| "This Wreckage" | ||||
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| Single by Gary Numan | ||||
| from the album Telekon | ||||
| B-side | "Photograph" | |||
| Released | 12 December 1980[1] | |||
| Recorded | Rock City Studios, Shepperton, 1980 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock[2] | |||
| Length | 5:26 | |||
| Label | Beggars Banquet BEG 50 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Gary Numan | |||
| Producer(s) | Gary Numan | |||
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"This Wreckage" is a song written and performed by Gary Numan. It was featured as the opening track on his 1980 LP Telekon.[3]
Following two non-album singles, "We Are Glass" and "I Die: You Die", "This Wreckage" was the only single lifted from Telekon. Released in December 1980 it reached No. 20 on the UK Singles Chart. Numan later admitted that, regardless of its merits as a song, it was a "bloody stupid single".[4] The song was later described as "possibly the strangest Top 20 hit of all time", a fore-runner of "the slightly one-note anti-religious goth-industrial music" Numan would favour later in his career.[5]
- ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 26.
- ^ Evans, Richard (August 6, 2024). "1980.3". Listening to the Music the Machines Make: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983. Omnibus Press. p. 234. ISBN 978-1-915841-45-2.
- ^ Conte, Frank (9 October 1980). "Reviews: Gary Numen - Telekon". The Boston Globe. p. 82. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
- ^ Stephen Webbon & Gary Numan (1985). "Complete Gary Numan UK Discography". Record Collector (December 1985, No. 76): p.15
- ^ McNamee, David (17 November 2008). "It Started With A Mix: One Side Of A C90 From Synth Pop Pioneer Gary Numan". The Quietus. Retrieved 16 November 2023.