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Andy Fletcher (Depeche Mode) RIP

Wright6679
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  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,391
    No FUCKING WAY 

  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    RIP
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    Awful news RIP. A massive shock, especially as unlike Dave and Martin, he hadn't really overindulged. 
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,017
    Blloody hell thats a shock
  • cafc999
    cafc999 Posts: 4,967
    FFS
  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,255
    Well that's horrible. Part of my era of music.

    RIP
  • bazjonster
    bazjonster Posts: 2,875
    edited May 2022
    Gutted.

    Depeche are my musical heroes, the clichéd 'soundtrack of my life'.

    Seen them gig over 30 times. First saw them in the mid-80s in Germany, last saw them in London, Prague and Manchester on the 2017/18 'Spirit' world tour.

    RIP 'Fletch'.  :'(
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    WHAT? Fucks sake. RIP
  • newyorkaddick
    newyorkaddick Posts: 3,052
    Fabulous band and keyboards absolutely epic RIP
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    No way. What a shit day for RIP’s

    loved their stuff up to around Black Celebration. 

    Probably need to give their later stuff a listen. 

    RIP 
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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,993
    Bloody hell.
    RIP.
  • bazjonster
    bazjonster Posts: 2,875
    MrOneLung said:
    No way. What a shit day for RIP’s

    loved their stuff up to around Black Celebration. 

    Probably need to give their later stuff a listen. 

    RIP 
    You do mate. You stopped listening just before (subjectively) their best 3 studio albums: 'Music for the Masses', 'Violator', and 'Songs of Faith and Devotion'. ('Ultra' came next, another great album).

    Give them a go and then venture onto their more recent stuff. 'Wrong' is a great track from 'Sounds of the Universe'.
  • SheffieldRed
    SheffieldRed Posts: 3,772

    RIP

  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,625
    Saw DM at the O2 about 15 years ago. Better than I thought it would be. How Martin Fletcher could go before Dave Ghan is beyond me 

    RIP.
  • Addick Addict
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  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,144
    I never really got them but they are absolutely, staggeringly huge here and across Central and Eastern Europe. All the main media outlets here are running the story. No age, is it? RIP.
  • Rock Spectacle
    Rock Spectacle Posts: 1,440
    Dreadful news, had the privilege of meeting him a few times and was a top bloke, Devotional tour did get to him a bit but he seemed to be the glue in DM. Without him there would have been no Ultra, Delta Machine, Spirit and anything post  Songs of. But there would have been no Speak and Spell either. RIP Fletch. 
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    RIP
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    golfaddick said:
    Saw DM at the O2 about 15 years ago. Better than I thought it would be. How Martin Fletcher could go before Dave Ghan is beyond me 

    RIP.
    It's Andrew Fletcher, not Martin (Gore)
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,602
    I’m stunned.
    They have literally been there since I was 10/11.
    That one band that I always listened to without being hugely into.
    Proper music of my youth.
    Which then transcended into adulthood when I went to see them with my nephew.

    I instantly thought of Alison when I heard the news.
    Christ they must be beside themselves.

    RIP Fletch & thank you so much 😢
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  • SaySomething
    SaySomething Posts: 2,526
    RIP
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,022
    Shocked and saddened. RIP
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,032
    Mid 80's they were my favourite band.

    I'm guessing that he was barely 60, no age, but must have had wonderful life.

    Sleep well Fletch.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    D M were/are not my cuppa, but 60 is far too young to die .. R I P
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,150
    One of my favourite non-Rockabilly bands. So much good music, a huge part of the soundtrack of my later schooldays. So sad. RIP Fletch. 
  • RedRedRoosta
    RedRedRoosta Posts: 211
    edited May 2022
    Still can't get my head around this. So sad. My favourite band and they've provided my wife and I with some amazing memories seeing them on city breaks to Hamburg, Rome, Barcelona and New York.
    I was even lucky enough to see them in the Glasgow Barrowlands in 2017 Spirit Tour warm up gig.

    End of an era and so sad for his friends, family and Dave and Mart. Never the most talented of the band but we all loved his enthusiasm and legendary clapping although he was a very underrated bass player. He was the glue that kept the band together.

    So young to be gone. Thank you for the music and R.I.P Fletch. :'(


  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,848
    Fantastic musician. RIP
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,892
    Never Let Me Down Again live in Paris 2001. Go on YouTube, turn the volume right up but watch the footage of them performing as well.

    Truly magnificent.
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,014
    Too young. RIP
  • RedRedRoosta
    RedRedRoosta Posts: 211
    bazjonster said:
    MrOneLung said:
    No way. What a shit day for RIP’s

    loved their stuff up to around Black Celebration. 

    Probably need to give their later stuff a listen. 

    RIP 
    You do mate. You stopped listening just before (subjectively) their best 3 studio albums: 'Music for the Masses', 'Violator', and 'Songs of Faith and Devotion'. ('Ultra' came next, another great album).

    Give them a go and then venture onto their more recent stuff. 'Wrong' is a great track from 'Sounds of the Universe'.
    100% this. Music for the Masses, Violator and Ultra are superb. Even Spirit which is their latest album is a slight return to previous heights, in my humble opinion. Always found Songs of faith a little disjointed as an entire album but 'I feel you', 'walking in my shoes', 'higher love', 'judas' and 'condemnation' are quality. R.I.P Fletch.

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