Do Sheep Dream Of Electric Androids? The Gary Numan Enigma
Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 6 October 1979
DATA: Gary Numan found his stage name in the Yellow Pages. The original Numan is a vendor of domestic appliances. In German "nu" means "now' as an interjection or 'instant' as a noun.
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