Creative, Sugar Rush (6 October 2017). "MTV Unplugged - Summer Solstice (2017)". a-ha . Retrieved 8 August 2023. Moyet announced on BBC Radio 6 Music that her new album with Guy Sigsworth would be released in 2012, but in February that year she stated: "I appear to have forfeited my recording deal because I won't do reality TV. No-one needs to make an album that badly. Tea anyone?" In an interview with Touchbase the following June, Moyet confirmed that she was still recording her album and that she was not rushing it. [17] A single, " Nobody's Diary", was released in May 1983 ahead of the album and reached number three in the UK chart, [10] but within days of the single's release, Yazoo announced that they were splitting up. [29] The album, ironically titled You and Me Both, was released in the UK in July 1983 and topped the UK album charts, [10] a feat it would also achieve in New Zealand. However, with no further singles or live appearances to promote it, it did not sell as well as Upstairs at Eric's, although it still achieved gold status in the UK for sales of 100,000 copies. [25] In the US, You and Me Both peaked at number 69 on the Billboard 200. [26]

Glorious Love boasts a distinctly Duran Duran funk bounce with an upbeat chorus. The galloping Without You feels a little like Kirsty MacColl and the fizzy pop of When I Say (No Giveaway)details a brief romantic liaison with Alison competing for space in the mix with a superb, wriggling bassline.Shand, Max (12 October 2020). "Synthpop King Vince Clarke on Erasure's 18th Studio Album, 'The Neon' ". PopMatters . Retrieved 3 March 2021. A hugely successful return to her electronica roots, The Minutes ushered in a new songwriting partnership with Moyet now co-penning material with Guy Sigsworth, who’d previously worked with an array of artists including Seal, Björk, Britney Spears and Madonna.

Alison Moyet gets honorary degree from South Essex College". Echo-news.co.uk. 27 September 2011 . Retrieved 16 March 2014. In 2006, she appeared in the play Smaller, which undertook a regional tour before a stint at London's Lyric Theatre. [ citation needed] Personal life [ edit ]Upstairs at Eric's was released in the UK in August 1982, peaking at number two on the UK Albums Chart [10] and going on to sell more than 300,000 copies and achieving platinum status. [25] In the US, initial success was more modest and the album peaked at number 92 on the Billboard 200 album chart, [26] but by 1989, seven years after its release, word of mouth had helped to push the album to platinum status for sales of over one million copies. [27] The duo played 24 dates in support of the album across Europe and North America. Moyet's ninth studio album Other, described as "intelligent, adventurous electronic pop," co-produced by Guy Sigsworth, was released 16 June 2017 on Cooking Vinyl. [2] From September through December that same year, she embarked on a world tour, The Other Tour. [27] a b c "Alison Moyet: Alf". Rolling Stone. 25 April 1985. Archived from the original on 18 June 2008.

Clarke and Moyet grew up in Basildon and attended the same Saturday music school when they were eleven years old. [13] Clarke was inspired to make electronic music after hearing Wirral synth band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), and later co-founded Depeche Mode. [16] [17] Moyet spent her teens singing in various punk and blues bands in her home town. She placed an advert in the UK weekly music magazine Melody Maker in late 1981 asking for musicians to form a "rootsy" blues band after her most recent group, the Screamin' Ab Dabs, had broken up. [12] [18] [19] Meanwhile, the sophisti-pop of Steal Me Blind is some distance away from her Yazoo days but Money Mile is a little quirkier. The funky soul of Twisting The Knifeis lifted by another stunning vocal but it’s the superb synth-pop of All Cried Out where Moyet truly builds on the feistiness of her Yazoo days. RPM's Top 100 Albums of 1985". RPM. Vol.43, no.16. 25 December 1985. p.14. ISSN 0033-7064– via Library and Archives Canada. Bakker, Machgiel; Inglis, Cathy (23 December 1985). "Pan-European Awards 1985" (PDF). Eurotipsheet. Vol.2, no.51/52. p.7. OCLC 29800226– via World Radio History.a b c d e f g h "BPI Certification". British Phonographic Industry. Archived from the original on 27 June 2019 . Retrieved 5 June 2016. I quite enjoy the invisibility of middle age' ". Echo-news.co.uk. 27 October 2017 . Retrieved 5 November 2017. The first live album of Moyet’s career, the proliferation of material culled from The Minutes proves just how much confidence the singer had in her eighth studio LP. On 21 September 2015, Moyet performed at the Burberry Show at London Fashion Week. Her set was released as a digital EP, Live for Burberry on 23 September. [25]