100 Great Songs to Publish a Book to, #65: Tubeway Army, Are Friends Electric?

Like Depeche Mode, Gary Numan emerged as part of the new wave, post-punk scene with a sound built around the then-new synthesisers.  As commentators pointed out at the time, this song has no discernable hook yet it reached the top of the UK charts for four weeks in 1979, in an era when disco ruled the airwaves.  In the video you can see Billy Curry doing his thing on one set of keyboards, before he went on to do very similar things with Ultravox.  And, at 59, Gary Numan is still going strong today.

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