Q magazine calls Depeche Mode "the most popular electronic band the world has ever known" and included the band in the list of the "50 Bands That Changed the World!". Depeche Mode have to this day sold over 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the most commercially successful electronic bands and one of the world's best-selling music artists in the world. The release of Exciter confirmed Depeche Mode's willingness to remain together, the subsequent, and very successful, Exciter Tour being their first tour in support of an original album in eight years since the Devotional Tour, although the band had toured in 1998 to support The Singles 86–98 compilation album.ĭepeche Mode have had fifty songs in the UK Singles Chart and thirteen top 10 albums in the UK charts, two of which debuted at No. Now a trio once again, the band released Ultra in 1997, recorded at the height of Gahan's near-fatal drug abuse, Gore's alcoholism and seizures and Fletcher's depression. The subsequent album, Songs Of Faith And Devotion, and the supporting Devotional Tour exacerbated tensions within the band to the point where Alan Wilder quit in 1995, leading to intense media and fan speculation that the band would split. In the new decade, Depeche Mode released Violator, a mainstream success.
A highlight of this era was the band's concert at the Pasadena Rose Bowl, where they drew a crowd in excess of 60,000 people. The band's last albums of the 1980s, Black Celebration and Music for the Masses, established them as a dominant force on the mainstream electronic music scene. Gore took over lead songwriting duties and, later in 1982, Alan Wilder (keyboards, drums, occasional songwriter) officially joined the band to fill Clarke's spot, establishing a line up that would continue for the next thirteen years. Clarke left the band after the release of the album, leaving the band as a trio to record A Broken Frame, released the following year. Depeche Mode released their debut record in 1981, Speak & Spell, bringing the band onto the British new wave scene. Gore (keyboards, guitar, vocals, chief songwriter after 1981), Andy Fletcher (keyboards) and Vince Clarke (keyboards, chief songwriter from 1980 until 1981). Founding member Vince Clarke left after the release of the album they recorded A Broken Frame as a trio. Depeche Mode released their debut album, Speak & Spell, in 1981, bringing the band onto the British new wave scene. The group consists of a trio of Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan (lead vocals, occasional songwriter since 2005), Martin L. Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in Basildon in 1980. English electronic music band formed March 1980 in Basildon, Essex, and named after a popular French fashion magazine.
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