The Man that Created Synthpop
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
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Gary Numan started his career as a young punk back in 79, but after a chance encounter with a synthesiser in a studio the course of pop history was changed forever by his hand. Whether it's his music under the name Tubeway Army or his solo efforts, Numan's sci-fi dystopian pop was ground-breaking for the time and shook the world, and the charts, to their very core.
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I wouldn't stretch to say he created it, there were a lot more acts before Gary. But he was a major force for it in the earlier days and his influence was enormous, not just pop but hip-hop in the US
Gary Wright, for example.
Decent, no nonsense summary. Plenty of us of a certain age would have split hair discussions about who actually created the whole movement but, Gary is certainly front and centre in that debate along with others.
Totally agree, at the time there were *Spark* with *When I'm with You,* also *OMD* with *Enola Gay,* But the year ago *Giorgio Moroder* was already there with the *Midnight Express* OST. If we want to go back even further, in 1977, there was the French group *Space* with its titles *Magic Fly* and *Just Blue* And let's not forget the other even more famous Frenchman, *Jean-Michel Jarre* and his album *Oxygène* released in 1976. And we could still cite others (Morrissey, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sonic Youth, New Order, etc.)...
@@LetsChillPage yes, absolutely true. I would also mention Sparks #1 Sobg in Heaven (also produced by Morroder and released a bit earlier than Replicas I think). Yet there was something pioneering about Numan. The first synth rockstar. Conquering the anglo-saxon market with his awkwardness and minimoog as some neurotic/autistic Elvis. I wasn't even alive then to observe this unfolding, but in retrospective this is one of the most amusing stories in popular music for me.
@@LetsChillPage We should also remember *"Warm Leatherette"* by the Normal (1978), which has been covered by countless electronic acts.
100% its nonsense
@@ThreadBomb yes! Great song. Also, David Bowies "Low". Basically Numan just made a re-interpretation of it.
The Pleasure Principle was the first album I ever bought, I was 11. I immediately fell in the love with it and still play it today.
Contrary to his uptight stage persona, he's a genuinely lovely guy, just listen to any interview with him.
Not only him, also Kraftwerk, J.M. Jarre, Ultravox, Human League, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Telex, and John Foxx - pioneered the electronic pop/rock.
I saw the indelible mark - it's across the top of his forehead...the line where the glued hair piece is rather further forward than his receding hair line in 79.
A true pioneer of electronic music. In my opinion, it is a shame that he lost the plot after Wembley 1981 and wandered off into a saxophone / jazz funk style and then into a gothy industrial grunge style.
Great lad -met him at a signing in Edinburgh bought us a pint afterwards as well -sheer class oh aye and a grey musician
Great not grey obvs 🙄 ❤
Saw him on the Telecon Tour, Brilliant. That little car he was in during "Down in the Park" .🎼🎹🎹🎹🎤
I think a better title would be “Gary Numan: The Catalyst for Synthpop”
Germany`s Kraftwerk might have something to say about synthesisers having been formed in 1970. Gary Newman did not invent the genre of synth music.
Before kraftwerk there was gershon Kingsley with popcorn in 1969.
The tornados released telstar in 1961
Numan is the one who put the synthesiser in popular music.
Punk was dying in 1979 and a new era was needed.
I still love kraftwerk but they were not the first
Oh yes, the Dr who theme 1963
Like a lot of people you forget the influence this had on dance music (in a roundabout way)
My God,Paul Gardiner was so cute!
After Telekon he ran out of ideas and inspiration, and instead of evolving his music, he stagnated. It didn't help either when he declared he was retiring from touring, and went around the world in his plane. To me it seemed he came back to music as his bank balance was dropping on a daily basis, and he started knocking out rubbish. Warriors is were I fell out of love with his music. His first four albums are legendary and still fresh today as they were in 1979 and 1980 when I purchased them, ran home and played them on the record player.
Clickbate title which is demonstrable BS.
This proves the saying, often attributed to Coco Channel - 'Anyone who claims something is original, has no concept of history'
Billy Currie,,,,,nuff said.
Great video of gary numan.
Good video. As a fan I've been familiar with all of the facts, but nonetheless enjoyed. His run from the tubeway army debut to the telekon album is astonishing.
Love it mate great stuff
GOOD VIDEO NOW PLEASE DO ONE ON JOHN FOXX ! ! !👍
I enjoyed this VERY much⭐💎⭐💎⭐💎⭐
Please - do me a favour. As if there was no synth pop before 1979.
Pop Corn
Gary was a fan of John Foxx and the original Ultravox. I bought the self titled first album at the time, and Replicas, and so on, loved them, but I felt some stagnation setting in after Telekon. Not sure it was pop, or that he originated it, he certainly took it places though.
Imo 1st Ultravox album pretty crap apart from I want to be a Machine.
which they opened with when promoting the ha ha ha tour back in 78. I was there and the Doll were the support act who were signed to Beggars Banquet 👍👍🤘
"The Man that Created Synthpop" - REALLY? Gary released Are Friends Electric in 1979. Meanwhile... Space - Magic Fly 1978, Bowie - Sound & Vision 1977, Kraftwerk - Autobahn 1975, Popcorn 1969 and I probably missed a few. Certainly in 1979-80 nobody was calling Gary an innovative visionary, they called him a bargain basement Bowie clone. That was harsh, but he wasn't the originator of synthpop
Number One in Heaven by Sparks....
@@ashleygraham8781 Great song but it was only released about 40 days before "Friends" - i.e. after Friends had been recorded.
@@michaelcottle6270 I was referring to the album.
@@ashleygraham8781 That was released after are friends electric. September
Also Suicide and Silver Apples, assuming all those can be called "Synthpop"
this was great smashed the like
This video is fake news and actually insulting.
Gary's 'sound' was the sound of Ultravox and that's EXACTLY what he wanted to sound like and did..
Kraftwerk had been in cars 6 years earlier on the 'Autobahn'
It doesn't matter how many units you sell, give credit to the true pioneers of Synthpop & New Wave.
Shame on you for trying to pervert history.
He and all the other UK synthpop artists were the heirs to Kraftwerk.
He did'nt. 🙄🙄🙄
Kraftwerk did it with Autobahn.
Love it MY SAAAAAAAAN
Nice write up. I would love to have been just that bit more old enough to remember Are Friends Electric. I can tell exactly why it would have been considered a landmark UK single at the time.
Who said it was a landmark UK single!?!😂
@@hughzapretti-boyden9187Musicians of the time have said so, including Curt and Roland from Tears For Fears. Watch the Synth Britannia documentary and realise how wrong you are.
Numan?? Kidding me right... it was Kraftwerk!
Along with..
Giorgio Moroder I Feel Love, Sparks, again Moroder, Kraftwerk, Jarre, later, Space Magic Fly.
The video is utter b*llocks
The tornados telstar 1961
@@mark..A Synth with real instruments, not really pure synthpop
Japan have the honour by a country mile.
Well done.
Err.. Kraftwerk.
A small correction: the title should be "The man WHO created synthpop". "Who" is for living (or anthropomorphised) things; "that" or "which" is for objects (which includes groups of living things).
It should actually be 'whomst', but good try.
The man that hit a chart as Bowie clone and desperately wanted to be John Foxx. That is what he is known for at best.
not in the slightest, not sure who you're referring to but it's nor Gary Numan
@@paulanthonytully You are too young to remember when Numan started. Most of his work are horrendous copies of Bowie and Foxx. They are bad and don’t even sound like them. Bowie even didn’t like to see his face and kicked him out of Kenny Everett show.
@@user-rh2csk and you are too old to understand, or even understand how Bowie started my mimicking US singers 😂
@@paulanthonytullyYou mean Scott Walker?
@@trollgoodman7808 he was definitely one, Bowie took something from a lot of influences. Some reason people think Bowie was 100% original.
What is this ''pop" poop? Gary was synthROCK!
If you want to be really accurate, you should say that john foxx/ultravox or human league created synth pop and that gary numan imitated them a year later. And then a year or two later, starting with his Dance album, he was imitating the band Japan to the point of hiring thejr band members so he could get their sound. This doesn't seem like the work of an original trail blazing artist to me.
Or if you wanted to be accurate you’d realise it was invented way before the late 70s
@@markcraine4213 but Numan was imititating Japan and Ultravox specifically, not the likes of Kraftwerk, etc
@@nullvoid244 He may have been but Kraftwerk were still an influence and he still didn’t invent synth pop.
My favourite Numan period is Tubeway Army which certainly isn’t synth pop.
screamers
absolute bollocks
So, you're just going to pretend that Kraftwerk doesn't exist?
No he didn't. Kraftwerk and loads of others before him did.
Did you watch the video? There was mention of Kraftwerk and he defo was on the ones who made synthpop grandad 👴
@@WakersAF Yes, and I am commenting on the title. He didn't create synth pop.
Do he didn’t, do you’re wrong, do do do do do
Agreed, but he brought it too the mainstream music listener.
@@WakersAFThe video is misleading nonsense that's packed with lies.
He was a band wagon jumper, all good stuff but he invented sod all :)
That’s how music works. Bolan, Bowie, Numan, Reznor.
All contributed to a new sound and carved their own place in it.
The music industry owes this guy nothing.
@@rdzu834yeah? tell that to Kraftwerk or Devo
@@trollgoodman7808
Tell that to Leon Theremin, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Delia Derbyshire.
@@martinmcdonald4207 how so?
Gary Numan came across a *_POLYMOOG,_* (not a minimoog) in a music studio and had time to play around with it. OBSERVE: ua-cam.com/video/Bxe4hqYk1mc/v-deo.html&ab_channel=AlexBall
-> He ended up becoming a master of the device, making it a prominent part of both his music and that of musician's that followed. Critics hated that he'd made synth music popular, and yet admired that he made that music so well, like no one else ever.
Hi, please see these links for my sources for Gary finding a MiniMoog on that day.
www.musicradar.com/news/gary-numan-pleasure-principle
www.moogmusic.com/news/gary-numan-cars
www.gear4music.com/blog/steal-the-sound-gary-numan/
Um, I hear a lot of assumptions about history in the video. Like the death of Sid Viscious had anything to do with the death of punk? That's actually funny, as he was all show and no substance, and the music community knew it. He had nothing to do with the 'death' of punk. - - SO dear watchers, take all this with a bag of salt. There was quite a lot more going on in the British music scene at the time than this. I consider it the single most creative period of music in human history. It was overwhelming and wonderful. Gary was a huge contributor, a creative genius, while his creativity lasted.
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