Tubeway Army 'Are Friends Electric' TOTP (1979) HD

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Broadcast on 24/05/1979
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@BeggarsArchive 3 года назад

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@andymatthews7617 3 года назад

Thanks for yet another fantastic video, keep up the great work ❤❤

@maxwellmcquade9368 Год назад

Following

@santoantonioterranova6128 Год назад

Sounds like a Long Vosges to Andromeda

@futurecenterofficial 2 года назад

People in 1980: This makes me want to be in the 2020’s People in 2020: This makes me want to go back to the 80’s

@MollyJoUS Год назад

Omg. So, so true!!

@ralphlorenzperolino3054 Год назад

People in 2006: This makes me want to drive a Lancer Evo IX in Silverton

@originalkingalpha5116 Год назад

Pass the joint, folks!💨🥴

@G3org3DoesGaming Год назад

This makes me want to drift a green Mazda rx7 with Japanese shiet on it

@perrynn7173 Год назад

Lol 😂 great comment. I guess we're showing how much older we all are now.

@jonathang8263 4 месяца назад

A strong contender for the most groundbreaking single of all time. I remember hearing this for the first time as a 14 year old when it was released and it just blew me away. Listening to it today as as someone who is almost 60 years old, it still sends chills down my spine. An incredible song.

@johntischler1634 4 месяца назад

Agreed, this song and perhaps "I Feel Love" by Donna Summer.

@niallmartin9063 4 месяца назад

Was 13 in Dublin when I saw this. I thought it was Dave Vanian and the Damned, about to belt out;” just for you . . Here’s a love song” ehh no. A neuro diverse musical genius, beautiful music, great story telling lyrics, and a sinister terrifying vision. Just brilliant. He’s still brilliant, pure, slave, my last day, all genius tracks from the contemporary phase. A national treasure.

@noelbowerman1562 3 месяца назад

I was 13 ,and yes ,it certainly was very different to what else was about at the time ,I still love it

@PHOENIXHOUSE137 2 месяца назад

I’m definitely with you there!

@GrooveToys 2 месяца назад

i had to wait 2 years after seeing this, but I eventually got my ARP synth for my 16th birthday. Groundbreaking.

@leecort4705 Месяц назад

1979 , a year of incredible music !!!

@Taxman97 3 года назад

Considering our relationship today with smartphones, Numans lyrics are strangely prophetic. "Mines broken down, now I've no one to love." Genius then, genius now.

@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music 3 года назад

It boggles my mind that appliance manufacturers are demonstrably telling me that people want to talk to machines.

@steverowlands338 2 года назад

Gary was a good 30 years ahead of his time!!!! As were Kraftwork.....lucky enough to remember hearing this back in the day when it was first released.....will always stand the test of time...2021 now, this will still sound futuristic in 2051.....😎👌...LEGEND!!!

@tomlafferty4651 2 года назад

The song is about a robot prostitute the lyrics are quite literal even if they do make a good commentary on modern relationships with technology

@donbrashsux 2 года назад

Gary’s music is iconic

@twistedviewlabs 2 года назад

Gary Numan is living proof that time travel is definitely possible

@stephenwilliams926 22 дня назад

I remember watching this the first time it was broadcast in 1979.

@pmmp3668 2 года назад

One of the greatest songs ever still love it 42 years on.

@jodiewilson4570 2 года назад

Love his music ,he's brilliant

@deborahchesser7375 2 года назад

79’ I was 13, yeh I’d go back , we ran like wild Indians back then. I bet my bicycle had 25k on it lol

@johnross2924 Год назад

@@deborahchesser7375now I bet you hate those that ride bicycles on the roads 😂

@josejones7025 Месяц назад

Robyn Hitchcock does a very good cover of this tune on acoustic guitar

@jack94987002 3 года назад

Could any of us have imagined that 42 years later we would still be watching this performance?

@joerandl9252 3 года назад

imagine thinking about how you’d be watching this performance

@andymatthews7617 3 года назад

Just shows how good it was, and is !!

@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music 3 года назад

15 times on one channel? No.

@andymatthews7617 3 года назад

@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music well I suppose all most people in the world have left is HOPE.

@garynumanfanforever 2 года назад

He is just so bloody hrilliant 👌

@Genisis429 2 года назад

Those people in the audience stare at him in amazement. Really was ahead of his time.

@terracestevenkennedy9198 2 года назад

Him and joy division

@cynthiaslusher5212 2 года назад

@@terracestevenkennedy9198 oh yes... My beloved Joy Division 👍

@dutchtennhard490 Год назад

Music so good no one can move

@skeaneable Год назад

yep the audience at that time were still listening to funky disco around that time punk rock and new wave were slowly gaining traction along with something on Television called 'MTV' network.

@brandpartnersuk Год назад

Back in 79 I thought I was staring at the New David Bowie. So futuristic and visionary. The guy just held your gaze in silence. Turned out not to be the new Bowie, but has place as an innovator. Great music and love hearing it to this day

@mcfcste99 3 года назад

He went in the studio to record a punk album seen a sythn in the corner of the studio and then did this masterpiece 👏

@andymatthews7617 3 года назад

WOW, THATS MINDBLOWING !!

@mcfcste99 3 года назад

Yeah I watched a documentary called Synth Britainia he says it on their it's a worth a watch as it happens

@andymatthews7617 3 года назад

@@mcfcste99 cheers, will take a look

@mcfcste99 3 года назад

@@andymatthews7617 Yeah it's well worth a watch you'll find it on RU-vid it has some great bands on it too

@andymatthews7617 3 года назад

@@mcfcste99 thanks mate, very helpful, keep on enjoying the music and stay safe 👍

@MovingInStereo Месяц назад

I could listen to an hour long version of this and not get bored… it’s too good.

@tommylakindasorta3068 Год назад

This song has been criminally overlooked in the United States. Gary Numan had a U.S. hit that same year with Cars, but he was unfairly seen as a one-hit wonder. It's our loss, really.

@espirotadebretagne3533 10 месяцев назад

Absolutely correct

@foxxster3565 7 месяцев назад

Hope you have seen the live Nine inch nails performance of Cars.. with Gary..

@rickster5120 6 месяцев назад

As good as Cars and very different feel to it...I liked Complex too but not as strong as the other 2

@BillehBobJoe 6 месяцев назад

i always said the cultural river only flows out of the US. you gotta paddle pretty hard to break up that river...

@OnlyGoodMusic_ 2 месяца назад

To be honest, it doesn't matter if it was overlooked in the USA. In 1979 nothing like that could be successful there, and it doesn't matter! The song was number 1 for 4 weeks in the UK.

@suzannephelan1218 7 месяцев назад

I've been a fan since 1979!!!!!

@maxinesobers2606 6 месяцев назад

Me too.❤❤❤❤

@edmondgilbert8223 6 месяцев назад

Me too 😂 luckily I was 17 back then, absolutely perfect,the music I mean, not me!

@booblikon 6 месяцев назад

I was 12 when I heard "Me I disconnect" on a rock radio station in 1979.

@Keverton13 2 года назад

I was quite obsessed with Gary Numan as a young kid. He totally fascinated me. I was convinced he was an android or from another planet, or both.

@garynumanfanforever 2 года назад

He still fascinates me and I am 55 love the mans music forever.

@josephmeador1529 2 года назад

I'm so busy trying to break this wall Hear my words 'cause emotion now is leaving You see I'm really not a human at all And I don't think I want to stay

@soupdragon151 2 года назад

I sometimes wonder if trek's Data was modelled after him

@alanprior7650 2 года назад

On the BBC programme "I Love the 70s" Numan said I wanted to come across as mysterious...but I just looked like a wanker!

@justinmorgan2126 2 года назад

I was 12 in 1981 and playing this on my guitar convinced he was the second coming,,, I wasn't far off

@andrewc4612 6 дней назад

Epic song, well deserving of it's four-week stint at no. 1 in the UK charts, in the summer of 1979. One of the sounds of the 70s, electronic music at it's best.

@victormartins3520 3 года назад

his clothes look like they were made yesterday for 2020 fashion ,40 years ahead of everyone else.

@davidconnellan6875 3 года назад

Most true new wave clothes from the 80s still look like they are from tomorrow

@saveriociccone23 3 года назад

The black racing style suit with the belts he wore, coupled with the serious facial appearance are reminiscent of Oswald Mosley leading the British Union of Fascists in the 1930's..a very powerful look

@Blethrow 3 года назад

@@saveriociccone23 Bob Geldof in The Wall.

@stevewilliams5130 4 месяца назад

This song will always sound like its from the future 😮

@limdennis813 2 месяца назад

Totally agree👍 This song & the British sci-fi TV series Doctor Who theme music are so futuristic even though they were released in 60s & 70s Gary Numan & the composer of Doctor Who theme music are so talented

@jhazelw Год назад

This is still amazing 43 years later. Damn. I remember hearing this in 1979 and it still sounds futuristic.

@darrencurtis8779 Год назад

43 year's it's mad!!!

@scottmichaels1764 Год назад

This in no way sounds futuristic now. Very retro, very passe.

@ralfglowna2048 6 месяцев назад

Geht mir genauso 😢

@TheOneTrueSpLiT 2 года назад

I can clearly recall seeing this on TOTP when I was 10, and it changed my world forever. One of THE best tracks of the '70s and a total game-changer.

@damianmcdonagh7908 9 месяцев назад

As a 10-year-old in 1979 watching this on Top of the Pops, I was absolutely blown away.

@alanrobertson3172 3 месяца назад

Yes, me too. I’m 54 now. It still sounds great.

@viper4274 3 года назад

He kept his private plane near to us at a small airfield , my mum worked there in catering, met him several times a real nice down to earth person, got his autograph and a picture with him , looked just like he had walked of the set of top of the pops

@ArtyFishal 3 года назад

Blackbushe airfield? He used to roar down the London road through Camberley in his Corvette on the way through 😎

@channi58 2 года назад

Like a vampire

@toadof66.58 7 месяцев назад

North wild I met him there at a air show back In 90s he had a Japanese zero plane .

@chelseagirl278 3 года назад

I was 9 when this song came out. How at 50 years old am i just discovering this song. OMG I love it!! I love RU-vid

@ilmamartinez522 3 года назад

So you were born in 1970?

@chelseagirl278 3 года назад

@@ilmamartinez522 yes 🥳

@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music 3 года назад

I've done this thing where I'll discover a killer song on the radio, look it up on YT and I'm reading ten year old comments saying, "When I was 8 this was my jam!"

@soupdragon151 2 года назад

I remember watching it live on TOTP all those years ago it was No.1 in the charts and everyone was talking about it but we barely had VCR's back then couldn't imagine that all these years later could just watch it whenever we liked, we'd have never believed it.

@soniaellis163 7 месяцев назад

It will go down as one of musics milestone, moments. Just Classic.👌

@carlosdelgado2737 Год назад

Thanks to my Mom (now 81) who told me (now 55) to, i can proudly say: this is the first music i ever bought. one of the best tracks ever

@RichardMcGeechan-c4q 17 дней назад

I was only five years old when this song was out with Gary Newman in the mid seventies and my brother was only four years old really nice to hear that Richard McGeechan ❤

@andywells397 2 года назад

A million years ahead of its time. Amazing.

@OnlyGoodMusic_ 2 месяца назад

No certainly, that music was being created in THAT TIME, not in another. Gary had some very marked influences that were before him and also, if he were ahead of his time people would have ignored this song, but... it was number one for four weeks... Gary Numan was a pioneer, but not ahead, nothing So it can be advanced, that music belongs to that era, not another.

@nicodelfine5194 2 года назад

The best synth-pop song of all times!

@davidspion9548 11 месяцев назад

Without a shadow of a doubt.

@mod6462 7 месяцев назад

Blue Monday

@clairelouise335 2 года назад

I was totally hooked from this performance and up to the present day. Just saw Gary on tour two days ago. I was 11 in 1979 and never did I imagine that I'd still be able to see him in concert all these years later. Legend.

@MikePhillips-pl6ov Год назад

I was 16 and went straight out and bought the single. Not long after I bought the album.

@billyaitken7461 Год назад

Crazy to think this qualifies as 70’s music🤯‼️ awesome track.

@Theoriginalbigbrillo 2 года назад

How this song has only 894K views is beyond me ;( Absolute game changer of a pop song back in the day 🤔🤔🤔🤔

@贅沢な悩み 7 месяцев назад

新宿のツバキハウスというディスコでこの曲を流してくれて歓喜の悲鳴を上げた思い出がꉂ🤣𐤔

@libertyprime7911 4 месяца назад

Shinjuku in the house!

@wlines 6 месяцев назад

I was a hoser from Scarborough born in 59 totally into Prog and Tangerine Dream. I heard the Tubeway Army album broadcast in its entirety on CFNY late on a Monday night smoking hash in the back of a van in the parking lot of North York Arena after a hockey practice. I remember thinking , what is this ? this is good I am liking this. Months later I walked into a house party Are Friends Electric just blaring everyone dancing. No exaggeration it changed my life.

@tinoespinoza6434 5 месяцев назад

Sup, hoser (Strange Brew)

@libertyprime7911 4 месяца назад

the artistic awakening: "what is this ? this is good I am liking this."

@mikeohagan2206 2 месяца назад

Music needed a fresh sound badly and this was it.

@teresamarymckue5640 Год назад

This song brings tears toy eyes its so beautiful

@RichardMcGeechan-c4q Месяц назад

When I was five years old this song came out and I was in st Josephs hospital in Roswell I didn't know about the song then back in the seventies well done to the runway army and the singing and Gary new man Richard McGeechan 😊

@daveshaw2342 2 года назад

One of the best number one singles ever . This song blew me away when I first heard it . Loved numan ever since

@davesimon3861 Год назад

I agree Dave 👍

@richardmadison6312 9 месяцев назад

Thats Billy Currie on the keyboards right side,of Ultravox. A fabulous musician.

@zeitgleiche8032 3 года назад

Gary Human war schon 1979 ein toller Typ. Bis heute ein Meister der elektronischen Popmusik ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

@christopheradderley45 3 года назад

May 24th 1979. And everything changed. Fifteen years old, watching TOTP. I was completely mesmorised by Tubeway Armys performance of "Are Friends Electric?" I'd never seen or heard anything like it before. I bet that I didn't blink once 🖤

@ian_b 2 года назад

Yup. People who weren't there will never appreciate how utterly revolutionary this was. It changed my world, and yours, and countless other people's. It was like the future became real all in one song.

@PHOENIXHOUSE137 2 года назад

Same for me

@soupdragon151 2 года назад

About the same age as me :)

@257ian 11 месяцев назад

Me too.

@OutkastedRadikal 8 месяцев назад

NOT just one of Top of the Pops' best performances but also a REVOLUTIONARY one.

@tombenz7533 Год назад

One of the most iconic and influential songs of all times !! What an impact such a performance must have had 1979 !

@davidspion9548 11 месяцев назад

It blew people away. I remember it like it was yesterday. This song, and the Replicas album, turned the music world on its head overnight. 79-81 were magical times for music.

@tombenz7533 11 месяцев назад

@@davidspion9548 Just think of the first two Albums of The Human League...

@davidspion9548 11 месяцев назад

@@tombenz7533 Yes, I have both in my record collection. The original Human League were fantastic. Tubeway Army, with Replicas and Are 'Friends' Electric? Just took the look and sound to a different level, though.

@tombenz7533 11 месяцев назад

@@davidspion9548 I also love the early John Foxx albums, he's very underrated too, I think

@davidspion9548 11 месяцев назад

@@tombenz7533 Me too. Foxx has done some brilliant stuff.

@denisbirch104 5 дней назад

Remember this song it was playing as I was going down for operation

@rww910 9 месяцев назад

What a beautifully haunting song!

@iamagoblin 3 года назад

I remember witching this! my older sister sent me down town to the record shop to buy the single. still got it!

@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music 3 года назад

What is a "record shop"?

@iamagoblin 3 года назад

@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music :-D what we used to call them back in the olden days! :)

@garyandrewranford 5 месяцев назад

1979... Seriously, Gary was so far ahead of the music revolution, an inspiration. He still records, and some of his latest music is on top form 😊❤😊

@MartiGrant-jc2gn 11 месяцев назад

A strange sad song. Best synth song ever.

@Joolzratbag Год назад

I was 14 when I saw this, instantly loved it, then bought Replicas, first album i ever bought for myself

@samirhn6517 Год назад

I remember the old days, NFS CARBON PSP while the light was out and I was the only one in town playing the game with this song 😅

@ge2623 10 месяцев назад

As a drummer, it must have been incredibly hard to not do ANY fills in a song this great.

@tomcollett1893 3 месяца назад

He was either very up-to-the-minute or ahead of time as this is one of the most 1980s 1970s songs I've ever heard!

@KyleKing-vx4by 11 месяцев назад

This song still sounds like it's before its time😁😎👍

@JamesMarshall-iq7ty 4 месяца назад

The very first single I bought absolutely amazing song

@limdennis813 2 месяца назад

When I first listened to this song while playing NFS carbon on my PS2 back in 2012, I immediately fell in love with this song for its futuristic music❤

@Slickmickyoyo97 3 года назад

Listen to that laser precise drumming. Cedric Sharpley was a monster.

@ianvaughan9028 2 года назад

Except it was actually played by Jess Lidyard, Gary's uncle. :-)

@joustwave6541 2 года назад

Just to clarify: it's Sharpley in the video but you're hearing Lidyard's performance. :)

@jodiewilson4570 2 года назад

James Freud from the Australian band The Models and Gary were good friends ,still are . Anyway, James said Gary was living out back of his uncles ,or parents , house in a caravan and had a synthesizer that he was using to create unique new music with , which led to what we are listening too still today . Gary is one of the humblest people, I saw him in an interview recently and thought that very much .He's a normal ,everyday guy with a wife and family .

@tyreburster 2 года назад

The only musicians on this song to appear here are Paul Gardiner and Gary Numan. Jess Lidyard played the drums on the record. The others here are, I think, Cedric Sharpley, Billy Currie, Russell Bell and Chris Payne.

@chap666ish Год назад

@@tyreburster Billy Currie looks / acts a wee bit OTT during the performance. I think he missed being more front-of-stage in Ultravox!

@Paris__ 3 года назад

Those analogue synths were absolutely amazing........Sadly it all changed with the world domination of the Yamaha DX7😥

@carlosguimaraes1196 2 месяца назад

Listen to Ladytron bro.

@simonturner7550 Год назад

I can remember this, too. What a fantastic performance, from a unique musician

@Howie900 6 месяцев назад

Such vivid memories of this at 14 years old.

@sylvia8651 8 месяцев назад

when I was 14 and heard that song for the first time I got crazy about that sound!

@colallison6152 8 месяцев назад

Gary requested not to have coloured lights on the stage. TOTP went with the idea and hence we got one of the best TOTP performances ever

@spankysmp 3 года назад

Woaaaaaah. I'm 14 again. I bought this and then rushed out to buy Replicas and played it non-stop much to the annoyance of my parents. My mate was into them too and forged a career writing electronic music tracks for computer games everywhere while I festered in the NW of England :-( Anyway, my Journey with Gary continued with The Pleasure Principle, Telekon and it went on from there. Still love the sound today. Thanks Arkive.

@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music 3 года назад

I'm giving you extra points for your use of the word festered.

@spankysmp 3 года назад

@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music You're most kind. I think it described my position exactly.

@Morcaiden 2 года назад

Indeed! I kept my copy of Replicas around for years. Still have Telekon and listen to it regularly.

@ivanbeavon9050 7 месяцев назад

I can remember watching this on TV and going out on my push bike thinking music will never be the same 😱

@veerchasm1 3 года назад

I love pre- Nine Inch Numan

@blueknight5754 3 года назад

😂😂🤣👍

@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music 3 года назад

TMI

@jake-fj2zi 3 года назад

I like both :)

@markcraine4213 Год назад

Tubeway Army is unrivalled

@remarcablereally8199 9 месяцев назад

Changed my life from the second I saw/heard it.

@cyberzonie631 2 года назад

I was always fascinated by Gary’s lyrics and melodies

@TheStircrazys 9 месяцев назад

brilliant its the start of my music life when i was listening to this for the first time im now 60 years old wow

@jawkneekat Год назад

The greatest futurist popular music has seen. He was revolutionary.

@mixtapemaster1985 10 месяцев назад

A great song that influenced many a band throughout the 80s and beyond! A masterpiece!

@RayhanAhmed-qr3vz 2 года назад

1981 was something special for me .. my father gave me a treat to see A famous pilot at Heathrow and remember this song I was around 14 yrs old .. this song flying up in Charts at that time which will live With me for rest my life

@davidbee3704 3 года назад

I was in high school when this song first came out. I remember thinking back then how their sound and look was something that dropped in from the future! Now watching this in 2020 and thinking maybe I was right. LOL

@arricammarques1955 3 года назад

Kraftwork

@PHOENIXHOUSE137 2 года назад

Yes I felt the same. I was transfixed by this! I can even remember watching this performance on tv when I was 13, it sounded and looked like nothing before. I bought the picture disc that week in my local record shop (the last one they had!) and bought the Replicas LP soon after. I remember just staring at the Replicas cover for ages. It’s amazing what effect music can have on you as a teenager. I’m 56 now and still listen to this period of his music. I still prefer it to his new stuff!

@pizzamahn1208 Год назад

Probably my favorite song of all time.

@ferenchorvath5478 7 месяцев назад

Still great to this day 2/21/24

@257ian 11 месяцев назад

I was 15 when this came out and as soon as I heard it and saw Gary on TOTP, I was hooked and followed him ever since. Such a cool guy

@dougtull4594 9 месяцев назад

Still fresh, still enthralling, still relevant.

@matthewballard6399 2 года назад

And along come human league..depeche mode..soft cell and loads of synth new wave...brilliant.

@DavidTurcotte-n3k Год назад

The guy and his music is so cool

@donnytom8891 23 дня назад

The music is so good ass worth to listen too ❤️💘💘😁😁😄😄😃😃🤍💘💝

@TonyWardUK Год назад

2023 and it still is an epic song!

@barrysmith8920 Год назад

still StIlL STILL an iconic song....Even KILLS me more now. Words cannot explain 🖤

@jeromedernoncourt510 5 месяцев назад

J'ai connu ce tube en discothèque dans le Nord de la France entre 1988-1990, j'avais 19-21 ans, c'était génial, la version que le DJ mettait est celle que je recherche, la version live il me semble où Gary reprend le refrain en le chantant woho woho o woh owoh ohwo oho woho.......qui pour moi est la meilleure.

@tadhgmccain7785 9 месяцев назад

I saw the Telekon tour 1980 at Birmingham Odeon when I was 15 and it was brilliant. Take me back 😢. Even my dad liked are friends electric ⚡💡

@MrDrum1969 Год назад

Still watching this in June 2023 , brilliant tune , ahead of its time .

@pionelpessi1022 Год назад

Watched this on BBC4 last night. The sound of the future.

@Escape_Velocity_12 Год назад

This song gave me a solid boost in 1980! Friends are electric, that’s a fact.

@antonioribeiro2818 Год назад

1979

@deanthyer9896 14 дней назад

a footstep into eletric art

@MarquesJo71 6 месяцев назад

I remember watching this....I was about 8 years old....its scared me to death 😂

@marko-ze4nl 7 месяцев назад

Looks like Billy Currie on the synth - another great from this era; Gary was very complimentary about Ultravox! - he was the one that took the 70s electro influences and made it popular, opening doors for so many bands to follow. Never tire of hearing this and it still sounds like the future.

@markainsley231 Год назад

This track is still fresh and relevant today. I downloaded his album Savage about a year ago and it’s never been off my playlist. The guy is still brilliant

@sanityoblivion6666 Год назад

It's just amazing! I can't stop to listening this !!

@cureit9161 Год назад

Now we realise what a genious he was, way ahead of his time....Electric!

@dubiousdistinction6500 10 месяцев назад

brilliance doesnt age

@owenjinxy Год назад

It was refreshing, strange, but interesting to have these kind of songs. I wore a badge back then that said "disco is dead" thumb.

@kevinprior3549 Год назад

Classic moment on TOTP in 1979. When the "future of pop" finally entered the studio.

@janetmoore5645 2 года назад

Wow 😮. Love this tune 💓. Like the sound affects of this song ❤️ they don't make music like this anymore.

@PHOENIXHOUSE137 Год назад

I can remember the excitement of this top of the pops - I remember reading in the tv listings in the daily paper that Tubeway Army were one of the bands on the show. I’d heard the song on Kid Jensens afternoon radio one show and was intrigued! However this just blew me away. I was 13 and everything changed after this.

@karenbroadhurst7302 Год назад

Love Gary numan and tubeway army he was absolutely amazing and loved his songs and music that was the beginning of synthesised music I've been to see them in Birmingham back in the day enjoyed every minute of it with friends xxxx 🎹🎤🎶🥁🎸🎵❤️❤️

@stevenicklin6538 9 месяцев назад

I can still remember watching the performance on The Old Grey Whistle Test of this track, it was one of those unforgettable moments you get listening to music. Brilliant track.

@michaelh9729 Год назад

Sometimes, Elements come together......like an organic feeling Bassline and an atmospheric overdrive, with a voice that cuts through--yet joins it All together. It is how Classics come about....and are truly unique to their own Time & Space..

@danielbeller972 2 года назад

Numan was then and is now decades ahead of all of us.

@kayspencer-x1u Год назад

Gary , you are still the very best and i am still a huge fan !

@richardcochrane1966 2 года назад

Saw Gary's first TOTP performance - it hit me like a thunderbolt! Been a fan ever since....

@AlexDeLarge77 Год назад

Sometimes someone comes along who is so far ahead that people just don’t know what to make of it. Gary is such an artist. The press and “traditional” musicians just didn’t get it. He changed the musical landscape and ushered in the 80’s. Genius.