101 documented the band’s successful Music for the Masses tour, which culminated with a show at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on Jwhere they played for over 60,000 fans. Despite their lack of mainstream success, Depeche Mode’s American fan-base grew slowly but steadily, and after their outstanding 1987 album Music for the Masses reached #35 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart, and several singles from it became major hits on college radio and in the dance clubs (“Strangelove,” “Never Let Me Down Again,” and “Behind the Wheel”), Depeche Mode seemed poised for a big breakthrough if they could deliver the right album - and deliver it, they did.įirst, in March, 1989, the double live album 101 arrived. They did manage to break through with “People are People,” which rose all the way to #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984, but they were unable to capitalize on that momentum. ![]() Depeche Mode had been scoring Top 10 singles in their native UK since their debut album Speak and Spell in 1981, but in America they were largely relegated to college radio and, in some cases, the dance floor. Twenty-four years ago this week, on March 19, 1990, British synth-pop titans Depeche Mode released the most successful and acclaimed album of their career: Violator.
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