Depeche Mode

Released: October 5, 1981

Songwriter: Vince Clarke

Producer: Depeche Mode Daniel Miller

[Verse 1]
Sometimes watch you walk the street at midnight
Sometimes I can feel you in the air
Looking good, knew you would
All the time I understood

[Chorus]
Hey, you're such a pretty boy
Hey, you're such a pretty boy
Hey, you're such a pretty boy
You're so pretty

[Verse 2]
Everybody seems to look your way now
(Everybody seems to look your way)
Everybody wants to know your name
(Hey, hey, what's your name?)
Feeling right, just tonight
Hear them say you're out of sight

[Chorus]
Hey, you're such a pretty boy
Hey, you're such a pretty boy
Hey, you're such a pretty boy
You're so pretty

[Interlude]

[Chorus]
Hey, you're such a pretty boy
Hey, you're such a pretty boy
Hey, you're such a pretty boy
You're so pretty

[Verse 3]
All the boys, we got to get together
All the boys together we can stand
We can go, never know
All the things we need to show

[Chorus]
Hey, you're such a pretty boy
Hey, you're such a pretty boy
Hey, you're such a pretty boy
You're so pretty

[Chorus]
Hey, you’re such a pretty boy
(You’re so pretty)
Hey, you’re such a pretty boy
(You’re so pretty)
Hey, you’re such a pretty boy
You’re so pretty
(P-R-E double-T -Y)

[Chorus]
Hey, you're such a pretty boy
Hey, you're such a pretty boy
Hey, you're such a pretty boy
You're so pretty

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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