Flashback to Oct 1979 Dave Edmunds The Crusaders Madness Commodores Electric Light Orchestra Dollar Rainbow Michael Jackson Buggles The Bellamy Brothers Status Quo Gary Numan Gary Anthony James Webb[11][12] was born on 8 March 1958 in Hammersmith, London.[13] His father was a British Airways bus driver based at Heathrow Airport.[14] He was seven when his family adopted his cousin (father's nephew) John,[15] who would become a musician and play in Numan's backing band. He was educated at Town Farm Junior School in Stanwell; Ashford County Grammar School; and Slough Grammar School,[16] followed by Brooklands Technical College in Weybridge, Surrey.[17] He joined the Air Training Corps as a teenager and briefly held various jobs including forklift truck driver, air conditioning ventilator fitter, and accounts clerk Blondie The Police