With a career spanning over 30 years, 17 albums and over 40 singles, it perhaps gets too easy to take synth-pop duo Erasure for granted. Yet take a closer look at the achievements of singer Andy Bell ...

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What do you get a band for their 30 th birthday? Mute Records have the answer, for they have been showering Andy Bell and Vince Clarke with gifts to celebrate their three decades together as Erasure.