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For Future Reference is the only studio album released by the British synth-pop band Dramatis. The album itself failed to reach the UK Albums Chart, however, one of the three singles released from the album, "Love Needs No Disguise" with Gary Numan providing vocals reached number 33 on the UK Singles Chart. The other singles from the album were "Ex Luna Scientia" and "Oh! Twenty Twenty Five"—titled "Oh! 2025" on the album. The album was reissued on CD in 2000 and retitled The Dramatis Project. The reissue was also credited to Tubeway Army featuring Gary Numan, despite Numan's only contribution being the vocal to "Love Needs No Disguise".
Denis Haines is an English musician, best known for his time on keyboards for the Hollies between 1983 and 1991. Haines first came to prominence with new wave band the Doll. He played keyboards for Gary Numan on the album Telekon. Together with Chris Payne, Rrussell Bell and Cedric Sharpley, all of whom had been members of Numan's backing band, he formed new wave band Dramatis in 1981.
Engineers is a limited edition digipak live album, released by Gary Numan's previous label, Beggars Banquet. The album was recorded at the Capitol Theatre, Sydney, Australia on 31 May 1980.
Jason Charles Lewis known professionally as Jayce Lewis is a Welsh musician from Bridgend, South Wales. In 2009 his self-produced single titled "Icon" achieved a top-10 chart position alongside VH1/MTV Asia Viacom18 features. With strong industrial music and synthpop influences, his music has been described as alternative rock with electronica roots and "tribal percussion". Lewis has collaborated with acts such as Queen, Rammstein and synthpop icon Gary Numan, for whom Lewis has been a supporting act three times.
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- ↑ Green, Thomas H (20 November 2009). "Gary Numan at the Brighton Dome, review". Reverb . Retrieved 26 August 2017.
- ↑ Perrone, Pierre (9 April 2012). "Cedric Sharpley: Drummer who played with Tubeway Army". The Independent . Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ↑ Wilson, Matthew (17 August 2017). "We'll have a grey old time, pledges synthpop pioneer". Henley Standard . Retrieved 26 August 2017.
- ↑ "Dramatis". Numanme.co.uk. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
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