DEPECHE Mode keyboard player Andy Fletcher left almost £50million in his will – including £15,000 for a giant remembrance booze-up.
The 80s synth music great, who died at just 60 in May 2022, bequeathed most of the mammoth sum to wife Grainne and two children.
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He left £46.8million in his British estate though owned further assets in Spain, where he had a second home in seaside resort Sitges, near Barcelona.
Probate documents seen by The Sun show he left a gift of £75,000 to mum Joy, but she died only months after her son in January 2023.
A £30,000 sum was left to his brother Simon, while sister Susan got £7,000 and £5,000 was dished out to each of his seven nieces and nephews.
The electronic music hero also ordered £15,000 be stashed away for his family “on the condition that they shall spend all of it on a party for my friends to remember me”.
The band, which Fletcher founded and played in for 40 years, held the celebration in London a month after his death and referenced the knees-up in an Instagram tribute post.
His pals described the party as “filled with the great memories of who Andy was, stories of all of our times together and some good laughs”.
Nicknamed “Fletch” by his bandmates, the Basildon-born musician joined his first band, No Romance In China, at age 17 after learning to play bass guitar.
He linked up with bandmates Vince Clarke and Martin Gore in Composition of Sound in 1979.
The trio changed their name to Depeche Mode in September 1980 at the suggestion of new vocalist Dave Gahan.
They claimed it translated as “hurried fashion”, though it was named after a French magazine which actually meant “fashion update”.
Depeche Mode released 18 albums, including one after Fletcher’s death, and sold 100 million records worldwide.
The troupe’s best work included hits like Just Can’t Get Enough, Personal Jesus and Enjoy the Silence.
Fletcher was the only member of the band not to have any songwriting credits and once joked he got only involved “by accident”, adding: “I was actually forced to be in the band.
“I played the guitar and I had a bass. It was a question of them roping me in.”
But he acted as their de-facto manager and dealt with record deal contracts, logistics and royalties during the height of the group’s success.
The band’s so-called “rock” died at home in St. John’s Wood, North London, after suddenly suffering a tear to the main aorta artery in his heart.
Singer Gahan, 62, led tributes after his close pal’s death, telling The Sun last year: “It still doesn’t feel real.
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“Every time we do something, I expect Fletch to walk in the room.
“Doing a TV show, having photos taken or making a music video… All these things are now very different.”
