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According to NME , he tried to get sober, checking into a drug rehabilitation facility in Arizona at the end of Six weeks later, he was clean, but before long, he found himself using again "in secret," as Gahan puts it. He believes his continued use of drugs is what led to his wife leaving him. In May , substances nearly killed the singer. While living in the Hollywood Sunset Marquis, he injected such a large combination of heroin and cocaine that he overdosed.

He was technically dead for six minutes. That time, he stayed drug-free. In , 16 years after suffering a heart attack during a show in New Orleans, Gahan didn't even make it onto the stage after a sudden medical emergency took him out of commission. Before a concert in Athens, Greece, just the second date of the planned year-long "Tour of the Universe," Gahan fell ill with some internal pain so severe he had to cancel that night's show and head to a local hospital.

Gahan was scheduled for surgery the next day, and fortunately, the oncologist told him his prospects were good, as the tumor hadn't "broken through the wall" of the bladder. However, as recovered, per doctors' orders , the next dozen or so concerts were postponed or canceled. Shockingly, Dave Gahan's bout with cancer and subsequent emergency tumor removal surgery wasn't the only bad thing that happened to Depeche Mode during its tour. While singing, dancing, and darkly gallivanting about the stage, as he's wont to do, the year-old singer somehow tore a calf muscle.

Just like after his cancer surgery a couple of months earlier, doctors told Gahan that he simply couldn't keep touring and that he'd have to stay off of his injured leg in order for it to heal properly.

Gahan's terrible, horrible, no good very bad wasn't over. In August, the singer injured his vocal cords , which makes performing big concerts next to impossible. Depeche Mode had to cancel two California concerts to provide Gahan with vocal rest. The long, grueling, nearly date " Devotional Tour " and the " Exotic Tour " extension was Depeche Mode's biggest ever, but it threatened to destroy the band — both as a musical-making entity and as healthy human beings.

And while Dave Gahan and Martin Gore suffered numerous medical setbacks both big and small, bandmate Andy Fletcher's mental health deteriorated. Go ahead, throw your hands in the air, do an interpretive dance, twirl about, and let this one soar to the moon.

Here, Gore writes of judging our fellow men not for the way they appear or even their actions, but for the trials they've overcome and the beauty that lives within. Even seemingly evil creatures may hide a history fraught with damnation, sacrifice, and joys heartlessly stolen. This song is also just damn good, dark and brooding with the kind of spiritual overtones that makes any song sound regal.

Ain't no time to pussy-foot around with meaning. Depeche Mode are sick of the angry right, and they want you to do something about it. This ethereal dance song is a straight up rallying cry for action. The thought-provoking video was directed by long-time collaborator Anton Corbijn, and features stockinged men in Nazi-like uniforms waving flags before the band's mirthless mugs.

Hey, there's still time to get on board, folks. Revolution, anybody? From 's Delta Machine, this Depeche Mode song stops me in my tracks. Gore and Martin's harmonies are heart wrenching, and that trudging guitar is the perfect, soulful, electric moan. This song plays humanity's futility like a sad angel plays the harp.

It's a beautiful, solemn mood, and it makes you wanna bust out your best overly-emotional sing-along performance. The video was filmed in a former Catholic church in New Orleans, because whenever Depeche Made can make haunting references to Christianity, it will.

It's the intro to 's Exciter , and Gahan's raspy voice coming through like a whisper on a telephone. This song's allure is all about how the weird, electronic touches weave in and around the repetitive acoustic guitar. It's very intimate, kind of creepy, and slick with sleeze.

It's kind of an anti-party anthem. There's something dangerous in the late nights. It hit both Depeche Mode's strongest markets, peaking at no. It charted in 17 countries, and ushered the band into a new millennium. It's echo-heavy drum pattern was inspired by Led Zeppelin, led by heavy, swirling guitar riffs from Gore. The openers just keep coming -- this one, the first track from 's Songs of Faith and Devotion.

Screeching guitar lights the way into one of the British band's dirtiest riffs. This album marks the band's greatest departure from electronic elements to date, leaning more on organic instrumentation, an interesting departure following predecessor Violator 's heavy synth work. It shows so much growth and heralds a new sound for the group. It's also got this twisted Western style, one that reappears in the band's work to follow, with a swinging rhythm heavy with the sound of retribution, and yet, it really is a love song.

This Depeche Mode song digs into the band's deep synthpop and darkwave roots. It demarks the end days of the band's more coy, playful, upbeat quirks. It sits squarely between the whimsical compositions of Some Great Reward and the dark turn of Black Celebration.

We just had to dance about and drink fake drinks! I think it just opened up doors for a new scene musically and fashion wise where people could express their own creativity in a more glamorous way after the punk and the new wave scenes.

You've mentioned you also run Electric Dreams at Purple Turtle. What's the difference between that and Ashes To Ashes? Both nights concentrates on the 80s but Ashes to Ashes concentrates on the New Romantic side of things including music from the excellent TV soundtrack.

Electric Dreams covers new romantic but also new wave, punk, goth, industrial, indie and modern electro. You'll get a bit of these at AtA too. Twelve years later we are still doing it, much to our surprise! We all live in London and have pretty unexciting day jobs. The London Stone is a pub on Cannon Street in the city.

March 17, - Please note that Electric Dreams and all its associated nights are closed until further notice, due to the Coronavirus outbreak.

We apologise for any disappointment this may cause, but feel that to continue under present circumstances would be unacceptably risky. We are on from 10pm to 4am.