Numan's visual dyslexia made his deranged Smurfette look completely unconvincing.īald, and without any sense of fashion, Gary disappeared during the 1980s. While Cars found fans in Britain and the United States, his next single, Vroom Vroom Mr. His first single, I Almost Married a Toaster, rocketed to the middle of the British charts in 1979, followed a little too closely by his biggest hit, Cars. His Eurovision win led to his first record contract with the Beggar's Balls record label. Gary's big break arrived in 1978, just before he went bald, when he won the Eurovision Song Contest with an original composition entitled Let Me Electrify Your Ass, My Friend, Because I'm a Robot, which song became the inspiration for at least fifteen later songs that he released in a series of increasingly embarrassing albums. As a young man, Gary showed little interest in peddling, and spent his youth sitting on a hillside combing his hair, pretending to play guitar, and wondering aloud whether he'd one day be famous for something, anything really. Numan was born Garchibald "Fred" Newmein in Hammersmith, West London to Jacob and Graphius Newmein, two itinerant salespeople who canvased the British Isles selling an assortment of primitive utensils and chicken bones.
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