Wall of Voodoo

Marc Moreland died on March 13, 2002. The highest charting single in the US was the original release of "Only You" at #67. Nanini died on December 4, 2000. Vince went on to record a single with Paul Quinn, had a brief project with Undertones singer Feargal Sharkey as The Assembly, and then founded the pop group Erasure. This lineup created the holiday classic "Shouldn't Have Given Him a Gun for Christmas.". After the band split in 1983, Alison Moyet went on to a successful solo career. Bassist Bruce Moreland left, and the remaining four members then recorded their best-known album, Call of the West, which includes "Mexican Radio." Singer Ridgway then also left and was replaced by Andy Prieboy, and drummer Nanini by Ned Leukhardt. The You And Me Both album saw greater songwriting input from Moyet, adding a rather more mature and soulful flavour, particularly on the hit single Nobody's Diary.

After a self-titled EP that included a cover version of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire," the band released Dark Continent, an album concerned largely with workplace issues, as being experienced for the first time by the young male. Heavily influenced by earlier bands like Kraftwerk, Yazoo expanded upon the synthpop formula by juxtaposing Moyet's bluesy emotional vocals with Clarke's clinical electronic hooks. Their art pop sound referenced disco but added a more new wave disaffected attitude that disco lacked. Gray (keyboards), and Joe Nanini (percussion). They recorded two albums entitled Upstairs at Eric's and You and Me Both. The band originally consisted of Stan Ridgway (vocals), Marc Moreland (guitar), Bruce Moreland (bass), Chas T. Their biggest hits included the singles "Only You" (later successfully covered by the socialist acapella group The Flying Pickets), "Don't Go" and "Situation". Wall of Voodoo was a New Wave group from Los Angeles best known for the 1982 hit "Mexican Radio.". Mute Records continued to release the output of this new Clarke project.

Clarke surprised many by quitting Depeche Mode just as they were beginning to reap success, claiming that they "just weren't getting on, really", forming Yazoo with the then unknown Moyet. Clarke had been the main song-writer in Depeche Mode, who had at that point recorded one album and three singles for Mute Records, including the hit Just Can't Get Enough. Yazoo consisted of:. 'Yazoo'.

They were formed in 1981, using a moniker that Alison Moyet had seen on the labels of old blues albums.. Yazoo (known as Yaz in the U.S.) were an English electropop duo from Basildon, Essex, who had a number of top ten hits in the British and American charts in the early 1980s. For alternate meanings, see Yazoo (disambiguation).. The below article is about Yazoo the music band.