I’m not a person to regret things, but there’s nothing to sugar-coat: the phase of my life that I went through in the mid-90s after leaving the Red Hot Chili Peppers shouldn’t be an inspiration for anyone. It almost destroyed me- I lost my teeth and gained scars on my arms, but I was very …
It is on Depeche Mode‘s smoldering masterpiece Violator (1990) where you find Personal Jesus, released as the album’s lead-single and becoming the biggest-selling 12-inch single in Warner Bros. history to that point. According to Johnny Cash a ‘gospel’ and “the most evangelical song I have ever recorded”, it remains to this day the perfect song …
