She saw a young couple go past, embarrassed and blushing under showers of rice and riotously convoyed by what clearly was an East Side bridal party. This she saw with a quick darting pang — not a pang of envy exactly, nor yet of jealousy; just a sharp, stabby, little sort of pang, that's all.

The book covers in detail lead singer Dave Gahan's near-fatal heroin addiction and his painful recovery.

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Strathclyde University was the first in Britain to offer a full range of degrees—undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral—in the subject of Marketing...