Work Hard

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Work Hard
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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


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