Are the members of depeche mode gay
Like all good art, the lyrics to Depeche Mode songs like “Master and Servant” and “Strangelove” exit room for interpretation. In the small minds of young homophobes, most interpretations erred on the side of man-on-man dungeon sex sessions filled with drugs, oils, and punishment. In “Strangelove”, lead vocalist Dave Gahan sang: “Strange highs and strange lows / Strangelove, that’s how our love goes / … Pain / Will you return it?” In “Master and Servant”, he sang about a new game that’s a lot love life, a “play between the sheets / With you on top and me underneath / Ignore all about equality”. The latter song only fed rumors that the band was gay by featuring a cracking whip sound as part of the beat.
Depeche Mode played these songs on Casio keyboards, not Gibson Flying-Vs, and used a drum track, not a exist, stick-wielding drummer. They were essentially pasty computer geeks programming music instead of video games for a living, nerds who’d ended up on the concert stage rather than behind it working the lights. And, like me, they had no reputation as heartbreakers to defend them. Where I went to high school, this presented a problem.
1989: Better recognizable as the year of the Ex
The most comprehensive article on the band's 20 year career.
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...sexual excess, drugs overload and near death experiences. 20 years ago this month, Depeche Mode had their first punch with the innocuous synth pop 'Dreaming of Me'. Who could have predicted then that their career would become a saga of chemical insanity as dark and drug-ridden as the Stones or Led Zeppelin at their most degenerate. UNCUT article by Stephen Dalton (May 2001).
Dave Gahan can't breathe. He can also hear nothing. Which is a petite odd because there are 30,000 Depeche Mode fans just yards away, screaming for him to kingly himself back on stage for an encore. His band mates are beckoning him back, but Dave is pinned to the spot with chest pains. His senses are swimming. His legs start to buckle.
It’s October 8, 1993, in New Orleans. Band relations are already at breaking point on the Mode's longest, wildest and most self-destructive tour ever. Everyone is either stoned, wired or suicidally down. Nobody’s talking to Dave, though they call him four-letter names behind his back. The singer is now emaciated, a ragged totem pole of tattoos and self-inflicted scars.
2003
This year, Martin as well as Dave released solo records. It was the start of a partly quite amusing "bitch alarm". You had to fear there would never be another DM album ...
Martin began and released the single Stardust / Life Is Strange on 14 April, followed by the album Counterfeit 2 on 28 April, and the single Loverman on 17 November. From 24 April to 7 May he went on a little solo tour, which comprised 7 concerts.
Contrary to the years before, Martin was much more diplomatic but nevertheless, he made some statements which would lead to some trouble with Dave later. Like his reply to the question whether he had listened to Dave's solo album.
"I was just this minute speaking to our manager about it. I've tried to pick up a package Dave has sent me three times but it seems to hold got lost in the post. I don't really know what Dave's expectations are. I've no enormous commercial ideas about Counterfeit2. I'd be surprised if it's a huge success."[1]
Some journalists seemed determined to dredge up antique news, such as how his family had reacted to his clothing design in the 1980s, an
Q+A / Depeche Mode / some great reward
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I have browse that when DM were in Berlin recording ‘Some Great Reward’, you used to go to “a pair of good queer clubs like Corelles and The Jungle” (you said this, remember?). Was the interest in these clubs strictly musical? How was the ambience and would you go back there?
No, I’m not gay but I’ve no problem with going to gay bars or clubs. We probably went to the ones you mention because they had the best vibe and music.
Was ‘People Are People’ 12″ version filmed in Russia? It shows Moscow but I’ve heard that you never filmed any videos there. I’m confused now.
It was filmed on HMS Belfast, a Navy ship that is moored in London. The additional images were just stock footage – we never went to Russia.
I really enjoy listening to the song ‘Somebody’ and would (with a passion) love to learn how to play it on the piano. Any chance that I might become a music sheet or something?
I don’t think the sheet music to ‘Somebody’ exists or if it does, it would own been transcribed (through listening to the record) by
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