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Life Before Depeche Mode

Born into a working class Christian family to Sylvia and Len, David Gahan was 6 months old when his father left the family. Sylvia and Len divorced 2 years later and his mother moved David and sister Sue (born 1960) to Basildon after Sylvia met and married her second husband Jack. The Gahan family continued to grow with the birth of two more brothers Peter (born 1966) and Phil (born 1968). David and Sue were raised under the impression that their mother's second husband (Jack Gahan; from whom Dave takes his second name, and after whom Dave's own son Jack is named) was in fact his real father. Legally and morally this was true, Jack had adopted both Sue and Dave and raised them as his own children. Tragedy struck in 1972 when Jack, the elder Gahan died when David was ten. Gahan recalls how he "came home one day and found this bloke [his biological father] at home". Of the incident, he has said: "I'll never forget that day. When I came home from school, there was this stranger in my mum's house. My Mother introduced him to me as my real dad. I remember I said, crying, that was impossible because my father was dead. How was I supposed to know who that man was? From that day on, Len often visited the house, until one year later he disappeared again. Forever this time. Since then he had no contact with us. By growing older, I thought about him more and more. The only thing my mother would say, was that he moved out to Jersey to open a hotel".[1]. "Mum had kept it back from me 'til there was a need to tell me about my birth father, it's a different generation and you can understand I guess she thought she was doing the right thing." For the record label, see Divorce Records. ...

Gahan compensated for the loss of his father by becoming something of a "real wide boy with a chip on my shoulder, a real yob". His crimes as a youth included stealing cars, vandalism, and spray-painting graffiti on walls. As a result he had visited juvenile court three times before he was 14. Yob may refer to: Yobbo (also Yob), slang term for an uncouth blue collar individual or thug Yob (band), a doom metal band from Eugene, Oregon Yob (song) a song by Australian band TISM Yob (artist) A Chicago based stencil artist YOB YOUNG OAKLEY BOYS RULE Category: ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Vandalism is the conspicuous defacement or destruction of a structure, a symbol or anything else that goes against the will of the owner/governing body. ... For other uses, see Graffiti (disambiguation). ... Juvenile courts or young offender courts are courts specifically created and given authority to try and pass judgments for crimes committed by persons who have not attained the age of majority. ...

Within six months of leaving Barstable School in July 1978, Gahan found and lost something in the order of twenty jobs, from selling soft drinks to working on a construction site. David also applied for a job as an apprentice fitter with North Thames Gas. He was told by his probation officer to be honest with the interviewer, and as a result, he admitted his criminal record but claimed he was a "reformed character". Of course, he did not get the job.

Eventually, he earned a place at Southend Art College, which he enjoyed immensely. After three years, he gained the British Display Society Award, which allowed him to get jobs doing displays in shop windows and shopping centres. Southend is the name of a number of locations: Southend-on-Sea is the name of a town in Essex, UK Southend, Kintyre is the name of a village in Kintyre, Scotland This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the... This article is about the philosophical concept of Art. ... College (Latin collegium) is a term most often used today to denote an educational institution. ...

Depeche Mode

Dave Gahan (far right) in 1981, as part of Depeche Mode's original lineup.

Circa 1980, Vince Clarke was, at one point, a member of two bands; French Look, with Robert Marlow, and Composition Of Sound with future Depeche Mode member Andy Fletcher. Martin Gore drifted between the two bands, until eventually both groups fell out (and French Look fell apart; consequently Martin later joined Composition Of Sound), as they both wanted Gore to be part of their band and -- in an attempt to please everyone -- he had been unwilling to choose one over the other. ImageMetadata File history File links DMin1981. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... Vince Clarke (born Vincent John Martin, South Woodford, London, England, July 3, 1960) is an English pop musician and songwriter, who has been involved with a number of successful pop groups, including Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly and Erasure. ... Robert Marlow is the the stage name of Robert Allen. ... Depeche Mode are an influential electronic band, who formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex, England. ... Captured image from Andy Fletcher: One Night in Warsaw. ... Martin Gore (born Martin Lee Gore, 23 July 1961, Basildon, Essex, England) is an English songwriter, lyricist, singer, guitarist and keyboardist. ...

Later that same year, at a jam session for local talent, Vince Clarke (Yazoo, Erasure) was impressed with Gahan's vocal rendition of David Bowie's "Heroes" and invited him to join his band, Composition of Sound. Gahan agreed, and shortly thereafter the band was renamed to Depeche Mode (a name suggested by Gahan after he had come across a fashion magazine by the name of Dépêche-mode) which has been translated to "Fast Fashion" many times. However, when taking into account the actual meaning and not the literal one, it translates to "Fashion Dispatch (Depêche = news dispatch)". The group released their debut record, Speak and Spell, in 1981 on Mute Records. Vince Clarke (born Vincent John Martin, South Woodford, London, England, July 3, 1960) is an English pop musician and songwriter, who has been involved with a number of successful pop groups, including Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly and Erasure. ... Yazoo (known as Yaz in the U.S.) was a short-lived but highly successful English synthpop duo from Basildon, Essex that had a number of top ten hits in the British charts in the early 1980s. ... This article is about the a musical group Erasure. ... David Bowie (IPA: []) (born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. ... Speak and Spell is Depeche Modes debut studio album. ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... Mute Records is a record label formed in 1978 by Daniel Miller primarily to release his own single, T.V.O.D./Warm Leatherette, under the moniker The Normal. ...

Since then, the band has continued to explore new musical directions, and their sound has evolved immensely since their inception. They have released eleven studio albums, four greatest hits compilations (The Singles 81>85, The Singles 86>98, Catching Up with Depeche Mode The Best Of, Volume 1), a remix album (Remixes 81 - 04) and are now considered elder statesmen of their craft, who inspired an electronic movement. The Singles 81>85 is a singles compilation album released October 15, 1985 by Depeche Mode. ... The correct title of this article is The Singles 86>98. ... Catching Up With Depeche Mode is a compilation released only in North America by British band Depeche Mode on November 11, 1985. ... The Best Of, Volume 1 is the fifth compilation album by British synthpop group Depeche Mode The album was released 13 November 2006 by Mute Records (see 2006 in British music). ... Remixes 81 - 04 was released on October 25, 2004 It is the first release by Depeche Mode since Daniel Millers independent label Mute Records was acquired by industry major EMI in 2002. ... For other uses, see Electronic music (disambiguation). ...

Solo

Dave's first solo album 'Paper Monsters'

In 2003 he released his first solo album, Paper Monsters (which he co-wrote with guitarist and friend Knox Chandler), followed by a world tour (including a performance at 2003's Glastonbury Festival), singing both his new solo tracks and Depeche Mode fan favourites. His touring band included Knox Chandler on guitar, Martyn LeNoble (Porno for Pyros, Jane's Addiction, The Cult) on bass, Vincent Jones (Sarah McLachlan) on keyboards, and Victor Indrizzo (Beck, Macy Gray) on drums. Image File history File links Paper_Monsters. ... Image File history File links Paper_Monsters. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Paper Monsters was the first solo album to be released by Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or Glasto, is the largest[1] greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Martyn LeNoble (nl:Martijn LeNoble) is a bassplayer and has played in Porno for Pyros, The Cult, Janes Addiction and others. ... Porno for Pyros was a US musical group and was Perry Farrells and Stephen Perkins next project after their former band Janes Addiction. ... Janes Addiction was an American rock band featuring Perry Farrell (vocalist), Dave Navarro (guitarist), Eric Avery (bassist), and Stephen Perkins (percussionist). ... The Cult is an English rock band. ... Vincent Jones is a Canadian musician. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970) is a Grammy Award-winning American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, known by his simple stage name of Beck. ... Macy Gray (born Natalie Renee McIntyre on September 6, 1967[1]) is an American Grammy Award winning R&B, soul, and neo soul singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress, famed for her raspy voice and a singing style heavily influenced by Billie Holiday and Betty Davis. ...

The album was a moderate success. The first single "Dirty Sticky Floors" became a Top 20 hit on the World Singles chart selling over 200,000 copies, as well as hitting the Top 20 in the UK. The album itself became a Top 10 hit on the European album chart and a Top 40 hit in the UK. This success was backed by a world tour and a live DVD titled Live Monsters which was released in 2004. A year later, he also appeared as model and spokesperson of the European mid-range fashion retailer J Lindeberg and its S/S 2006 menswear line. The ads featured both him and seemingly random quotes like "What would happen if we all told the truth", "You can tell he's lying because his lips are moving", etc. These ads appeared prominently in international fashion press. Dirty Sticky Floors is a song by Depeche Mode vocalist David Gahan and is the lead track on his 2003 debut album, Paper Monsters. ... Live Monsters is a Live DVD by singer David Gahan and is filmed in Paris during his world tour in support of Paper Monsters his first solo album. ...

In the past, Dave had expressed some resentment about never writing songs for Depeche Mode.^{[citation needed]} In 2004, he said that if he did not get to write half of the songs on the new Depeche Mode album, there would not be one.^{[citation needed]} Eventually there was a compromise, and Dave wrote three songs on 2005's Playing the Angel. The three songs, "Suffer Well" (nominated for a US Grammy award announced on Dec 7, 2006), "I Want It All" and "Nothing's Impossible" (the first later becoming a single), have had mixed opinions from fans. Others point that Depeche Mode songs usually don't have outside input in songwriting, but that the music on the three songs are collaboratively by Andrew Philpott and drummer Christian Eigner. The exact contribution of each writer (Gahan/Eigner/Philpott) is not known, but according to Dave in 2003, during the making of Paper Monsters, he worked on lyrics and basic melodies for some songs, with help from Knox Chandler to flesh them out. You can see a video of this at Dave's solo website, under the in-studio videos. It is viable to think he did this type of collaboration for Playing the Angel as well. It is agreed by all in the band, including Dave, that "Dave's songs" were thrown in the Depeche Mode blender during the making of Playing the Angel, and were no longer just Dave songs, but they became true Depeche Mode songs. Going from strength to strength' Depeche Mode have won the "Best Dance Artist Group" award at the 22nd Annual IDMA Awards in March 2007, sponsored by the Winter Music Conference. Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Playing the Angel is the eleventh full-length album by Depeche Mode and was released 17 October 2005. ... Suffer Well is the third single of the album Playing the Angel by Depeche Mode, and the forty-third DM single overall. ... Christian Eigner (born 1971 in Vienna, Austria) is a session musician, having worked on over 300 albums. ...

In 2007, Dave Gahan announced he was working on a new album via a video greeting for Depeche Mode's official website recorded at the 2007 MusiCares Charity event on May 11th. The album, titled Hourglass, will be accompanied working by Andrew Philpott and Christian Eigner and according to Dave, they will be producing it together.^[1][2] The material was recorded at Gahan's 11th Floor Studios in New York City, Gahan's hometown for 10 years now. The material will be mixed in July by Tony Hoffer, best known for his work with Beck, The Kooks and Air. According to Gahan, "Hourglass" will be more electronic-sounding than "Paper Monsters".^[3] Hourglass will be the second solo album released by David Gahan, of Depeche Mode fame. ...

In July 2007, Side-Line Magazine revealed that Gahan has been working with a new project called MIRROR, which is produced by Vincent Jones. Along with Jones, who played with Gahan's touring band and mixed the live DVD "Live Monsters", MIRROR features another Gahan collaborator, Knox Chandler (Siouxsie And The Banshees, Pyschedelic Furs), as well as piano by Bowie favorite Mike Garson, and a monologue by Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro. Gahan sings vocals on the track "Nostalgia".^[4] // Side-line Magazine was started in 1989 by two university students David Noiret and Seba Dolimont who noticed that there was a distinctive lack of media interest in the independent music scene, and especially a lack of coverage in the darkwave, dark electro, endzeit, gothic, gothic metal and electro industrial...

The first single to be pulled from Dave Gahan's forthcoming solo record "Hourglass" will be "Kingdom"^[5]. This single will come in the following versions: a download-Single, a CDsingle, a Maxi-CDsingle and 12" vinyl besides a 7" picture vinyl.^[6]. According to the second press release for the forthcoming "Hourglass" album, the release day for the single "Kingdom" will be 8th of October^[7] but a download will be available way before on August 27th so Side-Line Magazine informs. The magazine also reports that a first preview for the song has been leaked online^[8]. August 21st Second studio clip on Dave Gahan Dot Com has Kingdom playing through out the clip.

Discography

Studio albums:

• Paper Monsters (2003)
• Hourglass (2007)

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• Live Monsters (Live DVD)(2004)

Singles: Live Monsters is a Live DVD by singer David Gahan and is filmed in Paris during his world tour in support of Paper Monsters his first solo album. ...

• Dirty Sticky Floors (2003)
• I Need You (2003)
• Bottle Living / Hold On (2003)
• A Little Piece (Live at the Olympia, Paris, 2003) (2004)
• Kingdom (2007)

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References

External links

• The Official Paper Monsters Website
• The Official Depeche Mode Website
• Depeche Mode at Myspace