A little over a month after the death of Andrew Fletcher, keyboardist of Depeche Mode, the most important techno pop band in history, we remember one of his greatest hits and that, without knowing it, became the soundtrack of several soccer teams but especially from Celtic in Scotland.
It’s about ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’, a song that for a large part of the history of Depeche Mode tours, sounds at the end of the concerts, creating a party atmosphere just before closing the show.
The song was born in 1981, within the debut album ‘Speak & Spell’ and it is precisely one of the songs with which the band reached the popularity charts in England, although later it became a football anthem mainly in Europe.
However, the creativity of the Celtic fans allowed them to be the first to use the song in the stands at Celtic Park and there is not a single fan who stands still in the stadium at that time, it is after You’ll Never Walk Alone (which is also the anthem of Celtic), the song that the fans sing the most.
“When I see you Celtic, I go out of my head, i just can’t get enough, I just can’t get enough”
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Andrew Fletcher, perhaps the most football fan of Depeche Mode because he was a Chelsea fan and always carried a Blues shirt in his suitcase when the band went on tour
In fact, during an interview prior to the World Cup in Italy 90, dates in which the band was on tour, ‘Fletch’ stated that he did not want to be on tour, that he preferred to be at home having a beer and watching the World Cup with his friends.
In addition to the fact that Andrew Fletcher had season tickets for Chelsea and used to go several times a year to Stamford Bridge and it was common for people to recognize him and ask for photos.
Along with Martin Gore, two of the founding members of Depeche Mode are the most footballing, only Gore is a fan of Arsenal and ‘Fletch’, of the Blues, so they used to play football matches between the staff that accompanied them during tours. .
Finally, it is also worth mentioning that ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’, long ago ceased to be just a song by the band from Basildon, it also became popular thanks to the fans of teams such as Brugge from Belgium, River Plate from Argentina and even the current champion of the Champions League, Real Madrid, have come to use.
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