HeyJaredElectric Friends: A Gary Numan Podcast
Celebrating the music of electronic pioneer Gary Numan, track-by-track. Each episode delves into a different Gary Numan song from various albums and eras in a non-linear journey.
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Voix (opens the original)
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In this episode of Electric Friends, Tom goes deep on 'Voix' — the standout track from Gary Numan's 1988 album Metal Rhythm, and the song that survived the worst year of his career on its own terms. In early 1988, Gary stood on a TV show promoting someone else's single alongside Bros and Sinéad O'Connor, and called it the lowest point he'd reached. Nine months later he released a song that says, more or less, I don't need your opinions, I don't need your rumours, I don't need to listen to strang
Radio Heart: 1987 to 1994 - a history (opens the original)
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In this episode of Electric Friends, I tell the full story of Radio Heart — Gary Numan's strangest detour, and the closest he ever came to being a pop star for hire. With Numa Records struggling at the end of 1986, Gary accepted an offer to sing on 'Radio Heart', a bright pop single written by Hugh Nicholson — and to his own surprise found himself back on the Radio 1 playlist and in the Top 40. We trace the whole saga: the Nicholson brothers, the singles 'Radio Heart', 'London Times' and 'All Ac
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