I met Gary Numan yesterday

[Nicensleazy]

I was on the the London tube yesterday, near to Piccadilly Circus, when I looked over to my left and spotted Gary Numan. God, he's got more hair now then he had in 1982.....must be wig? Anyhow he looks quite well, not sure of his age.

A little taste of Mr Numan

View: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cRcfFP8xtPE

 

[Nicensleazy]

If I remember, isn't he a pilot.....I think he landed an aircraft on a motorway once.

 

[Over The Hill]

I thought he went loony but that may have been Adam Ant.

Pleased he is looking OK. Strange to be a "star" at an early age. You then spend the rest of your life on a lower level in a sort of vacuum.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

I thought he went loony but that may have been Adam Ant.

Pleased he is looking OK. Strange to be a "star" at an early age. You then spend the rest of your life on a lower level in a sort of vacuum.

it was adam ant.

 

[nilling]

Saw Numan last year at Manchester Academy it was a sellout. My mate went without a ticket and the touts where selling tickets for £50. When a car pulled up with the driver offering a ticket, he sold it to my mate for the face value rather than the thieving scumbag tout!!

The grandfather of British electro?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

The grandfather of British electro?

Brian Eno?

 

[rich p]

Saw Numan last year at Manchester Academy it was a sellout. My mate went without a ticket and the touts where selling tickets for £50. When a car pulled up with the driver offering a ticket, he sold it to my mate for the face value rather than the thieving scumbag tout!!

The grandfather of British electro?

Wasn't that Arnold Weinstock?

 

[Nicensleazy]

Although I was a Punk back in the late 70's and into the Stranglers, I was always quite fond of Numan and the Human League. Couldn't stand Visage and that pratt Stve Strange.........he was bloody strange. About 4 years ago he was caught shoplifting in South Wales.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

No, Delia Derbyshire (although she would be the grandmother of course).

Ahhh - 'diddly dee diddly dee diddly dee diddly dee. whoooo ooooo oooo'
best I can do typing-wise at the Doctor Who theme tune!!!

 

[nilling]

Brian Eno?

Eno best known as the father of ambient music.

Numan one of the pioneers of commercial electronic music

 

[bonj2]

did you meet him or did you just SEE him?

 

[alecstilleyedye]

one word:

kraftwerk

 

[cookiemonster]

He brought an album out in 2007.

Quite dark but an absolute gem of an album.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

one word:

kraftwerk

They're not quite British though otherwise I'd have gone with that Leon Theramin bloke!!

 

[alecstilleyedye]

i didn't realise we were being so parochial…