Dave Gahan

Dave Gahan (born May 9, 1962 in Epping, Essex, England) is the lead singer for the English electronic band Depeche Mode, and is also an accomplished solo artist. Born into a working class family, to parents Sylvia (a conductress on London's buses known as "a clippy") and Len (a bus driver), Dave Gahan was six months old when his father left the family. Sylvia and Len divorce 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 (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 Gahan; from whom Dave takes his second name, and after whom Dave's own son Jack is named) was in fact their real father. Tragedy struck in 1972 when Jack died when Dave was ten. Gahan recalls how he "came home one day and found this bloke [his... full article at wikipedia