When the intrepid called the number, they could hear the new track. To plug the single, Depeche Mode’s label Mute placed personal ads in some local newspapers with the words “YOUR OWN PERSONAL JESUS” in white text on a black square… and a London phone number.
During the Global Spirit Tour, Depeche Mode and Hublot have committed to bringing clean water to more than 50,000 people. With a stomping drumbeat and the unusual - for Depeche Mode - sound of a twanging guitar, the song extolled the virtues of “Your own personal Jesus - someone to hear your prayers, someone who cares.”ĭave Gahan performs with Depeche Mode in Rotterdam, October 1990. Depeche Mode and Hublot have partnered to raise funds and awareness for charity: water, to bring safe, clean drinking water to people in need around the world. This was never more obvious than on the single Personal Jesus, which was released on 29 August 1989 and later appeared on the album Violator on 19 March 1990. In celebration of Gore, here are the top 7 songs that are 100 him: written, performed, and fronted by the man himself. It’s perhaps ironic that Depeche Mode’s most loved and immediately recognisable song begins by sounding more like New Order. Let’s face it: Martin Gore is Depeche Mode. The celebrity marriage that inspired Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode Which bands feature frontmen who dont write the lyrics. By the end of the decade, they were a stadium group in the United States, while chief songwriter Martin Gore still managed to get some of the most introspective and troubling lyrics onto America’s airwaves and in front of the kids.ĭepeche Mode in 1987: Andy Fletcher, Martin Gore, David Gahan and Alan Wilder. Furthermore, Gore has lead vocal duties on at least one song on every Depeche Mode album to date (with the exception of 1982’s A Broken Frame).
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