Gary Numan will open up on the “rollercoaster rise and fall (and rise)” of his life and career in new autobiography (R)evolution.
Set for an October 22nd release, the book will see the Are ‘Friends’ Electric? hitmaker look back on the past 62 years, from his humble beginnings in Middlesex to his rise to fame in the ’70s and ’80s.
“His incredible story can be charted in two distinct parts…” reads a description for the memoir. “The first: a stratospheric rise to success quickly followed by a painful decline into near obscurity.
“An unlikely but determined popstar, he earned his first record deal aged nineteen and, two years later, had released four bestselling albums and had twice toured the world.
“But, aged just twenty-five, it felt like it was all over. Gary’s early success began to hold him back and he battled to reconcile the transient nature of fame with his Asperger’s syndrome,” it adds.
However, that wasn’t the end for Numan, who saw “a twenty-plus year renaissance catalysed by a date with a super-fan”. The bio teases: “Gary catalogues his fifteen-year struggle with crippling debts, his slow, obstacle-laden journey back to the top (and the insecurity that comes with that) and why Savage reaching #2 in 2017 meant more than the heady heights of 1979.
“Gary also candidly discusses the importance of his fans; why having Asperger’s is a gift at times; the inspiration behind the lyrics; flying around the world in 1981; IVF struggles and the joy of fatherhood and his battle with depression and anxiety.
“(R)evolution is the rollercoaster rise and fall (and rise) of one man, several dozen synthesisers, multiple issues and two desperately different lives,” it states. “By turns hilarious and deeply moving, this is Gary Numan in his own words – a brutally honest reflection on the man behind the music.”
