Depeche Mode and “Dreaming Of Me”: Start of the black celebration

Depeche Mode had only just begun to explore the stylistic potential of leather suspenders and handcuffs, but they already had the sound under control.

“Up until that point I didn’t really like dance music or disco music because that’s what my big sister liked,” mastermind Vince Clarke told Rolling Stone in 2000.

After her 1981 debut ‘Speak & Spell’, Clarke dropped out for a great career with Yazoo and Erasure, but Martin Gore took over the ‘Mode’ songwriting – and it’s been one long black celebration ever since.

ROLLING STONE ranked Depeche Mode’s “Dreaming Of Me” as their 19th best debut single of all time.

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