Vince Clarke has legendary status for me...When Mute records brought out Yazoo's 1st single,a slow melodic track which got to No.2 in the uk chart...the b side of the 7" and 12'" was Situation..which promptly climbed to the very top of the US dance charts..(it stayed in the US chart for best part of a year)...a pretty cool achievement in my eyes...top2 on both sides of the Atlantic...not to mention the fact that loads of Dance/disco records for years afterwards blatantly sampled bits of Situation...everyone wanted a peice of it!
Clarke is a true electronic legend.