Why did ade orange leave Gary numans band?

Answer 1

Ade Orange became frustrated that Ade Fenton was asumming and taking full control within the Numan camp. Whereas, Ade Orange had played keyboards on several Numan albums, he was now told by Fenton, that he was pretty much surplus to requirements. This caused friction between Ade Orange and Gary Numan, who seemingly took sides with Fenton and a huge row errupted, which ended with Ade Orange leaving and Fenton replacing him - which is seemingly what Fenton had planned, on becomming involved with Numan! The song "The Fall" is rumoured to be about the falling out between Numan and Orange.