I am my biggest disappointment.
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Alison Moyet
English singer
France / United Kingdom · b. 1961
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About
Born in Essex, Alison Moyet, 56, was in several punk bands before forming Yazoo with Vince Clarke in 1981. They had multiple hits, including Only You. After they disbanded in 1983, her debut solo album, Alf, went to number one. She has three Brit Awards and was given the Icon Award at the Nordoff Robbins Silver Clef Awards in 2013. Her ninth studio album, Other, has just been released and she will tour from September. She is married, has three children and lives in Brighton.
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When I was doing my gold swimming badge. I had to get undressed in a swimming pool and had forgotten my gym kit, so the teacher gave me a kit two sizes too small. In the water, I got my arms up over my head to get the shirt off and they locked. I sank to the bottom of the pool and sat there until a girl jumped in and dragged me back up again.
My older sister, Jeanne. We fought when we were kids, but she is so entirely capable.
A 12-hour nightshift at a toy factory in Southend.
I’d have made more of my education.
A television. I don’t care for things. When I moved, I downsized and threw away most of my possessions.
Like hunger, which feels like anxiousness, which feels like fear, which feels like excitement.
I have the invisibility of a middle-aged woman. I live in Brighton, and feel for the first time in my life that I belong. My kids are safe, my husband’s in a good place and we have a roof over our head: I can’t imagine needing more than that.
When I heard John Noakes had died.
For a while I wanted to be a policewoman, but I didn’t have five O-levels.
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