Gary Numan – Living Ornaments ’80
(Beggars Banquet Records 1981 BEGA25)
Matrix No’s: A3/B4 – UK Pressing
Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
– tiny dink on bottom left corner
Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
Also comes with Gary Numan Merchandise Sheet
Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)
Gary Numan (born Gary Anthony James Webb on 8 March 1958) is an English singer, composer and musician, most widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?” (as Tubeway Army) and “Cars”. His signature sound consists of heavy synthesiser hooks fed through guitar effects pedals.
Numan is considered a pioneer of commercial electronic music. His use of themes from science fiction and his combination of aggressive punk energy with electronics have been widely imitated.
Living Ornaments ’80 is a live album by British musician Gary Numan, first released in 1981. It was also issued as a limited edition box set with Living Ornaments ’79 the same year. The original release was recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon on 16 September 1980, as a record of Numan’s “Teletour” (September-November 1980).
An expanded and remastered version was reissued on a double CD in 2005. The tapes of the full concert from which the original album’s ten tracks were culled have been lost, but in 2004 a mixing console recording of a complete song set from another (undated) UK concert was discovered and deemed to be of sufficient quality to release commercially. This set included, at that time, the only official live recordings of the tracks “Telekon”, from the album of the same name, and “Stories”, from Numan’s then-forthcoming Dance album (1981). A live version of “Telekon” has since appeared on the Telekon – Live album (2008), recorded during Numan’s Telekon Classic Album Tour of 2006, although no further live versions of “Stories” have been officially released.
Track listing
All songs written by Gary Numan.
1981 version
Side one
- “This Wreckage” – 5:20
- “I Die: You Die” – 3:38
- “M.E.” – 4:27
- “Everyday I Die” – 4:22
- “Down in the Park” – 5:55
Side two
- “Remind Me to Smile” – 3:40
- “The Joy Circuit” – 5:47
- “Tracks” – 2:43
- “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?” – 5:30
- “We Are Glass” – 4:32
Personnel
- Gary Numan – vocals, guitar, synthesizer, producer, mixer
- Roger Mason – keyboards
- Cedric Sharpley – drums
- Chris Payne – keyboards, viola
- Paul Gardiner – bass
- Rrussell Bell – guitar
- Tim Summerhayes – engineer
- Phil Thornalley – assistant engineer
- Will Gosling – assistant mixer
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