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

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.

The band appeared all dressed in black and near-motionless, Numan in particular giving a performance often referred to as being " like an android " ( a style that was later reported to have been a means of covering stage nerves but which then became his trademark ).

The album Clues, produced by Palmer and featuring Chris Frantz and Gary Numan, generated hits on both sides of the Atlantic, first with the radio-friendly single " Johnny and Mary " and then " Looking for Clues ".

Numan was substituted after forty minutes by Advocaat, who was then the national team coach and brought on PSV teammate Gerald Vanenburg as his team was 2 – 0 down early in the game.

The Gongola then runs south to the Benue river, joining it opposite the town of Numan.

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.

When Arthur Numan went off to Rangers at the end of the 1999 – 00 season, Bouma was moved to left-back where he had to compete with Danish international Jan Heintze.

He kept his profile high through regular appearances presenting Top of the Pops, and championed many acts who went on to achieve huge commercial success, notably The Police and 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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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?

* " Cars (' 93 Sprint )" ( 1993 ) – remix released as EP ( including two 1987 mixes and three other 1993 mixes ) and on compilation album The Best of Gary Numan 1978 – 1983

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

Jensen played only five games in one and a half seasons at PSV, as he underwent two groin operations, and was used as back-up to Dutch international Arthur Numan.

Gary Numan wrote songs laced with Scientology references, such as " Me!

Numan later described his work on this album as a guitarist playing keyboards, who turned " punk songs into electronic songs ".

* Hybrid ( Gary Numan album ), a 2002 album consisting of songs by Gary Numan remixed by other artists

He was fond of playing songs by Robert Johnson and Bob Dylan as well as Lou Reed, James Brown, J. J. Cale, The Clash, Nat King Cole, The Doors, Willie Dixon, The Flaming Lips, Jimi Hendrix, Howlin ' Wolf, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, The Passions, Prince, The Stooges, and Sonny Boy Williamson II.

It also includes music by Hughes Hall from the trailer, as well as songs by Gary Numan, Echo & the Bunnymen, and Course of Empire that did not appear in the film.

Category: Gary Numan songs

Gary Numan had popular songs laced with Scientology references in the 1980s such as " Me, I Disconnect from you ", " Praying to the Aliens ", and " Only a Downstat ", influenced directly by Burroughs ' Scientology-based writings.