Depeche Mode Reveal Founding Member Andy Fletcher’s Explanation for Dying – EDM.com
Amid the continued outpour of help over the passing of Depeche Mode keyboard participant and founding member Andy Fletcher, the legendary digital music band have shared an replace on his sudden demise. Fletcher was 60 on the time of his demise.
“A pair weeks in the past we acquired the end result from the medical experts, which Andy’s household requested us to share with you now,” Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan and Martin Gore mentioned in a joint assertion shared by way of the band’s Instagram account. “Andy suffered an aortic dissection whereas at house on Might 26. So, despite the fact that it was far, far too quickly, he handed naturally and with out extended struggling.”
Aortic dissections are typically unusual, although they’re extra prevalent in males of their sixties and seventies, per Mayo Clinic.
Fletcher, Gore and Gahan began Depeche Mode together with prior bandmate Vincent Clarke at round 18 years of age. Collectively, the band issued many seminal, synthesizer-driven digital albums resembling 1990’s Violator and 1993’s Songs of Religion and Devotion.
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Their efforts netted them over 100 million data bought and a coveted spot within the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame as a part of the 2020 class of inductees.
We at EDM.com categorical our honest condolences to the household, followers, mates and family members of Andy Fletcher.