Classic_Pop_Issue_30_July_2017

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WITH HER

STUNNING

NINTH ALBUM

OTHER OUT

THIS MONTH,

ALISON MOYET

CONFIRMS HER

STATUS AS ONE

OF THE GREAT

SURVIVORS

OF 80S POP.

GETTING THIS

FAR, THOUGH,

HASN’T ALWAYS

BEEN EASY...

WYNDHAM WALLACE

THETHETHETHE

IMPORTANCE IMPORTANCE

OF OF OF BEINGBEINGBEINGBEINGBEINGBEING............

t’s mid-April, and Alison Moyet is cradling

a phone in the kitchen of her terraced

Brighton home – the one she swapped for

a seven-bedroom house and garden four years

ago, the one without off-street parking – as words

to her latest album’s title track are read back to her

admiringly. “Some people we don’t mean to lose,”

the lyrics declare, “They snag on branches and

separate in market squares...”

“I can’t begin to tell you,” she interrupts, her

pleasure almost palpable, “how much it means

to me that you’ve engaged with the lyrics. It’s more

important to me than singing, than whether I have

a voice or not. You just made me really happy

by quoting that to me. How brilliant it is to actually

be a writer, to be a poet, rather than just to be

a mainstream pop singer. Thank you!”

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