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Andy “Fletch” Fletcher, keyboardist and one of the founding members of iconic British electronic band Depeche Mode, has died. He was 60. The news was announced via Depeche Mode’s official ...
Andy Fletcher, a founding member of Depeche Mode, has died, the band announced Thursday on Twitter. He was 60."We are shocked and filled with overwhelming sadness with the untimely passing of our ...
Andy Fletcher, a founding member of multi-platinum new wave band Depeche Mode, has died. He was 60. The keyboard player helped define the sound of 1980s and ’90s synth-pop and alternative rock ...
Clarke served as chief songwriter and also provided lead vocals until singer Dave Gahan was recruited into the band later in 1980, after which they adopted the name Depeche Mode at Gahan's suggestion. [11] Clarke left the group in late 1981, shortly after the release of their debut album Speak & Spell. [12] Fletcher (right) with Depeche Mode in ...
Band members have also cited David Bowie, the Clash, [147] Roxy Music and Brian Eno, [148] Elvis Presley, the Velvet Underground, [149] Fad Gadget, [150] Suicide, [151] and the blues. [152] Depeche Mode were considered a teen pop group during their early period in the UK, and interviewed in teen pop magazines such as Smash Hits.
The band was soon renamed Depeche Mode, a name suggested by Gahan after he had come across a fashion magazine called Dépêche-mode. [16] A new wave/synth-pop pioneer of the early 1980s, Depeche Mode have released 15 studio albums, four greatest hits compilations and two remix albums. The band has achieved global sales in excess of 100 million ...
Fletcher was a core member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame-inducted new wave band for more than 40 ... co-founder and keyboardist of pioneering British new wave band Depeche Mode, has died at age ...
Robert Marlow grew up in Basildon with future Depeche Mode members Vince Clarke, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher (who died the same year as Marlow, and at the same age). He was also tied to Alison Moyet, with whom he had played in a band, the Vandals. He knew Fletcher and Clarke from the Basildon chapter of the Boys' Brigade. He and Clarke would ...