“During [the early Tubeway Army] period I went to see Mick Ronson at the Rainbow Theatre in London’s Finsbury Park and Iggy Pop on his ’77 tour. I thought Iggy’s The Idiot album was brilliant. Bowie played keyboards at those shows attempting, rather too obviously, to look like a mere band member. Lou Reed was good as well. Tubeway Army used to do a punk cover of the Velvet Underground song ‘White Light, White Heat.’ I also thought the American singer Jobriath was excellent, if a bit off the wall. Jobriath was often dismissed as a David Bowie copy, something that would haunt me in years to come, but I thought he was great.”

Gary Numan, Praying to the Aliens: An Autobiography (1997), p.35