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Gary, Chris and John

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Marc Myers
Nov 23, 2019
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This week in
The Wall Street Journal, my "Anatomy of a Song" interviews with Gary Numan and Chris Payne on Numan's early elctro-pop hit Cars in 1979 (go here). The song's inspiration was a road rage incident in London followed by his accidental discovery of the Minimoog synthesizer and his struggles with Asperger's syndrome.

Here's the official video of …

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