A special picture-disc helped boost sales but what particularly grabbed the British public's imagination was Tubeway Army's appearance on the BBC show The Old Grey Whistle Test, followed soon after by a slot on Top of the Pops.

Following exposure in a television advertisement for Lee Cooper jeans with the jingle " Don't be a Dummy ", Tubeway Army released the single " Are ' Friends ' Electric?

" 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.

* Jess Lidyard ( also known as " Rael "; Webb's uncle ) – drums ( part-time 1976, and 1978 / 1979, including " That's Too Bad " single, Tubeway Army and Replicas sessions )

Others were soon to follow, including Tubeway Army, a little known outfit from West London, who dropped their punk rock image and jumped on the band wagon, topping the UK charts in the summer of 1979 with the single " Are Friends Electric ?".

Tubeway Army a little known outfit from West London, dropped their punk rock image and topped the UK charts in 1979 with the single " Are Friends Electric?

Others were soon to follow, including Tubeway Army, a little known outfit from West London, who dropped their punk rock image and jumped on the band wagon, topping the UK charts in the summer of 1979 with the single " Are Friends Electric ?".

*" Blue Eyes ", a song by Tubeway Army, a B-side of the single " Bombers "

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.

* Replicas ( 1979 ) ( with Tubeway Army )

* Gary Numan's 1979 album Replicas ( under the name Tubeway Army ) is essentially built around the Minimoog.

After the breakthrough of Tubeway Army and Gary Numan in the British Singles Chart in 1979, large numbers of artists began to enjoy success with a synthesizer-based sound and they came to dominate the pop music of the early 1980s.

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.

By this time, Billy Currie had been recruited by the rising star Gary Numan in 1979 to do a presentation at the Old Grey Whistle Test show with his band Tubeway Army.

by Tubeway Army ( 1979 ).

This year also saw the death of Paul Gardiner, who was Numan's bassist and friend since his Tubeway Army days, from a fatal heroin overdose on 4 February 1984.

A Limited Edition version was also available, packaged with bonus cd Esoteric Vs Gary Numan: Pterodactyl Tubeway.

Alan and Ted formed Cloaca, ( which also had Stefan Heller on bass guitar, Simon Thomas on vocals and guitar and eventually were joined by Mike Christer on guitar ), a band which played many gigs in the west London area supporting the likes of Gary Numan's ' Tubeway army ' and ' Henry Strand and the Westway Band ' featuring The Clash's Mick Jones and Joe Strummer.

British punk-influenced band Tubeway Army, intended their debut album to be guitar driven.

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?

" by Numan's Tubeway Army.

* Musician Paul Gardiner ( 1958-1984 ), bass player in Gary Numan's Tubeway Army, died in Northolt

* Musician Paul Gardiner ( 1958 – 1984 ) of Gary Numan's Tubeway Army was born in Hayes

* The Plan ( Tubeway Army album ), an album of early demos and singles by Gary Numan's band Tubeway Army

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

Soon afterwards, the Tubeway Army album was released on blue vinyl, at which point Webb adopted the name " Gary Numan ".

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.

It was later officially included under the title Living Ornaments ' 78 as bonus tracks on the 1998 CD re-release of the Tubeway Army album ).

He played in various bands, including Mean Street and The Lasers, before forming Tubeway Army with his uncle, Jess Lidyard, and Paul Gardiner.

* Tubeway Army ( 1978 ) ( with Tubeway Army )

After the breakthrough of Tubeway Army and Gary Numan in the British Singles Chart, large numbers of artists began to enjoy success with a synthesizer-based sound in the early 1980s, including Soft Cell, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Japan and Depeche Mode in the United Kingdom, while in Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestra's success opened the way for synthpop bands such as P-Model, Plastics, and Hikashu.

The pair left The Lasers soon after and formed Tubeway Army, initially with Webb's uncle Jess Lidyard on drums.

Later in the decade and into the early 1980s, hits with Tubeway Army and Gary Numan secured the label's future.

Later in the decade and into the early ' 80s, hits with Tubeway Army and Gary Numan secured the label's future.

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

With Tubeway Army still avoiding live shows, Numan recruited some additional musicians to make these television appearances ( see above ).

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

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Army Ordnance officials at Fort Knox pulled down M26 Pershing tanks from display pedestals around Fort Knox in order to equip the third company of the Army's hastily formed 70th Tank Battalion.

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