Erasure’s Vince Clarke has announced that he’ll be releasing his debut solo album, Songs of Silence, on November 17th via Mute. Along with the announcement, he has shared the album’s first ...

The British synthpop originator Vince Clarke has a long and distinguished history. Clarke was one of the founding members of Depeche Mode. He produced their 1981 debut album Speak & Spell, and he ...

Vince Clarke is almost unique in the synth-pop world for attaining significant success with a multitude of electronic bands throughout the ’80s and beyond. Having studied violin and piano at school, ...

Vince Clarke asked. For the previous few minutes, ... He wrote the three hit singles on Depeche Mode’s 1981 debut album, then quit the band and formed a duo, Yazoo, with the singer Alison Moyet.

By November 1981, a month after they released their debut album, Speak and Spell, Clarke left the band. Yazoo. ... Songs of Silence, by Vince Clarke, is released on Friday, November 17th, ...

Clarke, 63, and Martin were New Yorkers, making their home in Brooklyn; he gained prominence with bands like Yazoo, Erasure, and Depeche Mode, selling 30 million records over four decades.

The wife of the British singer Vince Clarke, who is best known as one half of Erasure and Yazoo, has died. Tracy Hurley Martin revealed she had the disease on Instagram in February 2022.

Songs Of Silence began as a project at the end of Erasure’s Autumn 2021 tour of the UK. (The title nods towards The Sound Of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel, the first band that inspired Clarke to make ...

Erasure star Vince Clarke has been left devastated after his beloved wife Tracy Hurley-Martin died of stomach cancer ... when he dabbled with vocals in a short-lived band called The Romance, ...