Významná anglická synthy-popová skupina, zpočátku částečně ovlivněna punkem, později Kraftwerkem a na počátku 80. let často řazena i ke stylu new romance. Vzniká v r. 1976 v Basildonu. Clarke začínal jako kytarista ve sk. Romance In China....

Píseň: Puppets

Interpret:
Depeche Mode
Album:
Speak & Spell
Get that feeling head is reeling
You think you're in control 
But you don't know me babe
I can move you i can soothe you
I can take you places in a different way


I don't think you understand
What I'm trying to say
I'll be your operator baby
I'm in control


Watch your action close reaction
And everything you're thinking babe inside your head
Conversation, my creation
Nothing that you do you do unless i said


You don't know the consequences
Of the things you say
I'll be your operator baby
I'm in control


All the things you tried to do babe
And all the words we said before
Are only part of what I started baby
And you can't stop me anymore


Get that feeling head is reeling
You think you're in control 
But you don't know me babe
I can move you i can soothe you
I can take you places in a different way


I don't think you understand
What I'm trying to say
I'll be your operator baby
I'm in control