Vince Clarke (born 3 July 1960) is an English synthpop musician and songwriter. Clarke has been a member of a number of groups, including Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly and Erasure. Born Vincent John Martin, in South Woodford, London (then in Essex) and raised in Basildon, Essex, he initially studied the violin and then the piano. In the late-1970s, Clarke and schoolmate Andy Fletcher...