Ian Gittins

The story of The Cure is a fantastical pop fable, but their trajectory has not been one of unbroken success. Along the way, their uneven, uneasy pop odyssey has taken in fierce intra-band tensions and fall-outs, numerous line-up changes, and even a bitter court case that saw original group members feuding over payments and ownership of the band's name. There...

Nobody who saw Depeche Mode in 1980 could have predicted that those four fresh-faced, synth-pop innocents would transform themselves into stadium-filling rock gods within a few years. Yet Depeche Mode went on to become one of the Top 10 best-selling British acts of all time, selling over 100 million albums worldwide. Now celebrating four decades together, the group continues to...