How does any band remain at the cutting edge for over three decades? Depeche Mode have spent their long and unique career exploring new realms of postpunk, electronic textures and futuristic industrial sounds, with one of the all-time charismatic frontmen in Dave Gahan and a songwriting legend in Martin Gore. Depeche Mode built a diehard cult – and helped invent the goth subculture. More at rockhall.com...
Depeche Mode: a Biography by
Revised, expanded, and updated, the tale of an enigmatic band, from humble beginnings through the destructive highs and magnificent lows to worldwide adulation as the masters of electric pop.
Stripped: Depeche Mode by
An updated edition of the biography about Depeche Mode, four Essex lads who became award-winning stadium superstars and champions of synth pop/rock.
Just Can't Get Enough: the Making of Depeche Mode by
"Nobody who saw Depeche Mode in 1980 could have predicted that those four fresh-faced, synth-pop innocents would transform themselves into stadium-filling rock gods within a few years. Yet Depeche Mode went on to become one of the Top 10 best-selling British acts of all-time, ranked alongside such exalted company as the Beatles, the Stones, Led Zeppelin and David Bowie. And, after three decades together, the group continues to thrive, both critically and commercially. In Just Can't Get Enough , author Simon Spence charts that transformation, from a tiny nightclub residency in their native Essex to facing tens of thousands in huge stadiums in Europe and America by the mid-80s; a musical journey that took them from early 'ultra-pop' hit singles to the stark Black Celebration album. Hailing from Basildon, an experimental post-war New Town, the all-electronic Depeche Mode were, in the words of singer Dave Gahan, a new sort of band from a new sort of town. And Basildon itself, Spence argues, defined them - its brutal Modernist architecture imposed on a rural landscape dotted with primitive shacks a mirror for the angular sound and dark loneliness of the band's music. Part musical odyssey, part cultural history, Spence draws on dozens of first hand interviews to give us an inside view of one of the most unlikely stories in pop and rock."--Publisher's description.
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Live in Berlin by
Recorded live November O2 World Forum Berlin, Germany 2013. 2 videodiscs (255 min.); 3 audio discs; 1 booklet
Touring the Angel: Live in Milan by
A pain that I'm used to -- John the revelator -- A question of time -- Policy of truth -- Precious -- Walking in my shoes -- Suffer well -- Macro -- Home-- I want it all -- The sinner in me -- Behind the wheel -- World in my eyes -- Personal Jesus -- Enjoy the silence -- Shake the disease -- Just can't get enough -- Everything counts -- Never let me down again -- Goodnight lovers. Recorded live at the Fila Forum, Milan, Italy, February 18 and 19, 2006.
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