Ghost (Gary Numan album)

Ghost
Live album by Gary Numan
Released	1988
Recorded	25–26 September 1987, Hammersmith Odeon, London
Genre	Synthpop, electronic music
Label	Numa
Producer	Gary Numan
Gary Numan chronology
Strange Charm (1986) Ghost (1988) Metal Rhythm (1988)
Alternative cover
2003 reissue cover

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Ghost is a live album first released by Gary Numan in 1988. It was recorded live at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on 25 and 26 September 1987 during Numan's Exhibition Tour (an 18-month concert tour that promoted the compilation album Exhibition). The original release was only available as a fan club mail order double LP. It went on general release in the United Kingdom as a double CD in May 1992 before being released in the United States in 1999.

Of note is the fact that Ghost features live versions of several songs from Numan's Strange Charm (1986), an album that had not been promoted with a live concert tour.

Some Numa CD copies suffer from CD bronzing, though other copies (the discs are printed 'Mastered by Mayking') do not.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 1988 Numa vinyl release (NUMAD 1007) 1.2 1992 Numa CD reissue (NUMACD 1007) 1.3 1999 Cleopatra U.S. CD reissue (CLP 0680-2) 1.4 2003 Eagle Records CD reissue (EDMCD 159) 2 Personnel 2.1 Musicians 2.2 Production 3 References

Track listing

All tracks written by Gary Numan.

All timings are approximate and will vary slightly with different equipment.

1988 Numa vinyl release (NUMAD 1007)

Side One

1. "Ghost" – 1.40
2. "Call Out the Dogs" – 4.00
3. "I Die: You Die" – 3.35
4. "Creatures" – 5.05
5. "I Can't Stop" – 3.40
6. "Me! I Disconnect From You" – 3.10

Side Two

1. "Tricks" – 5.35
2. "The Sleeproom" – 5.10
3. "My Breathing" – 6.05
4. "Cars" – 4.40

Side Three

1. "Metal" – 3.10
2. "Sister Surprise" – 6.05
3. "This Disease" – 4.00
4. "We Take Mystery (To Bed)" – 6.15
5. "We Are Glass" – 4.35

Side Four

1. "Are 'Friends' Electric?" – 6.30
2. "Down in the Park" – 4.55
3. "My Shadow in Vain" – 2.30
4. "Berserker" – 5.35

1992 Numa CD reissue (NUMACD 1007)

Side One and Two, Three and Four were combined for the CD release.

1999 Cleopatra U.S. CD reissue (CLP 0680-2)

Same CD track listing as Numa release. Different rear and inner tray artwork and an essay by Rod Reynolds.

2003 Eagle Records CD reissue (EDMCD 159)

Same CD track listing as Numa release. Different front, rear and inner tray artwork and an essay by Dominic Jones.

Personnel

Musicians

• Gary Numan – vocals
• Rrussell Bell – guitar
• Nick Davies – bass guitar
• Chris Payne – keyboards, viola
• John Webb – keyboards, saxophone
• Greg Brimstone – drums
• Valerie Chalmers – backing vocals
• Emma Chalmers – backing vocals

Production

• Gary Numan – producer, mixing
• Smudger – engineer
• Tim Summerhayes – engineer, mixing

References

Gary Numan Albums with Tubeway Army Tubeway Army • Replicas • The Plan Studio albums The Pleasure Principle • Telekon • Dance • I, Assassin • Warriors • Berserker • The Fury • Strange Charm • Metal Rhythm • Outland • Machine + Soul • Sacrifice • Exile • Pure • Jagged • Dead Son Rising Collaborations Automatic (with Bill Sharpe) • Human (with Michael R. Smith) •Nicholson / Numan 1987-1994 (with Hugh Nicholson) Live albums Living Ornaments '79 • Living Ornaments '80 • Living Ornaments '79 and '80 • White Noise • Ghost • The Skin Mechanic • Dream Corrosion • Dark Light • Living Ornaments '81 • The Radio One Recordings •Scarred • Live at Shepherds Bush Empire • Hope Bleeds • Fragment 1/04 • Fragment 2/04 • The Complete John Peel Sessions • Jagged Live • Engineers • Telekon - Live • Replicas Live • The Pleasure Principle Live Soundtracks The Radial Pair: Video Soundtrack Compilations Exhibition • Isolate • The Best Of Gary Numan 1978-1983 • The Premier Hits • Techno Army featuring Gary Numan • Random (02) • The Mix • New Dreams For Old • Exposure • Hybrid • Resonator (Pioneer of Sound)• Jagged Edge Related articles Discography • Paul Gardiner • Dramatis