Telekon is the title of the second solo studio album by Gary Numan, released in September 1980. The album was the follow-up to his highly successful debut solo album The Pleasure Principle released a year earlier.
Telekon was preceded by the release of two 7" singles, We Are Glass and I Die: You Die, neither of which featured on the original LP.
Initial limited edition copies of the LP came with a free 7" single featuring live recordings of On Broadway and Remember I Was Vapour recorded during Numan's previous tour. These were to have been part of a 'Live EP' release series which never came about. The original release of Living Ornaments '79 featuring performances recorded on the same tour did not feature these two tracks.
Tracklisting[]
Original album version Side One
- This Wreckage
- The Aircrash Bureau
- Telekon
- Remind Me to Smile
- Sleep By Windows
Side Two
- I'm An Agent
- I Dream of Wires
- Remember I Was Vapour
- Please push No More
- Joy Circuit
Notes[]
- Previous singles 'We Are Glass' and 'I Die: You Die' featured on the cassette version, placed at the end of Side 1 and Side 2 respectively. They also appeared on subsequent CD releases
- This Wreckage was released as a single in December 1980, b/w new track 'Photograph'. [1]
- British vocalist Robert Palmer recorded a cover version of I Dream of Wires for his album Clues, released around the same time as Telekon.
- A 16-track CD edition of the album was released in 1998. [2]
- Live recordings of Telekon performed in its entirety have been issued twice, one in 2008 (recorded at The Forum, December 2006, released as CD, DVD and DL)[3] and one in 2016 (recorded at O2 Forum London 23.10.15, released on CD and LP).[4]
Connections[]
- I bought the album on its release on 06 September 1980, together with the I Die: You Die single. i bought it early also to ensure I got the free live single.
- The album is in my all time Top 50 and Top 5 Numan albums.