Gary Numan/Tubeway Army

Gary Numan dumped his day job in a shop the day the first Tubeway Army single, That's Too Bad, was released. To his disappointment it did not sell. Neither did the next two . . .

But after Are Friends Electric? and Cars (and the album The Pleasure Principle) entered the charts at Number One, Numan dropped the Tubeway Army name, insisting that the group was only put together for touring and never as a permanent fixture.