Depeche Mode – Never Let Me Down Again
Depeche Mode’s 1987 Never Let Me Down Again, second single from Music for the Masses, paired a driving synth line with Gahan on Gore’s escape lyric.
Depeche Mode – Between machine and confession
Depeche Mode, from Basildon's early synthpop to Violator and arena decades: Clarke's exit, Gore's songs, Gahan's voice, Wilder's craft, and a catalog still touring in black.
Depeche Mode – Enjoy the Silence
Depeche Mode’s Enjoy the Silence (Violator, 1990): Wilder’s disco push, Gore lyric, Gahan cool, guitar intro.
Rose Bowl 1988 – Depeche Mode
On 18 June 1988 Depeche Mode closed the Music for the Masses tour in front of 60,453 people at the Rose Bowl, and the crowd waved their arms through Never Let Me Down Again.
Yamaha DX7 – FM digital synthesizer, 1983
Yamaha launched the DX7 in 1983 as an affordable digital synthesizer based on frequency-modulation (FM) synthesis researched at Stanford University (John Chowning) and engineered for mass production in Japan. It offered 16-voice polyphony, a five-octave keyboard and MIDI, which helped it sit in expanding digital
Depeche Mode – Stripped
Depeche Mode’s Stripped (Black Celebration, 1986): first single, Miller/Jones, Westside/Hansa.
Depeche Mode – Master and Servant
A whip crack comes first, then the sequenced line finds its pace. Dave Gahan sings about domination as if it were a factory shift, while Martin Gore's lyric folds bedroom game into office hierarchy. Master and Servant.
What if Depeche Mode had broken up after Violator?
Depeche Mode stops after the World Violation tour, leaving Violator as the last album and four separate careers.