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According to Martin, the name came from Dave, who had been using a magazine of the same name in his work. He had previously been performing in French Look, as well, which seems to link well with the name the band settled on.

Martin spoke of how the band changed him, and how he went from saving up to write songs to doing something commercially viable.

It was like a Before and After advert. Before, I was quiet, introverted, conscientious. Afterwards, I realised I could do something other people might like. The first time the band played as Depeche Mode was at a school gig in May , at James Hornsby School in Basildon, where a plaque commemorating the gig still remains. But the October 8, incident in New Orleans was easily the worst of all.

According to Uncut, Gahan suffered a drug-related heart attack on stage. While he was carried out on a stretcher, the rest of the band broke into the song "Death's Door. That Depeche Mode tour mercifully concluded with a show on July 8, in Indianapolis.

At the end of the concert, Gahan leapt into the crowd Security guards dragged him out, and he was taken to a hospital and shortly thereafter released. A few days later, after another medical consultation, Gahan learned that he'd cracked two ribs and suffered some internal hemorrhaging. Depeche Mode's seemingly endless touring in and took its toll on Dave Gahan, but it also proved difficult and medically upsetting to bandmate Martin Gore.

According to Alan Cross' Depeche Mode: The Secret History , the band's main songwriter had suffered from panic attacks before, but they increased with alarming frequency while on the road. And then, during a business meeting in Los Angeles, he suffered a grand mal seizure.

Gore was immediately hospitalized , and doctors attributed the event to his body and brain reacting against years of stress, drugs, and mass consumption of alcohol. Gore long struggled with a dependency on alcohol. I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking," he told The Guardian. He says he got away with it for years because "it's encouraged for rock stars to be out of control. While he never missed a show due to his addiction, he kept drinking even after the alcohol-related seizure and ramped up his consumption while recording the album Playing the Angel while also going through a divorce.

Gahan recalls Gore showing up for recording sessions "a little drunk," but after the album was completed, Gore sought treatment. In the early s, Dave Gahan split up with his wife and married concert promoter Theresa Conway. According to The Independent , she was a heroin user, and before long, Gahan had taken up the drug, too. Two years after that, Gahan was living in a house in Southern California, split up from Conway and alone except for his drug-induced paranoid dark fantasies.

Soon the band drafted Dave Gahan to be the lead singer after hearing him sing "Heroes" by David Bowie. Gahan is credited with the name "Depeche Mode" after seeing the phrase as a title of a French fashion magazine, which later considered taking them to court, but thought it would be good publicity for the magazine to let the band have the name. Clarke left Depeche Mode in late , shortly after the release of their debut album Speak and Spell. Clarke wrote most of the album, with Gore contributing two tracks, "Tora!

Gore sings lead vocals on several of the band's songs, notably ballads, his tenor voice providing a contrast to Gahan's dramatic baritone. When Clarke announced his departure from Depeche Mode in , citing the pressures of fame and creative differences, Gore took over songwriting. Gore had been writing material since the age of Gore's writing became gradually darker and more political on subsequent Depeche Mode albums.

The first time guitar was used as the main instrument was on "Personal Jesus", although he used small guitar parts on previous songs, such as "Behind the Wheel" and "Love, in Itself". Gore's guitar playing developed even more on Songs of Faith and Devotion.

Gore remains the main songwriter for Depeche Mode. Gore lives in Santa Barbara, California. He started dating lingerie designer and model Suzanne Boisvert after meeting in Paris in They married in August Gore and Boisvert divorced in Gore married Kerrilee Kaski in June In October Kerrilee Gore updated her Facebook profile photo showing her to be pregnant. On 19 February , Kerrilee gave birth to a baby girl named Johnnie Lee, his fourth child. Gore became a vegetarian for health and moral reasons in Former Depeche Mode colleague Vince Clarke collaborated with Gore for the first time since as techno duo VCMG on an instrumental minimalist electronic dance album called Ssss, released on 12 March The first EP entitled Spock was first released worldwide exclusively on Beatport on 30 November Their third EP Aftermaths was released on 20 August In late February , several teaser images were displayed on Martin Gore's official Facebook page, citing a hashtag "MGxMG" which was later revealed to be a promotional tool for his new solo studio album, titled MG named after his previous collaborative album, VCMG, with Vince Clarke from In a news post on his official website and various social media on 2 March, this confirmation of his new studio album announced its release would be on 27 or 28 April and previewed a track, Europa Hymn, from the new album.

Gore collaborated on the band Onetwo's track "Cloud Nine" by playing the guitar and as songwriter of the song, which can be found on their album called Instead. Gore also played synthesiser on the track. Gore Remix. In the late s, Fletcher and schoolmate Vince Clarke formed the short-lived band No Romance in China, in which Fletcher played bass guitar. With Clarke, the trio, now all on synthesizer, formed another group called Composition of Sound. Clarke served as chief songwriter and also provided lead vocals until singer Dave Gahan was recruited into the band later that year, after which they adopted the name Depeche Mode at Gahan's suggestion.

Clarke left the group in late , shortly after the release of their debut album Speak and Spell. Their follow-up, A Broken Frame, was recorded as a trio, with Gore taking over primary songwriting duties.

Musician and producer Alan Wilder joined the band in late and the group continued as a quartet until Wilder's departure in Since then, the core trio of Gahan, Gore and Fletcher have remained active, most recently with the announcement of their upcoming album Spirit and ensuing world tour. Fletcher's role within Depeche Mode has often been a topic of speculation. In early incarnations of the band, he played electric and later synth bass. As the band evolved after Vince Clarke's departure in , Fletcher's role changed as each of the band members took to the areas that suited them and benefitted the band collectively.

In a key scene in D. Pennebaker's documentary film about the band, Fletcher clarifies these roles: "Martin's the songwriter, Alan's the good musician, Dave's the vocalist, and I bum around. Fletcher, however, always has and continues to play a critical role within the band. With the band having not always employed a full-time manager, Fletcher has handled many of the band's business, legal, and other non-musical interests over the years.

In the EPK for Songs of Faith and Devotion, he discussed being genuinely interested in many of the business aspects of the music industry that other performing musicians shy away from, and as such, he took over a lot of the business management aspects of the band.

In recent years, this has included acting as the band's "spokesperson", with Fletcher often being the one to announce Depeche Mode news such as record album and tour details. He is also said to be the member who is "the tiebreaker" and the one that "brings the band together".

According to interviews, Fletcher built the compromise between Gahan and Gore that settled their serious dispute following 's Exciter album and tour over future songwriting duties within Depeche Mode. In the studio and during live shows, Fletcher does contribute a variety of supporting synthesizer parts, including bass parts, pads, strings and drone sounds, and various samples. However, he is notably the only member of Depeche Mode who does not sing. Although he can be seen singing in videos of Depeche's past live performances, usually Fletcher's vocals were either mixed very low or heard only through his own stage monitors.

On studio recordings, however, Fletcher's supporting vocals can be heard in some form or another on the majority of all Depeche Mode albums released since According to anecdotes from various members of Depeche Mode later quoted in a band biography , an Andy Fletcher "solo album" entitled Toast Hawaii named after Fletcher's favourite dish in Hansa Studio's cafeteria was recorded in Berlin during the Some Great Reward sessions in According to these anecdotes, all the songs on the "album" are cover songs on which Fletcher sings lead vocals.

The story then goes that Gore and Wilder presented the album to Mute Records' Daniel Miller and pleaded for him to release it. In reality, this "solo album" is almost certainly an in-joke, although it is not entirely unlikely that during studio "downtime" from serious work, a diversion could have been making humorous recordings.

Currently, when he is on hiatus from Depeche Mode, Fletcher plays occasional festivals and club gigs in Europe, Asia, South America and "places where Depeche Mode haven't visited or been able to visit" and is known to include various exclusive Depeche remixes in his sets. A notable DJ set of Fletcher's from in Warsaw has been widely bootlegged. In late , Fletcher embarked on a small tour of European clubs.

Fletcher is the eldest of four siblings born to Joy and the late John Fletcher. The family moved to Basildon from Nottingham when Fletcher was two years old. He was active in the local Boys' Brigade from an early age, primarily to play football. It was in this Christian youth organisation that he met future Depeche Mode member Vince Clarke, and the two have both recollected in interviews the local missionary work they attempted on behalf of the organisation to convert non-believers.

While Depeche Mode were touring with the band Blancmange in the early s, Fletcher was renowned for his skill at chess. Neil Arthur of Blancmange has mentioned in interviews "never winning a game of chess with Andy Fletcher!

John's Wood, London. Fletcher made a series of bad investments in the mids that led to a number of financial settlements involving Lloyd's of London and Daniel Miller. Since his departure from the band, the musical project called Recoil became his primary musical enterprise, which initially started as a side project to Depeche Mode in Wilder has also provided production and remixing services to the bands Nitzer Ebb and Curve.

He is a classically trained musician and renowned contemporary music producer. Alan Charles Wilder was born into a middle class family and was raised in Acton, west London. He began piano at the age of eight, through the encouragement of his parents. Later on, he learned the flute at St Clement Danes Grammar school and became a leading musician in his school bands. Following the departure of Vince Clarke, Depeche Mode placed an advertisement in the music magazine Melody Maker: "Keyboard player needed for established band — no timewasters.

He joined Depeche Mode in January , initially as a tour keyboardist, and soon thereafter as a full member of the recording band. However, Wilder's more notable contributions to Depeche Mode were as a musician, arranger, and producer. In addition to playing synthesizer throughout his time with Depeche Mode, Wilder also played piano on the band's signature ballad "Somebody," and oboe on the band's hit anthem, "Everything Counts.

For the recording of the album Songs of Faith and Devotion and its corresponding Devotional Tour Wilder also played live drums.

For "Enjoy the Silence" from the album Violator, Wilder is credited with taking Martin Gore's melancholy ballad-esque demo and re-envisioning the song as a percolating, melodic dance track.

The resulting single went on to become one of the most commercially successful songs in Depeche Mode's history. On 26 June , Wilder announced his departure from Depeche Mode:. My decision to leave the group was not an easy one particularly as our last few albums were an indication of the full potential that Depeche Mode was realizing. Since joining in , I have continually striven to give total energy, enthusiasm and commitment to the furthering of the group's success and in spite of a consistent imbalance in the distribution of the workload, willingly offered this.

Unfortunately, within the group, this level of input never received the respect and acknowledgement that it warrants. Whilst I believe that the calibre of our musical output has improved, the quality of our association has deteriorated to the point where I no longer feel that the end justifies the means. I have no wish to cast aspersions on any individual; suffice to say that relations have become seriously strained, increasingly frustrating and, ultimately, in certain situations, intolerable.

Given these circumstances, I have no option but to leave the group. It seems preferable therefore, to leave on a relative high, and as I still retain a great enthusiasm and passion for music, I am excited by the prospect of pursuing new projects.

The remaining band members have my support and best wishes for anything they may pursue in the future, be it collectively or individually. Wilder respectfully declined. According to Wilder himself, the possibility was offered on behalf of The Cure by Daryl Bamonte tour manager for both Depeche Mode and The Cure, and brother of The Cure member Perry Bamonte , and he declined as joining another band was the last thing on his mind.

During the encore, Wilder accompanied Martin Gore on piano for "Somebody". Recoil began in as a two-track experimental EP. Wilder described the project at the time as "an antidote to Depeche Mode; a way to alleviate the frustrations of always working within a pop format".

Almost immediately, Wilder found himself back in the studio to record what would become the most successful Depeche Mode album to date, Violator. It wasn't until the band finally allowed themselves an extended break after the World Violation Tour that Alan could return to Recoil—not, however, before agreeing to produce Ebbhead, another album for label-mates Nitzer Ebb.

It was during this time that he cemented a working relationship with lead singer Douglas McCarthy who would return the favour by singing on Recoil's next album, Bloodline.

For the Bloodline LP, released in , Wilder recruited guest vocalists for the first time, with further contributions from Toni Halliday and Moby. Depeche Mode embarked on their most adventurous tour to date, enduring a grueling fifteen months on the road. Although the group had reached the pinnacle of success, aspects of the lifestyle had taken their toll on everyone and things eventually came to a head.

In June , having spent fourteen years as an integral part of one of the most popular and influential bands the UK has ever produced, Alan Wilder made the decision to leave Depeche Mode.

Free from his group commitments, Wilder could now focus solely on Recoil. In September , he began work in his own studio, The Thin Line, gradually piecing together what would become Recoil's next album Unsound Methods. Following a five-year break from recording, Alan Wilder returned in with Recoil's fifth studio album, entitled SubHuman.

It signified the first time Recoil had ever taken to the road. Wilder gathered together filmmakers from as far as Russia, via the Czech Republic and Hungary, all the way to Argentina for this purpose, working very fast, and in the modern way, by creating a central server where everybody could upload their work for others to see, react to and feedback on.

Wilder resides near Horsham, West Sussex, England. He also has one other child named Clara Lake from a present relationship with Britt Rinde Hval, a Norwegian journalist. Wilder appeared on all of Depeche Mode's releases from "Get the Balance Right" 31 January up to "In Your Room" 10 January , later taking part in reissues and compilations containing material from his time in the band.

Alan organized with Omega an auction selling a lot of DM collectable items on 3 September in Manchester. PK, a longtime Recoil collaborator is one of its members along with Olivia Louvel. He also became executive music producer for the album. Clarke has been the main composer and musician of the band Erasure since , and was previously the main songwriter of several groups, including Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and The Assembly.

He initially studied the violin and then the piano, but he was inspired to make electronic music upon hearing Wirral synth band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark OMD. Clarke provided vocals until singer Dave Gahan joined the band, which was renamed Depeche Mode. At that time, he adopted the stage-name Vince Clarke, by which he is currently known. The band initially adopted a slick synthesized electropop sound, which produced the album Speak and Spell and the Clarke-penned singles "Dreaming of Me", "New Life", and "Just Can't Get Enough" in Clarke left Depeche Mode shortly thereafter.

There were many rumoured reasons pertaining to his departure. He commented on Depeche Mode's later material as being a little dark for his taste, but good nonetheless. Clarke also stated that he did not enjoy the public aspects of success, such as touring and interviews, and found himself frequently at odds with his bandmates, particularly on the tour bus.

He also stated: "I think everybody in the band, especially myself, imagined that the reason we were doing so well was because of themselves We were pretty young and very lucky, and things had happened very quickly for us, and I don't think we were really mature to handle the situation. Clarke then teamed up with singer Alison Moyet at the time known by the nickname of Alf to form the popular synthpop band Yazoo known as Yaz in the U. Yazoo disbanded in , and Moyet went on to have a successful solo career.

Yazoo reformed in for a series of live dates to celebrate 25 years since the duo's split. In , Clarke teamed up with Eric Radcliffe, and it was their idea to collaborate as one-off associations with different artists on each new single, under the name The Assembly; notably with singer Feargal Sharkey they scored the Top 5 hit "Never Never".

Meanwhile, he founded the label Reset Records with Eric Radcliffe. They also produced an album, which was shelved but was released much later in under the name The Peter Pan Effect.

However, the project never took off, and Clarke moved on to other projects. In early , Clarke put an ad in Melody Maker for a singer, and one applicant was Andy Bell, who was a fan of his earlier projects.

The band has released 16 albums to date and has enjoyed a long string of hit singles spanning their three decades together, most recently topped-off by the top five hit "Breathe" taken from their Nightbird album. In , Erasure produced a country-western style acoustic album consisting of mostly non-single cuts from their previous albums. This album, Union Street was preceded by the single "Boy" originally included on their Cowboy album.

On 26 January , in a video message on the official Erasure website, the band announced the release of their sixteenth thirteenth studio album, entitled Light at the End of the World. The second single, "Sunday Girl" was subsequently released. The album was produced by Gareth Jones and was a more "dance oriented" effort than some of their more recent work with Clarke making reference to the new material sounding potentially a bit more like Andy Bell's solo effort Electric Blue.

Erasure went on to tour with Cyndi Lauper, Deborah Harry, Margaret Cho, and other artists, for the True Colors Tour of the United States, a tour which benefited gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender freedoms and rights.

The EP contains nine tracks, one of them the winner of an online fan remix contest, for the track "When a Lover Leaves You", from the Light at the End of the World album. The Erasure album, Tomorrow's World, was released on 3 October , featuring production by Frankmusik.

The album was done in two locations, Vince in his Cabin Studio in Maine composing the music and vocal arrangement, and production done by Andy in Los Angeles. A very limited edition of Tomorrow's World box sets were issued through the EIS and gathered a bunch of remixes, demos, and videos of this project.

A new collection of material was released on 22 September named The Violet Flame, featuring production by Richard X. The duo collaborated again in for the album Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle, which was created with "3D music technology" specifically designed for listening in headphones. The song was originally meant to be for Depeche Mode, but was never recorded by them.

Also in , Clarke founded Illustrious Co. This was a collaboration with Richard Butler. Clarke was an essential component of a project called Family Fantastic. They produced the album Nice!. In Family Fantastic released a second album, entitled Wonderful. On 21 May , Clarke was awarded by an "Outstanding Song Collection" prize, during the Ivor Novello Awards ceremony of the same day, in recognition of 30 years in the music industry.

Clarke collaborated with his former Depeche Mode colleague Martin Gore for the first time since as techno duo VCMG on an instrumental minimalist electronic dance album called Ssss, released on 12 March AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript.

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