Depeche Mode became the world's best-selling synth-led group selling in excess of 40 million albums. From Basildon boys to globetrotting stadium superstars, clean-cut to drug-fuelled and back again, they have done it all and survived – quite literally in the case of vocalist Dave Gahan.
By 2002, they had toured the world twice over, playing to a combined audience of over two million and won numerous awards including the Q magazine Innovation Award.
For this biography, Jonathan Miller has carried out exclusive interviews with founder member Vince Clark, producer Gareth Jones and has included previously unpublished interview material with the band members themselves.
Friends and family have also assisted the author in unravelling Depeche Mode's unconventional working dynamic and artists including Gary Numan, Howard Jones and Thomas Dolby have helped to set the electronic music scene that Depeche Mode have come to undisputedly preside over.
With an introduction by Thomas Dolby.
