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At home with the Numans, pop’s quirkiest family - and why we’ll be seeing a lot more of them
Gary Numan married one of his biggest fans, Gemma O’Neill.Now 63, Numan is a far cry from the robotic young man with the singular voice who sang ‘I’ve no one to love’ in his epochal number-one hit from 1979, Are ‘Friends’ Electric? – the precursor to Cars, with its futuristic synth-pop sound. He had three number-one albums, then in April 1981 – at the grand old age of 23 – he retired from live performing, giving three final concerts at Wembley Arena.‘It was too much too soon for somebody too ill-equipped to deal with it,’ he says today.