We all know that Zeke’s quests are puns on the names of (mainly) British pop/rock groups. Did you know that Marleybone also features some musical pop culture references?
Pop Culture References of Wizard101
Gary Anthony Webb – Gary Anthony James Webb
known professionally as Gary Numan
http://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Gary_Anthony_Webb#ixzz7XnzpoenO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Numan
https://youtu.be/Im3JzxlatUs
Gary Anthony Webb is the “Wand Shopkeeper” in Marleybone. He is located in Regent’s Square, inside Duke of Wefmaraner Wands shop, on the north side of Market Square.
Gary Anthony James Webb (born 8 March 1958), known professionally as Gary Numan, is an English musician. He entered the music industry as frontman of the new wave band Tubeway Army. After releasing two albums with the band, he released his debut solo album The Pleasure Principle in 1979, topping the UK Albums Chart. While his commercial popularity peaked in the late 1970s and early 1980s with hits including “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?” and “Cars” (both of which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, though Cars topped out at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and would be his only American hit). He has sold over 10 million records.
Heaton Park, Manchester, on July 23, 2011.
This is the forty-fifth article chronicling the #W101PopCulture references starting in Wizard City and the second Marleybone article. The current list of all the (known) Marleybone references are located here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages
Gary Anthony Webb image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
Gary Numan image was originally posted to Flickr, was uploaded to Commons using Flickr upload bot on 11 October 2013, 19:56 by Myxomatosis57. On that date, it was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the CC BY 2.0 license.
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