Display as a link instead. Clear editor. Upload or insert images from URL. Which one of Depeche Mode is gay, Gertch? Reply to this topic Start new topic. Recommended Posts. Posted August 8, Is it a current member, or was he referring to Vince Clarke, do you think??
If they all just married supermodels like Duran did, there'd be none of this ambiguity! Link to post Share on other sites. He did a vanishing act fairly early actually. I've e-mailed him to quiz him but no reply as yet! Three of the four band members stood behind synthesizers for most of their concerts. Just stood there , barely swaying at the knees and hips.
Even I could see that. In Europe, the UK, and Australia, Depeche Mode had long enjoyed enormous popularity, reaching such pop idol status that they regularly appeared in German teen magazines.
While their album Music for the Masses started their rise to wider stateside acclaim, it was their album Violator that broke the American pop music market. They knew about the bootlegs and the concealed shirts. When they spent the night, they slept on the floor beneath my wall-paintings and posters. They were less inclined to judge a person on such shallow indicators as muscle size and musical tastes.
I rewarded their wisdom by never playing my music in their company. They reciprocated by using my fandom as ammunition for frequent comic assaults. Grief-exchange between friends is sport.
You dish it out; they dish it back; an evolutionary arms race of insults ensues, demanding increasingly more crafty responses and faster response times. Rich was skilled at turning the Star Wars Pit of Sarlac into sexual innuendo. Being on the swim team, though, he kept pretty quiet about Depeche Mode; having to wear a Speedo and shave his legs made him even more vulnerable to teasing than me. His was a smart strategy I employed all too keenly. Before Brophy, I attended a co-ed middle school, where I had high hopes for a certain girl: Tanya.
She and her small, tight-knit group of female friends were huge Depeche Mode fans; no surprise it was she who inadvertently introduced me to the band. While spinning the LP alone in my room, I discovered a partial explanation: the music was good. Better than good, it was addictive. The haunted melodies, inventive percussions, moody ambiance set by deep sonic layers — I wanted to soak forever in those sounds like amniotic fluid. They struck me drunk, a sensation as mysterious and domineering at age 13 as my crush on Tanya.
Instead of stripping each other of our Depeche Mode shirts underneath my postered walls, we graduated from middle school, having mostly talked about the band.
She never gave me her phone number. Why I bothered wearing Depeche Mode shirts only to hide them mystified me. Was it a taunt, a call for someone to see my shirt and call me a fag, so I could practice the art of verbal self-defense?
Real men take hits when life throws punches, but I was a baby, hiding. No, I was a flower, a stunted bud too young to even unfurl his little precious petals. Aah, a flower. Yet I never unveiled my love for Depeche Mode.
I just outgrew it. By the time sophomore year of high school started, I was burnt on synth. The same day they exchanged their wedding vows […].
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The band, which had been getting steady work at a couple of nearby pubs, eventually made a demo tape. Instead of mailing cassettes to the various labels, Clarke and Gahan delivered the original quarter-inch tape personally.
Have you got a pen? A few moments later, Gahan, orange juice in hand, is trying to pinpoint what it was that first made Depeche Mode attractive to the record companies. Suddenly, here was this pop band that was using the stuff — these young kids who had everybody dancing, instead of standing around in gray raincoats about to commit suicide. The band, which is signed to Sire Records in the U. Clarke claimed he was sick of touring. We were very successful. We were in every pop magazine.
We were on the TV shows. Everything was going right for Depeche Mode. Everybody wanted to know about Depeche Mode. I think Vince suddenly lost interest in it — and he started getting letters from fans asking what kind of socks he wore. M artin Gore is sitting beside the hotel pool, reading a biography of Hermann Hesse.
He is shirtless, wearing long, black shorts and white knee socks.
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