Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dave Gahan. Early Depeche Mode albums were made by a band that looked and sounded like clean-cut choir boys. But by the time they ...

Since bursting onto the charts with “Just Can’t Get Enough” in 1981 at the height of new wave, Depeche Mode has proven to be one of the U.K.’s most enduring bands while taking synth pop to dark and ...

After the electric guitar, no new instrument upended 20th-century popular music like the synthesizer. At first, the synth’s sounds were used to create ambient, otherworldly soundtracks or for epic ...

Depeche Mode was part of the Second British Invasion in the early 1980s, while becoming something like The Beatles of electronic music. With a heavy use of synthesizers, samplers, and drum machines, ...