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.

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.

Those efforts, supported by French diplomacy, bore fruit in 1710, and resulted in the dismissal of the Grand Vizier Çorlulu Ali Pasha ; the new Grand Vizier, Köprülü Numan Pasha, who became a good acquaintance of Poniatowski, supported an anti-Russian shift in the Turkish politics.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To date, The Fury is the last Numan album to crack the British Top 30.

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.

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

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 ).

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.

Sacrifice was the last album Numan made before shutting down Numa Records permanently.

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

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.

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 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 ".

* 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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

During the song's promotion, Gary Numan joined the band for a concert performance in Brixton, London to much enthusiasm.

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

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 undertook a Telekon ' Classic Album ' tour in the UK in December 2006.

In 1979 they were asked to support Gary Numan on his first major British tour.

They returned the favour some 13 years later when they asked Numan to support them on their arena tour in the mid-1990s.

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.

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.

Mescaleros Pablo Cook & Smiley together with Mike Peters ( The Alarm ), Derek Forbes ( Simple Minds ), Steve Harris ( Gary Numan ) are in Los Mondo Bongo ( a celebration of the music of Joe Strummer ) who together with Ray Gange ( DJ ) tour whenever possible performing those great Mescaleros tunes and have toured the UK and Canada.