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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Blasphemous Rumours"/"Somebody
| cover = DepecheModeBlasphemousRumours.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Depeche Mode
| album = Some Great Reward
| released = 29 October 1984
| recorded = June 1984
Music Works in Highbury,
Hansa Mischraum in West Berlin
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = New wave
| length = 5:06 (Blasphemous Rumours)
6:20 (Blasphemous Rumours, 12" version)
4:19 (Somebody)
4:27 (Somebody, album version)
| label = Mute
| writer = Martin Gore
| producer =
| prev_title = Master and Servant
| prev_year = 1984
| next_title = Shake the Disease
| next_year = 1985
}}
"'Blasphemous Rumours'"/"'Somebody'" is Depeche Mode's twelfth UK single and first double A-side single, released on 29 October 1984.Both A-side songs are from the album 'Some Great Reward'.
Song information
Blasphemous Rumours
When Depeche Mode announced that they were planning to release "Blasphemous Rumours" as a single, pushback from the religious community resulted, and consequently, the band decided as a compromise to release the single as a double-A side with "Somebody."Somebody
"Somebody", which was sung by Martin Gore in the studio in the nude, includes one of Gore's "little twists", where the song builds as if it is a song about finding your perfect love, only to have him reveal at the end "though things like this make me sick / in a case like this I'll get away with it."Track listings
All songs written by Martin Gore except:
* "Ice Machine" by Vince Clarke
* "Two Minute Warning" by Alan Wilder
7": Mute / 7Bong7 (UK)
# "Blasphemous Rumours" 5:06# "Somebody (Remix)" 4:19
7" EP: Mute / 7Bong7E (UK)
# "Somebody (Remix)" 4:19# "Everything Counts (Live)" - 5:53
# "Blasphemous Rumours" 5:06
# "Told You So (Live Version)" - 4:54
12": Mute / 12Bong7 (UK)
# "Blasphemous Rumours" 6:20# "Somebody (Live)" 4:26
# "Two Minute Warning (Live)" 4:36
# "Ice Machine (Live)" 3:45
# "Everything Counts (Live)" 5:53
* This version of the single was also released on CD. Intercord 826.839. No Bong number, same cover as the vinyl version.
CD: Mute / CDBong7 (UK)
# "Blasphemous Rumours" 6:20# "Told You So (Live)" 4:56
# "Somebody (Remix)" 4:19
# "Everything Counts (Live)" 5:53
* The CD single was released in 1991 as part of the singles box set compilations.
All live tracks recorded at the Empire Theatre in Liverpool, England on 29 September 1984.
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