Depeche Mode Travels Route 66 For Video Shoot

(2/23/01, 7 a.m. ET) -- Depeche Mode has resurrected its connection to
historic Route 66 by using it as the setting for the video of "Dream On,"
the first single from the group's next album, Exciter, due from Mute/Reprise
on May 15. The band first tapped in to that particular stretch of Americana
when it released a version of the classic song "Route 66" back in 1988.

Members Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, and Andrew Fletcher joined video director
Stephane Sednaoui on the highway in the desert near Barstow, California, for
the shoot last weekend (February 17-18). The trio was shot traveling in a
black Lincoln Continental through the desolate area, surrounded by its
striking vistas. Gahan said in a statement, "Martin and Andrew are my
passengers, but the viewer won't know if they're truly in the car with me."

"Dream On" arrives at radio in the middle of next month. Exciter is Depeche
Mode's first new studio album since 1997's Ultra.

-- Neal Weiss, Los Angeles