Uwe Kanka and Dirk Krause met in 1986 in Kassel, Germany, at a shared rehearsal space where Krause was working with a synthpop band and Kanka was with a new wave band called Beat The Beat. Uwe had self-taught to play guitar and Dirk studied piano at a music college.…
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On 7 September 1988, Depeche Mode performed “Strangelove” at the 1988 MTV Video Music Awards at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles.
The world tour ended on 18 June 1988 with a concert at the Pasadena Rose Bowl .
In May 1988, A-ha released their third studio album, titled Stay on These Roads , which matched the number-two chart peak of its two predecessors on the British album charts. Stay on These Roads has been certified platinum in Brazil and France, and gold in Switzerland, Germany, the UK and…
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On 7 March 1988, with no previous announcement that they would be the headlining act, Depeche Mode played in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle , East Berlin, becoming one of the few Western groups to perform in East Germany .
Jazz drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was recommended by a friend of Corgan’s. Chamberlin knew little of alternative music and immediately changed the sound of the nascent band. As Corgan recalled of the period, “We were completely into the sad-rock, Cure kind of thing. It took about two or three practices before…
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They also performed concerts in Budapest and Prague in 1988.
The next album Big Thing (1988) yielded the singles ” I Don’t Want Your Love ” (number four in the US), and ” All She Wants Is ” (the last top ten hit in the UK until 1993). The record was experimental, mixing influences from house music and raves with…
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“What About Love” hit No. 14
However, in 1988 after the success of Bad Animals a re-released double A-side single of “Never”/”These Dreams” hit No. 8