DEPECHE MODE: 42 years ago …

Exactly 42 years ago to the day – on September 27, 1983 – Depeche Mode released their album “A Broken Frame”. Did you already know these 10 facts?

– From the album onwards, Martin Gore took over the songwriting entirely.

– The recordings took place between December 1981 and July 1982. The producer was once again Daniel Miller.

– Despite a successful live collaboration with Alan Wilder, Depeche Mode decided to record the second album without him. Live, however, Alan was back on board.

– The songs “Leave in Silence” (232 times) and “See You” (212 times) have been experienced live the most so far.

– With only 34 plays to date, the least frequently played songs on the album are “Monument” and “Nothing to Fear”.

– But back to “A Broken Frame”: Martin used his warm voice in “Shouldn’t Have Done That”.

– Brian Griffin is responsible for the iconic album cover, having already designed the cover for “Speak & Spell”. Brian cited the works of the Russian painter Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1879-1935) as a source of inspiration alongside German Romanticism.

– The instrumental “Nothing to Fear” was given its title due to Martin’s fascination with obscure books and topics at the time. According to these sources, his date of birth is “Nothing to Fear”.

– In the middle of “Shouldn’t Have Done That”, an indeterminate whisper can be heard. If you play the record backwards, you hear Martin Gore telling a fairy tale about a big and small bird.

– The remastered version of “A Broken Frame”, which also includes a DVD, was released on 02.10.2006. It features the almost half-hour documentary “Depeche Mode: 1982 (The Beginning of Their So-Called Dark Phase)”.

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