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"Leave in Silence" is the sixth UK single
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
 by Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode is an electronic music band formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex, England. The group's original line-up was Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andrew Fletcher and Vince Clarke ....
 originally released
Release (music)

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 on August 16 1982. It is the first Depeche Mode single in the UK with the "Bong" label
Record label

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, which is still used to this day. It is also the first Depeche Mode song to have more than one remix
Remix

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 of itself.

"Leave in Silence" appears in three versions. The single version is the A Broken Frame
A Broken Frame

A Broken Frame is the second studio album by the British synthpop band Depeche Mode, released in 1982. The album was written entirely by Martin Gore and recorded after the departure of Vince Clarke, who had left the band to form Yazoo with singer Alison Moyet....
 version with the small interlude at the end removed.






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"Leave in Silence" is the sixth UK single
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
 by Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode is an electronic music band formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex, England. The group's original line-up was Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andrew Fletcher and Vince Clarke ....
 originally released
Release (music)

In the music industry, a release is usually the event at which an album or Single is first offered for sale in record stores. Also an album launch, or single launch....
 on August 16 1982. It is the first Depeche Mode single in the UK with the "Bong" label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
, which is still used to this day. It is also the first Depeche Mode song to have more than one remix
Remix

A remix is an alternative version of a song, different from the original version. A remixer uses Audio mixing to compose an alternate master recording of a song, adding or subtracting elements, or simply changing the equalization, dynamics, Pitch , tempo, playing time, or almost any other aspect of th...
 of itself.

"Leave in Silence" appears in three versions. The single version is the A Broken Frame
A Broken Frame

A Broken Frame is the second studio album by the British synthpop band Depeche Mode, released in 1982. The album was written entirely by Martin Gore and recorded after the departure of Vince Clarke, who had left the band to form Yazoo with singer Alison Moyet....
 version with the small interlude at the end removed. There is also a longer version, and a quieter version, which is an almost a cappella
A cappella

Acappella music is vocal music or singing without musical instrument accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance music polyphony and Baroque concertato style....
 version of the song, except that most of the small samples are still there. The "Longer" version of "Leave in Silence" replaces the "Album" version on the American version of A Broken Frame.

The b-side is "Excerpt From: My Secret Garden", which is an instrumental
Instrumental

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 version of "My Secret Garden", which along with "Leave in Silence" eventually appear on A Broken Frame a little more than a month later. "Further Excerpts From: My Secret Garden" is a longer version which appears as a bonus track
Bonus track

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 on some versions of A Broken Frame.

The video
Music video

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 for "Leave in Silence" is directed by Julien Temple
Julien Temple

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, and features the band
Band (music)

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 (which, by this time, included Alan Wilder
Alan Wilder

Alan Charles Wilder is a Great Britain musician, formerly of Depeche Mode. His current musical project is called Recoil , started as a side project to Depeche Mode, but when he left the latter in 1995, it evolved into Wilder's primary project....
) breaking things and talking to each other while wearing face paint. The band did not include the video on the Some Great Videos
Some Great Videos

Some Great Videos is the first music video compilation by Depeche Mode, featuring ten music videos directed by Clive Richardson or Peter Care, released in 1985....
 VHS
VHS

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 compilation album.

In February 2006, "Leave in Silence" was sung (acoustically) by Martin Gore
Martin Gore

Martin Gore is an English songwriter, lyricist, singer, guitarist and keyboardist. He is a founding member of Depeche Mode. His work now spans three decades, but he is best known as the composer of chart-topper such as "Personal Jesus" and "Enjoy the Silence"....
 to a Paris
Paris

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 audience
Audience

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, and the song has rotated into the schedule ever since. It is interesting to note, since it is the first time a song from A Broken Frame was played live
Live Music

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 in almost two decades, when "Leave in Silence" was played during the Black Celebration Tour in 1986, by far the longest deficit of any of Depeche Mode's albums. (Tied second was Speak and Spell which only had a 11 year deficit)

Track listings


7": Mute / 7Bong1 (UK)

  1. "Leave in Silence" – 4:00
  2. "Excerpt From: My Secret Garden" – 3:16


12": Mute / 12Bong1 (UK)

  1. "Leave in Silence (Longer)" – 6:32
  2. "Further Excerpts From: My Secret Garden" – 4:23
  3. "Leave in Silence (Quieter)" – 3:42


CD: Mute / CDBong1 (UK)

  1. "Leave in Silence" – 4:00
  2. "Excerpt From: My Secret Garden" – 3:16
  3. "Leave in Silence (Longer)" – 6:32
  4. "Further Excerpts From: My Secret Garden" – 4:23
  5. "Leave in Silence (Quieter)" – 3:42


  • CD released in 1991
  • All songs written by Martin Gore
    Martin Gore

    Martin Gore is an English songwriter, lyricist, singer, guitarist and keyboardist. He is a founding member of Depeche Mode. His work now spans three decades, but he is best known as the composer of chart-topper such as "Personal Jesus" and "Enjoy the Silence"....


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