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Gary Numan: The Pleasure Principle

Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 8 September 1979

AND PEOPLE seethe at the Golden Boy. Let's forget the threadbare rock'n'roll bitch that it's all been done before by 'proper' artists — Bowie this, Kraftwerk that — because, although the groundwork was laid down by lots of clever folk long ago nobody has done what Gary Numan is doing right now.

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