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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 ...

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...

Episode 3 - The album Alf

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 recordin...

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 sa...

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 appreciatin...

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, Invi...

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 ar...

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 positio...

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...

Episode 10 - Live Aid

The biggest gig of her career – Alison Moyet looks back at the highs and lows of her experience at Live Aid

Episode 11 - The album, Raindancing

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 ...

Episode 12 - Is This Love?

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!

Episode 13 - Weak in the Presence of Beauty

“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 ...

Episode 14 - James Brown and other musical collaborations

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 – f...

Episode 15 - Love Letters

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

Episode 16 - The Raindancing tour

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...

Episode 17 - BRIT awards

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. 

Episode 18 - It Won't Be Long

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...

Episode 19 - The album, Hoodoo

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 a...

Episode 20 - Wishing You Were Here

It's the halfway point of the 40 Moyet Moments. Steve Coats-Dennis asks Alison Moyet for the inspiration behind the song Wishing You Were Here, the second single from ...

Episode 21 - This House

Alison Moyet discusses a song that has become a real fan favourite over the years - This House! And responds to the rumour that has surrounded the song...

Episode 22 - The album, Essex

Alison Moyet chats about the challenges to release her fourth solo album Essex. With her trademark brutal honesty, Alison discusses being friendless at Sony, recording...

Episode 23 - Falling

In Episode 23 of Moyet Moments, Alison reveals the unusual motivation to the song Falling - as well as explaining what it's like to forget her words onstage. 

Episode 24 - Whispering Your Name

Chatting to Steve Coats-Dennis about Whispering Your Name, Alison Moyet discusses why she loves the song, what she thinks of the remixes of the 1990s and reveals some ...

Episode 25 - Blue

In the twenty-fifth Moyet Moment, Alison Moyet discusses her song Blue, a track that became the theme tune to the BBC TV series 'Playing The Field', and her love for S...

Episode 26 - The End of the Sony Era

Having released four solo albums with them, Alison Moyet's relationship with her record label reach an all-time low as they stop taking her calls. 

Episode 27 - Chicago The Musical

Unable to record because of the impasse with her label, Alison Moyet finds work in the unlikeliest of places - the West End stage. In one of the first examples of so-c...

Episode 28 - The album, Hometime

In Moyet Moment 28, Alison's impasse with her then-record label is broken and finally there is an opportunity to release her fifth solo studio album, Hometime. 

Episode 29 - The album, Voice

Bruised from the effort to get her Hometime album released, Alison wants a moment just to sing. Moyet Moment 29 explores Alison Moyet's sixth solo album, Voice. 

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