Alf

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Furthermore, she felt the album and her weight-gain at that time "presented an image of unthreatening cosy womanliness". On 30 July 2015, it was announced that Moyet would be releasing deluxe editions of her albums Hometime, Voice, and The Turn. She grew up in the nearby town of Basildon, where she attended Janet Duke Junior School and then Nicholas Comprehensive at secondary level.

I fell out with Alf because I felt like that, after making subsequent records, it was like walking down the street and being told, 'I liked you better when you were going out with him.She told Number One in 1984: "With Swain and Jolley, I can get on with what I do best, writing lyrics and singing. Dated well I feel, still sounding like all the elements of very great popular music today, alisons voice stands as a monument to what a real true artist can sound like without the quite terrible overused vocal gymnastics and entourages and middle shaded straight haired big boobed corporate automatants were deluged with momentarily.

In 1985, the success of the album led to Moyet receiving her first Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist. 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. Its doubtless that in 32 years time many many people will still be enjoying, singing, crying and loving to this 'Alf' album, and by then the generic overuse of the term "80's" in all its despiseable condesension and put down tone, will have long since dissapeared and the music shall once more be evaluated for what it is,for what it Was and what it will continue to be forever more, excellent likeable acceptable Timeless good music and song, sang by a Real singer that the world still needs so badly to blow away the blues . The release of the CD launched Moyet into the top five best-selling female UK artists of 2002, [14] and resulted in a BRIT Awards nomination for Best Female Vocalist, [15] as well as a nomination for the Mercury Music Prize.Perhaps a third album squeezed inbetween during the 1980s and should could have had a very strong american career. Each double-disc set comes in a casebound book with the original album remastered from the original tapes along with 12-inch remixes, b-sides and previously unreleased songs. However, the release of Hoodoo marked the beginning of an eight-year fight for Moyet to secure complete control of her artistic direction. Love Resurrection' and 'Invisible' were the singles and they did quite well here in the states at the time.

Music technology at that time had moved on to a very large extent, sound sampling was now de-riguer sample play back devices such as drum machines and synths, along with new digital recording equipment such as SSl and mitsubishi and mcl recording consoles were all becoming the norm way to make music via Fairlight CMI, Synclavier, Linn drum, yamaha dx7 etc etc, and all this meant that the sound of the music we were hearing would never be the same. On 22 January 2013, Moyet announced that she had signed a worldwide deal with London-based record label Cooking Vinyl.Non-personalized content and ads are influenced by things like the content you’re currently viewing and your location (ad serving is based on general location). On 20 April 2018, Moyet released her second live album, The Other Live Collection, taken from The Other Tour.

In a retrospective review, Stewart Mason of AllMusic summarised: "Hooking up with Bananarama's producers, Tony Swain and Steve Jolley, Moyet delivers an enormous, walloping mid-'80s pop sound that constantly threatens to overwhelm both the songs, which are a mixed bag, and occasionally even the formidably voiced singer herself. For You Only,’ was released the following year but surprisingly failed to chart here, though they loved it in Germany, where it reached number 7, Her highest entry there. Yazoo had several hits, including " Only You", " Don't Go", " Situation" and " Nobody's Diary", and recorded two albums, Upstairs at Eric's and You and Me Both. However, after signing the contract, Yazoo's American record company Warner Bros then put an injunction on her.Raindancing spawned further hit singles, including a cover of Floy Joy's " Weak in the Presence of Beauty" and " Ordinary Girl". I had the original version of this record, and I must say this sounds a lot better, apparently the original tapes were used to make this re-issue, the sound is loud, crystal clear and very dynamic, my only problems with the pressing the center hole is a bit small so you have to push down hard ( just my copy) to place it on the turntable.