13. Led ZeppelinLed Zeppelin IV
The classic Led Zeppelin record. Again I got into that much later, 1995 or something. A guy who used to work at our studio was really into them. ‘Stairway To Heaven’ I knew because we used to play that at our guitar club. They were almost a precursor to The Sex Pistols, except they were better musicians, it was just very heavy rock & roll.
We never had a synth club at school. What happened was when Depeche started I was playing guitar, Fletcher was playing bass and we had a drum machine. Then all these electronic bands started like Gary Numan and OMD, and we thought, "you know what, maybe we can enter into that world instead". Our guitar playing wasn’t up to scratch, probably.
