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Yazoo News

Yazoo play first US shows in 25 years

LA crowd goes wild for nostalgic hit-filled set

Jul 11, 2008

Yazoo announce US reunion tour

They also ready four-disc box set

Mar 3, 2008
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Yazoo - Only You [1982] Key: [G] (w: Vincent Clarke) (original key is A) VERSE 1: [G] Looking from a [D/F#] window a-[Em7]-bove Is like a [D] story of [C] love, can you [G] hear [D] me? [G] Came back only [D/F#]...

Yazoo - Softly Over (Matt Mix) (04:30)

New version of this beautiful 1983 album track.

Only You - Yazoo - Original Mute Promo (03:24)

There was never a video for the 1982 Yazoo hit 'Only You' but Mute did send this recorded performance out to promote the single. AMCO would like to thank Per Aksel Lundgreen for supplying us with this video

Yazoo - Don't Go(Rare Live) (02:15)

Yazoo - Don't Go(Rare Live)

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Yazoo Biography

Yazoo (known as Yaz in the U.S.) are an English synthpop duo from Basildon, Essex. They had a number of top ten hits in the British charts in the early 1980s. Formed in late 1981 by former Depeche Mode songwriter Vince Clarke (synthesizer) and English singer Alison Moyet (vocals), Yazoo was signed to Mute Records in the United Kingdom and (as "Yaz") to Sire Records in the United States.

Yazoo's debut single "Only You" backed with "Situation," was released on March 15, 1982 and rose to number two in the UK charts. Yazoo released two successful studio albums, Upstairs at Eric's in 1982 and You and Me Both in 1983. Shortly after, Moyet and Clarke decided to break up. Moyet pursued a solo career while Clarke went on to form Erasure, another synth pop duo. Yazoo temporarily reunited in 2008 with a tour in Europe and the United States and the release of a four-disc box set.

Though short-lived, Yazoo continues to influence and inspire many of today's bands, including LCD Soundsystem, Gil Mantera's Party Dream, Hercules and Love Affair, Shiny Toy Guns and Blaqk Audio.

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