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And Finally
People who think Gary Numan is pretentious can fuck off
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 3 August 2010
Gary Numan has said that people who think he’s pretentious should “fuck off”. He adds that the proof of his down-to-Earthedness is in his inability to write songs properly.
Numan told the NME: “‘Are ‘Friends’ Electric?’… it’s actually two songs stuck together, because I lacked the ability to finish either of them. I had a good verse, I couldn’t think of a chorus for it. One day I’m playing this one, started playing that one… I’ll put them together. You end up with a song five-and-a-half minutes long and it goes to number one”.
He added: “I became successful because I couldn’t write songs very well. And I can’t play very well. My success is based on not being able to finish songs properly and playing badly. That’s going to keep you down to earth, isn’t it? People say I’m pretentious? Fuck off!”
It’s true, Gary Numan is a big ball of loveliness. Earlier this year he put together a Powers Of Ten playlist for us. Why don’t we all put down this edition of CMU Daily and go and listen to that instead? www.theCMUwebsite.com/playlists/garynuman.html