After last year’s ‘LipDub for the Masses’ video featuring Depeche Mode’s ‘Just can’t get enough’ comes ‘Shadows for the Masses’ video featuring Depeche Mode’s ‘Ghost’. The recording took place at ‘Sen Pszczoly’ club in Warsaw, Poland on March 26 and April 2, 2011, and features once again Depeche Mode’s fans from all over Poland.

From our US correspondent Olivia Roy. In an interview with the USA radio station QMS Radio, American recording artist Lady Gaga has said she wants to record a cover of Depeche Mode’s 1984 hit song ‘People Are People’ adding “I could really give it the melody it never had.” Right. 24-year old Lady Gaga (real name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta – that was a mouthful), who wasn’t even born when the Depeche Mode track was released, has been inspired by the many mash-ups between Depeche Mode and some of her songs that are floating on the Internet. So she says: “I spend literally hours on YouTube each day checking what people post about me, reading the comments and so on. And I was so surprised that many Depeche Mode fans appeared to be Lady Gaga fans. I didn’t know the band existed until I saw a mash-up of ‘Paparazzi’ with ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’. I advise everyone to check out Depeche Mode, they are so underrated.”

However, we advise miss Gaga to do some fact checking before she takes a shot at a Depeche Mode classic. In the same interview she namely appears to believe that Vince Clarke (Erasure) is still part of the band: “I’m a huge fan of Erasure and it was so funny when I heard that Vince is also a part of Depeche Mode! It’s so unlike his Erasure sound!” So how did she end up choosing ‘People Are People’? Simple: “My manager choose the song for me, he knows things so much better.” Ok… well, you all know what to expect: an Erasure version of ‘People Are People’. That promises to be funny!

It’s not the first time Germanotta hunts for covers. When she initially signed with Def Jam Recordings at the age of 19 (although she was dropped from Def Jam 3 months later) they introduced her to songwriter and producer RedOne, with whom she produced ‘Boys Boys Boys’, a mash-up inspired by Mötley Crüe’s ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ and AC/DC’s ‘T.N.T.’. Judge for yourself if Lady Gaga and Depeche Mode are a good fit: Lady Gaga vs. Depeche Mode – ‘Just Can’t Get Enough Paparazzi’ (Djs From Mars Bootleg Remix).

Source: Side-Line

Depeche Mode & Hublot present the Teenage Cancer Trust with a cheque for over $600,000 in front of 55,000 fans at the Dusseldorf Esprit Arena.

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On February 17th, Depeche Mode performed at the Royal Albert Hall for a charity gig (Teenage Cancer Trust). One of the surprises of the night was ex-band member Alan Wilder coming back to the stage after 16 years, to perform ‘Somebody’ with Martin.

This interview was done at the following gig at the O2 in London, on February 20th, 2010, after the show. The live footage to the left of the interview is the Royal Albert Hall performance. This clip originally appeared on the web site on February 25th, 2010.

Source: depeche mode dot com