Depeche Mode Depeche Moody!/Discography part 2 (NME, 1993)

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Depeche Moody!/Discography part 2
[NME, 10th April 1993. Words: Uncredited. Pictures: Jill Furmanovsky, John Stoddart.]

A brief news article on the theft and bootlegging of a box of SOFAD CDs, and the second part of the discography begun the previous week.

Depeche Mode’s record company, Mute, and the police have launched an investigation into the mysterious appearance of their new album at a car boot sale in South Wales a fortnight before its official release.

A box containing 25 genuine copies of “Songs Of Faith And Devotion”, which has since gone to Number One in the UK, was spotted at a Cardiff car boot sale. It’s thought the CDs, which were on sale for only £3, may have been stolen from Cwmbran-based manufacturers Nimbus, who pressed the discs for Mute.

A Mute spokesperson played down the incident, saying it was not unusual for copies to turn up before official release dates, even in boxes of 25. He added: “The bloke was obviously a bit of an idiot because he was only selling them for three quid. We’ve got a pretty good idea where they came from, but investigations are still underway.”

A Nimbus spokesperson described the incident as “extremely regrettable”.

NB - If the pictures look familiar, they came respectively from a 1982 edition of Smash Hits and a 1990 edition of Rolling Stone.

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NB - The comment by David Quantick mentioned in the opening paragraph can be found in a review here.

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