
Dave Gahan's voice has always had a disembodied quality, as if it were delivering stern-disciplinarian instructions from an overhead speaker while a camera kept watch, making sure that they were followed. That firmness was one of Depeche Mode's anchors during the 1980s and early '90s, first as new-wave renegades and later as innovators of...
The band Depeche Mode has canceled additional concerts after announcing that its lead singer, Dave Gahan, below, had surgery to remove a malignant tumor from his bladder, Agence France-Presse reported. Earlier this month the group canceled a concert in Athens hours before showtime as Mr. Gahan was taken to a hospital. The singer was initially given...
When the singer David Gahan raised his arms to the sky during ''Personal Jesus,'' Depeche Mode's smash from 1989, it may have looked as if he was positing himself as a savior to his synth-pop flock. Of course, that song is actually a simple lament for the kind of everyday isolation that Depeche Mode has, over its 25-year career, magnified into...
Depeche Mode er en engelsk musikgruppe - især kendt for elektronisk musik. Stilen var i starten simpel elektropop, men har senere udviklet sig til et mere mørkt elektronisk univers, hvor også andre instrumenter end blot synthesizere og keyboards har fundet vej til musikken.
Navnet Depeche Mode stammer fra et fransk modeblad, der ikke eksisterer længere.
Depeche Mode blev dannet sidst i 1970'erne, og udgav deres første album Speak and Spell i 1981. Gruppen bestod da af Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Dave Gahan og Andy Fletcher. Deres store gennembrud kom med hitsinglen "Just Can't Get Enough". Vince Clarke (Yazoo, The Assembly, Erasure) forlod kort efter gruppen. Han blev siden erstattet af Alan Wilder i 1983. Alan Wilder forlod gruppen igen i 1995 ,da han ikke mente at hans indflydelse på gruppens musik,stod mål med hans indsats. Depeche Mode blev en af 1980'ernes største og mest indflydelsesrige grupper, og var inspirationskilde for mange. Blandt de mange som har været inspireret af bandet, indspillede en række af nyere danske band en hyldestplade til bandet kaldet DMDK; pladen udsendtes den 27. februar 2006 2 dage efter bandets optræden på dansk grund. Blandt bidragsyderne til albummet er Moi Caprice med Any Second Now, Tiger Baby med Strangelove, samt Sterling og Mikael Simpson, som har oversat sangene "New Life" og "It Doesn't Matter Two" til dansk. Fold ud