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"Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth" is a song by the American rock group Sparks. The song was recorded by the group's mid-1970s glam line-up. It was released in late 1974 as the first single from the group's fourth album, Propaganda .
Released in 1989, Counterfeit is a six-song EP of cover songs, hence the name, implying that the songs were not written by Gore. Counterfeit was recorded during a band hiatus after recording and touring for the album Music for the Masses; bandmate Alan Wilder also recorded and released Hydrology under the pseudonym Recoil during this period.
Martin Lee Gore (born 23 July 1961) [1] is an English musician and songwriter. He is one of the founding members of the electronic music band Depeche Mode and is the band's main songwriter. [ 2 ] He is the band's guitarist and keyboardist, and occasionally provides lead vocals. [ 3 ]
When they started playing music, singer Dave Gahan [100] and composer Martin Gore [101] of Depeche Mode cited them as one of their favorite bands. Gore also later covered "Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth" on his Counterfeit EP in 1989. Other early electronic acts like the Human League, [102] and Erasure, [103] also mentioned the group.
Released April 28, 2003 in Europe and April 29, 2003 in the US, Counterfeit² is an album featuring 11 covers of songs that Gore considered influential to his own compositions for Depeche Mode. He recorded this album around the same time as Dave Gahan recorded his first solo album Paper Monsters , after the Exciter Tour ended, and around the ...
The album followed its predecessor Kimono My House by half a year and was a successful album in the UK and US. It peaked at No. 9 on the UK Album Chart [6] [7] (which would remain their second highest album chart position in the UK for nearly 43 years until pushed down into third place by Hippopotamus in 2017) [7] and No. 63 on the Billboard 200 (and remains their highest peak in that country).
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MG is the second solo studio album by English musician and Depeche Mode member Martin Gore, and the first to include self-penned material rather than cover-versions.It was released on 27 April 2015 by Mute Records and consists of sixteen electronic instrumentals. [1]