I thought it was at Wembley Arena, so I was really confused when they put me in a helicopter to Wembley Stadium, sitting beside Bono and David Bowie. You sang the Marvin Gaye hit That’s The Way Love Is with Paul Young at Live Aid in 1985. I think the only shocks will come from us being moved by what we are hearing. I can’t imagine where it would come from. I don’t think there are any brave new worlds in music anymore. When you formed Yazoo with Vince Clarke in 1981, electronic music was still a brave new world. Maybe the bell thought: “All this time you’ve told me when I could sing and when I could stop, but now that’s over.” ![]() ![]() I thought, maybe the bell would be completely delighted about it. Then I started to think about what it would feel like to be a bell. I was researching how, in the Middle Ages, great swathes of the English coastline fell into the sea and priories and monasteries and their bell towers were lost. The lyrics of the last song, Rung by the Tide, are especially intriguing. Songs such as Remind Yourself and When I Was Your Girl are about the opposing dialogues within oneself. I’m not looking for romantic love and I don’t need that anymore to define myself, so I think the main theme on this record is schizophrenia. When I started out the age of 17, my lyrics were driven by that distraught French Lieutenant’s Woman thing, but that doesn’t relate to me as a human being any more. What other themes does the record explore? But those minutes aren’t necessarily very dramatic or specific, so I put the album title in small letters. It summed up how I feel at the age of 51, which is that our lives are about brilliant little minutes suspended in years. Right at the end of the film there’s this scene that lifts your spirits immeasurably. People were walking out but I stuck with it. The first half-hour is all planets exploding and cell division there’s no real narrative. I was in Amsterdam and I went to see the film The Tree of Life because I fancied a bit of Brad Pitt. Why is your new album called the minutes? And why is the title in lower case? Moyet's latest record, the minutes, packs sophisticated electronic pop, produced by Guy Sigsworth (Björk, Robyn, Madonna). Hits such as Only You paved the way for a solo career, which began with her multimillion selling 1984 debut, Alf. ![]() The English singer Alison Moyet started out as one half of the influential synth-pop duo Yazoo.
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