People Are People
People Are People (English for: " People are people " ) is a song by British band Depeche Mode from 1984 The piece was written by Martin L. Gore and as a single and on the album Some Great Reward and the United States. released on the compilation album People Are People. The single was released on 12 March 1984, held in Germany, three weeks at No. 1 on the charts in the U.S., it reached the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, the song served as the title of German music for their coverage of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Formation
The song was the first piece of the band for which they pre-programmed parts of the music in order to shorten the recording time in the studio. This preparatory work took place in London. Downside was that the conditions for pre-production which corresponded not in a recording studio, which is why it seemed that the band had to start all over again, if someone had stumbled by accident via a power cable. The studio recordings took place in January 1984 in the Hansa studios in Berlin under the baton of Gareth Jones instead. The band had rented two studios, one for the vocal recordings. The only part of the music, which was not sampled, was the singing. The fragments of speech used in the song had added singer David Gahan using a walkman during a flight.
Originally no further release was planned, but the band commissioned in April 1984 Adrian Sherwood with a remix. The aim was to publish a tanzbarere version. In the U.S. the song on May 16, 1984, the Maxi appeared on 11 July 1984.
The music video for the title was directed by Clive Richardson. It was filmed on the HMS Belfast, a abgemusterten cruiser of the Royal Navy, which is a museum ship on the Thames near the Tower Bridge. Some of the recordings took place in the ship's interior and in the engine room, so that Richardson wanted to represent the pounding electronic sound of the song.
Versions
The 7 "single contains the single version of People Are People the written by Alan Wilder B-side In Your Memory. For the 12 " single produced the Depeche Mode People Are People Different Mix of and the Slik Mix of In Your Memory.
On limited 12 " editions of the produced by Adrian Sherwood On- Usound Mix of People Are People is included. From Sherwood also comes the song Are People People?, Used the samples from People Are People and on limited 12" editions of the following Depeche Fashion Single Master and Servant, and on a limited triple CD edition of the remix compilation Remixes 81-04 was released.
Cover versions
Furthermore, there are several cover versions of People Are People:
- The first was from Götz Alsmann and his band, The Sentimental Pounders, who received the song in 1985 for her album Saratoga Suitcase as a jazz version of new and published as a single.
- Clan of Xymox used for their song This World samples from People Are People. This World was released on the album Hidden Faces (1997) and 1998 as a single.
- The German band Stone The Crow published People Are People 2002 as a single.
- The German Project for the Masses ( Grant Stevens, The Count and fair position ) coverte People Are People for his Depeche Mode tribute album Just Can not Get Enough ( 2003).
- RuPaul released his version of People Are People on his album Red Hot by 2004. 2006 also appeared the Maxi-Single People Are People (The RuMixes ).
- The American rock band A Perfect Circle and interpreted Dope People Are People for their albums emotive (2004 ) and American Apathy (2005 ) new.
- The German metal band Atrocity released the 2008 People Are People on their cover album Werk 80 II
Other cover versions and remixes come from Jesus Chrysler Suicide, D. Sign meets STC, 30 Dirty Junkies, Andrew grasses, Tony Arzadon, Underground Resistance and Others
In 2012, Volkswagen used the song as background music in different versions of an advert for the VW Golf.