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05-24-2011 02:04 PM |
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Originally Posted by Janszoon
(Post 1058470)
Depeche Mode were popular here but mostly just within a certain niche. My understanding has always been that they were much more popular on the other side of the Atlantic.
The chart positions of their albums seem to back up my perception, though in later years it looks like things evened out a bit.
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They`ve always been huge here in the UK and as they matured captured a different audience, their early poppy synth stuff was largely for school girls but as they grew darker, rockier and David Gahan became more drug induced they captured a much wider and mature audience around the late 80`s. As big as they are in the UK, they are just as big in the rest of mainland Europe.
Its interesting that we are talking about British groups of this era who were big in the UK and fairly big in the USA as well, What`s interesting though, is that I can remember certain British groups as well, who were big in the USA for a while but hardly sold anything here in the UK.
Do you remember A Flock of Seagulls and Wang Chung two such groups?
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