When Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys was the assistant editor of Smash Hits, he made the following observation:
Dave Gahan has become an accomplished bum wiggler on stage, as well as shaking his pelvis in a very suggestive way. If you think that Depeche Mode are a bunch of solemn, synthesiser-programming boffins, you’d be amazed at the waves of screaming that they arouse. A lot of the credit must be taken by Dave whose energetic performance is one of the most sexy to be seen on a stage anywhere.
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“They definitely have some strange pact that I have often tried to bash my way into.”
It was a human experiment, a kind of rock-star Method acting
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