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THE PHOTO'S MAY BE A LITTLE BLURRY (SORRY ABOUT THAT), BUT THE PHOTO'S ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM YOU ARE BIDDING ON. THANKS FOR LOOKING. THIS ITEM IS PLAY GRADED ALSO.

ARTIST- DEPECHE MODE

TITLE- “A BROKEN FRAME”

TRACK LISTING-SEE PHOTO & BELOW

A1 6:28 A2 4:45 A3 3:14 A4 4:16 A5 4:35 B1 4:40 B2 3:06 B3 4:20 B4 3:04 B5 3:10 B6 5:02

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Credits Engineer – , Photography By – Producer – , Written-By – *

Notes Catalog number on spine: 9 23751-1
Catalog number on inner label: 1-23751

Recorded at Blackwing Studios, London

YEAR OF RELEASE- 1982

LABEL- SIRE RECORDS

CAT.#- 1-23751

RECORD CONDITION- ALL RECORDS ARE VISUALLY AND PLAY GRADED.THE RECORD IS IN EXCELLENT/NM CONDITION.NO VISIBLE WEAR, SCRATCHES, LINES ETC. NICE SHINEY LUSTER TO THE VINYL. BOTH LABELS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. LOOKS AND PLAYS BRAND NEW. SUPER CLEAN.THERE IS A VERY LIGHT, VERY TINY "LINE" ON SIDE 1 ON THE LAST TWO TRACKS, I TRACKED IT AND THERE IS NO AUDIO CLICK OR POP, IT IS THE ONLY VISUAL MARK ON THE RECORD, HENCE THE NM- , THE RECORD PLAYS SUPER CLEAN.

JACKET CONDITION: IN EX/EX- CONDITION. NICE CLEAN EDGES, NO WRITING, MARKS, TEARS, CLEAN CORNERS.THERE IS VERY VERY LIGHT EDGE WEAR IN A COUPLE OF PLACE, HENCE LOWERING THE GRADE FROM NM TO EX/EX-

MORE INFO- THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. INCLUDES ORIGINAL INNER SLEEVE WITH LYRICS ALSO IN EXCELLENT CONDITION (SEE PHOTOS). HAS A GOLD INK EMBOSSED PROMO STAMP. THE TWO PAGES OF THE PRESS KIT ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, THE 8x10 GLOSSY PHOTO HAS A TINY CORNER BEND IN THE LEFT CORNER (SEE PHOTO)

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Depeche Mode () are an English band formed in , , in 1980. The group currently consists as a trio of (lead vocals and co-songwriting), (keyboards, guitar and chief songwriting), and (keyboards) replacing former member Tom Webber.

Depeche Mode released their debut album in 1981, bringing the band onto the British scene. Founding member left after the release of the album; they recorded as a trio. Gore took over as primary songwriter and, later in 1982, joined to fill Clarke's spot, establishing a lineup that continued for 13 years.

The band's last albums of the 1980s, and , established them as a dominant force within the electronic music scene. A highlight of this era was the band's June 1988 concert at the , where they drew a crowd in excess of 60,000 people. In early 1990, they released , an international mainstream success. The following album, in 1993 was also a success, though internal struggles within the band during recording and touring resulted in Wilder's departure in 1995.

Depeche Mode has had 54 songs in the and 17 top 10 albums in the UK chart; they have sold more than 100 million records worldwide. included the band in the list of the "50 Bands That Changed the World!". Depeche Mode also rank number 98 on 's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In December 2016, named Depeche Mode the 10th most successful dance club artist of all time. They were nominated for induction into the in 2018.

A Broken Frame is the second studio album by English band . It was released on 27 September 1982 by . The album was written entirely by and recorded after the departure of , who had left to form with singer . was part of a second band tour in the United Kingdom prior to the release of A Broken Frame, but he had not officially joined yet and does not appear on the album. 

Writing in , Peter Silverton observed that A Broken Frame, in contrast to the group's early post-Vince singles which he thought showed "a lack of purpose", "makes a virtue of their tinkly-bonk whimsy". In contrast, wrote that, although "ambitious and bold", "A Broken Frame – as its name suggests – marks the end of a beautiful dream", a comment on the departure of main songwriter and electronics genius . Reviewer Steve Sutherland considered the songs "daft aspirations to art", the album's musical and thematic "larcenies" sounding like "puerile infatuations papering over anonymity". At the same time, Sutherland acknowledges that the group's increasing complexity "sounds less the result of exterior persuasion than an understandable, natural development", although he finally concludes that Depeche Mode remain (in contrast to Clarke's new group ) "essentially vacuous".

The comments of Noise! magazine's 'DH' (most likely Noise! contributor Dave Henderson) showed greater prescience. 'DH' said that the album "falls together well and shows we can expect a lot more from the clean cut quartet", adding "[a]t times it reaches high points far exceeding their first album."

In a retrospective review for , Ned Raggett described A Broken Frame as "a notably more ambitious effort than the pure pop/disco of the band's debut" with much of the album "forsaking earlier sprightliness... for more melancholy reflections about love gone wrong". He adds: "More complex arrangements and juxtaposed sounds, such as the sparkle of breaking glass in "", help give this underrated album even more of an intriguing, unexpected edge."

In 1990, while promoting their album , songwriter Martin Gore lamented parts of the album, saying, "I regret all that sickly boy-next-door stuff of the early days... musically A Broken Frame was a mish-mash".

Cover image[]

Despite being a photograph, the cover artwork is intended to resemble a painting. It depicts a woman cutting grain in an field, near in . It was taken by Brian Griffin (who had previously helmed the cover photograph for and press photos for the band) using a mixture of natural and artificial lighting. Griffin cited as inspirations the of , especially the work of , and . Griffin has displayed on his website a gallery of alternative images from the same shoot. Later releases of the album on vinyl (2007) and compact disc (2009) feature slightly different takes of the shot. It was also featured on the cover of 's 1990 edition of "World's Best Photographs 1980–1990".

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