Work Hard

Work Hard
Song	Work Hard
By	Depeche Mode
Songwriter	Martin L. Gore Alan Wilder
Produced by	Daniel Miller Depeche Mode
Recorded at	The Garden (London)
Length (mm:ss)	4:21 (7"/single version) 6:57 (12" version)
Tempo	140 BPM
Time signature	4 4
Key	C Major
Engineered by	Ferg Peterkin Gareth Jones
Tonmeister	Gareth Jones
Mixed at	Hansa Mischraum
Mastered by	Christian Stegmaier
Design	Martyn Atkins Town & Country Planning
Photography	Brian Griffin
Illustrations	Ian Wright
Originally released	11 July 1983
Live performances as Depeche Mode	2 times *
Total live performances	2 times *

"Work Hard" is a song recorded by Depeche Mode during the production of the 1983 album Construction Time Again. It was released as a B-side on the "Everything Counts" single on 11 July 1983.

Notes

Dave Gahan told Uncle Sally*s magazine (translated from German):

I remember a B-side called "Work Hard", which mainly consisted of wood breaking. We ran around with a hammer and toolbox across the junkyards in East London and crashed everything we could find. Gareth Jones had a cassette recorder and a microphone, and so we came back into the studio with loud, strange sounds, which we would put in a sampler or on an analogue tape, and cut up again and again until a good rhythm came out of it.

Lyrics

Work Hard

You've got to work hard

You've got to work hard

If you want anything at all

Nothing comes easy

And that's a fact

Nothing comes easy

But a broken back

Nothing comes easy

It never will

Nothing comes easy

But a broken will

So work hard

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore and Alan Wilder
Publishing Information: ©1983 Grabbing Hands Music Ltd/EMI Music Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.

Live performances

Main article: Available recordings of "Work Hard"

Main article: List of dates where "Work Hard" was played

Depeche Mode B-sides 1981-1985: Ice Machine • Shout • Any Second Now • Now, This Is Fun • Oberkorn (It's A Small Town) • The Great Outdoors • Work Hard • Fools • In Your Memory • (Set Me Free) Remotivate Me • Flexible • Fly On The Windscreen 1986-1989: But Not Tonight • Breathing In Fumes • Black Day • Christmas Island • Agent Orange • Pimpf • Pleasure, Little Treasure • Route 66 • Stjärna • Sonata No. 14 in C • Dangerous 1990-1998: Memphisto • Sibeling • Kaleid • Happiest Girl (Jack Mix) • Sea Of Sin (Tonal Mix) • My Joy • Death's Door • Painkiller • Slowblow • Surrender • Headstar 2001-2009: Easy Tiger • Dirt • Zenstation • Free • Newborn • Better Days • Oh Well 2013-2017: All That's Mine Recoil B-sides 2000-2008: New York Nights • Don't Look Back Dave Gahan solo B-sides 2003-2008: Stand Up • Maybe • Closer • Tomorrow • Love Will Leave Martin Gore solo B-sides 2003-2015: Life Is Strange • Left Hand Luke And The Beggar Boys • De Nada • Gifting