| "Warriors" | ||||
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| Single by Gary Numan | ||||
| from the album Warriors | ||||
| Released | 19 August 1983 [1] | |||
| Recorded | 1982 | |||
| Studio | Rock City Studios (Shepperton) | |||
| Genre | New wave | |||
| Length | 4:08 | |||
| Label | Beggars Banquet BEG 95 (7"), BEG 95 T (12") | |||
| Songwriter | Gary Numan | |||
| Producer | Gary Numan | |||
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| "Warriors" on YouTube | ||||
"Warriors" is a song written and recorded by the English new wave musician Gary Numan, released in 1983 as both a 7" and 12" single from his fifth solo studio album, Warriors . Numan promoted the song on many popular television shows such as The Saturday Show and Crackerjack . It peaked at No. 20 on the UK singles chart, and was Numan's final Top 20 hit until 2003.
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Of the song Numan commented: "Warriors was about how I felt being a pop star more or less, I felt I was losing it and slipping down the ladder of success. The line "The ghost of the white faced clown" was a direct reference back to the old images that I'd had before and I wanted to establish that was all done and gone, I was over my Star Wars , Buck Rogers type period".
The music video for the song shown on Top of the Pops shows Numan's love of flying and his new Mad Max -style image. He commented: "I had a lot of fun making the video for the single, sort of a mix between joy and terror. I think 'Warriors' is probably by far my favourite song on the album".
