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30 Years of ‘Black Celebration’ – Depeche Mode Breaks Through in the U.S.

March 23rd, 2016 by Sean

Hopefully you’re all well aware of the great work our friend and mega-collector David McElroy, AnfieldMode here on the HOME forum , has been doing to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Black Celebration with a post a day all March long on his blog, Almost Predictable. Almost . (If you aren’t, you’ve got nearly a month’s worth of posts to catch up on.) David asked several fans to weigh in on the anniversary, including HOME’s own Sean to provide a look at the effect the album and tour had in the U.S. market.  Check out the post below, and make sure to check out David’s blog not just this month, but beyond.

Life in the So-Called Space Age…

By the time Black Celebration was released in 1986, the decade hadn’t exactly lived up to the promise of the modern space age with harmonious humankind working toward common goals of technological progress and prosperity.  Coincidentally to the album’s rear cover tagline about the space age, the damaged crew compartment and bodies of all seven astronauts of the Space Shuttle Challenger were found in the Atlantic Ocean just days earlier.

This disillusionment ran parallel to factors that pushed Depeche Mode from niche act to alternative superstars in the U.S.:  Equal parts threat of nuclear annihilation, sex delivering a death sentence, Reaganomics, hypocritical religious televangelism, and corporate greed and excess. The new wave and post-punk movements were generally ignored by media outside of all but the major metropolitan areas, and was driven in large amounts by small college radio stations and niche music magazines and alternative newsweeklies.

The band’s earlier singles collection was renamed Catching Up With Depeche Mode for the North American audience, who were generally catching up on the band who’d had a crossover hit with People Are People a couple years earlier.  (Oddly, that single and others were not included on Catching Up With… , but rather on a separate, earlier Sire-only comp titled People Are People that included the eponymous track and was meant to capitalize on the success of that single in the U.S., as well as singles Get The Balance Right , Everything Counts , Leave In Silence , and album tracks like Now This Is Fun.   Are you following yet?)

For most in the US, Depeche Mode were relatively unknown.  Except for their breakthrough hit People Are People which topped out at #13, MTV had ignored them, and mainstream American radio was the home of Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Whitney Houston, Bon Jovi, and Cyndi Lauper.  Synths were much more the exception to the guitar rule in the States, with only a few mostly British pop crossover hits from the likes of Human League and Eurythmics.  Meanwhile, the press and mainstream rock audiences were being won over by a new format of radio called “classic rock”, which chose to ignore the fact that any music created past the year 1979 was worth listening to, further cementing America’s love affair with the guitar.

But by 1986, things had started to evolve.  New wave and post-punk formats appeared on commercial radio stations with typically weak signals.  Stations like KROQ in Los Angeles and WLIR in New York receive much of the glory for evangelizing a generation of coastal American fans to Depeche Mode.  But by 1986, others in San Francisco, Boston, San Diego, Washington, DC, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and in Toronto were giving love to DM.  For all this increased exposure, one would think that stars of this burgeoning genre would have scored TV appearances in the States.  One would be wrong.  There was not a one.  As a result, Depeche Mode’s persona was largely an enigma to American audiences.

Richard Blade, DJ at KROQ, debuted But Not Tonight  as an import to his Southern California radio audience saying that he much preferred it to the gloomier ‘Stripped’.  Sire, the band’s US record label, had come to the same conclusion, as has been documented, granting the A-side status to But Not Tonight , adding it on as the final track on the North American release of ‘Black Celebration’.  As linked the other day in the world tour entry, WLIR interviewed Martin Gore at the start of their New York stint, which is a great snapshot of where the band was in 1986.  As a further testament to their newly gained success in a market they’d all but written off, A Question of Lust placed at #2 on KROQ’s Top 106.7 of 1986, and A Question of Time was “Screamer of the Year”, the best song of 1986 as voted by WLIR’s listeners.

Sandy Alouete, Head of Music & Talent at MTV, worked at Sire Records at the time, including on Depeche Mode’s releases.  She’d been working for Sire for a year, at that time providing executive support to label head, Seymour Stein, when Mute sent a carton of Black Celebration t-shirts, and she realized that she “had the coolest job in the universe.”  She continued to work at Sire and Reprise Records through 2000, working on all their albums through The Singles 86>98.  What struck her about 1986 was that Seymour was such a champion of the band and the album, dictating memos to her to send to Warners execs for the same promotion love that other artists on the roster were getting.

Alouete researched to double check her memory that they played not one but three shows at Radio City Music Hall.  It was unexpected for a niche band to play one show at the famed hall in 1986.  To headline three nights (and later sell out a fourth show in the market at Jones Beach) was “a big freakin’ deal at that point!”  She was also struck with how starkly different the “sparkly, new wavy pop” of tour opener, Book of Love, was from the darker and heavier music from Black Celebration .

Asked if she recalled the swap of Stripped for But Not Tonight as lead single, Alouete said that ultimately, Seymour responded to pop hooks, whether it was working on Madonna or The Replacements, Morrissey or Depeche.  “In the long run, I hope that the band will get its full due as the influence they are” to virtually every artist in the alternative and electronic genres.  “In 2016, you can’t find artists who don’t say Depeche Mode were an influence.”

“Sire was way ahead of the curve with DM”, Alouete recalled.  “It was rich with amazing tracks.  And their live shows brought together a diverse audience – straight, gay, goth, pop, suburban, urban – in a way that no other band could have at any time before…Their Radio City show was electric.”

Susan Ottaviano is the lead singer of Book of Love, a synth pop band who formed after meeting at art school in Philadelphia.  On the strength of the demo for their initial single, Boy , Stein had signed the band to Sire in 1984. With just one single under their belts, Book of Love was asked by Depeche to open for them on the North American leg of the ‘Some Great Reward’ Tour.  Following the success of Boy , which achieved near-anthem status in new wave and gay clubs in the States, they recorded a follow-up single, I Touch Roses , which was remixed by Mute label head, Daniel Miller.  Book of Love’s eponymous album was released in early 1986, and they were asked to accompany Depeche Mode on the Black Celebration Tour in both Europe and North America.

Book of Love’s Susan Ottaviano at Radio City Music Hall with roses

Susan Ottaviano’s brother and sister with Alan Wilder at Radio City Music Hall

Having been one of only a few acts to open for Depeche on multiple tours, I asked Ottaviano to share some memories of touring with the band, and if she noticed a difference in the States of the band’s acceptance.

Susan: “I didn’t really think there was a big change from one tour to the next.  I thought that the band was growing, developing and finally coming of age, and more people were becoming aware of Depeche Mode.   Black Celebration was such a great album and piece within itself.  Book of Love definitely became fans on that tour!  I don’t know how many shows we had on that tour.  (75?)  But we saw most of them, especially in Europe.

“It was clear from the get go in Europe that their following was already huge!  We played with them in some of the largest venues of our career. Palais Omnisport in Paris was over 20,000 people.  For us, we were struggling to keep up.  We had just one album’s worth of material, and one tour under our belt.  So, I don’t need to tell you that it was exciting as well as very challenging!  Some of these large venues had [general admission], and fans had been waiting in line for two days to get in.  They weren’t that keen on seeing an opening band when they wanted DM.  But we won them over!  Dave taught me how to show them who was boss!  I’ll never forget that, he was a big help to me!

“Another point to note is that 30 years ago there were very few women on the road touring. There was us and 30 men.  That wasn’t exactly easy.  We had to win their crew over, as well.  (Which we did.  Ha!)  When we finally got back to the U.S., the crowds were still big, and audiences knew our material better, as well.  It was clear to us that something special was happening, especially by the time we got to the West Coast.”

The Some Great Reward Tour during Spring of 1985 saw all of 15 dates in North America, largely in theaters, including a couple of colleges – something the band hadn’t done since its earliest days in the U.K.  Just over a year later, they nearly doubled their gigs here to 28 amphitheaters and arenas.  Notably, the beginning of the tour saw the band play large theaters, including Philadelphia, Boston and the Radio City stint.  From there, they went on to play the amphitheater circuit.  Counterintuitively, at precisely the same time that their music took a darker turn, they had transitioned from a club and small theater act to one that packed 7k-15k capacity suburban, outdoor sheds.

Rear of North American tour t-shirt

Some of the reason for this suburban acceptance was that Depeche Mode provided a perfect outlet for parental/societal rebellion for cliques of kids from the ‘burbs who would have grumbled under their breaths in the cafeteria about the jocks and the metalheads.  (Or am I speaking primarily for myself?)

At 15 years old, I had yet to see any live concerts.  I wasn’t even aware of how to go about that whole process, nor did I have the funds to do so.  As a result, I missed out on the three Radio City Music Hall shows.  But when the show at Jones Beach Amphitheater show was added, I jumped at the chance.  Leaving the ticket buying duties to my cousin, we wound up with prime tickets in the second to last row in the venue.  So on June 13 th , as we entered the parking lot, I was struck by the fact that not only was the theater near the beach, but the stage was elevated above the water, and seemed to be floating on the Bay.  (It’s a favorite place to see shows to this day.)

Ticket to Jones Beach show – June 13, 1986

We arrived in time to see Book of Love open.  I couldn’t care less that our seats were at the top of the bowl.  The energy was palpable.  Near the longest day of the year, the sun was still bright in the sky for their set.  Toward their set crescendo, members of the audience threw flowers on stage as the band played I Touch Roses .  “How in the world did people know to bring flowers?”, my young mind wondered.

Still not quite dusk, there were no venue lights yet to be lowered to kick off the main show.  Simply the brooding synth bass line of Christmas Island that began shaking my seat – which I sat in again only briefly.  By this point, I wasn’t yet the collector or even the fan that I am now, so I wasn’t intimately familiar with this moody b-side to the A Question of Lust single.  The intro track almost served as a palate cleanser for the more upbeat, major chord tunes from Book of Love.  The band took the stage.  Emboldened by the larger audiences, their shows started taking on more of a spectacle, with the lighting shows and staging reflecting their increased popularity both here and at home.  Additionally, their image both reflected and informed what was happening within the landscape of the post-punk subculture.  I mentioned sitting briefly again, but that was a lie; It was actually twice.  I did so once right after they left the stage following ‘People Are People’ so I could join the rest of the audience pounding our feet feet rhythmically on the hollow grandstand structure beneath the seats to coax the band back on stage.  (They obliged with Boys Say Go! )  Then once more again, this time sounding like thunder, prodding them out for the final encore of Just Can’t Get Enough and More Than a Party.

What I saw that night changed me, as it did thousands of others on that tour.  I arrived at the show a fan of the band whose People Are People 7” single I’d purchased on a trip with my summer camp to Montreal in 1984.  I left knowing Depeche Mode had cemented their place at the top of the pantheon of my favorite bands.  Somehow, thirty years after that show, this remains the case.  Depeche Mode are no longer just a hobby – music I enjoy collecting or listening to.  I’ve developed deep friendships with other fans of the band worldwide – some of whom I’ve never met in person, yet consider close friends.  Given the early irrelevance of the band in the States, I’m sure they could never have imagined it would still be a lucrative market for them decades later, nor that there would be a worldwide community of bloggers, message board users, and tour followers dedicated to their fandom of Depeche Mode.

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March 1986: Depeche Mode Release BLACK CELEBRATION

BLACK CELEBRATION

It was the album Depeche Mode had steadily been moving towards from the moment founding member Vince Clark left the band. As Martin Gore assumed primary songwriting duties, his lyrics had moved into darker and more existential directions. Following the stark industrialism of Some Great Reward (1984) would be no easy feat; Depeche Mode's fourth studio album featured the band's first big hit in America, "People are People," which peaked at #13 on the Hot 100 in August 1985. The follow-up, "Master and Servant," also hit the charts (#49 Dance Club Songs), and become a huge dance-floor favorite on the underground club scene.

The group pushed those same themes to an extreme on fifth studio effort Black Celebration . Recorded in a brutal four-month slog in Berlin and London, the tense and claustrophobic nature of the sessions can be felt in the album's dense and dramatic sound. The LP was preceded by first single, "Stripped," in February 1986. The bleak, ominous track featuring a sample of singer Dave Gahan's Porsche went top 15 in the UK, and solidified the band's sleek and leather-clad image with a violent music video.

Martin Gore took the microphone for second single, "Question of Lust." The sweeping BDSM ballad became another fan favorite, and even hit the top 10 in Germany. The single arrived with a non-LP B-side: the menacing instrumental, "Christmas Island." The track was used as the opening music when Depeche Mode took the stage on the Black Celebration tour.

The next single from Black Celebration was another question. "A Question of Time" was the musically upbeat follow-up, with somber lyrics concerning the loss of innocence. The music video paired Depeche Mode with photographer Anton Corbijn, marking the start of a long-running artistic relationship. 

It was the B-side to "Stripped," the emotive "But Not Tonight," that came back around as the final Black Celebration singe, but only in America. The track served as the theme song of 1986 coming-of-age movie, Modern Girls , starring Virginia Madsen and Daphne Zuniga. The movie's tagline: "Cool people have feelings too."

"Martin Gore once complained to me that DM had to put this song on the ' Black Celebration ' album because we played it so much as a B-side on 92.7 that it became so popular that they were told they would be crazy not to put it on the album," shared DJ Denis McNamara on his Facebook page . "So they put it on as the last song and the rest is history. I've heard no complaints from him since."

Released on March 17, 1986, Black Celebration didn't exactly set the US charts on fire, peaking at #90 on the Billboard 200 over the week of May 17, 1986 (the #1 album in America that week: Whitney Houston's self-titled debut). It did, however, set the stage for a massive world tour that helped propel Depeche Mode to the upper echelon of concert attractions across the country. In the UK, the record peaked at #4. In Switzerland, it climbed all the way to #1.

"Yeah, it does (sound morbid)," singer Dave Gahan admitted in 1986 about the album's title and mood. " But it's a common thing. At the end of a working day, you go out and drown your sorrows, no matter how shitty you feel or how bleak your future looks."

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Black Celebration (album)

Black Celebration is the fifth studio album by Depeche Mode . It was released on 17 March 1986 by Mute Records and was supported by the Black Celebration tour .

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  • Fly On The Windscreen
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  • Stripped - February 10, 1986
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"Black Celebration sounds a bit morbid but it's a common thing. At the end of a working day you go out and drown your sorrows no matter how [shit] you feel or how bleak your future looks." — Dave Gahan - Blitz , April 1986 [1]
"We used some melodies from the original demo, some came about in the studio. Actually, [Daniel Miller] and I often felt there were too many counter-melodies and not enough space in the music." [2] — Alan Wilder - SHUNT ARCHIVES Q&A : DEPECHE MODE : BLACK CELEBRATION
"The NME made the point that we were not adventurous enough. They said that we could pull more out of the bag, that we were actually quite lazy. That is true to a point, but it comes from the problem that as a democracy we always tend to end up with a compromise between the adventurous and conservative sides of the band." — Alan Wilder - Blitz , April 1986 [3]

Gahan discusses the reasoning behind the band's decision to record a third album at Hansa studios in a 1986 interview:

"I can't work in England anymore. It's funny. The studio is right next to the Berlin Wall but none of us has ever been to the East. Martin tried once but they refused him entry. Didn't like the way he was dressed. Thought he was a hooligan. People imagine we work here because it's wow, you know, really heavy, but I don't feel that. The place is quite suburban. Berlin's like Brixton. [...] Oh, yeah. [The cellar] is a bit weird, innit? I was down here doing the vocals for ' Shake The Disease ' in the dark, last time we were here, and I was terrified. I had all noises in me headphones like whispers, and apparently sometimes you can see the shadow of a projectionist. It's a bit haunted, this studio." [4]

Gahan continues:

"[We] mainly [decided to record a third album at Hansa] because we're too lazy to find another studio! And we know when we come here that it's going to be good. It's probably one of the best studios in the world. Working in London, it's difficult to get into it because we just have so many people coming to see us. We don't go through a manager or anything. The four of us. We are the managers." [5] — Dave Gahan - No. 1 , February 1986.
  • The total number of live song plays from Black Celebration is 3042. This figure is found by summing the number of individual performances for each album track.
  • ↑ Source: Back to the Wall, No. 1, 22 February 1986.
  • ↑ Source: recoil.co.uk
  • ↑ Source: Basildon Bond, Blitz , April 1986.
  • ↑ Source: Back to the Wall, No. 1 , 22 February 1986.
  • ↑ Source: Record Mirror , 8 February 1986.
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Depeche Mode - Live at Wembley Arena, London, 17 April 1986 (Black Celebration Tour) 01. Black Celebration 02. A Question Of Time 03. Fly On The Windscreen 04. Shake The Disease 05. Leave In Silence 06. It's Called A Heart 07. Everything Counts 08. It Doesn't Matter Two 09. A Question Of Lust 10. Blasphemous Rumours 11. New Dress 12. Stripped 13. Something To Do 14. Master And Servant 15. Photographic 16. People Are People 17. Boys Say Go! 18. Just Can't Get Enough 19. More Than A Party

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    Length. 1986-03-29 - 1986-08-16 (4 months, 18 days) Number of shows. 75. The Black Celebration Tour was a 1986 international tour undertaken by Depeche Mode in support of their fifth studio album Black Celebration . As of September 2023, no film footage or audio from the Black Celebration tour has been officially released, with the exception of ...

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    For the first time in the Forum, the capacity is above 17000 spectators. 16.08.1986 Copenhagen, Denmark, Valby Idraetspark. "Public Panic", "New Order" and "Talk Talk" were the support act. The special and only "Somebody" performance of the tour. A fitting end to the most popular tour of 300000 fans.

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    Black Celebration Tour was a 1986 concert tour by English electronic group Depeche Mode in support of the act's fifth studio album, Black Celebration, which ...

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    Concert in Wembley arena London 1986 COMPLET DVD00. Christmas' Island -missing-01. Black Celebration http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t-5fkzVjiY02. A Question...

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    Black Celebration Tour was a 1986 concert tour by English electronic group Depeche Mode in support of the act's fifth studio album, Black Celebration, which was released in March 1986. The tour began with a European leg, starting in Oxford, England in late March and finishing in Rüsselsheim, West Germany in late May. A North American jaunt ...

  10. 30 Years of 'Black Celebration'

    To headline three nights (and later sell out a fourth show in the market at Jones Beach) was "a big freakin' deal at that point!" She was also struck with how starkly different the "sparkly, new wavy pop" of tour opener, Book of Love, was from the darker and heavier music from Black Celebration. Radio City Music Hall marquee, 1986

  11. Depeche Mode "Black Celebration" 1986

    Depeche Mode 'Black Celebration' 1986. November 1985 - January 1986. Westside Studios, Genetic Studios (London); Hansa Mischraum (Berlin) Black Celebration is the latest album from Depeche Mode, their first collection of new material in over two years and a continuing affirmation of the extraor- dinary role this band plays in modern music.

  12. Depeche Mode Setlist at Radio City Music Hall, New York

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  13. Depeche Mode: Black Celebration Tour 1986

    Depeche Mode - Live at Wembley Arena, London, 17 April 1986 (Black Celebration Tour) 01. Black Celebration 02. A Question Of Time 03. Fly On The Windscreen 04. Shake The Disease 05. Leave In Silence 06. It's Called A Heart 07. Everything Counts 08. It Doesn't Matter Two 09. A Question Of Lust 10. Blasphemous Rumours 11. New Dress 12. Stripped 13. Something To Do 14. Master And Servant 15 ...

  14. March 1986: Depeche Mode Release BLACK CELEBRATION

    Released on March 17, 1986, Black Celebration didn't exactly set the US charts on fire, peaking at #90 on the Billboard 200 over the week of May 17, 1986 (the #1 album in America that week: Whitney Houston's self-titled debut). It did, however, set the stage for a massive world tour that helped propel Depeche Mode to the upper echelon of ...

  15. Depeche Mode Setlist at Wembley Arena, London

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  16. Black Celebration

    Black Celebration is the fifth studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 17 March 1986 by Mute Records. Daniel Miller devised "a plan to capture the essence of the dark works" that Martin Gore created because Martin Gore had no intention of compromising the mood that his demos had set. With the release of the album, Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones presented ...

  17. Black Celebration (album)

    Hansa Mischraum, Berlin, Germany. Produced by. Depeche Mode. Gareth Jones. Daniel Miller. Number of tracks. 11. Black Celebration is the fifth studio album by Depeche Mode. It was released on 17 March 1986 by Mute Records and was supported by the Black Celebration tour .

  18. Revisiting Depeche Mode's 'Black Celebration' (1986)

    Happy 35th Anniversary to Depeche Mode's fifth studio album Black Celebration, originally released March 17, 1986.. As with many important things throughout my life, I have my sister to thank for introducing me to the brilliance of Depeche Mode.For she was the one who procured the shiny new cassette tape of Black Celebration back in the spring of 1986 and was generous enough to share its ...

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    Black Celebration Tour was a 1986 concert tour by English electronic group Depeche Mode in support of the act's fifth studio album, Black Celebration, which ...

  20. Black Celebration (Deluxe)

    Black Celebration is the fifth studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 17 March 1986 by Mute Records. Daniel Miller devised "a plan to capture the essence of the dark works" that Martin Gore created because Martin Gore had no intention of compromising the mood that his demos had set. With the release of the album, Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones presented Black ...

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  22. Depeche Mode: Black Celebration Tour 1986

    Depeche Mode - Live at Wembley Arena, London, 17 April 1986 (Black Celebration Tour) 01. Black Celebration 02. A Question Of Time 03. Fly On The Windscreen 04. Shake The Disease 05. Leave In Silence 06. It's Called A Heart 07. Everything Counts 08. It Doesn't Matter Two 09. A Question Of Lust 10. Blasphemous Rumours 11. New Dress 12. Stripped 13. Something To Do 14. Master And Servant 15 ...

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