David Gahan (Depeche Mode)
[Smash Hits, 22nd October 1986, Words: Uncredited. Picture: Uncredited.]
Name: David Gahan.
Born: May 9, 1962 in Chigwell, Essex.
Nickname at school: Gahany.
First record bought: It was either David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ (when it was re-released in 1972) or...
Depeche Mode, Wembley Stadium, London
[Smash Hits, 7th May 1986. Words: William Shaw. Pictures: Andy Catlin, d.i.d. Circle.]
Five years ago Depeche Mode were one of the worst live groups ever imagined. Sheepishly standing behind their synthesisers, they’d plink and plonk away while Dave Gahan...
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...
Strange But True
[Smash Hits, 22nd November - 5th December 1984. Words: Neil Tennant. Pictures: Eric Watson (cover) / Paul Rider.]
When Depeche Mode were in Berlin a few months ago, they got a bit drunk while doing an interview and let a photographer take some “very dodgy” photos. “We stripped...
Construction Time Again
[Smash Hits, 16th August 1984. Words: Tim de Lisle. Pictures: Mike Putland.]
CONSTRUCTION TIME AGAIN
If you wanted to give your grandmother a nice holiday, you wouldn’t send her to Berlin.
The West side is dirty, noisy, sleazy and overrun by teenagers – the...
Depeche Mode - Almost There
[Smash Hits, 3rd - 16th March 1983. Words Peter Martin. Pictures Mark Rusher.]
DEPECHE MODE - ALMOST THERE
“God! It’s like Iceland without the snow! Now I know how the Bunnymen must have felt.”
Frostbitten singer Dave Gahan is referring to the Arctic...
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