The Alison Moyet Podcast

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  40 Moyet Moments: A Taster 04.06.2024 1min

  A flavour of what's to come in 40 Moyet Moments
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  Episode 1 - Becoming A Solo Artist 10.06.2024 10min

  In the first of a 40-part podcast series, Alison Moyet chats with Steve Coats-Dennis, discussing the awkwardness between her and her Yazoo bandmate, Vince Clarke, and explains her reluctance to become a solo artist
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  Episode 2 - Signing To CBS 10.06.2024 13min

  In the second Moyet Moment, Alison finds herself in a bidding war between record companies but also traumatised by fame. Expecting her to be “the next Barbra Streisand”, she realises that a level of conformity is not on the cards
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  Episode 3 - The album Alf 17.06.2024 21min

  Alf, Alison’s first solo album, goes to No.1 in the album chart and is certified quadruple platinum. In the third Moyet Moment, Alison talks about writing and recording the album with Steve Jolley and Tony Swain and reveals the strange method that created that iconic album cover.
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  Episode 4 - Love Resurrection 19.06.2024 14min

  In the fourth Moyet Moment, Alison looks back at her first solo single, remembers making the video and addresses the notion that the song’s lyrics were a little bit saucy!
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  Episode 5 - All Cried Out 23.06.2024 16min

  In the fifth Moyet Moment, Alison discusses why All Cried Out has endured for 40 years, the changing importance of lyrics and how she found her way back to appreciating it as a song
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  Episode 6 - Invisible 27.06.2024 11min

  It’s the single in Alison Moyet’s forty year back catalogue that seems to generate most discussion. In this episode, Alison gives her definitive take on the song, Invisible
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  Episode 7 - Alison Moyet's First Tour 01.07.2024 13min

  40 Moyet Moments returns to November 1984 and Alison’s first ever solo tour. Alison discusses how performing live has changed for her over the years and which songs are the trickiest to sing
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  Episode 8 - Alf Goes to Number 1 04.07.2024 12min

  After 10 weeks in the album charts, her first solo album, Alf, reaches Number One on the 13th January 1985. Alison chats to Steve Coats-Dennis whether on chart positions mattered to her then and whether they still do now
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  Episode 9 - That Ole Devil Called Love 08.07.2024 10min

  The ninth Moyet Moyet explores Alison’s biggest selling single, That Ole Devil Called Love, how it came about and how it unintentionally changed people’s perception of her
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  Episode 10 - Live Aid 11.07.2024 10min

  The biggest gig of her career – Alison Moyet looks back at the highs and lows of her experience at Live Aid
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  Episode 11 - The album, Raindancing 14.07.2024 14min

  Raindancing was the eagerly-anticipated follow-up album to the mega-successful Alf. Alison explains to Steve Coats-Dennis how recording the album in the United States affected the end product... And perhaps not for the better!
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  Episode 12 - Is This Love? 17.07.2024 6min

  In the twelfth Moyet Moment, Alison discusses all things ‘Is This Love?’ including her mystery co-writer who was not such a mystery after all!
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  Episode 13 - Weak in the Presence of Beauty 21.07.2024 6min

  “It’s one of the two times in my career, I made a cynical move”. In the thirteenth Moyet Moment, Alison explains how she came to cover Floy Joy’s Weak In The Presence of Beauty
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  Episode 14 - James Brown and other musical collaborations 24.07.2024 28min

  From co-writing and singing on James Brown’s Let’s Get Personal, Alison Moyet chats to Steve Coats-Dennis about her various musical collaborations across the years – from the Lightning Seeds to Tricky, from Dusty Springfield to Beth Ditto...
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  Episode 15 - Love Letters 28.07.2024 6min

  The fifteenth Moment explores how Alison Moyet first heard Ketty Lester’s Love Letters, why she covered it and how she’s changed it in her more recent live performances
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  Episode 16 - The Raindancing tour 31.07.2024 17min

  For this Moyet Moment, we return to 1987 and Alison's first solo world tour. Taking in six continents and lasting almost a year, she discusses the ups and the downs of life on the road back then. 
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  Episode 17 - BRIT awards 04.08.2024 9min

  In the seventeenth Moyet Moment, host Steve Coats-Dennis quizzes Alison Moyet about winning BRIT awards and what these and other awards mean to her. 
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  Episode 18 - It Won't Be Long 07.08.2024 13min

  It's all change with Moyet Moment 18 and a song with which Alison Moyet firmly intended to reset people's perceptions of her as an artist: It Won't Be Long - the first single from the album, Hoodoo. 
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  Episode 19 - The album, Hoodoo 11.08.2024 11min

  Grittier and darker than what came before, the album Hoodoo begins a divide between Alison Moyet and her then record company. Episode 19 explores Alison's third solo album, Hoodoo.