Work Hard
Work Hard
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| Song | Work Hard |
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| 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 | 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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