People Are People

People Are People
Depeche Mode
publication	March 12, 1984
length	3:43 (original single version), 3:50 (single version Germany)
Genre (s)	Synth pop
Author (s)	Martin L. Gore
album	Some Great Reward

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Singles

People Are People   DE 1 04/09/1984 (19 weeks)   AT 6th 06/01/1984 (8 weeks)   CH 4th 04/15/1984 (13 weeks)   UK 4th March 24, 1984 (11 weeks)   US 13 May 25, 1985 (18 weeks)

People Are People ( German : people are people) is a pop song of the British band Depeche Mode was built in 1984. The play by Martin L. Gore written on the album Some Great Reward and the United States on the compilation album People Are People published . The single was released on March 12, 1984 and stayed at number 1 in the German charts for three weeks, in the USA it reached the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 .

Emergence

Sheet music sample: Refrain from People Are People ( audio sample ^{? / I} )

The song was the band's first track for which they preprogrammed parts of the music in order to shorten the recording time in the studio. This preliminary work took place in London. The disadvantage was that the conditions for pre-production did not correspond to those in a recording studio, which is why the band had to start all over again if someone accidentally stumbled over a power cord. The studio recordings took place in January 1984 in the Hansa recording studios in Berlin under the direction of Gareth Jones. The band had rented two studios, one of them just for vocal recordings. The only part of the music that wasn't sampled was the vocals. Singer David Gahan recorded the bits of speech used in the song with the help of a walkman during a flight.

No further release was originally planned, but the band commissioned Adrian Sherwood with a remix in April 1984 . The aim was to be able to publish a danceable version. In the USA the song was released on May 16, 1984 and the maxi on July 11, 1984.

The music video for the title was directed by Clive Richardson. It was filmed on the HMS Belfast , a decommissioned cruiser of the Royal Navy , which is a museum ship on the Thames not far from Tower Bridge . Some of the recordings took place inside the ship and in the engine room, so Richardson wanted to represent the pounding electronic sound of the song.

Versions

The 7 "single contains the single version of People Are People and the B-side In Your Memory written by Alan Wilder . For the 12" single , Depeche Mode produced the Different Mix by People Are People and the Slik Mix by In Your Memory .

The 12 "limited editions contain the on-USound mix of People Are People produced by Adrian Sherwood . Sherwood also produced the song Are People People ? , which uses samples from People Are People , and 12" limited editions of the following Depeche -Mode-Single Master and Servant and on a limited triple CD edition of the remix compilation Remixes 81-04 was published.

reception

The song served the ARD as theme music for their coverage of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles . In 2012, Volkswagen used the song in different versions as background music for an advertising spot for the VW Golf .

There are also various cover versions of People Are People :

• The first came from Götz Alsmann and his band The Sentimental Pounders , who re-recorded the song as a jazz version in 1985 for their album Saratoga Suitcase and released it as a single.
• Clan of Xymox used samples from People Are People for their song This World . This World appeared on the album Hidden Faces (1997) and as a single in 1998.
• The German band Stone The Crow released People Are People as a single in 2002.
• The German Project for the Masses ( Grant Stevens , Der Graf and Fairlage ) covered People Are People for their Depeche Mode tribute album Just Can't Get Enough (2003).
• RuPaul released his version of People Are People on his 2004 album Red Hot . 2006 also released the maxi single People Are People (The RuMixes) .
• The US rock bands A Perfect Circle and Dope reinterpreted People Are People for their albums eMOTIVe (2004) and American Apathy (2005), respectively .
• The German metal band Atrocity released People Are People on their 2008 cover album Werk 80 II .
• Further cover versions and remixes are from Jesus Chrysler Suicide , Underground Resistance and others. a.

Web links

• People Are People on depechemode.com
• Heiko Wandler: People Are People (Depeche Mode). In: Michael Fischer, Fernand Hörner (Ed.): Songlexikon. Encyclopedia of Songs.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sources Chart placements: DE ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2009 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. / AT / CH / UK / US , accessed February 16, 2016. 
2. ↑ release date
3. ↑ Jonathan Miller: Stripped: Depeche Mode . Omnibus Press, 2004, p. 179 .
4. ↑ Miller: Stripped: Depeche Mode. P. 180
5. ↑ Miller: Stripped: Depeche Mode. P. 184
6. ↑ Miller: Stripped: Depeche Mode. P. 186
7. ↑ De: Bug: "Our record of the day: Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People". January 26, 2009, accessed December 2, 2009 .