In mid-1996, after his near-fatal overdose in which his heart stopped beating for two minutes, Gahan entered a court-ordered drug rehabilitation program to battle his addiction to cocaine and heroin.
With Gahan out of rehab in 1996, Depeche Mode held recording sessions with producer Tim Simenon .
During 1995, Corgan wrote about 56 songs, following which the band went into the studio with producers Flood and Alan Moulder to work on what Corgan described as ” The Wall for Generation X “, and which became Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness , a double album of twenty-eight…
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In June 1995, Alan Wilder announced that he was leaving Depeche Mode, explaining:
Daft Punk returned to the studio in May 1995 to record ” Da Funk “. After it became their first commercially successful single, they hired a manager, Pedro Winter , who regularly promoted them and other artists at his Hype nightclubs. They signed with Virgin Records in September 1996 and…
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In 1995, Nancy Wilson decided to take a break from music to concentrate on having a family.
The next album, The Road Home (1995), offered live acoustic versions of the group’s best-known songs and was produced by Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones .
Wilder would later be called the “Musical Director” of the band, responsible for the band’s sound until his departure in 1995.
The film was directed by Anton Corbijn , and in 1995 earned the band their first Grammy nomination.
Despite Gahan’s increasingly severe personal problems, Gore tried repeatedly during 1995 and 1996 to get the band recording again.