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Following a couple lineup shuffles, Tubeway Military — Gary Numan (aka Valeriun), Paul Gardiner (aka Scarlett), and Numan’s uncle Jess Lidyard (aka Rael) — debuted in February of 1978 with “That’s As well Bad” on Beggars Banquet, a furious fusion of punk and pop, but darkly cold and clinical. Throughout …

Among the founding fathers of synth pop, Gary Numan’s impact extends much beyond his lone American strike, “Vehicles,” which even now stands among the defining new influx singles. That seminal monitor helped usher within the synth pop period on both edges from the Atlantic, specifically his indigenous U.K., where he …