Never Let Me Down Again

"Never Let Me Down Again"
Single by Depeche Mode
from the album Music for the Masses
B-side
  • "Pleasure, Little Treasure"
  • "To Have and to Hold (Spanish Taster)"
Released24 August 1987 (1987-08-24)[1]
RecordedFebruary–July 1987
Studio
Genre
Length
  • 4:47 (album version)
  • 4:20 (radio edit)
LabelMute
Songwriter(s)Martin Gore
Producer(s)
  • David Bascombe
  • Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode singles chronology
"Strangelove"
(1987) 		"Never Let Me Down Again"
(1987) 		"Behind the Wheel"
(1987)
Music video
"Never Let Me Down Again" on YouTube

"Never Let Me Down Again" is a song by the English electronic music band Depeche Mode. It was released as the second single from their sixth studio album, Music for the Masses (1987), on 24 August 1987. It reached No. 22 in the UK, No. 2 in West Germany, and the top-10 in several other European countries such as Sweden and Switzerland, topping the Danish charts. In the US, it entered the Billboard Hot 100. The cover art features fragments of a Soviet map of Russia and Europe, with different fragments used for the different editions of the single.

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