Dave Gahan (pronounced /ˈɡɑːn/; born May 9,1962 in North Weald, Essex, United Kingdom) is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the baritone lead singer for the British synthpop band Depeche Mode. He is also an accomplished solo artist.
Born into a working class family, to parents Len Callcott (a bus driver) and his wife Sylvia (a conductress or "clippy" on London's buses), Dave was six months old when his father left the family. Sylvia and...
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Dave Gahan (pronounced /ˈɡɑːn/; born May 9,1962 in North Weald, Essex, United Kingdom) is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the baritone lead singer for the British synthpop band Depeche Mode. He is also an accomplished solo artist.
Born into a working class family, to parents Len Callcott (a bus driver) and his wife Sylvia (a conductress or "clippy" on London's buses), Dave was six months old when his father left the family. Sylvia and Len divorced two years later and his mother moved Dave and sister Sue (born 1960) to Basildon, Essex, after Sylvia met and married her second husband Jack Gahan (an administrator with Shell Oil). The Gahan family continued to grow with the birth of two more brothers Peter (born 1966) and Phil (born 1968). Dave and Sue were raised under the impression that their mother's second husband, Jack, was their natural father.
In 1972, when Dave Gahan was ten, his stepfather died. Gahan recalls how he "came home one day and found this bloke [his...
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