(R)evolution. Revolution: The Autobiography

Gary Numan

ISBN 10: 1472134621 / ISBN 13: 9781472134622

Published by Constable, 2020

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Hardback 1st ed 1st printing. 455 pp Bound in black cloth with gilt titles both book and dust jacket are in near fine condition. There is a small indentation on the front board. The book is signed by Gary on a publishers book plate on the front end paper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: (R)evolution. Revolution: The Autobiography
• Publisher: Constable
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472134621
• ISBN 13: 9781472134622
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Music

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Synopsis

Gary Numan is one of Britain's 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 Numan's 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 Asperger's 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.