Gary Numan has announced the sudden death of his younger brother John
17/11/25
Gary Numan has announced the sudden death of his younger brother - just hours after breaking down in front of stunned...
Gary Numan has announced the sudden death of his younger brother John
17/11/25
Gary Numan has announced the sudden death of his younger brother - just hours after breaking down in front of stunned fans during a live performance in Birmingham.
Gary struggled to continue after telling fans at the city's O2 Academy he had received 'the worst news' earlier in the day.
Numan, 67, has since confirmed the death of his brother John in a statement, released on Monday evening.
He wrote: 'My brother John died suddenly in the early hours of Saturday morning in Leeds, he was just 60 years old.'
Gary confirmed John had collapsed after suffering a heart attack while walking to his car, just moments after saying goodbye to Numan.
'He had spent the evening with me at my Telekon show, catching up, swapping stories, telling me about his newly found love for reading.
'I hugged him at the door of our tour bus, I think it was about 12:20am, asked him how far he had to walk to get his car (I always worried about him waking the streets at night).
'It was not far apparently, we said goodbye and I watched him walk away. Sadly, he never made it to his car, betrayed by his own heart.
'It will haunt me forever that we may have driven off not knowing that he was lying in a rainy street just yards away.
'Luckily a kind person saw him and called an ambulance, but it was too late.'
He continued in the heartbreaking post: 'This is not a tribute to John, I can barely think straight enough to find the words for this let alone a fitting and deserving tribute to someone I loved more than the world, those words will come in time. This is to explain why I'm struggling.
'We are continuing with the tour because my Dad thinks I should, because John's lovely wife said John would want me to. I have no capacity at the moment to make decisions of any kind.
'I'm drifting, broken, shell shocked, just watching one foot fall in front of the other. The emotion overwhelms and then backs away, it screams and then whispers. This is the worst moment of my life and I have no idea what to do, other than to continue doing the only thing I know how to do, the thing John was always so proud of. He loved Telekon.
'He was only 15 when I made it. So this tour is no longer a celebration of an album, it's a tribute to John, my brother, the best brother a man could ever have.'
Gary left fans concerned during his concert after he stopped his setlist midway through his show on Saturday..
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