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Depeche Mode: Speak And Spell (Mute)

Betty Page, Sounds, 19 December 1981

THE FACT that the boys chose to depict an absurd, surreal swan draped in a plastic bag on their LP cover rather than to sell it on the strength of their not unattractive visages says a lot about Dep Mod.

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