Music interview: Gary Numan

A flurry of interest at the turn of the 1980s in all things electronic made Gary Numan a regular chart fixture. In the intervening decades he has also proved to be British music’s most durable artists, whose influence stretches from Trent Reznor to techno originator Juan Atkins.

Reverence has often paid to his first three solo albums – Replicas, The Pleasure Principle and Telekon – yet for years he resisted going down the ‘classic album’ route of performing them in their entirety live, fearing being labelled an ‘80s pop star’.

In a Q&A for The Yorkshire Post, he explains the reasons that persuaded him to relent on his autumn tour, which stops off at The Foundry in Sheffield next week.