Paul SuttonAcademic, analytical study of Numan’s early electronic era

Understanding Gary Numan: The Machine Quartet (1978-1981).

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The first analytical study of the pioneering English musician. The historian, Paul Sutton begins by taking the reader through a vastly entertaining potted history of rock music pioneers, tracing them all back to “A delta of Mississippi mud from where howled the first harmonica, and from where was heard the first blue plucking finger on string”, to show that popular music was strictly The Imitation Game until Gary Numan came along with his Machine Quartet, four albums that completely re-invigorated rock and roll.

“Numan’s music added so many new strands of DNA to the gene pool of what hitherto had been dead Mississippi mud that the transformative effect was immediate and everlasting.”

Artists major, from Frank Zappa, Neil Young and Alice Cooper, and bands then minor, including Tears for Fears and Depeche Mode, all stopped what they were doing and added lessons learned from Numan to their art.

Sutton looks at the influence on Numan of David Bowie, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk and John Foxx, and deconstructs Numan’s cryptic lyrics from the first single to the fourth album in order to unlock the art and mind of the world’s first Asperger’s pop star.

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Understanding Gary Numan: The Machine Quartet (1978-1981).

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Understanding Gary Numan: The Machine Quartet (1978-1981).

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Gary Numan, An Annotated Scrapbook: 1977-1981.

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Gary Numan was one of the first pop artists to place equal emphasis on image and sound.

This book collects together articles and imagery from England, America, Japan, Spain, France, Italy and Germany relating to the first years of fame of the modest young Englishman, a true Warholian talent who advanced on Andy’s light and sound experiments with the Velvet Underground,

By bringing a real grandeur to live performances, and by changing the music of the world with a single finger.

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Gary Numan, An International Scrapbook: 1977-1984.

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A lavishly produced collection of more than 1,000 press and magazine clippings of Gary Numan from his Tubeway Army single to the Berserker tour of 1984; From flying his plane around the world, and being arrested as a spy in India, to surviving a plane crash on a road near Southampton, modelling in Japan, touring Britain with the Mad Max inspired Warriors, and influencing music from America to Australia.

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