Depeche Mode

Released: October 5, 1981

Songwriter: Vince Clarke

Producer: Depeche Mode Daniel Miller

[Verse 1]
She remembered all the shadows and the doubts
The same film
Vivid pictures like a wall that’s standing empty
And the night so still
Such a small affair, a relapse, someone closing
Like the nightclub door
Here again and when you speak I watch you move away
And seem so sure

[Interlude]

[Verse 2]
She is hoping to forget
And the moment almost slips away
When the colours move apart
And I wonder if you want to stay
And I need to change you like the words I'm reading
Don't you understand?
This the warning and the message I remember
As you touch my hand

Depeche Mode are recognized as one of the most artistically influential bands of the late 20th century. Commercially, they have released 14 studio albums to date, and sold more than 100 million records. Their most recent album, Spirit, hit the streets in March 2017.

The band got their start in Basildon, Essex in 1980, and named themselves after a French fashion magazine. They rose to fame with hits that have become “Just Can’t Get Enough” (1981), “Everything Counts” (1983), and “People Are People” (1984), to name a few. One of their most famous concerts was at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in 1988.

Martin Gore has been the band’s primary songwriter since Vince Clarke left in the early 1980s (and went on to form Yazoo and Erasure). Alan Wilder replaced Clarke on keyboards in 1982, but left in 1995 (reinvesting his creative energy in his band, Recoil, which he had started in 1986). Since then, the band has comprised frontman Dave Gahan, multi-instrumentalist Martin Gore, and keyboardist Andy Fletcher—all of whom are original members.

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