Don’t ever take this down please. Let it live.

Best song by the best band bar none. My favourite track of all time, hearing it for the first time was something I will never forget.

This may, unintentionally, be one of the greatest music videos ever.

Just when you think the song can’t get any better, the electric guitar comes in.

I just love the sound of those old analogue synths

In Brazil few know Numan. I had a party and put it on the playlist and it was a success. When I said that this song was from the 70s, nobody believed it. I'm going to create a fan club to see if we can bring him to Rio de Janeiro.

I was 13 when this was released. Still my favourite record ever. Way, way ahead of its time and still as powerful today.

THIS IS MY FAVOURITE VIDEO OF ALL TIME. Numan had only a handfull of great tunes all in the early days. But they were truely great , along with their image and cold stone faced looks they deserve their place in history. Tubeway Army were cooler than cool. And Gary has lived off that for 30 years. Genius !

The British music scene around this time ,late 70s early 80s was fantastic.

Untouchable Classic.

Each time the guys look straight into the camera. You almost get the feeling that they're looking deep into your soul.

This song never gets old. Love old school synths.

It changed everything for me when I was 10 in 1979, it’s kept me on course for electronic synth music to this very day to which I’m now 52 , thanks Gary 👍🏻😊

I'm puzzled why 40 people would search for this then give it a thumbs down. Let's see how well One Direction sound in 40 years.

I'm 46 yrs old, have been listening to his music since i was 12, Gary and his band were many years ahead of their time, LEGEND :0) Even my 7 yr old son loves this song, he's a great little Numanoid

This melody of this song is so beautiful and perfect, it can just about make tears come to your eyes. I never get tired of hearing it...it's incredible...thank God for G. Numan and what he has contributed to music and thank God for you loyal fans who buy his albums and encourage him to keep on making more songs. This is the quintessential, difinitive song the synth was "born to play", to me.

Gary Numan at his sneering, glowering best. This song defined my teenage years. What an unforgettable performance.

Every person looking into the camera is cool here

I was 14 when this came out and this was the coolest thing I'd ever heard because it sounded like the future. Listening to it again in 2021, it still sounds like the future - it's a timeless piece of music and Gary and the band still look as cool as all get out today!

One of the best songs ever, shook up the music industry.

Came out in ‘79. My girlfriend at the time went out and bought the 45 for me. Timeless and still very powerful in 2022. A bit like the original Blade Runner.

The drummer sets the song and I could listen to that hi hat all day

Happy Birthday Gary ! Love from ALL of your fans you have brought us such happiness ! Thank you !

I remember when this was in the charts in 1979. I was 11-years-old. Life changing song.

79? truly unbelievable ! Numan was way ahead of his time !

He looks so cool, the way he turns his head like that is memorizing

Im so glad i found gary months back he is the best thing i ever seen and a beutiful man and can never be forgotten along with cedric sharpley and everyone else #tubeway army for life like if you are a hardcore numan fan!!!i am

I was 20 when this came out, my God we were lucky to be young at this very special time in history. I wish that I would have appreciated the moment of these days more than I did. What a wonderful time to be young!

I just love the performance on this video. I watch it again and again.

The face of the one young man is like an angel, so beautiful... like Michael the Archangel.

This song is more than 40 years old but still sounds futuristic. Great track.

This video is so goddamn awesome. Better than any conceptual video you could come up with. Gary was so far ahead if his time. Cedric Sharpley and Paul Gardiner laying down a fat rhythm and those synths are heavy as fuck.

Those two guys plaing the synths in this clip (Chris Payne on the right, Billy Currie on the left) wrote the well-famous electronic classic "Fade to Grey".

Freezing night time fog hangs low over dystopian inner-city landscapes as tail-lights flicker and disappear on overpasses to nowhere, during the smoky winter of our discontent: 1979. [Thanks for the Up.]

I remember when Gary and his army first burst on screen... Pushing past punk, Grease, rock and disco to No 1.. It was 1979.. A new electronic era had begun.

Fantastic group the passions❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ great vocalist woman amazing voice❤

I LOVE THIS FREAKING SONG!!!! -_-

Way ahead or their time. Garry is still super cool to this day. Such presence and charisma

Gary Numan is the best looking British Performer ever he is sensational gosh yeah 🤴🌹🏆💕

His backing group all looking for a camera to stare at and look 'serious'! This was the 70s and 80s. Only Gary mastered it by looking away from the camera. Anyway, in 1979 I seen Tubeway Army on TOTPs playing this, was blown away. Got the bus into town on the Saturday to buy it, it was on picture disc, all sold out!! Memories. This is 'Classic Numan'. It all went tits up with 'Dance'. His first four albums, never bettered.

I've always been strictly into rock and roll but damn it there is just something about this it just draws me in. This is just fucking beautiful and I would gladly tell any of my friends I just love this, I wouldn't give a damn what they would think

Love this song, love the creepy staring at the camera. Gary moves and sounds like an android.

analog synth at its best , in 1979 wow ,still sounds good in 2016 the man was a genious

13 when this blasted out at the youth club in east London. Pure cool.

omg where did the time go.....seems like only yesterday, when this changed my mind to music.....so great, makes my eyes bleed

Gary... Gary where have you gone man? The dark suit, blue tie, eyeliner... 79' forever!

@KGMDMusic i will NEVER forget. this is absolutely oe of he greatest songs EVER made !!

I remember back then how amazed I was at the sounds that could come out of these instruments called synthesizers

Gary Numan was an original and total genuis in his heyday. Just listen to how great this sounds now in 2013 and how cool he looks. Brilliant...

This is the best version of this song.

How young Gary looks here! Still wowing the crowds with this song in his sixties and like a fine wine he keeps maturing.

It was during the "hiatus" between John Foxx leaving Ultravox and Midge Ure joining. Gary was a big Ultravox fan so it was quite a big thing for him to have Billy in the band. And I think Billy was glad of the work - at this point in time no one knew if Ultravox were even going to carry on.

Gary Numan looks so good in this performance I love how they all just look so serious with such a badass song like this. Genius

This song catapulted me into the 80's. And what ride that was!

Those analogue synths were absolutely amazing........Sadly it all changed with the world-domination of the Yamaha DX7😥

The song that changed everything......

I have played this tune probably hundreds of thousands of times in my life and never get sick of it and watching this vid makes me buzz even more. Thanks for posting it

This is awesome Those synth sounds are iconic and majestic - from the main riff, to the break-down, to the chorus and then that soaring long synth note that goes up and down - machine rock Nice guitar on this too ... Brilliant album too ...

This song is Simply first class

Magnificent !!! can't believe it was 30 years ago ......

all they look like being posing on a dark fashion magazine, or like on a psychodelic trance. THIS IS A FUCKING AMAZING TUNE

I love it when bands play incredibly 'danceable' tracks, and just stand stock still looking contemplative. So cool man.

Brings back my youth like nothing ever will....

beautiful with those smoldering chiseled good looks.....

LOL - Yes, I think this performance is one of the most extreme in terms of the 'paranoid staring psycho' approach. I remember Gary stating that at the time ('79) the charts were full of bands that would come on stage and jump around and smile non-stop for 3 and a half minutes. He just wanted to do something different, and it fitted the mood of his music. And it worked.

Brilliant drumming, didn't miss a beat! Classic Numan. Uk

You can see the crowd were really letting loose and loving every second of the performance. :)

This is an absolute gem of a song.

First song I ever bought age 6 and a half when I gave my mum my pocket money for it .... ahhh memories xx

could watch this countless times...he was my idol... now i am 45 and this is still 'the thing' to me... he came from outer space...gary numan 1979

Saw him live in Austin this year....best concert I'VE seen(so far)

Very true Zed 67 Singles have such a warm feel and much more Depth . this is a great song too

totally weird and unusual, that, and the alien sound totally attracted me for all my life, love it as much now as i did in 1979. it was because of Paul Gardiner i decided i was a Bass Player, and i still am. i still play Paul's wonderfully inventive basslines as much as i can, trying to get all his nuances and styles and feelings just right. Thanks Paul, Thanks Gary, Thanks Dramatis and Thanks Moresynth for posting :) Mark_The_Bass

40 years ago today this hit number one

In the beginning of the song, the camera man focuses mainly on Paul Gardiner. RIP Paul Gardiner. You will be forever Missed.

God, I love this song! I´m a Numanoid for life.

watched this over and over what a stunning performance one of the best tunes of new wave

A 20 year old kid he was here...it's his composition, his musicianship, his stage persona.....this is something a kid made in his room....pretty fckn impressive.

Surely one of the best anthemic electronic pop songs of all time. superb.

I love how they all just stare at the camera :D

Totally unique and still as good as the day I first heard it !

Early 1980's. A sad, lonely basement dwelling nerdy kid (me) picks up a 45 record by something called Tubeway Army. Hmm, never heard of that before. Puts it on the record player. Ooo! You can just imagine the effect this had on that little dude!

Notice the way it sounds so maleish? Gary recorded this on the MiniMoog; all synth parts are played on that one synthesizer; multi-tracked of course. The Mini filters were overdriven which gave it its balls. It's been 40 years later and the MiniMoog is still a much sought after instrument; it's like the Stradivarius of synthesizers. Thank you Gary for this immortal song.

it was a quality tune,down in the park good album,sadly he never got any better,70,s the best.

omg... i LOVE gary... this is LOVE!!!

Still one of the best tunes ever. I was 10 when I first heard this.

Holy crap, some parts almost made me think I was about to hear a Prodigy song. Toast to the pioneers of electronica that came before. I must have been about 2 years old when this was released.

Absolute genius. Thanks for this. Such a gorgeous thing, that Gary.

First single i ever bought Absolute Classic still sounds Awesome in 2023 😘👌

Unique and haunting permormance ...great song..

Light years ahead of the rest. Alienation, loneliness and detatchment

increíble actuación dl señor Gary Numan. realmente impresionante!

Auch ein sehr geiles Lied damals!!!! weckt echt erinnerungen wieder.

Was 13 and when I heard it, that's different and brought the single. Still love it now.

THANK YOU GARY NUMAN FOR BEING A PART OF MY TEENAGE LIFE IT WAS THE BEST TIME OF MY LIFE..I AM 53 YRS OLD NOW U WILL ALWAYS LIVE IN MY HEART

I love nostalgia so badly it hurts but I read some interview online where Gray said he hates nostalgia, loves technology, and hates looking backwards at his music..... But I wish I could meet him and explain to him that the reason why some of his fans and others look back at his music from 30 years ago, is because it still sounds so fresh & new today BECAUSE it was never ever played out to death or 'stuck in the box ' of any decade, probably because he didn't hit the big time in the States.

Amazing song good quality vid. And Gary is an absolute dude.

All look so happy to be there

he was brilliant in concert

So brilliant!