“We are shocked and filled up with overwhelming sadness with the particular untimely passing of our own dear friend, family new member, and bandmate Andy ‘Fletch’ Fletcher,” the wedding ring said in a statement put up to Instagram and Myspace Thursday. “Fletch had a new true heart of platinum and was always at this time there when you needed assist, a new lively conversation, a new good laugh, or a cold pint.”
The wedding ring continued to note: “Our hearts are with his or her family, and we question that you keep all of them in your thoughts plus respect their privacy with this difficult time.”
The public could not specify a result in of death.
The English electronic band was formally founded in 1980 by simply Fletcher, Dave Gahan, Jack Gore and Vince Clarke. Fletcher remained a new member of the band for over 40 years and came out on all 14 studio room albums, from their 81 debut “Speak & Spell” to 2017’s “Spirit.”
Considered synth-pop, electronic plus new wave pioneers, the particular band — including past members Clarke and Mike Wilder — was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Popularity in 2020. Their visitors included “Personal Jesus” plus “Enjoy the Silence” coming from the band’s 1990 project, “Violator.”
Tributes to Fletcher began to roll in soon after the band’s public of his death.
The band Orchestral Manoeuvres at midnight tweeted that their live concert Thursday night “will end up being touched by a good sadness as all connected with us say farewell to help Andy Fletcher from Depeche Mode. A beautiful man in an amazing wedding ring.”
“I knew Andy plus considered him a pal. We crossed many connected with the same pathways while younger men,” tweeted Lol Tolhurst, a founding member connected with Solution. “My heart runs out to his friends and family, bandmates, and DM supporters. RIP Fletch.”