the Gary Numan song " Music for Chameleons ", and in " Never Say Alan Again " is seen drumming along inside his Lexus to the theme of Return of the Saint which he plays at full volume insensitively at the cemetery whilst having given his assistant Lynn ten minutes to commemorate the anniversary of her mother's passing.

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

" 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 ).

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

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

" Cars " is a 1979 song by UK artist Gary Numan, and was released as a single from the album The Pleasure Principle.

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?

Musically, the new song was somewhat lighter and more pop-oriented than its predecessors, Numan later conceding that he had chart success in mind: " This was the first time I had written a song with the intention of ' maybe it could be a hit single '; I was writing this before ' Are " Friends " Electric?

* The song is featured in several episodes of the first season of the UK comedy series The Mighty Boosh ( Numan himself appeared in one episode during the series ' third season ).

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

* " Films ", a song on The Pleasure Principle ( Gary Numan album )

Gary Numan and his producer / keyboard player Ade Fenton, also released a hit remix of Mandy Kane's song 25 Seconds, introducing a heavier and more synth aspect to it.

* " Metal " ( Gary Numan song ), on the album The Pleasure Principle

* " Complex " ( song ), a song by British musician Gary Numan

* " Bombers " ( Gary Numan song ), a 1978 song by Gary Numan and Tubeway Army

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.

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

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.

Numan contributed vocals to four tracks on the April 2007 release of Fenton's debut solo album Artificial Perfect on his new industrial / electronic label Submission, including songs " The Leather Sea ", " Slide Away ", " Recall " and the first single to be taken from the album, " Healing ".

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.