Electronic music icon Gary Numan has admitted to making some “extraordinarily bad decisions” throughout his life — which he said did more damage than “all the bad press in the world”.
Writing in the Big Issue to mark the release of his autobiography, (R)evolution, Numan said: “My life seems to have been as much about dealing with setbacks as it has celebrating the high moments of success and I have, most certainly, been shaped by the many struggles far more than the few successes.
“I like the man I’ve become. I haven’t always liked the man I’ve been, and telling the story of how that evolution took place is what drove me to write the book.”
While he says he made some good decisions and wrote “a few decent songs” he’d sometimes “stumbled” backwards, and even sideways.
On November 4th I’ll be talking about my life, both in music and outside of it. Streaming around the world with @FaneProductionshttps://t.co/oMNcHz0wTWpic.twitter.com/e0OHBz6OHs
— Gary Numan (@numanofficial) October 21, 2020
“I have made some extraordinarily bad decisions, decisions so awful I was lucky the career survived. I believe it’s true to say that I have done more damage to my career than all the bad press in the world was ever able to do, and yet I’ve survived,” he said.
