Biographic - Sunday March 19, 2017 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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Depeche Mode Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Andy Fletcher, and Vince Clarke formed Depeche Mode in 1980. The group's name taken from a French fashion magazine. Within a year, the single "Just Can't Get Enough" gave the band a top-10 British hit. Reluctant to tour, Clarke quit the group soon after, going on to form Yaz with singer Alison Moyet and years later teaming up with Andy Bell in Erasure. Clarke's place in Depeche Mode was taken by synthesizer player Alan Wilder. The "Music For The Masses" world tour ended with a sold-out show at the rose bowl in Pasadena, California. A 1990 in-store signing at a Los Angeles record store attracted 17,000 fans. In 1993, the album "Songs Of Faith and Devotion" debuted at No. 1 on both sides of the Atlantic- but success was beginning to take a heavy toll... Andy Fletcher dropped out of the second leg of a 1994 world tour and the following year Alan Wilder quit the band. Things took a dramatic turn for the worse when Gahan's battle with his personal demons was played out in the republic eye. To the relief of anxious fans worldwide, he emerged from rehab in 1997 with his life back on course. Following Dave's 2003 solo album "Paper Monsters" Depeche Mode released its 11th studio album "Playing The Angel" in late 2005. The album was a critical and commercial success- as were 2009's "Sounds Of The Universe" and 2013's "Delta Machine" this week saw the release of the band's 13th studio album, "Spirit." To date, Depeche Mode has sold more than 100 million records worldwide!

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