The birth of synth-pop's most dramatic live act — before the leather got really weird.
First video release by Depeche Mode, featuring almost an entire concert from their 1984 Some Great Reward Tour, in Hamburg, Germany on December 14, 1984.
Production
Primitive but charming early music video aesthetic.
Director
Clive Richardson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was filmed two weeks before the 'Blasphemous Rumours' video, capturing the band on the cusp of controversy and commercial breakthrough.
The Hamburg show predates their iconic Pasadena Rose Bowl concert by four years — this is Depeche Mode still accessible, still hungry, before they became the stadium-sized gloom merchants of the Violator era.
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