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Who's Yazoo?

Lesley White, The Face, May 1982

IN CASE YOU'RE still wondering, Vince Clarke's amicable departure from Depeche Mode was motivated by nothing less than that time honoured and truly honourable ideal: the pursuit of Artistic Freedom. Images of a young man holed up in a Basildon garret, suffering silently for his art?

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