However, we could very well see the biggest week of the year next week, when Eminem’s “Recovery” makes a likely bow at No. That’s the third-best sales week of the year for a single album.
1 on the Billboard 200 as “Thank Me Later” bows with 447,000 copies sold in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. He commences a North American tour on Aug. Gary Numan Resurrection is aired in the U.K. I think they were even more emotional than I was.” Some of them had been at the first Wembley concerts, or stuck with me from the beginning. The power of all those people making all that noise. Describing the venue as a “symbolic target” for his recovery, he observed: “I thought it might take four years, not 41.”ĭespite suffering panic attacks just before the show (detailed in the documentary) Numan reported: “It was brilliant, actually. charts and a triumphant return to London’s Wembley Arena – scene of the farewell shows – in May. Instead, I upset everybody and destroyed my career.”īut he’s put it all in the past in recent years, with his last two albums reaching No. I should have just quietly stopped touring and no one would have noticed. “I wanted to get back to making music and to who I was before it all started,” he explained. Numan later realized that it had been a mistake to stage the farewell shows – especially since he returned to live performance around two years later. Finally, one of their girlfriends said: ‘No one wants to know you any more.’” He confirmed it had been “traumatic,” adding: “you accept that there’s something wrong with you, that you try to be friendly but are inherently unlikable, and so you become reclusive.
“I’d always tried to be friendly so I couldn’t understand it. “very single person in or around the band stopped talking to me or walked away,” he recalled. He’d felt that pressure since his early days as a musician, when his difficulties with interaction led to his first band effectively cancelling him. The stress and pressure of it all was unbelievably difficult, particularly for someone like me.” He added: “I felt like I was being pushed towards the edge of a cliff. Making music stops being this thing you love and starts to become about units and strategies. “But the reality can be damaging and destructive. “There’s a glossy front-cover version where everything looks very glamorous,” Numan told the Guardianas he discussed new documentary Gary Numan Resurrection.
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