Dreaming of Me

"Dreaming Of Me" is a song from the US pressing of the 1981 album Speak & Spell by Depeche Mode. It was released as the group's debut single on 20 February 1981. It peaked at #57 in the UK, but wasn’t commercially released in the United States. The song wasn’t originally included on their debut album, but was added to later re-releases. Its B-side is “Ice Machine”.

In 1985, Dave Gahan told the UK magazine No. 1:"We were all eighteen or nineteen at the time. And it wasn’t the most exciting event of our lives. Martin and Andy were still working and they’d get to the studio after work, still eating their Chinese takeaway or whatever. It wasn’t taken seriously at all, we weren’t thinking about going into the charts at all, we just wanted to make a record."That same year, Dave told Melody Maker:"This was an obvious first single. We had about 20 songs but Daniel Miller, as an outsider at the time, helped us choose one. I don’t think it sounds old-fashioned – I think it’s a classic pop song."

The Cold End Version
,,Does not fade out" version with longer outro. It was firstly released on CD reissue of Speak & Spell & Spell in 1988 where it was mistakenly released with non edited version containing a shout of one of the recording team in Blackwing Studios in 1980. That year this version was also released on german mini-CD single alongside with longer version of Ice Machine, which also appeared on the CD reissue of Speak & Spell. This version started appearing on all later reissues of album and replaced the former single version. It has the same lyrics as the first version.