The album was not released in the United States until 1999 when it was issued in a digitally remastered form with five bonus tracks by Cleopatra Records.

27, and the original version of "New Thing from London Town" was released as a Sharpe & Numan single in October and reached No.

[3] The next single "I Still Remember", was a remake of a song from Numan's previous studio album The Fury (1985).

[5] For the visual look of Strange Charm, Numan abandoned the white suit-clad persona of The Fury and instead dyed his hair blond (again) and wore a Blade Runner-esque long leather jacket and sunglasses.

Strange Charm is the third of five Numan studio albums to feature saxophonist Dick Morrissey, who performed on the Blade Runner (1982) film score.

Vocal samples from the film can also be heard on Numan's studio albums The Fury (1985) and Outland (1991).

A live album, Ghost, was culled from the final two shows of the tour (25–26 September 1987) and released in March 1988.

The original cassette release featured "Time to Die" as an extra track at the end of side one.

In the same year it was also released in the US by Cleopatra Records, who dropped two of the instrumental bonus tracks of the UK reissue in favour of the extended mixes of "New Thing from London Town" and "I Can't Stop".