(R)evolution: The Autobiography

(R)evolution: The Autobiography by Gary Numan. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781472134622.

Gary Numan is one of Britains most important and respected musical artists. He has been lauded by everyone from Prince (His album Replicas never left my turntable . . . There are people still trying to work out what a genius he was) through the Foo Fighters and Nine Inch Nails to Lady Gaga ([He] proves music has always been really inventive for the masses). (R)evolution is Numans long-awaited memoir; one that charts his two lives. The first: from growing up in west London, where he was expelled from school and beaten up daily for looking different, before discovering his first synthesiser and conquering the music world in rapid time; to the extravagance, the undiagnosed Aspergers and the slow decline of a career that faded into near obscurity. The second: a twenty-plus year renaissance, catalysed by the date with a super-fan, which has allowed Gary to rediscover his creativity, produce some of his best music and become the true Godfather of electro-pop. This will be the story of one man, several dozen synthesisers, multiple issues and two desperately different lives.