From Being Boiled to I Feel Love: Gary Numan’s top electro tracks

The musician chooses his favourite songs – and admits that his own discovery of synths was all down to chance“Recently, one of my friends told me how genius it was that at the start of Cars there is just one note that stays and stays and stays,” begins affable electro overlord Gary Numan, a few days after landing in the UK from his California home to collect the inspiration award at this year’s Ivor Novellos. “I had to break it to them that when I was in the studio