Alison Moyet - 40 Moyet Moments
By Alison Moyet
A 40-part podcast featuring Alison Moyet in conversation with Steve Coats-Dennis, exploring the key moments of her 40-year career as a solo artist: the highs, the lows and everything in between. New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
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40 Moyet Moments: A Taster
A flavour of what's to come in 40 Moyet Moments -
Episode 1 - Becoming A Solo Artist
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 -
Episode 2 - Signing To CBS
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 … -
Episode 3 - The album Alf
Alf, Alison’s first solo album, goes to No.1 in the album chart and is certified triple platinum. In the third Moyet Moment, Alison talks about writing and recording the album with Steve Jolley and Tony Swain and reveals the strange metho… -
Episode 4 - Love Resurrection
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! -
Episode 5 - All Cried Out
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 -
Episode 6 - Invisible
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 -
Episode 7 - Alison Moyet's First Tour
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 -
Episode 8 - Alf Goes to Number 1
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 -
Episode 9 - That Ole Devil Called Love
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
