White Noise (Gary Numan Album)
White Noise is a double live album by Gary Numan and originally released in 1985. The album was reissued as a double CD in 1998 before a remastered version was released in 2003.
The White Noise album was recorded on 11 December 1984 - the second-last show of Numan's Berserker Tour. It was released on 27 April 1985 and reached number 29 in the UK album chart, outperforming the Berserker (1984) album. White Noise also enjoyed great success in Belgium where it went to number 2. An edited version of the show was released on video as The Berserker Tour in 1985 (subsequent DVD releases featured this shortened version of the show, until the entire concert was released on DVD in early 2008 under the title Cold Warning).
A month after the release of White Noise, four tracks from the album ("Are 'Friends' Electric?", "Berserker", "Cars" and "We Are Glass") were released as The Live EP. It reached #27 on the UK singles chart, outperforming the two singles released in 1984 from Numan's Berserker album (the title track, which reached #32, and "My Dying Machine", which reached #66).
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