Single:
Are ‘Friends’ Electric entered the Australian singles chart* on 20 August 1979 and peaked at #12. The song was #74 on the Top 100 of 1979.
Album:
The song is on Replicas which entered the Australian albums chart* on 3 September 1979 and peaked at #11.
Songwriter:
Gary Numan
Producer:
Gary Numan
Record label of Australian release:
Atlantic
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
Are ‘Friends’ Electric? by the English band Tubeway Army is from their album Replicas. It was written and produced by Gary Numan, the band’s frontman and lead vocalist.
It was the band’s last single before breaking up. Gary continued to work under his own name and the single Cars followed later the same year.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_”Friends”_Electric?
Songfacts:
This song is about man living among robots – how you can lock yourself in a dark room away from any other human. Numan has Asperger’s Syndrome, and many of this songs deal with themes of technology and isolation.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/gary-numan/are-friends-electric
Lyrics:
It′s cold outside
And the paint’s peeling off of my walls
There′s a man outside
In a long coat, grey hat, smoking a cigarette
Now the light fades out
And I wonder what I’m doing in a room like this
There’s a knock on the door
And just for a second I thought I remembered you
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