Unlikely covers: Gary Numan, both ways

Billy Currie was the synth wizard behind the electronic sheen of Ultravox and Visage.  Curious about what he had been up to since 1990, I looked him up on emusic and found a couple recent instrumental albums.  The revelation, though, was in the "Dig Deeper on the net" box: a YouTube video of Gary Numan performing "On Broadway" live in 1979, with a show-stealing ARP solo by Currie:

I think Gary Numan's biggest stroke of genius was to forego using a Vocoder but sing like a robot anyway.  As unlikely as Numan covering "On Broadway" would be anyone else covering any Numan song other than "Cars."  Robert Palmer was always good for a quirk or two, though, and covered "I Dream of Wires" on Clues:

That is one strange hybrid there.  Here is Gary's original:

I'm afraid this may bring on a Gary Numan binge.
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Johnny Smoke
No offense but Numan slaughters the Broadway cover. While novel, it's really bad. I Dream of Wires on the other hand is a great song.
Burl Veneer
No offense taken, "novel" is the key here.

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