Blasphemous Rumours / Somebody

"Blasphemous Rumours"/"Somebody" is Depeche Mode's twelfth UK single and first double A-side single, released on 29 October, 1984.

Both A-side songs are from the album Some Great Reward. "Somebody" is the first single with Martin Gore as lead vocals, one of only three.

The music videos for both songs were directed by Clive Richardson.

Song information

"Somebody," which was sung by Martin L. Gore in the studio in the nude, includes one of Gore's "little twists," where the song builds as if it's a song about finding your perfect love, only to have him reveal at the end "though things like this make me sick / in a case like this I'll get away with it."^[1]

Track listings

All songs written by Martin L. Gore except:

• "Ice Machine" by Vince Clarke
• "Two Minute Warning" by Alan Wilder

7": Mute / Bong7 (UK)

1. "Blasphemous Rumours" – 5:06
2. "Somebody (Remix)" – 4:19

12": Mute / 12Bong7 (UK)

1. "Blasphemous Rumours" – 6:20
2. "Somebody (Live)" – 4:26
3. "Two Minute Warning (Live)" – 4:36
4. "Ice Machine (Live)" – 3:45
5. "Everything Counts (Live)" – 5:53

• This version of the single was also released on CD. Intercord 826.839. No Bong number, same cover as the vinyl version.

CD: Mute / CDBong7 (UK)

1. "Blasphemous Rumours" – 6:20
2. "Told You So (Live)" – 4:56
3. "Somebody (Remix)" – 4:19
4. "Everything Counts (Live)" – 5:53

• The CD single was released in 1991 as part of the singles box set compilations

All live tracks recorded at the Empire Theatre in Liverpool, England on September 29, 1984.

References

External links

• Single information from the official Depeche Mode web site