Let’s watch as all-time A-#1 Sean T. Collins style icon Gary Numan shows us how it’s done:
Jesus jumped-up Christ in a chariot-driven sidecar, that is essentially the coolest thing that ever happened in human history. Daft Punk and Beck need to be sending regular royalty checks.
That footage is from 1979, I believe. A couple of years later, having decided that his set’s Metropolis light towers were insufficiently gigantic and extravagant and his own personal mien was insufficiently supervillainous, Gary decided to revamp his performance of this song as follows:
The sort of complete commitment, totality of vision, and lack of fear or self-deprecating irony required to perform a song about androids whilst seated in a mobile throne you’re piloting around the stage is impressive beyond words to me. Great tune, too.