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Gary Numan: "I'd love to carry a gun. If some nutter comes at me with a gun I'd like to be able to shoot him."

Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 15 October 1988

"IT'S COLD outside" sang GARY NUMAN nine years ago during 'Are Friend's Electric''s wintery grip on the charts. None of Gaz's more recent attempts have managed a 23 week stay in the Top 40 but the airplane loving patriot's own belief in 'dosh' and himself was magnetic enough to draw STEVEN WELLS ('Cars' 'I Die, You Die') out of his space podule. He was stunned and forced, simply, to ask Is Gaz A Spaz?

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