Cars

..."That was a bit rubbish, actually." The most chilling moment comes with "Asylum", the horror-movie instrumental from the B-side of "Cars". The most moving comes with the stately grandeur of "Complex", a song which Numan didn't play live...

In this article: Gary Numan, The Pleasure Principle, Replicas, Freak Like Me, Stuttering, Mental disorder, Complex, and Asperger's syndrome

...was soon on the microphone delivering the likes of Metal and M.E., seminal and endlessly sampled songs of futurist isolation, while Cars, his biggest hit, was raced through with zippy energy. The melancholy Complex, meanwhile, was...

In this article: Gary Numan, Marilyn Manson, The Pleasure Principle, Complex, Heroin, Steroid, Paul Gardiner, and Chris McCormack

...have. I really damaged my career because of it." The damage was temporary. Numan's biggest anthems such as Are Friends Electric? and Cars are held up as classics and his music has been covered by modern rock icons like Dave Grohl from the Foo...

In this article: Gary Numan, The Pleasure Principle, Dave Grohl, Are Friends Electric?, Down in the Park, Splinter, Sugababes, and Jagged

...since I was a teenager a it feels like it's been part of them all. What do you remember better a your first car or your first kiss? Car. No competition. It was horrible, actually. It was a Morris Marina estate a you couldn't get a...

In this article: Gary Numan, Are Friends Electric, Sugababes, Nine Inch Nails, The Pleasure Principle, Edinburgh, and Glasgow

...being re-released 30 years after it hit Number One in the UK charts. Now aged 51, his synth anthems such as Are Friends Electric? and Cars have enjoyed multiple trendy revivals and his music has been covered by rock royalty including Dave...

In this article: Gary Numan, Asperger syndrome, Dave Grohl, Cardiff, The Pleasure Principle, Autism, and Are Friends Electric?

Buzz built steadily over the spring with an EP-release party at T.T. the Bear's Place, a now legendary gig that found the Cars keyboardist Greg Hawkes joining the band onstage. Over the summer the band, led by platinum-blond pixie...

In this article: Cambridge, Middle East, Weezer, Boston, New Wave, Velveeta, Platinum, and Burton Snowboards

...came in 1979, when Gary Numan appeared on the British show "Top of the Pops. " Numan's best-known song in the United States is "Cars," which brings us to one of the themes of the documentary: the link between synth-pop and the work of the...

In this article: Mark Danner, George Packer, Twitter, JG Ballard, Crash, Britain, Gary Numan, and Sysomos

...don't have an argument with that. It's been around a long while and opinions change. The biggest hit off the record was Cars, which many assume to be some sort of sci-fi operetta. But apparently it's inspired by an incident in which you...

In this article: Freak like Me, Musicians' Union, Sugababes, Trent Reznor, and Britain

...the skies when he became a pilot but he says that parenting is far trickier than any mid-air manoeuvre. The Are Friends Electric? and Cars singer is one of only two qualified civilian acrobatic instructor pilots in Britain but he says...

In this article: Gary Numan, Are Friends Electric?, and Britain

...off the cobwebs. Blackinton squeezes himself into the Tesla, the world's first all-electric sports car and one of the first electric cars to make it onto American roads, period. It is a small car, based on the Lotus Elise body and designed...

In this article: Gabe Saporta, Tesla Roadster, Tesla, Manhattan, Electric car, Lotus Elise, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo