Conventional wisdom held that boys weren't supposed to like early Depeche Mode. Conventional wisdom was wrong Reading on mobile? Watch hereWhen I was in my mid-teens in the early 80s I had a small fan club. The consensus among them seemed to be that I looked like Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode. This record always raises a faint smile in memory of those days, but a slight shiver, too, at the memory of being followed to school by shrieking girls with cameras, which, oddly, wasn't a pleasant experience...
Guardian Music — Conventional wisdom held that boys weren't supposed to like early Depeche Mode. Conventional wisdom was wrong Reading on mobile? Watch hereWhen I was in my mid-teens in t... more info