Gary Numan: Apollo Theatre, Glasgow
Jon Savage, Melody Maker, 29 September 1979
THE FACE of '79 doesn't belong to a mod, punk, or to anyone so sectarian, but to Gary Numan, and it's time we faced up to that fact. We haven't been encouraged to.
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