back from the brink

IN 1994, a journalist asked Dave Gahan to tell him a joke. "I think the joke is probably that I'm still here," he replied. Unhilariously, Gahan was a full-blown super-skanky heroin addict at this stage of his pitiful life. Look at pictures of him during this period and he is like a straydog-skinny smackhead, losing his marbles in front of the world's media.