Gary Numan – Cars 😎 Cars is a song by English musician Gary Numan. It was released as a single on 21 August 1979 from his debut album The Pleasure Principle. The song reached the top of the charts in several countries, and today is considered a new wave staple. In the UK charts, it reached number 1 in 1979, and it hit number 1 in Canada in 1980 for two weeks running, spending 29 weeks in the top 100. It was his only single to chart there. It rose to number 4 in the U.S on the 7th of June 1980,

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Monroe Jones on Instagram: "Here’s a car song created from a series of happy accidents (sorry). In 1979, punk rocker Gary Numan, wanting to learn to play bass, bought a Shergold Modulator bass guitar. He pulled it out of the case, and played the iconic baseline for “Cars”, Numan’s song about a real-life road rage incident in which he had to jump the curb to escape. Written in less than 30 minutes, Numan’s topic of cars being a safe space serves as a metaphor for isolation. Diagnosed with Asperge

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Honoured to be a part of this docuseries alongside Mark Ronson and so many other talented musicians and innovators. ‘Watch The Sound’ is out now. @appletv #WatchTheSound | Gary Numan