Gary Numan/Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric? | Het verhaal achter het nummer | Top 2000 a gogo

Gary Numan vertelt het verhaal van 'Are 'friends' Electric', een baanbrekend nummer voor de elektronische muziek. Een reportage van Top 2000 a gogo uit 2015.

[Macleodking]

Gary Numan, the man who fell to Earth from the future.

[MoosesValley]

4+ decades later, and the song is still brilliant and relevant and far better than most of the rubbish out there today. Gary is so down to earth. Great interview !

[Timekeeper]

It still sounds like it's from the future. Absolutely incredible sound

[globalturfwar]

40 years ago we were living (and dreaming) of the future. 40 years later we're living and dreaming of the past. We were living our best days and didn't even know it.

[nigelpearson]

What a delightful bloke! Honest and self deprecating, nice to see an icon with his feet on the ground!

[satyricon]

"You can't dance to it. It doesn't have a chorus. It's really long. And it's about robot prostitutes." Poetic.

[MultiTouYube]

Get your head around the fact this is 42 years old and you'll realise just how much ahead of it's time it was.

[songlove]

He's so humble for someone who stood there on Top of the Pops like a man from the future.

[Appleblade]

This song! It has appeared in my life (I'm 62) in so many times and places ... I always loved it, but I never knew a thing about it.

[jozefvandenbreen]

The first time I saw this on television Gary Numan (Tubeway Army) with Are Friends Electric? I knew immediately, that's it, that's my music. Best song never made, heard it more than 1000 times and I still have that kick of fun, youthful, fresh and new wave. Gary Numan for fever in my heart.

[slidetek]

He's honest if nothing else (hitting the wrong key). He could have said "I meant to do that!"
I can't believe I've been listening to this song for 40 years, and love it as much as the first day I heard it.

[ms.carlson]

This guy is so humble. He is, in fact, a musical genius.

[mariodriessen]

You can't dance to it?!?!
Are you kidding me? It's the only song I ever danced to and felt completely ecstatic about. I'll never forget that night! 😁

[MsLipsticklover]

could listen to his stories all day long

[kjamison]

He’s still down to earth. Totally nice bloke. Gary Numan didn’t fall into the Punk, New Wave or New Romantic genres. He was very much his own person. An artist with almost Bowie-like ideas and delivery.

[Renzsu]

I feel a Gary Numan binge watch coming on.. what a charming guy!

[KitCatStudio]

I’m so relieved to learn that Gary is a terrific guy!

[danielratner]

Gary should be in the Rock n Roll Hall just for this song!

[herseem]

I think one of the most interesting things to come out of this interview is his clear understanding of what makes something work - the sound, the image, , having obscure lyrics so the true meaning isn't spotted, the lighting, not looking at the camera - details that he paid attention to. Yet he's very modest and acknowledges critical moments of luck that had a pivotal effect. At the same time, I think he probably would have emerged eventually somehow. Quality and talent and ambition in one package tend to.

[dannyinaus]

Gary Numan - a man 150 years ahead of his time. A true musical genius.