Exposure has just crashed into the official UK album chart and Numan is now busy recording an all-new album for a major label. I’ve had singles in the chart in the ’90s and I’m doing pretty well now.” “I’m happy at being talked about as part of the ’80s, but what I object to is being labelled as someone only from the ’80s. “I’m glad people think I’m influential,” he says in a chummy London accent that is quite contrary to his oddball image as the godfather of electropop. But what’s the man himself doing these days?Īs he sees the compilation album Exposure – The Best of Gary Numan 1977-2002 released in celebration of his 25 years in the music business, Numan wants it known that being influential is all very well, but he doesn’t appreciate being pigeonholed. A far cry from the things said about him when he first emerged onto the music scene in the late ’70s. Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Foo Fighters and Armand Van Helden have also adapted Numan’s songs, leading to talk that he’s one of the most influential artists around. was sampled to form the basis of dance outfit Basement Jaxx‘s top five hit Where’s Your Head At? last year. Pop kittens Sugababes reached number one with Freak Like Me earlier this year, a song that essentially added the girls’ vocals to Are Friends Electric? by Gary Numan. Lately there’s been an unseemly rush by a bewildering assortment of musicians to cover and sample songs by a bloke from Hammersmith.
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