Is dave gahan gay
Like all good art, the lyrics to Depeche Mode songs like “Master and Servant” and “Strangelove” leave room for interpretation. In the small minds of young homophobes, most interpretations erred on the side of man-on-man dungeon sex sessions filled with drugs, oils, and punishment. In “Strangelove”, lead vocalist Dave Gahan sang: “Strange highs and strange lows / Strangelove, that’s how our love goes / … Pain / Will you restore it?” In “Master and Servant”, he sang about a new game that’s a lot enjoy life, a “play between the sheets / With you on top and me underneath / Forget all about equality”. The latter song only fed rumors that the band was male lover by featuring a cracking whip sound as part of the beat.
Depeche Mode played these songs on Casio keyboards, not Gibson Flying-Vs, and used a drum footpath, not a exist, stick-wielding drummer. They were essentially pasty computer geeks programming music instead of video games for a living, nerds who’d ended up on the concert stage rather than behind it functional the lights. And, like me, they had no reputation as heartbreakers to defend them. Where I went to high school, this presented a problem.
1989: Better known as the year of the Ex
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This month will be devoted to Depeche Mode and it features many thinkpieces centering song and their personal lives, today will be all about head singer/songwriter Dave Gahan’s mental health and his life after a nearly fatal overdose in the 90s, you cannot talk Depeche Mode history without bringing this back, every fan may perceive of his now recovery from drug addiction and alcohol but to the general public who may casually follow them every now and then, they might get fascinated with all the craziness surrounding it and because it’s the 90s, we are talking about the grunge/alternative scene popping at the time and the band went through a period of changes in terms of sound and aesthetic from the electronic/clean cut vibe of Violator to now rock ‘n roll grown adults in Songs of Faith and Devotion, it’s not going to be a happy piece so there are two trigger warnings to those who may be too sensitive to these topics.
It is explain Dave doesn’t want your understanding and absolution in present age for everything happened back in the day but he does want the younger crowd to not get into the shit that almost killed him.
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2003
This year, Martin as well as Dave released solo records. It was the start of a partly quite amusing "bitch alarm". You had to fear there would never be another DM album ...
Martin began and released the unattached Stardust / Animation Is Strange on 14 April, followed by the album Counterfeit 2 on 28 April, and the single Loverman on 17 November. From 24 April to 7 May he went on a little solo tour, which comprised 7 concerts.
Reverse to the years before, Martin was much more diplomatic but nevertheless, he made some statements which would guide to some trouble with Dave later. Like his react to the doubt whether he had listened to Dave's solo album.
"I was just this minute speaking to our manager about it. I've tried to pick up a package Dave has sent me three times but it seems to have got defeated in the announce. I don't really know what Dave's expectations are. I've no big commercial ideas about Counterfeit2. I'd be surprised if it's a huge success."[1]
Some journalists seemed determined to dredge up old news, such as how his family had reacted to his clothing style in the 1980s, an