Depeche Mode: Play For Tomorrow
Peter Silverton, New Sounds New Styles, August 1981
SCENE ONE. Interior. Depeche Mode are rehearsing in a deconsecrated church on the south side of London's dockland. It's a part of the capital that's scarcely changed since cargo boats had masts.
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