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“A Question Of Time” video: behind the scenes // part 2 “Depeche Mode: 1985-86 (The songs aren’t good enough, there aren’t any singles and it’ll never get played on the radio)”

Studio & tour archive filmed by Alan Wilder

DAVE GAHAN // Depeche Mode - Halo

"the marriage that survived" (с) Dave Gahan

HAPPY28…!

“Dead Man Talking” from NME, January 18, 1997

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From MOJO, May 2013

Depeche Mode Mojo Magazine

April 2023

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Favourite Depeche Mode Videos - Barrel of a Gun - 9/∞

‘Songs of Faith and Devotion’ reached number 1 in several countries, and became the first #DepecheMode album to top the charts in both the UK and the US. 

To support the album, Depeche Mode embarked on the 14 month long Devotional Tour (DVD filmed by Anton Corbijn), the largest tour the band had ever undertaken to that date.

Recording the album and the subsequent tour exacerbated growing tensions and difficulties within the band, prompting Alan Wilder (Recoil) to quit, making this album the final with him as a band member. The ordeal had exhausted their creative output following the enormous success they had enjoyed with Violator, leading to rumours and media speculation that the band would split. Depeche Mode subsequently recovered from the experience, and released Ultra in 1997.Dave Gahan downplayed his role on the album, stating the only thing he felt he contributed was what he considers his greatest vocal performance for Condemnation. Conversely, Wilder praised his role, stating that on previous releases, Gahan’s studio contributions is often only vocal performance and thus did not get in the way much and that he often offered a lot of positive encouragement despite his addiction, and that it was Wilder’s creative differences with Gore was the source of the real tension in the band.Flood (Mixing|Production) recalls Wilder and Gore having a very heated argument over the mix to Judas, and that there were constant disagreements throughout the recording process between the members of the band and Flood himself. Despite the feeling the band were realising one of their greatest works, Flood commented that the “little things” of the recording process never ran smoothly, leading to constant, largely non-constructive, arguing. Conditions improved between the band when the recording sessions moved to Hamburg largely in part as it was a return to normal studio routine, as opposed to living together. Martin Gore later commented: “I don’t think anyone was ever the same after that Devotional Tour”, highlighting the tense nature of the tour, and Q magazine would later refer to the Devotional Tour as “the most debauched rock tour ever”..Alan Wilder, who announced his departure from the band on his 36th birthday in 1995, highlighting a highly uneven workload distribution, lack of acknowledgement from his bandmates, creative differences within the band and overall lack of cohesion. Wilder’s departure and the internal strife within the band, specifically Gahan’s growing heroin addiction led many to speculate that the band was finished.

Chart Peakings; #1 in the UK, US, Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany & Italy

Release Single ‘Barrel Of A Gun’ 3|2|1997 #depechemode

The song was the 1st single from the album ‘Ultra’ and came after some difficult times for the band and its members. Musician Alan Wilder  [Recoil] left the band in 1995, lead singer Dave Gahan nearly died of drugs addiction. Martin Gore had a string of seizures as well as battling alcoholism. Andy Fletcher was suffering from depression. In mid-1996, Gore tried to get Gahan and Fletcher interested in recording new Depeche Mode material by writing a few songs and seeing if anybody was interested in continuing after that. The band came back together, except now as a trio for the 1st time since 1982’s A Broken Frame. The music video for “Barrel of a Gun” is directed by Anton Corbijn. It features Gahan with long hair singing with his eyes closed, with eyeballs drawn on his eyelids to make it seem like they are open. The video was shot in Morocco.

#1 Spain & Sweden [Gold retrieved]

#3 Finland & Germany

#4 UK & Italy

dave gahan in the mv for barrel of a gun, 1997

“No, you can tell, you see, because it’s his eyebrows. When he’s really excited his left eyebrow goes like this (tweaks his left eyebrow). Have you noticed that? And when he’s depressed his right one goes like that (tweaks his right eyebrow) ha ha!”

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Dave Gahan about Alan Wilder

Smash Hits, 6th-19th May 1987

(via dpechemode)

Yeah, I know what he means. I can see it :D

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more new scans with higher definition than my own eyes

your own personal jesus.

Photos by Dave Gahan Bong Magazine Source: dmtvarchives.com