Eva Cassidy was brave enough to give the song an arrangement far from the original, that showed her beautiful voice off better than anything else that she recorded.

Eva Cassidy – Somewhere Over The Rainbow – Live

This is a great live version of the song Nothing Ever Happens from a session recorded in 1992.

Del Amitri – Nothing Ever Happens

INXS – Suicide Blonde – Live 1994

Alan Wilder replaced Vince Clarke in 1981 and eventually left the band in 1995, leaving Gahan, Gore, and Fletcher to continue working together as a trio.

Their success has continued non-stop over the past three decades with forty-seven singles in the UK Charts. They have also achieved number one albums in UK, US and throughout Europe, selling over 75 million albums worldwide in the process.
Such success might be comparable to was replaced by Alan Wilder (keyboards, drums, production) with Gore taking over song writing. Wilder left the band in 1995 and since then Gahan, Gore, and Fletcher have continued as a trio.

According to Q Magazine, “[Depeche Mode are t]he most popular electronic band the world has ever known”.

To be honest I felt their early material was pretty weak and thin. Throw away synth pop in a time where New Romantic image allowed boys and girls to indulge in a post-punk glam rock nonsense. But with each album Depeche Mode moved away from their synth pop roots and began making deeper, darker music; and listening to their albums over the years, it’s easy to see how they managed to keep their original fan base where other bands from that era became stagnant and dissolved.

It was with Black Celebration, their fifth album, released in 1986 that I really started to take notice of how much their sound had changed. And by the time they released their ninth album and my favourite, Ultra, in 1997 the band and its members has quite literally been to hell and back.

Vocalist Dave Gahan had struggled with heroin addiction in the 1990’s which resulted with him literally losing his life before being brought back to life. I believe the drugs and other excesses that surround Depeche Mode around this time influenced their music. Classic tracks like Useless, It’s No Good and the awesome Barrel Of A Gun reflect this period of the band’s history, as much as their personal lives.

Depeche Mode have continued to play to huge sold out audiences and return to London next month to play two concerts at The Royal Albert Hall on 17th February and the London O2 Arena on 20th February. And one thing is for sure Depeche Mode concert tickets will be difficult to comeby.

No doubt they will be playing a selection of their most popular songs and giving a great live performance to a sold out audience. Here is a performance of It’s No Good & Barrel Of A Gun live on French TV from 1997.

Depeche Mode Concert Tickets

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Eric Clapton has announced five live shows here in the UK: three in May with Steve Winwood and two in February with another rock legend, Jeff Beck.

These days, concert tickets for any UK shows are difficult to purchase, especially with someone who has had worldwide hits over the past five decades.  As well as solo, he has had success with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, The Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith and Derek & The Dominoes.

Clapton is the only musician to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame three times: as a member of The Yardbirds, Cream and also as a solo artist; and was ranked fourth in The Rolling Stone magazine’s 100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time.

Here’s a clip of Eric Clapton playing Layla live at Madison Square Gardens in 1999.

Eric Clapton Live UK Dates

Saturday 13 February 2010
Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck
O2 arena, London

Sunday 14 February 2010
Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck
O2 arena, London

Tuesday 18 May 2010
Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood
LG Arena, Birmingham

Thursday 20 May 2010
Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood
Wembley Arena, London

Friday 21 May 2010
Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood
Wembley Arena, London

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Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer – Live 1993

Jimmy Cliff first recorded the track for his 1969 album, simply called, ‘Jimmy Cliff.’  Many Rivers To Cross also featured on the 1972 soundtrack album The Harder They Come, Cliff also starred in the film.

Jimmy Cliff – Many Rivers To Cross – Live

Manic Street Preachers – Design For Life – Live 1997

This track is Cover From The Sky from the 1991 album Fellow Hoodlums and is a solo effort from the gorgeus Lorraine McIntosh and written like most of the Deacon Blue songs by Ricky Ross.

Deacon Blue – Cover From The Sky

This is a clip from the popular tv music show Later with Jools Holland from 1996.

The Bluetones – Slight Return – Live 1996