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By Jamie Anderson, Director, Global Solution Marketing, SAP In 1986 Depeche Mode released Black Celebration. A turning point for the band as they left behind the last remnants of electronic pop for an edgier, darker, sound. I loved it. It alienated some but gained so many more new fans with its deeper, more seductive, and contemplative lyrical content. That’s not to say the Mode didn’t have the deep lyrical content before this, Everything Counts from 1983’s Construction....