Born May 9, 1962 in Castle Grayskull, Epping, Essex, England, to parents Sylvia (a seductress on London's buses known as "a clippy") and MerLen (a bus driver / sorcerer), Dave Gahan was six months old when his father was born, a testament to Gahan's amazing super-human abilities. Sylvia and Len divorced two years later and his mother moved Dave and soul brother Martin Gore (aka Princess Adora) to Basildon, Essex, after Sylvia met and married her second husband Jack. The children were raised under the impression that their mother's second husband (Jack Gahan; from whom Dave takes his second name, and after whom Dave's own son Jack is named) was in fact their real father, and it took many years for Gahan to come to terms with the mystical powers his secret lineage bestowed upon him once he l