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Spirit (Depeche Mode album)
Please do not add nonsense to Wikipedia. Such edits are considered vandalism and quickly undone. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox instead. Thank you. Disembodied Soul (talk) 07:53, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

I suggest you do a bit more research before throwing the word vandalism around. Andy Fletcher has not contributed to Depeche Mode musically since at least 1983 when Alan Wilder joined as a full member of Depeche Mode. He has occasionally participated in the sampling of sounds, for example; "Condemnation" from Songs of Faith and Devotion - Interview with Alan Wilder from Keyboard, May 1993. Written by Robert L. Doerschuk;

Q: Do you also subject your piano sounds to a lot of processing?

A: Quite often we do. The piano part at the beginning of "Walking in my Shoes" was put through a guitar processor, which distorted it and made it more edgy. We added a harpsichord sample on top of that. And on "Condemnation," we put the piano through some kind of wobbly pitch-shifter. The idea of that track was to enhance the gospel feel that the song originally had without going into pastiche, and to try to create the effect of it being played in a room, in a space. So we began by getting all four members of the group to do one thing each in the same space. Fletcher was bashing a flight case with a pole, Flood and Dave were clapping, I was playing a drum, and Martin was playing an organ. We listened back to it. it was embryonic, but it gave us an idea for a direction.

Fletcher can also be heard saying 'Crucified' during "Interlude #2 - Crucified" on Violator. His last contribution on a Depeche Mode record was Playing the Angel from 2005, he played bass-guitar on "A Pain That I'm Used To".

If you look at these documentaries; "Making The Universe / Film", and "Usual Thing: Try And Get The Question In Answer" (directed by Philip M. Lane and Ross Hallard) you'll clearly see that Fletcher provides support to the band and their collaborators but does not play any instruments, is not involved in the creation of sounds, does not provide vocals, and is not a songwriter. Like Daniel Miller, he provides A&R support, hence the changes. There is simply no evidence that he contributed anything musically to Spirit. Thank you. Palimpsest AUS