People Are People

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Notes

Quotes from the documentary on the DVD of the Some Great Reward remaster from 2006:

Gareth Jones: "The acoustics of People Are People and the sound of the beats and the big fills things, is all the sound of the rooms, with the beats getting thrown around Hansa Studio: three floors down for the bass drum, snare drum one floor over, toms in another room over there that, kind of thing. The whole building was shaking."

Alan Wilder: "It gives quite a big sounding record, the biggest sort of in that sense [makes a large box with hand gestures], the biggest we've ever made, and it seemed that it had something going for it."

Daniel Miller: "We just basically pressed 'play' and just ran it, and everybody sang along, and it just seemed like it all sounded great, even before we recorded it properly.

Andy Fletcher: We thought it was a good song. Now, we're not too keen on it. It's probably... It's our biggest hit that we don't play."

Alan says in Electronic Soundmaker & Computer Music magazine, issued April 1984:

"When we do a single like this [People Are People] we mix for radio rather than for hi-fi. Danny [Miller] bought a little gadget which we're evaluating called the Ear Opener — it's supposed to reproduce exactly the compression and re-equalization you have on radio. So we constantly cross-reference what we hear in the Control Room with what comes out of this little modified transistor radio: previously we were finding that our mixes weren't spunding all that great on medium-wave; one thing we've learned is that you have to go way over the top with ambiance and reverb to get the same effect on radio as you would hear on a hi-Fi system — that's why Hansa is so good, 'cos you can pass your most computer-like sounds through amps and even huge PA stacks in their large, halls, mike them up, gate them to hell and come up with the most incredible and powerful sounds. That's how we did People Are People: I suppose you could call it Controlled Dirt."

Dates with available recordings of People Are People

There are currently 185 recordings of People Are People available.

Dates where People Are People was played

1983-1984 Construction Time Again Tour

People Are People was played 2 times during this tour.

1984-1985 Some Great Reward Tour

People Are People was played 81 times during this tour.

1986 Black Celebration Tour

People Are People was played 75 times during this tour.

1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour

People Are People was played 68 times during this tour.

1990 World Violation Tour

  • People Are People was not played during this tour.

1993 Devotional Tour

  • People Are People was not played during this tour.

1994 Exotic Tour

  • People Are People was not played during this tour.

1997 Ultra Parties

  • People Are People was not played during this tour.

1998 The Singles Tour

  • People Are People was not played during this tour.

2001 Exciter Tour

  • People Are People was not played during this tour.

2003 Paper Monsters Tour (Dave Gahan solo)

  • People Are People was not played during this tour.

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

  • People Are People was not played during this tour.

2005-2006 Touring The Angel

  • People Are People was not played during this tour.

2009-2010 Tour Of The Universe

  • People Are People was not played during this tour.

2013-2014 Delta Machine Tour

  • People Are People was not played during this tour.

2017-2018 Global Spirit Tour

  • People Are People was not played during this tour.