Master and Servant 100 chart anyway, albeit only at number 87 and for only a three-week chart stay). Reportedly, the song narrowly avoided a radio ban by the BBC as well. "Master and Servant" might have been banned if the one BBC staffer who wanted to ban the record had not been away on holiday at the time the other staffers voted on whether to add "Master and Servant" to their playlist. The production and mixing process of "Master and Servant" are remembered by Alan Wilder, Daniel Miller, and Gareth Jones, as among the longest that Depeche Mode ever endured. One famous story
Confessions of a Pop Group a promotional interview LP, including an interview by Yugoslavian writer Saša Stojanović, for journalists to pluck information from, although in Munn's recollection, the music press ignored the release, although "Record Collector" would later name it the band's second most valuable item. "Confessions of a Pop Group" peaked at number 15 on the UK Albums Chart, and stayed on the chart for three weeks, a dramatic fall in popularity for the band, whose previous albums had all reached either number one or two. The singles were also somewhat unsuccessful; "Life at a Top People's Health Farm" was issued as the first