Changes

1,850 bytes added ,  14:49, 7 September 2009
New page: thumb|Gary Numan with his wife Gemma and Trent Reznor during the O2 show in London, 2009. '''Gary Numan''' (born '''Gary Anthony James Webb''' on 8 March 195...
[[Image:GaryTrentGemma.jpg|thumb|Gary Numan with his wife Gemma and Trent Reznor during the O2 show in London, 2009. ]]

'''Gary Numan''' (born '''Gary Anthony James Webb''' on 8 March 1958) is an English singer, composer, and musician. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of commercial electronic music and has been described as the "King of synthpop." Numan is widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" (with Tubeway Army) and "Cars". Numan's more recent output, however, from 1994's ''Sacrifice'' to 2006's ''Jagged'', has been much darker and industrial in nature, incorporating haunting soundscapes with a lyrical tendency towards Atheism and a general anger towards organized religion.

[[Nine Inch Nails]] covered Numan's song "Metal" from ''The Pleasure Princinple'' (1979) on the remix album [[Things Falling Apart]] in 2000. So far, Gary Numan has been a surprise guest during the last leg of the [[Wave Goodbye Tour]], making appearances at the [[2009/07/15 London, England|O2 Arena]], the [[2009/09/02 Los Angeles, CA|Hollywood Palladium]] and the [[2009/09/06 Los Angeles, CA|Echoplex]], performing guest vocals on "Metal," "Cars," and "I Die: You Die," the latter song from his 1980 album ''Telekon''.

==Discography==

===Studio Albums===
*''Tubeway Army'' (1978) (with Tubeway Army)
*''Replicas'' (1979) (with Tubeway Army)
*''The Pleasure Principle'' (1979) (Numan's first album under his own name)
*''Telekon'' (1980)
*''Dance'' (1981)
*''I, Assassin'' (1982)
*''Warriors'' (1983)
*''Berserker'' (1984)
*''The Fury'' (1985)
*''Strange Charm'' (1986)
*''Metal Rhythm'' (1988) (''New Anger'' in the United States)
*''Outland'' (1991)
*''Machine + Soul'' (1992)
*''Sacrifice'' (1994) (''Dawn'' in the United States)
*''Exile'' (1997)
*''Pure'' (2000)
*''Jagged'' (2006)


[[Category:Related to NIN]]
1,846

edits