![]() His voice was once described as ‘pitched between Gene Pitney and a Dalek’, and his look was similarly android - all bleached hair and heavy eyeliner (applied by his mum, but he kept that quiet at the time, as you would).īy the age of 21, the outwardly cool, but in fact, deeply shy, and quite troubled, Numan was worth £6 million. When he emerged - seemingly from nowhere - in 1979, his image was as starkly outre as his sound. The ‘Godfather of synth’, he was one of the first electro-pop superstars in a world where barely anyone owned a pocket calculator, let alone a computer. Gary Numan’s career was built on him being a bit of an oddity. The seats they’re perched on are covered in leopard print. There’s a giant sculpture of a dragon in the garden. ‘Instead of one TV going on the blink, you have 14 TV sets that don’t work.’) ![]() (‘It’s s**t,’ says Gary, whose humour is still more Hammersmith than Bel Air. There are turrets and secret passages, as well as a complex computer system which controls all the electrics. ![]() Pictured: Gary Numan and wife Gemma at their family home in Los Angeles ![]() Mrs Gary Numan was 11 years old when she decided she wanted to grow up to be Mrs Gary Numan.
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