Gary Numan: The Power of Persistence

Gary Numan

Question: 25 years is a long time in the music industry. How would you describe those years and what have the respective highs and lows been? Have there been times when you really thought about giving up?

Gary Numan: The obvious highs are the early years. Being Number 1 in the singles and album charts here in the UK, headlining big arenas, all the usual things associated with success. The lows, of which there are many, include becoming virtually bankrupt and seeing that success slide away to almost nothing. The less obvious highs include a career resurgence over the last five or six years. I was, as far as most of the media here were concerned, dead and buried by the early 90's and I had little argument with that. My career did seem to be over apart from that last dying gasp of air. And yet, recover I did. I am now one of the most sampled and covered artists around, my sales are healthy again, most reviews and music journalists recognize my songwriting is now as strong, if not stronger, than ever before. My last single charted in the UK Top 30 and that hasn't happened for quite some time and Crazier is now looking very promising. So, although not as high profile as my early years success, this recent period is, for me, the highest of the highs because I've come back from the dead. To me, nothing else in my career compares to that as an achievement.

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