After starting to cry on stage during a recent concert, Gary Numan explained, on social media, the reason you got emotional.
Last Saturday, Gary Numan’s brother, John, died at age 60. The musician had spent the night talking to his brother, minutes before he lost consciousness due to a heart failure.
“The last two days have been the hardest of my life”explains Gary Numan. “My brother died suddenly this Saturday, aged just 60. He had spent the night with me at my concert, catching up, telling stories, telling me about his new passion for reading. We talked about writers, music, the loves of our lives, children, our father, steam trains, planes, accidents, friends, enemies – everything we managed to fit into the little time we had“, it says.
“We spoke for hours, before and after the concert, but in the meantime I had to leaveas there was a concert in Birmingham that night. I hugged him at the door of the tour bus, I think it was about 20 minutes past midnight, and I asked him if his car was too far away. (I was always worried when he had to walk the street alone at night). From what I could tell, it wasn’t far. Unfortunately, he never made it to the car – he was betrayed by his heart. I will always think that maybe we took off, without knowing that he was lying on a street in the rain, just a few meters away. A nice person even saw him and called an ambulance, but it was too late.”
Gary Numan also says that this message does not serve as a tribute to a person who “I loved the world more than I love”but rather an explanation for why she cried on stage.
“We’re going to continue with the tour because my dad thinks I should, because John’s wife said he would want me to continue. At this moment, I am not able to make decisions. I am lost, destroyed, shocked. It’s the worst moment of my life and I don’t know what to do other than continue doing the only thing I know how to do and that John was so proud of. John loved ‘Telekon’, he was only 15 when I made it. Therefore, this tour is no longer a celebration of an album, but a tribute to Johnmy brother and the best brother a man could have.”