Devotional (video)

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Devotional
Video by Depeche Mode
Released	23 November 1993 (1993-11-23)
Recorded	1993, Barcelona, Frankfurt, Liévin
Genre	Alternative dance alternative rock synth-pop dance-rock new wave
Length	94 minutes
Label	Mute Sire Reprise
Director	Anton Corbijn
Depeche Mode chronology
Strange Too (1990) Devotional (1993) The Videos 86>98 (1998)

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AllMusic	[1]

Devotional – A Performance Filmed by Anton Corbijn is a video release by Depeche Mode, featuring almost an entire concert from their 1993 Devotional Tour, filmed in Barcelona, Spain (Palau Sant Jordi), Liévin, France (Stade Couvert Régional) and Frankfurt, Germany (Festhalle). It was directed by Anton Corbijn, and released in 1993. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video in 1995. The soundtrack was recorded in Liévin, Stade Couvert Régional, on 29 July 1993.

This tour was particularly notable for the personal troubles the band members were struggling with at the time, most notably Dave Gahan's heroin addiction. The video is the last release to feature Alan Wilder before his departure in 1995.^[2]

In 2004, the movie was re-released on DVD. The film is the same, but there are extras, such as songs that were left out of the VHS movie for time (but they have to be viewed separately), isolated footage of setlist projections, an interview with Corbijn on Devotional (1993), pictures from the Devotional Tour programme, and all the music videos from the Songs of Faith and Devotion era. For the first time, the complete soundtrack of Liévin is available ("Halo" was the only missing song before the release of the 2DVD set). Only a few moments of dead air and speech were edited out.