Later he picked the name " Numan " from an advert in the " Yellow Pages " for a plumber " A. Neumann ".

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

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.

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 ).

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 addition to Numa's commercial failure, a lack of radio play ( his records were removed from the BBC Radio 1 playlist ) and sales drained the fortune ( he estimated £ 4. 5 million ) Numan had amassed in the late 1970s.

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 ).

The discovery that synthesizers could be employed in a different manner from that used in progressive rock or disco, prompted Numan to go solo.

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.

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 ).

By this time Tubeway Army had decided to abandon live shows – Numan was unhappy with pub-venue gigs on the often violent London punk scene ( the only known recording of a Tubeway Army concert – a London show from February 1978 – was released as a bootleg album in the early 1980s.

* " 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.

On January 18, 2006 the supreme committee for the party ousted its chairman Numan Gomaa from the party and from the presidency of the board of al-Wafd newspaper.

", 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 ".

Numan was the Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen from February 1986 until Yemeni unification in 1990, under Chairman Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, who preceded Numan as Prime Minister.

During the period, Recai Kutan ( 20 July 2001 – 11 May 2003 and again 30 January 2004 – 29 March 2008 ), Necmettin Erbakan ( 11 May 2003 – 30 January 2004 and again from 17 October 2010 till his death on 27 February 2011 ) and Numan Kurtulmuş ( 26 October 2008 – 1 October 2010 ) were leaders.

Aviador Dro ( short for El Aviador Dro Y Sus Obreros Especializados ) is an electronic band from Spain that formed in Madrid in 1979 with influences such as Gary Numan, Devo and Kraftwerk.

Numan was killed by a hand grenade in the firefight that ensued with Nazis from Heerenveen and the bridge was completely destroyed.

The percussion sample of " Pro-Test " was taken from a live performance by Gary Numan.

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.

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

On 6 November 2006, Numan took part in the Sky1 reality show The Race.

In Egypt's last legislative and presidential elections in November and December 2005, the party won 6 out of 454 seats in the People's Assembly, and its presidential candidate Numan Gumaa received 2. 9 per cent of the total votes cast for president.

In July 2009, Gary Numan appeared as a special guest at the " Wave Goodbye " Nine Inch Nails concert at The O2 arena ( London ) in London.

* 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.

Numan is considered a pioneer of commercial electronic music.

When Numan was 15 years old, his father bought him a Gibson Les Paul guitar, which he regards as his most treasured possession.

Numan rose to prominence at the end of the 1970s as front man, writer and producer for Tubeway Army.

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.

Around this time, Numan also developed his distinctive style.

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.

His persona was aloof, alien, and androgynous ; Numan was not seen to be part of the punk or New Romantic movements.

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.

Numan performing in February 1980.

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.

Although considered a success, Numan claimed the tour actually lost him a great deal of money because of the vast expense in mounting it.

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.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

A much larger room, adjacent to the lavatory, served as a passageway to and from the skimpy toilet.

One finds it difficult to pass censure on the lonely figure who waited for days for a saving word from his zealously served idol, W.R. Hearst.

the rub arises from the fact that teachers are usually paid on the basis of time served rather than quality.

Although refrigeration has served to extend the storage life of these products, substantially increased consumption might be possible if areas remote from the seacoast could be served adequately.

When served in a psychological atmosphere that allows young bodies to assimilate the greatest good from what they eat because they are free from tension, a foundation is laid for a high level of health that releases the children from physical handicaps to participate with enjoyment in the work assignments, the athletic programs and the most important phase, the educational opportunities.

Lots of cheese made from June grass milk is served.

Wine bought from a dealer should ideally be allowed to rest for several weeks before it is served.

A student orator `` produced tears from a great number of the learned '' even before the punch was served.

Cocktails will be served from 6 to 7 p.m., with dinner at 7 and entertainment in the main dining room immediately following.

During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis -- the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants -- it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties.

He served four successive terms in the Illinois House of Representatives as a Whig representative from Sangamon County.

The Taurus Mountains are more rugged and less dissected by rivers than the Pontus Mountains and historically have served as a barrier to human movement inland from the Mediterranean coast except where there are mountain passes such as the historic Cilician Gates ( Gülek Pass ), northwest of Adana.

George Stevens, Jr., served as director from the institute's founding until 1980.

Later from May to September 4, 1992 he served as Chief of General Staff of Azerbaijani Armed Forces.

Doubleday initially served in coastal garrisons and then in the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848 and the Seminole Wars from 1856 to 1858.

A medal awarded to women who served in the Women Army Auxiliary Corps from 10 July 1942 to 31 August 1943, and to the Women Army Corps from 1 September 1943 to 2 September 1945 featured Athena on the front.

He was one of the founders and the first president of the All-India Muslim League, and served as President of the League of Nations from 1937-38.

In the 19th century, Chinese in San Francisco operated sophisticated and sometimes luxurious restaurants patronized mainly by Chinese, while restaurants in smaller towns served what their customers requested, ranging from pork chop sandwiches and apple pie to beans and eggs.