Gary Numan created this amazing thing in 1979.
Pasted from Riot Fest Magazine:
Science fiction has been a favorite subject of rock & roll since the form’s inception, whether it came in the form of early novelty hits like Sheb Wooley’s “The Purple People Eater,” or Hawkwind’s psychedelic space travel epic Space Ritual. With the advent of new wave and industrial music, though, musicians started to creep into dark corners inhabited by some of the sci-fi’s most dystopian, cynical creators – J.G. Ballard, David Cronenberg, George Orwell, William S. Burroughs – creating music in the process whose “post-human” unease was sharply accentuated by the alien sound of then-newfangled synthesizers.
Nobody from that era dove quite so fully into making science fiction rock as Gary Numan. From the earliest days of his old band Tubeway Army, Numan has served as something of an android seer, narrating tales of a cold, tech-damaged future. His most recent album, Savage (Songs From a Broken World), speaks to current sci-fi concerns, set in a barren wasteland ruined by climate change.
While Numan’s approach to storytelling has always been imaginative and distinctive, he’d be the first to admit that many of his concepts were borrowed from his favorite science fiction. For the uninitiated, we’ve went ahead and outlined some of Numan’s biggest sci-fi influences, and pointed to the parts of his catalog where they’re most prevalent.
