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That album, "Savage: Songs From A Broken
World", tackled the issue of global warming, and he's explored
the same theme - one he says he feels passionate about - on its
successor, "Intruder", from which he has released a single.
The 2017 album reached No.2 in the UK chart, the "Cars" singer's
first top ten position since the 1980s.
"I had my first moment of success, which was very large ...but
very brief," Numan told Reuters in an interview when asked about
his proudest career moment.
"This slow, slow, slow, slow rise back up again for about,
nearly, not quite 40 years ... felt special. And I cried when I
got the chart position, I cried like a baby."
"Savage... " looked at cultures in a world turned to desert by
global warming, a scenario that the 62-year-old is revisiting
from the planet's perspective in "Intruder", which is due for
release in May.
"The entire album is devoted to the idea that if the Earth could
speak, how would it feel about what's going on at the moment?"
said Numan, who began his career as lead singer of synth band
Tubeway Army in the late 1970s and has gone on to release 20
solo albums.
"Would it see a need to fight back? Is climate change the
earth's equivalent of a fever?"
The arrival of the coronavirus during its creation "fed into it
perfectly," and one song, "The Gift", is about COVID-19, he
added.
Asked what influence his music could have, the singer, who now
lives in Los Angeles, said he hoped it could contribute to
keeping awareness of climate change in the public consciousness.
"I'm not Madonna, I'm not super famous... (but) if there are
lots of little ants like me ... and if people are talking about
it, then governments are aware of it," he said.
(Reporting by Sarah Mills; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian;
editing by John Stonestreet)
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