Four People Is The Right Number For A Pop Group. Five Looks Wrong And Three Is Plain Stupid ...
[No. 1, 22nd February 1986. Words: Max Bell. Pictures: John Stoddart.]
Depeche Mode explain themselves
For Depeche Mode Berlin has become a second home. It’s a city which suits their...
DEPECHE MODE ‘The Singles 81-85’ (Mute MUTEL1)
[Record Mirror, 19th October 1985, Words: Lesley O'Toole.]
‘Dreaming Of Me’. Dreaming of those halcyon (?) days of New Romanticism, when the Deps were pretty darned hip and Martin Gore looked vaguely masculine.
‘New Life’. The new life...
Fake The Disease
Will Depeche Mode – chart-thrashing chaps though they are – ever find the energy to progress into a more adventurous avenue? This is Danny Kelly’s gripe, which he puts first to that nice young man in the leather skirt, then to the rest of the group. Photography (12” mix) by...
What We Did On Our Holidays
[Smash Hits, 5th June 1985. Words: Maureen Rice. Pictures: Depeche Mode.]
It’s that time of year again. The time when the sun shines, birds sing in the treetops, flowers wave gently in the breeze and we get our annual works-outing-to-Blackpool snaps out of the...
The Last Of The Futurists
[Record Mirror, 25th May 1985. Words: Betty Page. Pictures: Ian Hooton.]
There are fifteen thousand futurists in Orange County, California. Not many people know that, but Depeche Mode discovered them single-handed. Yeah, you remember futurists, running concurrent...
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