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The success of Alf would soon make Moyet resentful as she felt the album's mass market appeal had defined her before she had the chance and experience to properly decide the direction she wanted to take her solo career in. Furthermore, she felt the album and her weight-gain at that time "presented an image of unthreatening cosy womanliness". [13] Speaking of the album, Moyet later recalled in 2016: The album would mark the end of her songwriting partnership with Pete Glenister and you get the sense that was the correct call, there are plenty of steady songs on The Turn but nothing to get you particularly excited. a b "Alison Moyet Announces New Album "Other" ". AlisonMoyet.com. 17 March 2017. Archived from the original on 18 March 2017 . Retrieved 17 March 2017. Alison Moyet – For You Only / Money Mile – Columbia – USA – 38-05614". 45cat . Retrieved 5 April 2017. Alison Moyet performs at the Cornbury Festival". Touchbase Magazine. 13 June 2012. Archived from the original on 9 January 2013 . Retrieved 11 December 2012.

a b c d e Brinn, David (23 February 2010). "All good things come to Alison Moyet". The Jerusalem Post . Retrieved 28 September 2012. In fairness, you’d be hard pushed to see the joins. Broudie does a fine job in retooling the bulk of this record. There’s an exotic world music flourish to opener Falling– it’s Kula Shaker two years early – but don’t let that put you off. Moyet had another big UK hit the following year with " Is This Love?" (co-written by Eurythmics' Dave Stewart, under the pseudonym Jean Guiot), [8] followed in 1987 by her second LP, Raindancing. Raindancing spawned further hit singles, including a cover of Floy Joy's " Weak in the Presence of Beauty" and " Ordinary Girl". In 1987, she scored another cover hit with " Love Letters", which peaked at UK No.4. The video for the song featured comedy duo French & Saunders. In December 2006, Moyet signed a recording contract with W14 Music, [13] a Universal Music Group imprint. The deal saw Moyet reunited with label head John Williams, who was A&R man for her previous two albums, Hometime and Voice. Chin, Brian (2 November 1985). "Moyet Content With 'Alf's' Notice on European Charts". Billboard. Vol.97, no.44. p.48. ISSN 0006-2510– via Google Books.European Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Eurotipsheet. Vol.2, no.4. 28 January 1985. p.9. OCLC 29800226– via World Radio History. The songs themselves are played pretty straight, from the wistful Windmills Of Your Mind to the gentle Gershwin standard The Man I Love.

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.We’ve waited so long for this, it’s great news that it is finally coming out, however, nothing beyond the officially released discography has been explored. If Wet Wet Wet‘s Picture This can be issued as a 4-disc super deluxe edition box set then perhaps Alison Moyet’s team may have underplayed their hand with this key long-player from the early-to-mid eighties. You get the feeling Moyet’s fans – and pop fans in general – like this record more than she does, which may well have influenced the decision to not over-indulge when it came to the reissue. I fought with this record for a long time. I resented the ‘star’ it made of me as though I didn’t have a hand in it myself. I like Swain and Jolley. They were nice blokes. We had some issues but they could be solved with a little care from the record company. They were getting what they wanted then so didn’t help. Alf is the debut solo studio album by English singer Alison Moyet, released on 5 November 1984 by CBS Records. [1] The album launched Moyet's solo career following the disbanding of synth-pop duo Yazoo. The album reached No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart and features the singles " Love Resurrection", " All Cried Out", " Invisible" and " For You Only".

I quite enjoy the invisibility of middle age' ". Echo-news.co.uk. 27 October 2017 . Retrieved 5 November 2017. Her worldwide album sales have reached a certified 23million, with over two million singles sold. All nine of her studio albums and three compilation albums have charted in the top 30 of the UK Albums Chart, with two of them reaching number one. She has also achieved nine top 30 singles and six top 10 hits on the UK Singles Chart. [1] Her most recent album, her ninth, Other, was released 16 June 2017. [2] Early life [ edit ] The lead single " Love Resurrection" preceded the album. It was released in June 1984 and had reached No. 10 in the UK, also becoming successful across Europe and beyond. The second single " All Cried Out" was met with similar success when released in September 1984. It reached No. 8 in the UK. " Invisible", the third single, was released in November 1984 and reached No. 21 in the UK. In the US, it became Moyet's highest-charting single, reaching No. 31. In October 1985, " For You Only" was released as the fourth and final single from the album. [9] When CBS first suggested releasing a fourth single, Moyet spoke against the idea and suggested she record a cover of " That Ole Devil Called Love" to give fans something new. Her version of the song was then recorded and released in March 1985, becoming a big hit, including in the UK where it reached No. 2. Despite this, CBS later decided to release "For You Only" as a single but in Europe and the US only. For its release as a single, "For You Only" was remixed and partially re-recorded to create a new version. [10] [11] The song was a success in Germany, peaking at No. 7 in late 1985. [12] Aubrey, Liz. "Alison Moyet: I'm in the Moment". Gigwise.com. Archived from the original on 10 March 2022 . Retrieved 13 November 2023. Alison Moyet (ex-Yazoo) joins W14 Music". Side-line.com. 19 December 2006 . Retrieved 16 April 2012.Alison Moyet‘s 1984 album Alf will be reissue as a two-CD deluxe edition in November along with her three other Sony albums. Okay, I know rubbishing 80s synthesiser sounds is shooting at an easy target, but listening to Alf over three decades later, I can't help but lament how old it sounds, and how much better it would have aged if it didn't rely as heavily on a musical soundscape which must have sounded so futuristic at the time. Alf has the potential to be a great soul album, but the instrumentation and production mean that it sounds emotionally lightweight, which given this is an album by a vocalist as potent as Alison Moyet, is a real shame. The Insects’ arrangements provide the perfect cradle for Moyet’s talents, from the heartstring tugging model of restraint that is Should I Feel That It’s Over to the sly groove of chilled electronicatinged More. Both members returned to pop. Vince Clarke immediately teamed up with producer Eric Radcliffe to form The Assembly, a short-lived project which eventually led to Erasure, and Alison Moyet embarked on a solo career that would firmly establish her as one of the greatest British voices. Her debut album, Alf (7.5/10) was co-written and produced by Steve Jolley and Tony Swain (Bananarama, Spandau Ballet) and as recorded in less than three months. Lead single Love Resurrection firmly saw the solo career of Alison take off and was the first of three hit singles which also included All Cried Out and Invisible. The singles were perfect chart fodder and were great pop songs of the time.

Record company travails continued for Moyet into the mid-90s – while the label execs wanted to pitch her as a middle-of-the-road balladeer, the singer had other ideas entirely. 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.

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Alison Moyet to Release Deluxe Editions of Hometime, Voice, and The Turn". Alisonmoyet.com. 30 July 2015 . Retrieved 6 August 2015. Lester, Paul (18 April 2013). "Alison Moyet: 'I smashed all my gold discs. There were hundreds' ". Theguardian.com. Find sources: "Alison Moyet"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( January 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)