THIRTY seven years after he shot to stardom when his fourth single with Tubeway Army went to number one, synth pop legend Gary Numan is back in Glasgow.

His 2013 Splinter album may have been his highest-charting album since 1983, but on Tuesday he will be dusting down his past to present at the O2 ABC on Tuesday.

His first three albums will be in focus, Replicas, The Pleasure Principle and Telekon.

Numan’s influence has been recognized by a diverse array of the world’s greatest artists—from Prince to Lady Gaga, Jack White to Kanye West; Beck to Queens Of The Stone Age, and the Foo Fighters to Nine Inch Nails, many of which have collaborated with the star and covered or sampled tracks from his vast back catalogue.

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He says Glasgow fans can expect one or two twisted up versions of his classics, but by and large he will stick to the classic sounds.

"Ninety per cent of it will sound as it was," he said. "I am not going back to the original technology, because you can't rely on it, and it is hard to get hold of anyway.

"There are things around now that recreate it perfectly so the sound side of it isn't an issue.

"Reliablity is, so you want to make sure that you have equipment that works on the night, which it certainly didn't back in the day.

"The second album Replicas, for all it's reputation for being the one that started the electronic movement, half of it doesn't have keyboards on it.  Half of it is a guitar-based album.  So something like that is easy to do exactly as it was back in the day.  

"Songs like Down In the Park and Are Friends Electric are pretty much as they they were back in the day, just slightly beefier maybe."

But what songs can fans everyone expect?

Here are the top 11 Numan songs, that Glasgow may well be getting.

11. Down In The Park.  From 1979, this is Numan's first tune on keyboards, the first to feature his then trademark electronic sound. 

10. Observer.  Track number seven from 1979's The Pleasure Principle has flavours of one of his biggest hits.  But which one?

9. Tracks.  Song number 6 from The Pleasure Principle features the line: "And I want your face, dear and you can have mine."

8. M.E.  The opening synth part of track 5 from The Pleasure Principle was heavily sampled for Basement Jaxx's 2001 hit Where's Your Head At.  It's a song told from the perspective of the last machine on Earth, don't you know.

7. This Wreckage  The opening track on 1980's Telekon album and was the third and final single to be released from that album. It reached number 20 in the UK singles charts.

6. Metal.  From The Pleasure Principle (again), it's a song covered by Nine Inch Nails and Afrika Bambaataa and is about an android who wishes to be human, but never can be.  There were those who thought this was a self-portrait.

5. Films.  Much sampled by hip-hop artists it's another from The Pleasure Principle.

4. We Are Glass.  Reached number five in the UK singles chart in May, 1980. Legend has it that the alleged strong violence of the promo video led to it being banned from Top of the Pops.

3. Cars. Inspired by a road rage incident, it is arguably his biggest selling single. It was a 1979 chart-topper in the UK, and his only US hit, reaching the top 10 on the Billboard chart.

2. I Die: You Die.  Reached number six in the UK singles chart but bizarrely never appeared on the Telekon album.  It's about death, apparently. 

1. Are Friends Electric?  What else.  A timeless Polymoog synth epic about paranoia and loneliness and a much sampled UK chart-topper from 1979.    It's cold outside...