Gary Numan on Bowie Rivalry & Wife's Paralysis

0:00It's April 2nd, this is Entertainment and celebrity news today, your AI-powered source for all things entertainment. Gary Newman just dropped a wild story on the iMADHD, know you're not podcast, about his running with David Bowie back in the early 1980s. The sent pioneer, now 68, said Bowie straight up kicked him out of a TV studio during filming for the Kenny Everett Christmas special. Newman showed up as a huge fan to watch Bowie shoot, but got bounced from the room and even yanked off the show entirely. This all stemmed from a short rivalry, where Bowie saw Newman as copying his electronic sound shift. Newman thinks Bowie's 1980 track, teenage wildlife, through shade of him and other new wave acts, with lines about recycling old ideas and new, packaging. They crossed paths a few times, but Bowie made it clear he had beef. Newman admitted he was crushed at the time, being a newbie star for just 10 minutes. Looking back, he gets it. Bowie was a giant facing career dips and might have felt threatened by this rising talent.

1:01Fans are buzzing over the reveal, painting Bowie is insecure amid his legacy. Shifting gears, Newman's life ain't all spotlights lately. Last month, his wife Gemma, 57, shared she got paralyzed in her left arm from a rare spinal surgery complication last December. The left-handed artist broke down trying to paint, and they've dealt with Gary's younger brother John's death too, hitting him mid-tour. To it all, Newman keeps pushing music and family forward, turning personal blows into resilience anthems that echo his beats.