The music, apart from the hit singles, never did it for me and I remember the ridicule he had as a pilot in the 1980s.
He is a nice bloke, the wife is a bit weird though.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b083dj13/gary-numan-android-in-la-la-land
Rec Room says
It’s unfair. The singer for Iron Maiden flies his own plane and everybody looks up to him.
Uncle Wheaty says
What is unfair?
Rec Room says
That Bruce Dickenson was considered a renaissance man, while Numan was ridiculed.
Heavy Metal guys get off easy. Low expectations and all that.
ernietothecentreoftheearth says
You might be right about the pilot bit, but I don’t recall the phrase “renaissance man” featuring heavily in reviews of ‘The Adventures of Lord Iffy Boatrace’.
Anyway, If I recall Gazza was something of a Thatcher fan back in the day, which wouldn’t have endeared him to some.
Moose the Mooche says
The NME review of that Boatrace book was… well, “scathing” doesn’t quite cover it. But like many metal artists of all nationalities, he earned grudging respect from those types by being brilliantly hilarious in interviews, and showing a lack of pomposity completely absent from musicians from other “cooler” genres.
Uncle Wheaty says
OK.
Black Type says
“Flies own plane…looks up to him” – intentional, right? 😉
Rec Room says
Pure gold I tellya, pure gold.
Iggypop1 says
You can’t really do anything other than wish him well after watching this. He comes across as a really decent husband and father. I must admit i struggle with his vocals, but good luck to him anyway, i think he deserves all of this renewed interest.
Moose the Mooche says
Typically excellent review by the great Raymond here.
Raymond says
Gary Numan is great … just saying.
Sitheref2409 says
I bought the Pleasure Principle this week.
A staggeringly good album. The more I listen to it, the more I go “hang on, that sounns like…”
And yes, he does come across as a decent guy.
Black Celebration says
I’m feeling left out. I have to see this.
dai says
No, he’s a prat. A tory voting, airplane crashing, groupie marrying, whiny and opportunistic Bowie rip off prat *
* with 2 or 3 good songs
Sitheref2409 says
Groupie marrying ought perhaps to be encouraged if it produces more 19 year marriages.
MC Escher says
Still seeing voting tory as a negative in artistic terms? You should really stop treating what the NME told you as a teenager as gospel by now,
Uncle Wheaty says
up
fentonsteve says
I watched it yesterday. Mrs F entered the room and asked “Crikey, has she had some work done or what?”
Gaz looked like you might expect a 55-year-old bloke with jet-black dyed hair. Gemma (who is a lot younger than him) looked, well, like she’d been inflated. If you’d have asked me beforehand which of them would like like they were made of plastic, my money would have been on the Android man himself. How odd.
dai says
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2188497/Cosmetic-surgery-I-1980s-icon-Gary-Numan-face-lifts-FIVE-hair-transplants-elf-n-safety-driving-Britain.html
The engine Driver says
Nice to see though he’s kept up the rock and roll tradition of lumbering his kids with wacky names,
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