Depeche Mode

. See Winslow, Arizona for a unique tribute to The Eagles' song "Take It Easy". As of January 2005, the album is currently being recorded. Shortly before their "Farwell Tour I" in 2002, Don Felder was fired from the group. In November 2004, it was announced on http://www.depechemode.com that the band was planning on going into the studio to record an album in early 2005 with producer Ben Hillier. They were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2001. In August 2004, Mute announced a DVD release of "Devotional" and a new remix completion album Remixes 81-04 that covers some new & unreleased promo mixes of the singles from 1981 to 2004. Several subsequent reunion tours would follow, noted for their record-setting ticket prices.

2003 saw the release of Dave Gahan's solo album, Paper Monsters, followed by a worldwide tour and a DVD taken from it, titled Live Monsters, Martin Gore continued his solo career with the release of Counterfeit 2, and Andrew Fletcher launched his own label, Toast Hawaii. In 1998, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and during the induction ceremony, all seven former members played together on stage. Wilder himself has stated that he contributed a lion's share of work while receiving the least credit on past albums. Controversy followed on September 12, 1996 when the band dedicated "Peaceful Easy Feeling" to Saddam Hussein at a United States Democratic Party fundraiser held in Los Angeles. It has been suggested that a failure of the band to recognize its own brand appeal in releasing previous records may have played some part in his departure, with other factors including the drug addiction issues of Dave Gahan; Martin Gore's admission of "battling his own demons" at this time; and growing tensions between Wilder and Andrew Fletcher. That tour spawned a live album entitled Hell Freezes Over (after a quote from Henley who said that the group would get back together only when Hell froze over) and a single, "Get Over It". In June 1995 after the Devotional tour, Alan Wilder left the band citing "unsatisfactory internal working conditions", while continuing to work on his personal project Recoil. Travis Tritt insisted on having the Long Run-era Eagles in his video for "Take It Easy." After that video was complete in 1994 that the band, after years of speculation, reunited.

After the much earlier departure of Vince Clarke, a gradual change away from their roots can hardly have been unexpected. During the early 1990s, an Eagles country tribute album Common Thread was released. indeed, in a CD booklet, Dave Gahan is instead pictured lovingly holding an acoustic guitar - a far cry from the synthpop ideal of 'keyboards with everything'. Following The Long Run tour, in 1980, the band went on hiatus, and all of them had solo careers of varying degrees of success. One marked change in the style of music throughout the history of this band has been a move away from keyboards and heavily synth pop-influenced sound.. Henley was also subsequently charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Techno pioneers such as Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson and Juan Atkins regularly quoted Depeche Mode as an influence in their development of proto-techno during the Detroit Techno explosion in the late 80s. The tour to promote the album intensified personality differences between the band members, made worse when on the night of November 21, 1980, Henley was arrested when cocaine, Quaaludes, and marijuana were found in his hotel room after a nude 16 year old prostitute had drug-related seizures.

Depeche Mode had a great influence on the emergence of the techno and electronica music scenes through the late 80s and 90s. That album took two years to make, but yielded the group's fifth and last #1 single in Billboard, "Heartache Tonight" (November 10, 1979). Pennebaker, recently released on DVD, which is notable for an element of fan interaction. In February 1978, the Eagles went into the studio to produce their final studio album, The Long Run. The tour was documented in a film by D.A. Schmit (born October 30, 1947). The 101 tour culminated in a final concert at the Pasadena Rose Bowl with a sell-out attendance of 80,000 (the highest in 8 years for the venue). The Eagles replaced Meisner with the man who had succeeded him in Poco, Timothy B.

In the intervening years between the mid-80s and 90s, the band's popularity in the US grew to massive proportions. During the final leg of the ensuing tour, however, Randy Meisner decided he'd had enough hotel rooms in his seven years as an Eagle and left the band for the relative quiet of Nebraska to recuperate and instigate a solo career. In 1984 Depeche Mode made in-roads into America, which spawned the US-only release of Catching Up With Depeche Mode. Using California as a metaphor for the nation, the Eagles wrote about innocence ("New Kid in Town", a #1 hit in Billboard on February 26, 1977) and temptations ("Life In The Fast Lane" and the title track, a #1 hit in Billboard on May 7, 1977) of that pursuit. In the early 1980s the band's popularity was largely confined to Europe (particularly Germany) and their style was Synth pop. The group's next album, Hotel California in 1976, was about the pursuit of the American dream, 1970s style. He wrote The Landscape is Changing and Two Minute Warning for their 1983 album, Construction Time Again, as well as Fools, the B-side to the Love in Itself single, In Your Memory, the B-side to the People Are People single, and If You Want on the 1984 album Some Great Reward, but his main contribution to Depeche Mode was in the technical and musical production aspects. By this time, the personalities inside the band would start clashing with each other, and there were plenty of inter-band fights.

After Vince's departure, Martin Gore, who had written Tora! Tora! Tora! and Big Muff on their debut album, took over as the band's primary song-writer and in 1982 the album A Broken Frame was released. After this, Alan Wilder joined the band as a permanent replacement for Clarke. The title track from One of These Nights hit #1 on the Billboard chart August 2, 1975. Soon after, Vince Clarke left to form a new band, Yazoo (Yaz in the US) with Alison Moyet, The Assembly with Feargal Sharkey, Dave Clempson and Eric Radcliffe, and later Erasure with Andy Bell. The addition of Walsh made the group's aim perfectly clear: they wanted to rock. The band became part of Daniel Miller's Mute label by verbal contract, and released their first album, Speak and Spell, in 1981. The group replaced Leadon with Joe Walsh (born November 20, 1947), a veteran of such groups as the James Gang and Barnstorm and a solo artist in his own right. The new name was taken from a French fashion magazine, "Dépêche-mode", translates to "fashion telegram". Between the album and the subsequent tour, Bernie Leadon left the group because he was disillusioned about the direction the band's music was taking.

Andrew Fletcher then became part of the band and it was renamed "Composition of Sound." David Gahan joined the band in 1980 after Vince Clarke heard him perform at a local gig, and "Depeche Mode" was born. Their next album, One of These Nights, had an aggressive, sinewy rock stance. Depeche Mode's origins can be traced back to 1976, when Vince Clarke and Andrew Fletcher formed a band known as "No Romance in China." The band was unsuccessful and in 1979, Vince Clarke formed a new band named "French Look" with Martin Gore. On the Border yielded a #1 Billboard single in the song "Best of My Love", which hit the top on March 1, 1975.
. Two days later, Felder became the fifth Eagle. Former members include:. Szymczyk brought in Don Felder (born September 21, 1948 in Topanga, California) to add slide guitar to a song called "Good Day in Hell", and the band was blown away.

The three current members of Depeche Mode are:. After completing two thirds of the album with Johns, the band turned to Bill Szymczyk to produce the rest of the album. As of 2005, Depeche Mode have sold over 50 million albums worldwide. The band wanted to rock, but Johns tended to extract the lush side of the band's double-edged music. Depeche Mode had many videos heavily rotated on MTV and MuchMusic. To record their third album, On the Border, the group selected producer Glyn Johns, who had previously worked with Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, and The Who. They are one of the longest-lived and most successful bands to have emerged during the New Wave/New Romantic era. Their first album, Eagles, was filled with pure, sometimes innocent country rock; their second, Desperado, was themed on Old West outlaws and introduced the group's penchant for conceptual songwriting.

Depeche Mode was originally founded in 1980 as a synth pop band in the town of Basildon, England. The Eagles backed up Ronstadt on a two-month tour, then decided to become a band on their own. Remixes 81 - 04 (2004). They were short a drummer until Frey phoned Henley, a musician he'd met at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. Exciter (2001). The band formed in 1971 when Linda Ronstadt's then-manager, John Boylan, extracted Frey, Leadon, and Meisner from their affiliations. The Singles (81-85) Re-released/Repackaged (1998). Bassist Randy Meisner (born March 8, 1946 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska) was a car and cycle buff who preferred spending time with his family to playing bass in a rock and roll band.

The Singles (86-98) (1998). Guitarist/mandolinist/banjo player Bernie Leadon (born July 19, 1947, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) had a passion for country and bluegrass that shaped the band's early direction. Ultra (1997). Drummer Don Henley (born July 22, 1947 in Gilmer, Texas) was nearly a college graduate, majoring in English literature. Songs of Faith and Devotion Live (1993). Guitarist/keyboardist Glenn Frey (born November 6, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan) escaped Michigan's cold winters and musically stultifying frat and bar scene, bringing a rhythm and blues heritage. Songs of Faith and Devotion (1993). Not one of the four group founders was a Californian by birth.

Violator (1990). On later albums the band dispensed with bluegrass instrumentation and gravitated to a more straight-ahead rock sound. 101 (live) (1989). The Eagles took the singer-songwriter ethos to a group setting with increased emphasis on arrangements and musicianship, and the group's early sound became synonymous with the southern California country rock. Music for the Masses (1987). The originators of this genre were gifted singer/songwriters, among them Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, and Warren Zevon. Black Celebration (1986). Their early music was a hybrid of country and bluegrass instrumentation grafted onto the harmonies of California surfer rock, producing tender ballads and soft top-down country-flavored pop-rock about relationships, cars, and the wandering life.

Catching Up With Depeche Mode [North America only] (1985). The Eagles are an American rock music group that originally came together in Los Angeles, California in the early 1970s. The Singles (81-85) (1985). 1994 "Get Over It" #31 US. Some Great Reward (1984). from Hell Freezes Over