Alf

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She told Number One in 1984: "With Swain and Jolley, I can get on with what I do best, writing lyrics and singing. 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. 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.

Because there were things about me at 21 that I could no longer relate to and it's slightly odd singing the lyrics of a 21-year-old as you age. Moyet announced on BBC Radio 6 Music that her new album with Guy Sigsworth would be released in 2012, but in February that year she stated: "I appear to have forfeited my recording deal because I won't do reality TV. In December 2006, Moyet signed a recording contract with W14 Music, [17] a Universal Music Group imprint. On 27 September 2016, it was announced that Moyet's first four studio albums Alf, Raindancing, Hoodooo and Essex would be reissued as Deluxe editions after having been remastered by BMG on 25 November 2016.

Moyet's album, The Turn, was released on 15 October 2007, preceded by the single " One More Time" a week earlier.

Terrible sound, loud and really annoying - actually it's one of the worst remastered albums i've ever heard! 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.

The album was co-written by the duo and Moyet, with the exception of " Invisible", which was written for Moyet by Lamont Dozier. 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. 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.

Raindancing spawned further hit singles, including a cover of Floy Joy's " Weak in the Presence of Beauty" and " Ordinary Girl". All tracks are written by Alison Moyet, Steve Jolley and Tony Swain, except "Invisible" by Lamont Dozier No. On 10 November 2014, Moyet released a live album, Minutes and Seconds – Live, taken from The Minutes Tour. Perhaps a third album squeezed inbetween during the 1980s and should could have had a very strong american career. Upon release, Deanne Pearson of Number One said: "If you want genuine, heartfelt love songs, cries of passion without cliche, look no further than Alf.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. 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 grew up in the nearby town of Basildon, where she attended Janet Duke Junior School and then Nicholas Comprehensive at secondary level. In February 2013, Moyet said of the remastered albums: "The project was Sony's – some initial work was done and then the project was suspended. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous.