You couldn't script it; Essex band spend years gradually raising, evolving and refining a pioneering sound album after album, tour after tour, all with minimal compromise. Then truly break through in America with an album and tour under the tongue-in-cheek title… Music For The Masses.
Of course, Depeche Mode's story is much more nuanced, and frequently as tragic as it is glorious. But perhaps no song in their catalogue captures this mixture of the darkness and light as Never Let Me Down.
