The Man that Created Synthpop 

I wouldn't stretch to say he created it, there were a lot more acts before Gary. But he was a major force for it in the earlier days and his influence was enormous, not just pop but hip-hop in the US

Decent, no nonsense summary. Plenty of us of a certain age would have split hair discussions about who actually created the whole movement but, Gary is certainly front and centre in that debate along with others.

The Pleasure Principle was the first album I ever bought, I was 11. I immediately fell in the love with it and still play it today.

Contrary to his uptight stage persona, he's a genuinely lovely guy, just listen to any interview with him.

I saw the indelible mark - it's across the top of his forehead...the line where the glued hair piece is rather further forward than his receding hair line in 79.

Not only him, also Kraftwerk, J.M. Jarre, Ultravox, Human League, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Telex, and John Foxx - pioneered the electronic pop/rock.

Saw him on the Telecon Tour, Brilliant. That little car he was in during "Down in the Park" .🎼🎹🎹🎹🎤

A true pioneer of electronic music. In my opinion, it is a shame that he lost the plot after Wembley 1981 and wandered off into a saxophone / jazz funk style and then into a gothy industrial grunge style.

I think a better title would be “Gary Numan: The Catalyst for Synthpop”

Great lad -met him at a signing in Edinburgh bought us a pint afterwards as well -sheer class oh aye and a grey musician

Germany`s Kraftwerk might have something to say about synthesisers having been formed in 1970. Gary Newman did not invent the genre of synth music.

Like a lot of people you forget the influence this had on dance music (in a roundabout way)

Love it mate great stuff

Great video of gary numan.

My God,Paul Gardiner was so cute!

this was great smashed the like

I enjoyed this VERY much⭐💎⭐💎⭐💎⭐

Billy Currie,,,,,nuff said.

After Telekon he ran out of ideas and inspiration, and instead of evolving his music, he stagnated. It didn't help either when he declared he was retiring from touring, and went around the world in his plane. To me it seemed he came back to music as his bank balance was dropping on a daily basis, and he started knocking out rubbish. Warriors is were I fell out of love with his music. His first four albums are legendary and still fresh today as they were in 1979 and 1980 when I purchased them, ran home and played them on the record player.

Good video. As a fan I've been familiar with all of the facts, but nonetheless enjoyed. His run from the tubeway army debut to the telekon album is astonishing.

GOOD VIDEO NOW PLEASE DO ONE ON JOHN FOXX ! ! !👍

Please - do me a favour. As if there was no synth pop before 1979.

He and all the other UK synthpop artists were the heirs to Kraftwerk.

Gary was a fan of John Foxx and the original Ultravox. I bought the self titled first album at the time, and Replicas, and so on, loved them, but I felt some stagnation setting in after Telekon. Not sure it was pop, or that he originated it, he certainly took it places though.

Clickbate title which is demonstrable BS. This proves the saying, often attributed to Coco Channel - 'Anyone who claims something is original, has no concept of history'

Well done.

He did'nt. 🙄🙄🙄 Kraftwerk did it with Autobahn.

Love it MY SAAAAAAAAN

Japan have the honour by a country mile.

Numan?? Kidding me right... it was Kraftwerk!

Nice write up. I would love to have been just that bit more old enough to remember Are Friends Electric. I can tell exactly why it would have been considered a landmark UK single at the time.

"The Man that Created Synthpop" - REALLY? Gary released Are Friends Electric in 1979. Meanwhile... Space - Magic Fly 1978, Bowie - Sound & Vision 1977, Kraftwerk - Autobahn 1975, Popcorn 1969 and I probably missed a few. Certainly in 1979-80 nobody was calling Gary an innovative visionary, they called him a bargain basement Bowie clone. That was harsh, but he wasn't the originator of synthpop

Err.. Kraftwerk.

This video is fake news and actually insulting. Gary's 'sound' was the sound of Ultravox and that's EXACTLY what he wanted to sound like and did.. Kraftwerk had been in cars 6 years earlier on the 'Autobahn' It doesn't matter how many units you sell, give credit to the true pioneers of Synthpop & New Wave. Shame on you for trying to pervert history.

A small correction: the title should be "The man WHO created synthpop". "Who" is for living (or anthropomorphised) things; "that" or "which" is for objects (which includes groups of living things).

What is this ''pop" poop? Gary was synthROCK!

The man that hit a chart as Bowie clone and desperately wanted to be John Foxx. That is what he is known for at best.

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If you want to be really accurate, you should say that john foxx/ultravox or human league created synth pop and that gary numan imitated them a year later. And then a year or two later, starting with his Dance album, he was imitating the band Japan to the point of hiring thejr band members so he could get their sound. This doesn't seem like the work of an original trail blazing artist to me.

absolute bollocks

He was a band wagon jumper, all good stuff but he invented sod all :)

So, you're just going to pretend that Kraftwerk doesn't exist?

No he didn't. Kraftwerk and loads of others before him did.

Gary Numan came across a *_POLYMOOG,_* (not a minimoog) in a music studio and had time to play around with it. OBSERVE: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Bxe4hqYk1mc.html&ab_channel=AlexBall -> He ended up becoming a master of the device, making it a prominent part of both his music and that of musician's that followed. Critics hated that he'd made synth music popular, and yet admired that he made that music so well, like no one else ever.

Um, I hear a lot of assumptions about history in the video. Like the death of Sid Viscious had anything to do with the death of punk? That's actually funny, as he was all show and no substance, and the music community knew it. He had nothing to do with the 'death' of punk. - - SO dear watchers, take all this with a bag of salt. There was quite a lot more going on in the British music scene at the time than this. I consider it the single most creative period of music in human history. It was overwhelming and wonderful. Gary was a huge contributor, a creative genius, while his creativity lasted.

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