It is, amazingly, thirty years this week since Gary Numan's classic Cars hit the top of the UK charts... Yet it seems like it has never really gone away.
For with this mega hit, the maestro of electro-pop and godfather of the "80s sound" not only provided the springboard upon which such giants as The Human League, OMD, Depeche Mode and even Soft Cell could launch their estimable paths to success, and provided a catalyst for even greater geniuses such as David Bowie, Roxy Music and Kraftwerk to revive their careers, but in more recent times his "sound" has been re-jigged and sampled by such modern Electro DJs and producers as Richard X, Basement Jaxx and even Armand van Helden - and soon to be released, the new one from Chicane.
Compare and contrast...
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