"This Wreckage" is a song written and performed by the English new wave musician

Gary Numan Gary Anthony James Webb (born 8 March 1958), known professionally as Gary Numan, is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He entered the music industry as frontman of the New wave music, new wave band Tubeway Army. After releasing two st ...

. It was featured as the opening track on his 1980 second LP '' Telekon''. "This Wreckage" followed the singles "

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" and " I Die: You Die", which were only included on the cassette release of '' Telekon'' and on later reissues. Released in December 1980, "This Wreckage" reached No. 20 on the UK Singles Chart. Numan later admitted that, regardless of its merits as a song, it was a "bloody stupid single". The song was later described as "possibly the strangest Top 20 hit of all time", a fore-runner of "the slightly one-note anti-religious

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- industrial music" Numan would favour later in his career.

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