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Gary Anthony James Webb (born 8 March 1958), better known as Gary Numan, is an English singer, musician, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He first entered the music industry as the frontman of the new wave band Tubeway Army. After releasing two albums with the band, he released his debut solo album The Pleasure Principle in 1979, topping the UK Albums Chart

Pure is the fourteenth solo studio album by English musician Gary Numan, released in November 2000 by Eagle Records. Lyrically, Pure was seen as continuing the composer’s attacks on Christian dogma but in a somewhat more personal fashion than on Exile. The recording featured an expanded group of collaborators after the largely one-man efforts of Sacrifice (1994) and Exile. The Sulpher team of Rob Holliday and Monti contributed guitar and drums, respectively, as well as keyboards and additional production.

With the success of the album Splinter, Gary Numan has finally come to terms with, and is proud of, his early work – including tracks like Cars and Are Friends Electric? that kick-started synth pop and heralded a new world of music technology back at the end of the 1970s. Indeed, John Foxx tells us (in an interview for our sister magazine, Classic Pop): Gary triggered the whole synth thing off in 1979. It was an instant changeover and, of course, very welcome for everyone who was doing that sort of thing – it was great. But over the last 30-odd years, Gary has had a hard time coming to terms with the impact he made.

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Gary Numan: "I don’t listen to music at all!" Tracks. The band's songwriter and frontman, Gary Numan, was a former punk who had changed to new wave electronic pop after playing with a Minimoog synthesiser he found in the studio where he went to record his first album, 1978’s Tubeway Army.

Interview: Gary Numan. Posted 6 November 2013. Quintessential eighties pop icon Gary Numan first cut his teeth when a synthesiser would set you back two months’ pay and drum machines only had ‘samba’, ‘mambo’ and ‘polka’ presets. In 1979 he recorded Are Friends Electric with his band Tubeway Army on a shoestring, creating one of British pop’s finest moments and influencing a generation of musicians from Juan Atkins to Kanye West. For his latest album Splinter (Songs from a Broken Mind), Gary worked with Nine Inch Nails’ Robin Finck. It was released last month and went straight in at number 20 – his highest charting album since 1983’s Warriors. We recently caught up with him on the phone from his new home in Los Angeles to chat about the seven years it took to bring the album to fruition, how he overcame depression and why his low self esteem has come to define his sound.

But when Gary Numan receives the Innovation In Sound honour, in front of an audience of his peers at the Q Awards today, don’t expect him to indulge the atmosphere of backslapping bonhomie. Gary Numan, who is only now receiving the acknowledgement granted his post-punk contemporaries ( ITV/Rex Features ). His influence has been proclaimed by artists ranging from Kanye West and Prince to Foo Fighters. Hip-hop producers sample his pioneering electronic experiments. 2011 really stands out for the cumulative impact of Cowellism, as the album charts were littered with the output of his telly talent shows, such deathless innovators as One Direction, Susan Boyle, JLS, Alfie Boe, Olly Murs (pictured), Joe McElderry, Matt Cardle, Rebecca Ferguson and Will Young. The breakthrough year for pop.