Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The year, 1985. Vince Clarke had left Depeche Mode and disbanded Yaz and was ready for something new. Andy Bell was an openly gay singer, an anomaly at the ...

Synth pop is more or less the sound that defined the '80s. Inspired by trendsetters like Giorgio Moroder and Kraftwerk, it's pop music built around a single instrument, the synthesizer — from the ...

With a career spanning over 30 years, 17 albums and over 40 singles, it perhaps gets too easy to take synth-pop duo Erasure for granted. Yet take a closer look at the achievements of singer Andy Bell ...

1980s electronic music icons Erasure (Vince Clarke and Andy Bell) have announced a new album, World Be Gone, and shared a brief album trailer. World Be Gone is due out May 19 via Mute. Below is the ...

Alongside Vince Clarke, the electropop pioneer has produced some brilliantly catchy and enduring songs. As the group releases a new album, the singer reflects on what happens when the hits dry up – ...

It’s September 1985 and my 15-year-old self thinks he is on to something. I’m in John Menzies, a newsagent-cum-Woolworths wannabe and the only record stockist in Stretford’s Arndale Centre. A mile ...

UPDATE: Erasure has postponed its January and February tour dates "as a result of circumstances beyond our control" the duo posted Mon Twitter. "We will announce the rescheduled shows shortly so ...

THE Synth-pop veterans are returning to Brighton off the back of their 17th album World Be Gone, released last year. Vince Clarke of the duo tells EDWIN GILSON why the state of the world is good for ...

At the beginning of his career, it looked like British synthesizer wizard Vince Clarke feared long-term commitment. He quit Depeche Mode a month after the band’s debut album was released in fall 1981.

Erasure singer Andy Bell has found a new life as the star of a series of stage productions in the U.K. as Torsten, a mythical being who has lived for over a century, Bell has embraced the opportunity ...