LP reissue of Gary Newman's debut solo album! An essential electronic-synth
album from
1979 with the classic “Cars”. “The Pleasure Principle” pioneered
electronic pop music on a
new scale, becoming a much bigger hit worldwide than Kraftwerk or anything from
the
Bowie/Eno Berlin trilogy. And the fact that it was so different and had such a
major impact in
America (crystallized when Numan performed “Cars” and “Praying To The
Aliens” in front of
40 million people on Saturday Night Live) meant that there was a direct link
from “The
Pleasure Principle” to the new musical forms that were born in the USA over
the next decade
- namely hip hop, industrial and techno.