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Depeche Mode (Musical group)

LC control no.n 92022921
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LC classificationML421.D46 Biography
Corporate name headingDepeche Mode (Musical group)
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See alsoMember: Clarke, Vince
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Member: Gahan, Dave
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Member: Gore, Martin L.
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Beginning date1980
Found inIts Enjoy the silence [SR] p1990: label (Depeche Mode)
Allmusic WWW site, 02-08-05 (Depeche Mode; its roots date to 1976, when Basildon, England-based keyboardists Vince Clarke and Andrew Fletcher first teamed to form the group No Romance in China [no publications in LC database]; by 1979 Clarke had formed French Look, another duo featuring guitarist/keyboardist Martin Gore [no publications in LC database]; Fletcher soon signed on, and the group rechristened itself Composition of Sound [no publications in LC database]; initially, Clarke handled vocal chores, but in 1980 singer David Gahan was brought in to complete the lineup; after one final name change to Depeche Mode, the quartet jettisoned all instruments excluding their synthesizers)