Depeche Mode “The Meaning of Love” 1982. Mute Records. Today, June 1st, is former DM keyboardist  Alan Wilder’s 60th birthday (b. 1959) who stepped in after Vince Clarke left the band in 1982 (Wilder split in ‘95). He wrote a few tracks for DM, though “The Meaning of Love” is not one of them (though it was the second video that Wilder appeared in); it was written by Martin Gore and appears on their second album A Broken Frame. It went to #12 in the UK and is backed by “Oberkorn (it’s a small town),” an instrumental – also by Gore – named for a town in Luxembourg.