It's Called A Heart

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Dave and Fletch appeared on 'Saturday Picture Show: Pop Profile' in September 1985, and they took a note from Martin with them on which Martin wrote the meaning of this song:

Interviewer: Now, your new single is called...? Dave: It's Called A Heart. Interviewer: Thank you. And what's that about? Dave: (nods towards Fletch) Fletch: Well basically... let me get my instructions out from the songwriter! Dave: Andy phoned up Martin this morning, let's find out about it. Fletch: Basically, the heart, Martin thought it was quite a mystical thing and the centre where good and evil were supposed to stem from... Dave: (opens a note, hands the note to Fletch) Fletch: ...that's right, yeah, where good an evil are supposed to stem from, yeah that's what the song is about.

Quotes from the documentary on the DVD of the Black Celebration remaster from 2006:

Martin Gore: "We just didn't have a song that was good and suitable to go on that compilation at that time, and we ended up recording It's Called A Heart, which is probably my least favourite track that we ever released."

Alan Wilder: "I remember I was vehemently against it, because I felt it was really going backwards, it was so poppy and trite, and he had other songs that were much better, like Fly On The Windscreen, because that was the B-side. It was a much, much stronger song, and I tried to argue to get it flipped over to become the A-side, but I think the first word is "death", and Neil Ferris said "NO". And I was outvoted, really, but I wasn't happy about it, and I sulked for a long time."

Dates with available recordings of It's Called A Heart

There are currently 61 recordings of It's Called A Heart available.

Dates where It's Called A Heart was played

1986 Black Celebration Tour

It's Called A Heart was played 76 times during this tour.

1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour

  • It's Called A Heart was not played during this tour.

1990 World Violation Tour

  • It's Called A Heart was not played during this tour.

1993 Devotional Tour

  • It's Called A Heart was not played during this tour.

1994 Exotic Tour

  • It's Called A Heart was not played during this tour.

1997 Ultra Parties

  • It's Called A Heart was not played during this tour.

1998 The Singles Tour

  • It's Called A Heart was not played during this tour.

2001 Exciter Tour

  • It's Called A Heart was not played during this tour.

2003 Paper Monsters Tour (Dave Gahan solo)

  • It's Called A Heart was not played during this tour.

2003 "A Night With Martin L. Gore" (Martin L. Gore solo)

  • It's Called A Heart was not played during this tour.

2005-2006 Touring The Angel

  • It's Called A Heart was not played during this tour.

2009-2010 Tour Of The Universe

  • It's Called A Heart was not played during this tour.

2013-2014 Delta Machine Tour

  • It's Called A Heart was not played during this tour.

2017-2018 Global Spirit Tour

  • It's Called A Heart was not played during this tour.