The best No 1 records: Tubeway Army – Are 'Friends' Electric?

1979: Who was going to step forward after Bowie to deliver the first big electronic hit? No one expected this ...After David Bowie's Low and Heroes, the race was on for the first big British electronic hit. Everyone knew it was going to happen, because this was the sound of the future. Who would it be: the Human League, Ultravox, Orchestral Maneouvres in the Dark? Nobody expected this to come out of left-field: a slow, almost dirge-y blast of pure teen alienation set in a chill Science Fiction f...

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