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1 June 2017

Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan: why I don’t understand my own band

How one frontman died three times.

By Kate Mossman

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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