She's Got Claws

"She's Got Claws"
Single by Gary Numan
from the album Dance
B-side"I Sing Rain"
Released21 August 1981[1]
RecordedRock City Studios, Shepperton 1981
GenreElectro-funk[2]
Length4:46
LabelBeggars Banquet
BEG62 (7"), BEG62T (12")
Songwriter(s)Gary Numan
Producer(s)Gary Numan
Gary Numan singles chronology
"This Wreckage"
(1980)
"She's Got Claws"
(1981)
"Love Needs No Disguise"
(1981)

"She’s Got Claws" is a 1981 song by Gary Numan. It was the first and only single released from his 1981 album Dance. The song signalled a different musical style for Numan, featuring jazz-influenced saxophone and fretless bass, as well as a new image comprising trilby hat and pinstriped suit, inspired by Humphrey Bogart and Howard Hughes.

  1. ^ "New Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 22 August 1981. p. 14. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
  2. ^ Evans, Richard (August 6, 2024). "1981.5". Listening to the Music the Machines Make: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983. Omnibus Press. p. 315. ISBN 978-1-915841-45-2.