Per the last evening Of San Remo 2023 super pedigree guests arrive: i Depeche Mode. The British band with an unmistakable sound brings the single to the Ariston Ghosts Againcontained in the new album Memento Morito be released on March 24 (the first since the disappearance of Andrew Fletcher, one of the founders of the group). Fletch dumped his friends last year at age 60.
Martin Gore and David Gahan return to the music scene without Fletch’s keyboards and tuners, but the balance between melancholy and joy of the Depeche Mode will still mesmerize fans, who have been waiting for this moment for 6 years, since the release of Spirit of 2017.
The wait is finally over.
The hits of Depeche Mode
The English band marked the musical landscape starting in the eighties with the unmistakable sound that mixes rock, electronic music, techno pop and “industrial” sounds. And the 1981 when the irresistible comes out Just Can’t Get Enough. Who doesn’t remember the keyboard riff in the incipit of the song? In the 1983 makes its way Everything counts which marks the beginning of the revolution of Depeche Modebut is the following year with People are People that the group also climbs the American charts. It was a shock.
With the album Violator Depeche Mode enter the Olympus of world music. And the 1990the two singles Personal Jesus and Enjoy the Silence they are absolute masterpieces. The video with the latter also went down in history Dave Gahan disguised as a king looking for a place to rest. Moments of crisis, falls and rises follow: Gahan nearly dies from an overdose and Alan Wilder leaves the group, but the zest is hard and the album Ultra mark the rebirth. Their music has always been there ready to take back a place in the hearts of fans and in the charts.
The band in Sanremo with the single Ghosts Again
TO San Remo the band brings Ghosts Againthe first single from the new album Memento Mori, due out March 24. «Ghosts Again perfectly captures that balance that exists between melancholy and joy», commented Dave Gahan. The guitar of Martin Gore it will hypnotize you. The video is signed by Anton Corbijnthe same director of the historian Enjoy the Silence. Here he enjoys quoting The seventh seal by Ingmar Bergman and the famous chess game with death.
Memento Mori it is the band’s fifteenth album and the first one he sees Gahan and Gore aloneafter the disappearance of Andy “Fletch” Fletcher. The album was born during the early stages of pandemic, some themes of the 12 tracks are in fact inspired by that period. It’s not the first time Depeche Mode in Sanremo, someone will remember their performances at the Ariston in 1986, 1989 and 1990 when they brought stripped, Everithing Counts and Enjoy the Silence.
Depeche Mode, the album Memento Mori and live in Italy in July
THE Depeche Mode they had been missing for more than five years even on tour. With the release of the new album they return to perform live to the delight of the fans and this summer they will also stop in Italy. On July 12 they will perform at the Olympic stadium Of Romeon July 14th at San Sirowhile on 16 July at the Stadio dall’Ara di Bologna.
With over 100 million records sold and concerts that have gathered over 35 million people worldwideDepeche Mode are ready to write another chapter in their musical history.
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