Black Celebration is the fifth studio album by Depeche Mode. Released by Mute Records on 17 March 1986, it further cemented the darkening sound that was initially hinted towards on their album Construction Time Again and Some Great Reward. Black Celebration was cited as one of the most influential albums of the '80s. Black Celebration Tour was the supporting tour for this album. Black Celebration is the fifth studio album by Depeche Mode. Released by Mute Records on 17 March 1986, it further cemented the darkening sound that was initially hinted towards on their album Construction Time Again and Some Great Reward. Black Celebration was cited as one of the most influential albums of the '80s. Black Celebration Tour was the supporting tour for this album. false 2023-01-16 09:43:28 Black Celebration 8.3 2007 2007-01-01 2007-01-01 41 Alternative Dance Dark Wave Electronic Industrial New Romantic New Wave Pop Rock Synth-Pop Dance-Rock 111295 2110499 6543be01-507d-395b-9c26-c6f7f107580e 8538e728-ca0b-4321-b7e5-cff6565dd4c0 b9c6879f-3a34-3aa0-a68f-73ced2608f7a /media/data/media5/Music/Depeche Mode/Black Celebration (1986)/folder.jpg Depeche Mode AlbumArtist Depeche Mode Artist Depeche Mode Depeche Mode 1 Black Celebration 04:56 2 Fly on the Windscreen (final) 05:18 3 A Question of Lust 04:23 4 Sometimes 01:54 5 It Doesn’t Matter Two 02:51 6 A Question of Time 04:09 7 Stripped 04:17 8 Here Is the House 04:16 9 World Full of Nothing 02:48 10 Dressed in Black 02:34 11 New Dress 03:46 Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980. Originally formed with the lineup of Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke, the band currently consists of Gahan and Gore. With Clarke as their primary songwriter, Depeche Mode released their debut album Speak & Spell in 1981 amid the British new wave scene. Clarke left the band at the end of 1981, going on to form the groups Yazoo and later Erasure. The remaining trio recorded their second album, A Broken Frame (1982), with Martin Gore as chief songwriter. The band then recruited Alan Wilder, establishing a lineup that continued until 1995, beginning with the albums Construction Time Again (1983) and Some Great Reward (1984). The albums Black Celebration (1986) and Music for the Masses (1987) cemented them as a dominant force within the electronic and alternative music scenes, and their June 1988 concert at the Pasadena Rose Bowl drew a crowd of over 60,000 people. In 1990, they released their seventh album, Violator, which reached number seven on the Billboard 200 and was certified triple platinum by the RIAA. The following album Songs of Faith and Devotion (1993) was also a success, though the band's internal struggles during recording and touring resulted in Wilder's departure in 1995. The band returned to the lineup of Gahan, Gore, and Fletcher, and released the album Ultra in 1997. The band continued touring and recorded five more albums as a trio—Exciter (2001), Playing the Angel (2005), Sounds of the Universe (2009), Delta Machine (2013) and Spirit (2017)—until Fletcher's death in 2022. Gahan and Gore have since continued as a duo. Their latest album, Memento Mori, was released in 2023. Depeche Mode have had 54 songs in the UK Singles Chart, 17 Top 10 albums in the UK chart, and have sold more than 100 million records worldwide. Q included the band in its list of the "50 Bands That Changed the World!" Depeche Mode also rank No. 98 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 2016, Billboard named Depeche Mode the 10th Greatest of All Time Top Dance Club Artists. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020.