Gary Numan - Backstage

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Welcome to the official Myspace page for the "Gary Numan - Backstage" book, a behind the scenes look at Gary's most prolific part of his career.
BackStage will be a hardback book, covering Gary Numan's 1979/81 career with over 100 colour and black and white photos, many never-before-seen, taken by band and crew members, plus working drawings of the Wembley stage set, itineraries from Glasgow Apollo 79 right up to Wembley 81 plus never seen before Pleasure Principle Session photos and more ...

There are over 300 pages of interviews with Gary Numan,John Foxx,Chris Payne,Ced,Sharpley,Rrussell Bell ,Steve Webbon,Martin Mills,Nash The Slash,Gerald Casale,Andy McCluskey,Tim Dry,Nick fisher,Alan Morrison,Steve Arch and more.

BackStage will be available to buy at the end of March 2010 but those's coming to the book launch party in mid March in London will be able to buy it then, plus get it signed by many former band members, plus Nash The Slash will be playing a live set just for the Party..

Steve Roper is the author of this book and has been an avid fan and collector of Gary’s 1979 – 1981 years. He is most famous for bringing us the Living Ornaments 1980 (2005) and the Engineers CD’s (2008) that were the result of him spending years tracking down the sound engineers.
Steve also met with other stage-crew members and obtained many items from that era, some of which can be found on his website http://www.thetouringprinciple.co.uk/ and many that will appear in this book.
Steve lives in the Norwich area and does his part in keeping UK breweries in business
Steve is also assisting Beggars Banquet with the upcoming "Pleasure Principle 30th Anniversary Edition" CD, scheduled for release in September 2009

Helping him with the book is Erik Vermeulen (co-producer) who you might remember from maintaining the official Gary Numan Myspace page. Erik has been a fan since 1979 and even when he lived in Australia, kept spending his money on importing albums from the Numan Fan Club
He currently resides in the Minneapolis/St.Paul area and just like Steve, does his best work after a beer!

PLEASE NOTE - all images and audio on this page are copyrighted © 2009 Steve Roper

For all inquiries, business and advertising opportunities, please email backstage@thetouringprinciple.co.uk