In December 2006, iTunes released The Complete Depeche Mode as its fourth ever digital box-set.
A “best-of” compilation was released in November 2006, entitled The Best of Depeche Mode Volume 1 featuring a new single ” Martyr “, an outtake from the Playing the Angel sessions.
Later that month Depeche Mode received the MTV Europe Music Award in the Best Group category.
Flat Chat , another compilation album, was released in November 2006 and peaked at No. 21 on the ARIA album charts.
After their Buenos Aires show in November 2006, Peter Hook suggested that the band should stop touring.
On 30 October 2006 in London, A-ha received the prestigious Q Magazine Inspiration Award for their long contribution to music and for inspiring many of their younger colleagues in the business.
The band signed to Polydor Records in August 2006, following offers from numerous different record labels. Regarding the fee amount, James Righton said that it was “absurdly off the mark”, and that the band signed for considerably less on the condition they would be given their own label imprint ,…
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On 29 October 2006, Midnight Oil was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame with ARIA chairman Denis Handlin describing them:
On 25 October 2006, Duran Duran parted company with Andy Taylor once again. In an official announcement on their website, the band stated that an “unworkable gulf” had developed between them and Taylor and that “we can no longer effectively function together”. It was noted by Andy Taylor in his…
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In 2006, the Damned released the single ” Little Miss Disaster ” and a live DVD MGE25 documenting a 2004 Manchester concert celebrating the 25th anniversary of Machine Gun Etiquette (1979). On 21 October 2006, BBC Radio 2 broadcast an hour-long documentary titled Is She Really Going Out with Him?…
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