Martin Gore
Martin Lee Gore (born July 23, 1961 in London , England ) is an English musician. Since 1980 he has been a keyboardist, later a songwriter, guitarist and, alongside Dave Gahan , singer of the synth-pop band Depeche Mode .
Early youth
Gore was born on July 23, 1961 to David and Pamela Gore in London. He grew up in Dagenham , attended Basildon Comprehensive School , played on a cricket team and majored in German. At the age of 15, his fondness for the German language enabled him to take part in a program for exchange students. He took advantage of this in the summer of 1976 with a stay in Erfde , Schleswig-Holstein . Two further visits to his north German host family followed in 1977 and 1978.
Musical career
After attending school, Gore worked for a bank in London from 1977. At the time, fascinated by glam rock artists like Gary Glitter , a friend taught him his first guitar chords. At the same time, Gore wrote his first texts, such as B. the very first Depeche Mode single See You wrote by him at the age of 17. He later played evenings and weekends in a band called Norman and the Worms . In 1980 Gore met Andrew Fletcher (whose boyfriend he had been since childhood) at the Van Gogh Club and was recruited by him for his band Composition of Sound . Soon after, the band hired Dave Gahan , who was already a roadie for Composition of Sound, as lead singer.
Gore wrote two songs for the first band album Speak & Spell ( Big Muff and Tora! Tora! Tora! ). After Vince Clarke left Depeche Mode in 1981, the task of composer and lyricist fell to Gore. Gore sings some songs himself, especially ballads, and his tenor voice contrasts with Gahan's baritone . In addition, Gore plays guitar, since the development of the band to rock sounds from Violator (1990) also in live performances.
In 1989 Gore released his first solo album Counterfeit , which consists entirely of cover versions. In 1995 he took part in Tower of Song , a tribute album for Leonard Cohen : He covered the Cohen song Coming Back to You .
After the Exciter tour in 2002, Gore began recording his second cover album Counterfeit 2 , which was released at the same time as Gahan's first studio album Paper Monsters in 2003.
On April 25, 2015, Gore released his third solo album MG under the band name MG , whose name he had based on his project VCMG .
Martin Gore was honored with the " Moog Innovation Award" in 2019 for his services to electronic music .
Collaborations
Gore played the keyboard on the two songs Happiness Is Hard to Take and Don't Know Where I Belong by Humpe & Humpe . The songs were released on the album Humpe Humpe (1985).
In 2004 he wrote the song Cloud 9 together with Claudia Brücken for their synth-pop project Onetwo , consisting of Brücken (formerly Propaganda ) and Paul Humphreys ( OMD ) . The title is included on Onetwo's EP Item (2004) and was also released as a single in 2007.
In 2006, Gore was a featured songwriter on the single Beware of the Dog by British singer-songwriter Jamelia . He also played guitar on a song on the Gwen Stefani album The Sweet Escape .
In 2011 Gore released the song Man Made Machine with Motor , on which he also recorded the vocals. In addition, he was also in the music video. In the same year he founded the minimal techno project VCMG together with his former bandmate Vince Clarke . The first album, entitled Ssss , was released in March 2012. The EPs Spock , Single Blip and Aftermaths were also released .
Socially critical copywriter
Since Gore took over the duties of a lyricist at Depeche Mode in early 1982, he has repeatedly been socially critical in his songs. The dark side of the music industry ( Everything Counts ), racism ( People Are People ), sexual bondage ( Master and Servant ), religion ( Blasphemous Rumors ) or the ignorance of the British royal family ( New Dress ) were some of his topics. About the 1986 song New Dress , Gore later said:
“I regret having written this song. In the song of the Princess Of Wales I accuse quite bluntly of just walking around in beautiful new clothes in complete ignorance while the country sinks into chaos around them. At that time I knew little about her social commitment. Little did I know that when I wrote this song in the mid-1980s, she was the only member of the royal family interested in becoming a patron of future AIDS foundations that didn't even exist in Britain at the time. I didn't know she was an opponent of fox hunting. Little did I know that she was taking her three-year-old son William with her to the homeless shelters to show him that it was also part of the country he was to become king of. I didn't know anything about her. I did her profoundly injustice with 'New Dress'. "
Private life
From 1984 to 1985 Gore lived with his then German girlfriend in Berlin . He was known at the time for wearing skirts and black nail polish, which caused a stir. In an interview with Pop Special magazine that he gave at the time, Gore said of his looks:
“Sexual barriers and gender roles are old-fashioned and out. [...] My girlfriend and I often swap clothes or make-up. "
Gore was also one of the first pop stars to admit to being a vegetarian out of conviction. Gore said in 1985:
"I'm a vegetarian and I was long before it was made fashionable."
From August 1994 to January 2008, Gore was married to the fashion designer Suzanne Boisvert. You have three children (* 1991, 1995 and 2002).
In a 2005 interview, Gore said about the 1980s:
“My children find it embarrassing when they see old photos of their father walking around twenty years ago. Honestly, since you first saw the photos, they don't take me seriously anymore. Much to their delight, I have lost all of my authority over them. "
On June 8, 2014, Martin Gore married his girlfriend Kerrilee Kaski. Two years later, on February 19, 2016, their daughter was born. In March 2017, Gore's fifth child was born.
Martin Gore lives in Santa Barbara , California , USA .
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 AT
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 CH
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 UK
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| 1989 | Counterfeit ep |
DE41 (12 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK51 (1 week) UK |
First published: June 1989
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| 2003 | Counterfeit² |
DE12 (6 weeks) DE |
- |
CH79 (2 weeks) CH |
- |
First published: April 2003
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| 2015 | MG |
DE7 (2 weeks) DE |
AT37 (1 week) AT |
CH28 (2 weeks) CH |
UK50 (1 week) UK |
First published: April 2015
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Singles (chart successes)
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
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DE
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AT
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CH
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UK
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| 2003 | Stardust Counterfeit² |
DE29 (4 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK44 (2 weeks) UK |
First published: April 2003
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| Loverman Counterfeit² |
DE53 (2 weeks) DE |
- | - | - |
First published: November 2003
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literature
- André Boße with Dennis Plauk: Insight - Martin Gore & Depeche Mode (A Portrait) , Hannibal Verlag, Höfen 2010, ISBN 978-3-85445-325-3 .
Web links
- Official website of Martin Gore (English)
- Official site of Depeche Mode (English)
- Web site VCMG Releases Mute (English)
- Martin Gore at Discogs (English)
- Martin Gore at laut.de
- Martin Gore in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jürgen Seibold: Depeche Mode , p. 13, Verlagsunion Erich Pabel / Arthur Moewig KG, Rastatt, 1990, ISBN 3-8118-3066-X
- ↑ a b c d Manfred Gillig-Degrave / Hans Derer: Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence 1980-1990 , p. 35, Edel Company, 1990, ISBN 3-927801-13-5
- ↑ Depechemode.de: Album will be released on April 24th - Martin Gore: New album “MG” in April - listen to the first track now!
- ↑ Martin Gore from Depeche Mode receives. Accessed May 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.depechemode.de/martin-gore-hat-wieder-geheirat-33502/
- ↑ Martin Gore: Surprise: He became a dad again! In: gala.de. March 18, 2017. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gore, Martin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gore, Martin Lee (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English composer, singer and head of the Depeche Mode group |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , England |