Depeche Mode would to be the real “silicon” teens. The of sex appeal and synthesizers would them one of the biggest pop acts 1981.

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Vince Clarke: When Depeche Mode, when we were gigging, we’d all our synthesizers and I, for some reason, you know, had to the synthesizer out of all of them, you know. We didn’t have or anything, so we … we’d on the train and … this really is quite heavy. So I’d this thing under my arm. Fletcher would a Moog. Martin had a Yamaha, I think, on the train. And when we our first “Top of the Pops”, you know, we were the train with these – with our synthesizers.
Interviewer: You the train to “Top of the Pops”?
Vince Clarke: Yeah. Basildon Fenchurch Street … in the underground.