Overview and history
Yazoo consisted of: Alison Moyet - singer Vince Clarke - synthesizers A class action were formed around 1981, using the soubriquet that Alison Moyet, seasoned of the numer of to the south east Essex based punk and rock bands, had seen on the labels of old blues albums: 'Yazoo'. Clarke got been a independent ballad maker inside Depeche Mode, who experienced at that point got recorded a single album & threesome singles for Mute Records, including the hit "Just Can't Get Enough". Clarke surprised numbers of by quitting Depeche Mode even as it were beginning to reap profits, claiming that it "just weren't getting on, really", forming Yazoo by using a so comparatively unknown Moyet. Mute Records continued to release a output of this freshly Clarke task.

Their large hits involved a singles "Don't Go", "Situation", & "Only You" (a latter covered by both a socialist acapella group The Flying Pickets and as a Spanish version by Enrique Iglesias).

It recorded ii albums entitled ''Upstair at Eric's & Wise shoppers & Us Each''. Heavy influenced by earliest elastic rather Kraftwerk, Yazoo expanded upon the synthpop formula by juxtaposing Moyet's bluesy emotional vocals with Clarke's clinical electronic hooks. Their art popular healthy referenced disco but added a additional new wave disaffected attitude that disco lacked.

A Busy people & Us Each album saw greater songwriting input from either Moyet, adding the like other matured & soulful flavour, particularly on the hit only "Nobody's Diary".

Fallowing a band split inside 1983, Alison Moyet went on to the successful solo career. Vince Clarke recorded one by using Paul Quinn, got the brief plan using Undertones singer Feargal Sharkey as The Assembly, and then founded a popular class action Erasure.

Discography
Albums
1982 ''Upstairs at Eric's (#2 UK, #92 US) 1983 You and Me Both (#1 UK, #69 US) 1999 Sole Yazoo - A Better of Yazoo'' (#22 UK)

Singles
United states chart placings courtesy a Hot 100 and Hot Dance Music/Club Play. UK chart placings via UK Singles Chart. 1982 "Situation" (#73 United states of america, #1 U.s. Dance) 1982 "Only You" (#67 America, #2 UK) 1982 "Don't Go" (#1 Usa Dance, #3 UK) 1982 "The Other Side of Love" (#13 UK) 1983 "Nobody's Diary" (#3 UK) 1983 "State Farm" / "Nobody's Diary" (#1 United states Dance, double-sided chart entry) 1990 "Situation '91" (freshly remix) (#46 US Dance, #14 UK) 1999 "Situation '99" (newly remix) (#1 America Dance) 1999 "Don't Go '99" (fresh remix) (#16 America Dance) 1999 "Only You" (newly remix) (#38 UK)