The album was co-written by the duo and Moyet, with the exception of " Invisible", which was written for Moyet by Lamont Dozier. Throughout the record, Moyet's voice rings out vigorously enough, but Swain and Jolley have cloaked it in layers of dinky-sounding keyboards and dopey percussion. The album featured self-penned songs, including the three numbers she wrote for the stage play, Smaller in which she starred with Dawn French. Geneviève Alison Jane Moyet [3] was born in Billericay, Essex, to a French father and English mother. She Toured it, She hated it, she ultimately moved on, but left us a shining example of mid 1980's brilliance par excellance in singing, music production, and well realised song writing for such a young age at that time, that lives up to the name 'good' in 2016.

In 1983, shortly before the release of their second studio album, You and Me Both (1983), Yazoo announced that they were splitting up. In the same year she contributed vocals to "The Man That Got Away" on Holland's album Rocking Horse. The deluxe edition remastering helps, but three-plus decades later the songs still stand up as pop classics. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Sony Music had earlier announced that Moyet's four solo albums on the label ( Alf, Raindancing, Hoodoo and Essex) were being digitally remastered and would be reissued with B-sides and bonus material.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Alf is the debut solo studio album by English singer Alison Moyet, released on 5 November 1984 by CBS Records.

Writing and recording sessions had to be done with haste due to Swain and Jolley's other commitments as producers. Everyone wanted to be on top form, and to make the year 1984 befit the heralded title of the book and thus it turned out to be legendary, the music mags (Smash hits record mirror NME No. On 20 April 2018, Moyet released her second live album, The Other Live Collection, taken from The Other Tour.The album topped the UK Albums Chart, and by early December, it had achieved a double platinum certification.

We have made an album mindless of industry mores that apply to middle-aged women and have shunned all talk of audiences, demographics and advert jazz covers. 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. Depending on where you live, the time it may take for your exchanged product to reach you, may vary. and, following a UK tour, was re-issued as a double CD set which included Live (No Overdubs), a bonus live CD.

Raindancing spawned further hit singles, including a cover of Floy Joy's " Weak in the Presence of Beauty" and " Ordinary Girl".