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Fact #147817

When:

Short story:

Tubeway Army (Gary Numan) release a new single, Are 'Friends' Electric, on Beggars Banquet Records in the UK.

Full article:

Gary Numan : It was a futurist version of getting pornography in the post, what comes in a brown envelope so your neighbours don’t know what it is. These machines that look human are doing various services in these grey coats and they all look the same. If the BBC had known what it was about they would never have played it. They would never have let me go on Top Of The Pops. Thumbs up for obscure lyrics.

When you think about a hit single it really doesn’t have any of the things going for it that you would expect. You can’t dance to it, it doesn’t have a chorus, it is really long and it’s about robot prostitutes.
(Source : interview on NTR-tv, Holland, Europe, 2016)