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“I had a No 1 single with a song about a robot prostitute and no one knew”: You’ll never listen to this Gary Numan classic the same way again

Saturday September 13, 2025. 06:00 PM , from Keyboard Magazine
The true meaning and dense theory of one of Gary Numan’s most beloved tracks
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