Gary Numan – “Cars”

At the very end of the Seventies, late 1979, I remember Englishman Gary Numan singing “Cars”, from his album “The Pleasure Principle”.

In fact, whenever I hear it or think of Gary Numan or “Cars”, it reminds me of being in not a car but a Transit van, at 4 o’clock in the morning.

We had just finished clearing up after a dance during the student orientation I was running at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Together with the people helping, we had stopped off at a service station, the only place still open, to get something to eat, and I vividly remember “Cars” playing on the radio as we got out of the van.

That was actually at the start of 1980, so obviously the song still got airplay in New Zealand for a while (it was apparently released in August 1979).

Here’s Gary Numan in the promotional video of “Cars”:

I don’t really remember anything else by Gary Numan, but this one has stuck in my mind.

Paul

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