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This is a band who had stared down the abyss further than most, and Barrel Of A Gun was the band beginning to come out the other side, not unscathed, but alive. Penned by Gore, the album plays up to the perception that Gahan had accumulated over the preceding years, highlighting his destructive personality with lines such as:"A vicious appetite / Visits me each night / And won't be satisfied / Won't be denied". Barrel Of A Gun is the album's monster lead single. With their demons exorcised, the band regrouped as a trio and made an unlikely comeback in 1997 with the album Ultra. To compound matters, Alan Wilder, the only one who had managed to maintain a semblance of stability, announced his departure from the band. Read the latest Six Fan Letters.Īdd your reactions in the comments below.ġ. Luciano Pavarotti, Bono & Zucchero - MiserereĦ. The Beatles - I Want to Hold your Handġ9. The Fugees - Killing Me Softly With His SongĢ1. Daft Punk feat Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers - Get LuckyĢ3. JAY-Z feat Alicia Keys - Empire State of MindĢ4.Dave Gahan succumbed to one of the most infamous drug addictions in music history, Martin Gore battled alcoholism, and Andy Fletcher suffered from depression. Play Bono's '60 Songs That Saved My Life' here or click to listen on your preferred music service.
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Read each letter in full in our gallery above - we'll be adding to it over the next few days. 'You are a reason to believe in what's possible,' he writes to Pharrell, 'You are a reason to believe in THE IMPOSSIBLE.'Īnd to Shara Nelson and Massive Attack, he sends gratitude for Safe From Harm, 'Thanks for giving me permission to not fully let go of the rage behind all vulnerability… it can propel.'
'And that light touch is never better than on this one', referring to Daft Punk's Get Lucky featuring Rodgers and Pharrell. 'You wrote songs so you could be in them,' he writes to Nile Rodgers. 'I gave Ali a copy to romance her on her 17th birthday in 1978… NEON LIGHTS is a song that brought into being a future that has now become so familiar, it is easy to forget just how strange it was.' To the members of Kraftwerk, who lost Florian this week, Bono recounts how 'The Man Machine' stole his heart and mind as a teenager. I wasn't thinking about the question mark in the title… I wasn't bothered about the dramatic inquiry “is there life on Mars?”… The song was answering a much more important question when I was 13… Is there intelligent life on earth? It was proof as far as I'm concerned.' Writing to Duncan, son of David Bowie, he recalls, 'When I heard your Dad's song LIFE ON MARS? on the radio in 1973, I was hiding under the covers of my bed in 10 Cedarwood Roadlistening to a pirate radio station called Radio Caroline. Traditionally, Depeche Mode chooses a pop-dance oriented track as an albums first.
To Billie Eilish (and Finneas) he says, of ‘ everything i wanted’, ‘I step inside your song and it’s a black beauty, achingly awesomely vulnerable and terrifying, fearliess and worrisome… but you are not worried by all that.’ After checking out Delta Machines first single Heaven, I was apprehensive. other than forgiveness that is… and a toast to being alive.’ This was the first DM album that I bought on release where I played it in stunned silence, got to the end of side 2, then flipped it over and played it again. Writing about ‘ Miserere' to Alice, daughter of Luciano Pavarotti he says, 'I can hardly remember what it was about. However, I think that’s because the songs on Side 1 + AQOT, Stripped, and Here Is The House are so strong.
'I wanted to thank the artists and everyone who helped make them… They were doing the same for me… I am writing a fan letter to accompany each song to try and explain my fascination…'īono is sharing the first six letters today, with more coming in the week ahead.
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Long before he was making music, he was a music fan and along with these 60 songs he's penning a series of letters to their creators and family members.
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The four hour plus playlist stretches from the formative 45s of his teenage years to later collaborations with some of his heroes, as well as tracks by younger artists like Billie Eilish, the same age now, 18, as Bono when he wrote his first song. 'The ones I couldn't have lived without… the ones that got me from there to here, zero to 60… through all the scrapes, all manner of nuisance, from the serious to the silly… and the joy, mostly joy.' 'These are some of the songs that saved my life,' writes Bono, as he shares a special birthday playlist titled '60 Songs That Saved My Life'. Play Bono's '60 Songs That Saved My Life' below or click to listen on your preferred music service.
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