A person close to the band said Fletcher died Thursday from natural causes at his home in the United Kingdom.
LOS ANGELES — Andy “Fletch” Fletcher, keyboardist for British synth pop giants Depeche Mode for more than 40 years, has died at age 60.... LOS ANGELES — Andy “Fletch” Fletcher, keyboardist for British synth pop giants Depeche Mode for more than 40 years, has died at age 60. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The band would break out a year later with their debut album “Speak and Spell,” which opened with the modest hit “New Life” and closed with one of the band’s enduring hits, “Just Can’t Get Enough.”The group would find international success with 1984’s “Some Great Reward” and the single “People are People,” and their prominence would only grow throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.
The bespectacled redhead with a penchant for chess, Fletcher assumed a low-profile in the group. He did not sing or write songs, and his face never as familiar as those of his bandmates. The Pet Shop Boys said on Twitter that he was “a warm, friendly and funny person who loved electronic music.”The eldest of four siblings, Fletcher was born in Basildon and raised in Nottingham, England.
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