The Pleasure Principle – Gary Numan 12’ LP 33 RPM Vinyl

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THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE – GARY NUMAN 12’ LP 33 RPM VINYL

Gary Numan (1989) $49 FREE POST  ANYWHERE IN AUSTRALIA

GARY ANTHONY JAMES WEBB (born 8 March 1958), known professionally as Gary Numan, is an English musician. He entered the music industry as front-man the new Wave band Tubeway Army. After releasing two albums with the band, he released his debut solo album The Pleasure Principal in 1979, topping the UK Albums Chart. While his commercial popularity peaked in the late 1970s and early 1980s with hits including "Are ‘Friends’ Electric" and "Cars" (both of which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart), Numan maintains a cult following. He has sold over 10 million records.

Numan faced intense hostility from critics and fellow musicians in his early career, but has since come to be regarded as a pioneer of electronic music. He developed a signature sound consisting of heavy synthesiser hooks fed through guitar effects pedals, and is also known for his distinctive voice and androgynous "android" persona. In 2017, he received an Ivor Novella Award, the Inspiration Award, from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.

Gary Anthony James Webb was born on 8 March 1958 in Hammersmith, London. His father was a British Airways bus driver based at Heathrow Airport. He was the only child until he was seven when his family adopted his cousin (father's nephew) John, who would also become a musician and play in Numan's backing band. He was educated at Town Farm Junior School in Stanwell, Ashford County Grammar School; and Slough Grammar School followed by Brooklands Technical College in Weybridge, Surrey. He joined the Air Training Corps as a teenager and then briefly held various jobs including forklift truck driver, air conditioning ventilator fitter, and accounts clerk.

When Numan was 15, his father bought him a Gibson Les Paul, which became his most treasured possession. He briefly played in various bands and looked through ads in Melody Maker for bands to join. He claims to have unsuccessfully auditioned as guitarist for the then-unknown band the Jam before joining Mean Street and the Lasers, where he met Paul Gardiner. The latter band would soon become Tubeway Army, with his uncle Jess Lidyard on drums and Gardiner on bass. The band were quickly signed to Beggars Banquet Records. His initial pseudonym was Valerian, probably in reference to the hero in French science fiction comic series Valerian and Laureline. He later picked the surname Numan from an advertisement in the Yellow Pages for a plumber whose surname was Neumann.

1977–1979: Tubeway Army and The Pleasure Principle

Numan came to prominence in the 1970s as lead singer, songwriter, and record producer for Tubeway Army. After recording an album's worth of punk-influenced Demo tapes (released in 1984 as The Plan, they were signed by Beggars Banquet Records in 1978 and quickly released two singles, "That’s Too Bad", which reached #97 on the UK Top 100 Charts and “Bombers”, which did not chart.

A self-titled, new wave-oriented debut album later that same year sold out its limited run and introduced Numan's fascination with dystopian science fiction and synthesisers. Though Tubeway Army's third single, the dark-themed and slow-paced "Down in the Park" (1979), never appeared on the charts, it became one of Numan's most enduring and oft-covered songs. It was featured with other contemporary hits on the soundtrack for the 1980 film Times Square, and a live version of the song can be seen in the 1982 film Urg! A Music War.

 Following exposure in a television advertisement for Lee Cooped jeans with the jingle "Don't Be a Dummy", Tubeway Army released the single "Are Friends Electric?" in May 1979. After a modest start at the lower reaches of the UK Singles Chart at No. 71, it steadily climbed to No. 1 at the end of June and remained on that position for four consecutive weeks. In July its parent album Replicas also reached No. 1 on the albums chart.

At this point Numan was already busy recording his next album with a new backing band. At the peak of success, Numan opted to premiere four new songs in a John Peel session in June 1979 rather than promoting the current album and the Tubeway Army group name was dropped.

In September “Cars” also reached No. 1 in the UK. The single also found success in North American charts where "Cars" spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Canadian RPM charts, and reached No. 9 in the U.S. in 1980. "Cars" and the 1979 album The Pleasure Principle were both released under Numan's own stage name. The album reached number-one in the UK, and a sell-out tour (The Touring Principle) followed; the concert video it spawned is often cited as the first full-length commercial music video release. 

The Pleasure Principle was a rock album with no guitars; instead, Numan used synthesisers connected to effects units to achieve a distorted, phased, metallic tone. A second single from the album, "Complex", made it to No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart.

Gary's Replicas had already hit UK #1, but this 1980 LP made him a star in the U.S. as well. His icy synth-pop has been enduringly influential, and this is the album that all the hip-hop, techno and industrial artists revere.

TRACKS

1.1 Airlane 1.2 Metal 1.3 Complex 1.4 Films 1.5 M.E 1.6 Tracks 1.7 Observer 1.8 Conversation 1.9 Cars 1.10 Engineers 2.1 Airplane [Demo Version][Version] 2.2 Metal [Demo Version][Version] 2.3 Complex [Demo Version][Version] 2.4 Films [Demo Version][Version] 2.5 M.E. [Demo Version][Version] 2.6 Tracks [Remix][Outtake] 2.7 Observer [Demo Version][Version] 2.8 Conversation [Demo Version 2][Version] 2.9 Cars [Demo Version][Version] 2.10 Engineers [Demo Version][Version] 2.11 Random [2009 Re-Master] 2.12 Oceans [2009 Re-Master] [Version] 2.13 Asylum [2009 Re-Master] [Version] 2.14 Photograph [2009 Re-Master]Ashup] [Version] 2.15 Gymnopedie No. 1 [Demo Version][Version] 2.16 Conversation [Demo Version 1][Demo Version] 2.17 M.E. [Remix][Outtake]

PRODUCER: Gary Numan

STARRING:  Gary Numan, Vocals, Keyboards, Synthetic Percussion; Paul Gardiner, Bass; Christopher Payne, Keyboards, Viola; Cedric Sharpley, Drums, Percussion; Billy Currie, Fadeout Violin; Gary Robson, Backing Vocal.

RECORDED: Marcus Music AB, London

DISTRIBUTOR: Atlantic Records/WEA Records, London.

WEIGHT: 300g

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