Gary Numan News

(1/30/01, 10 p.m. ET) - Gary Numan recently released Pure, which contains some of his heaviest music to date. The creator of the hit song "Cars" has changed direction, receiving support from modern rockers Marilyn Manson, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, and Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan.

Now that the Pumpkins are history, Corgan is trying out various options in an effort to play music yet deflect the limelight from himself. Numan told LAUNCH that he and Corgan may hook up later this year. "We're actually planning to do something this year, hopefully. We want to do some writing together," Numan said. "Billy has actually got ideas. You know, we write some stuff together, and we actually put another band...and it'll be a complete, separate project to Gary Numan and a separate project to Billy--something else we'll put on together. That would be really, really exciting. It's the sort of thing I'll put everything else on hold for."

Numan told LAUNCH that right now he's concentrating on Pure and hopes to get to the United States in a few months for a proper tour. And he's no stranger to collaboration: He did a remake of "Cars" with Fear Factory a few years ago.

-- Darren Davis, New York

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