It doesn't last.'ДЄ quarter of a mile from Abbey Road, band members Andy Fletcher and Martin Gore are eating lunch downstairs in the restaurant Fletcher co-owns with his wife. This time, I saw it in a different light. I went with my friend and manager Jonathan, trying to stay clean, and went out and did the opposite. When I saw it the first time round, I immediately went out and got high afterwards. When people die around you, you just boot 'em out. I've had that done to me and I've done it to other people. 'It all becomes too real, with Renton disappearing into the carpet and the Mother Superior dragging him outside. And yeah, I got pretty excited with all the using scenes! I thought it was a great movie. 'I saw it recently and I actually found it really funny, sober. 'A couple of times, when I've been using and when I've been sober.' Dave Gahan laughs heartily and takes a mouthful of Abbey Road's best quality cappuccino. The video for 'Barrel Of A Gun', the new Depeche Mode single, ends. The man on the screen and the man on the soundtrack and the man on the sofa are all David Gahan, 34 years of age, father of Jack, ex-husband of Joanne and Theresa, singer with Depeche Mode and still a living, breathing, fully paid-up member of the human race. The man on the sofa is nodding, in apparent empathy. The man on the screen is mouthing the words on the soundtrack. 'A vicious appetite visits me each night and won't be satisfied, won't be denied.' The images on the screen unfold, jumpy and impressionistic, like edits from a nightmare. The man on the sofa lights a cigarette, places it between his nail-varnished fingertips and resumes his sedentary grooving. 'This twisted tortured mess, this bed of sinfulness is longing for some rest and feeling numb.' A man's voice spits out above it all, his corroded diction echoing the man on the bed's distressed movement. The man on the sofa begins to circle his head and shift his upper torso back and forth in time to the soundtrack - ominous electro beats attempting to staunch an insistent flow of synthetic noise. The picture, shot from above, shows a man writhing on a bed, in the throes of some sort of fit. In an upstairs lounge at Abbey Road Studios, a man perched on the edge of a large black sofa stares at the video images on the television screen. Not that anyone was surprised, what with the numerous other ODs, suicide attempts, years of drug abuse.In the first of a two-part special, Keith Cameron listens to one of rock's most frightening tales. Not for long, granted, but for two minutes last May 'super' Dave was no more, speedballed into a darker place. Dave Gahan, the singer with '80s pop phenomenon Depeche Mode, has died.

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