Replicas

...jazz-funk direction. His best-known material, however, dates from three albums produced as the Seventies turned into the Eighties - Replicas, The Pleasure Principle and Telekon. He has already toured the former and latter with...

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

...bigger-bodied Peel Trident was said to be "not for sale at EUR40,000" by one owner in 2007 (over GBP35,000 at the 2009 exchange rate). Replicas are available built to order in Nottingham, UK for around GBP10,000. The Peel P50 was and is...

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...studio album, and debut album under his own name, by electronic music pioneer Gary Numan, released in 1979. Released the same year as Replicas '' (under the name Tubeway Army), ''The Pleasure Principle also went to number 1 in the United...

In this article: Gary Numan, The Pleasure Principle, Cars, Telekon, Complex, On Broadway, Afrika Bambaataa, Ultravox, and Living Ornaments '79

...force of the band, writing the material and producing the recordings; subsequent albums were issued under his own name once the album Replicas became successful. Gardiner, Sharpley, and Payne continued as his backing band for some years.

In this article: Gary Numan, Tubeway Army, Paul Gardiner, Top of the Pops, Old Grey Whistle Test, Tubeway Army, Bombers, and London

...have a heart attack. I was on my own but to be fair it was the middle of the afternoon. While 'Replicas' wasn't exactly a concept album, it did have a narrative arc of sorts and concerned this Philip K Dick, dystopian future vision of...

In this article: Gary Numan, Metal, Cars, Complex, Tubeway Army, Nine Inch Nails, Beggars Banquet, Moog, and Sugababes

...with an androgynous image and ground-breaking synthetic rock sound. Fuelled by a surprise number 1 hit single, "Are 'Friends' Electric?", Replicas also claimed the top spot in the UK charts. Something of a concept album, Replicas was based...

In this article: Gary Numan, Philip K. Dick, Down in the Park, Ridley Scott, Marilyn Manson, Replicants, Freak like Me, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

...of his 1979 album The Pleasure Principle. This was the first album released under Gary Numan's name, following on from Tubeway Army's Replicas in the same year. The Pleasure Principle spawned some of Numan's best-known and most-sampled...

In this article: Gary Numan, Lovebox, Cars, The Pleasure Principle, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, London, and Freak like Me

...when released but has long been a critical and fan favourite and for many years was described by Numan as his best composition. Like the Replicas album as a whole, "Down in the Park" marked a major shift from Tubeway Army's previous output.

In this article: Down in the Park, Gary Numan, Tubeway Army, Western music, New Wave, Trademark, Bombers, and Lunchbox

...due to its coloured vinyl and cover) sold out but did not chart. When reissued in mid-1979, following the success of the follow-up ''Replicas '' (1979), the more commonly-known cover art featuring a stylised portrait of Numan was...

In this article: Gary Numan, Jo the Waiter, Tubeway Army, The Velvet Underground, Tubeway Army, Death metal, Bombers, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, and White Light/White Heat

...standing there behind a synthesiser like Kraftwerk had done, I thought it needed a persona at the front. Replicas was actually a theme album - it had personalities and characters within it and I just wanted to be one of those. It was all...

In this article: The Pleasure Principle, Gary Numan, Kraftwerk, BBC Four, Beggars Banquet, David Bowie, Ultravox, and Tubeway Army