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Book 47. Gary Numan - (R)evolution: The Autobiography
I’m currently under the weather so initially picked this up as a comfort read, given how easy it is to inhale pop-star autobiographies but I loved it unreservedly. If you look at Numan’s career through a business... 1/?
I’m currently under the weather so initially picked this up as a comfort read, given how easy it is to inhale pop-star autobiographies but I loved it unreservedly. If you look at Numan’s career through a business... 1/?
...prism it looks like one of those rides you get at Alton Towers called The Atrocitator or what have you: starting vertiginously high before plummeting downwards at an unseemly rate, just to skyrocket back up at the last minute. But his story is dynamic in so many other... 2/?
...ways; much of it enhanced by his seeming inability to recount events in a way that is sparing to himself. The full story of what he and his wife Gemma went through is heartbreaking and gruelling to read, simply because it mirrors the story of so many people who have... 3/?
...problems trying to conceive. It’s important to hear prominent men (as well as women) talking about these issues, afaic. The full story of his issues caused or inflamed by Asperger’s Syndrome fills in a lot of blanks and casts a particularly grim shadow over at least... 4/?
...some of his treatment at the hands of the press. (The fact that the NME could refer to him as ‘the plastic spastic’ in print as late as the mid-90s says a lot more about the NME than it does him for sure.) I had a run of poor luck when I turned 13 and became ill with...
...anxiety and depression, during which time I became obsessed with his music, a source of great comfort. So, as an adult, am I pleased to see some of my record reviews quoted in this book? You bet I am. Congratulations @numanofficial - sterling work.
I should add here that if you don’t know Numan’s full story, some bits of it are off the hook. In the early 80s he flew around the world in a vintage jet and got arrested accused of espionage in India and that’s before you get on to the ghosts, UFO sightings and haunted...
...houses. But has he lost the plot? Here’s what he has to say about Covid. Something to think about the next time another 80s indie rock whopper goes full bacofoil slengteng.
