They are the absolute superstars: With 150,000 sales, their new album "Delta Machine" achieved the best first-week sales result in Germany. It is the sixth consecutive number-one album! In the summer, Depeche Mode will come to Germany and Switzerland for nine stadium concerts. All concerts are sold out, and a comprehensive arena tour in Austria and Germany will follow in the winter. Depeche Mode is one of the most successful and influential bands in the world. In their over 30-year career, Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, and Andy Fletcher have sold more than 100 million records. With "People are People," the English band reached the top of the single charts in Germany for the first time in 1984. Since then, Depeche Mode has been captivating more and more fans throughout the German-speaking world. This authorized biography, written by Steve Malins in collaboration with Depeche Mode, is a gripping story of transformations, developments, entanglements, and tragedies, of defeats and triumphs, of falling down and getting back up. Steve Malins has updated his standard work. Concisely told and brilliantly researched, it also extensively covers the solo albums of Dave Gahan and Martin Gore, the near-separation of the band, and their return to the spotlight with the 2013 album "Delta Machine.".