The below article is about Yazoo the music band. For alternate meanings, see Yazoo (disambiguation).
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. They were formed in 1981, taking their name from the former Yazoo lands of the U.S. state of Georgia which later became Mississippi and Alabama.
Yazoo consisted of:
Their biggest hits included the singles "Only You" (later successfully covered by the socialist acapella group The Flying Pickets ), "Don't Go" and "Situation". They also produced two albums entitled Upstairs at Eric's and You and Me Both. Heavily influenced by earlier bands like KraftwerkKraftwerk ( German for "power plant") is a German avant-garde electro-pop group from Dusseldorf who largely contributed to much of the subsequent uptake of, and interest in, electronic music. The techniques that they introduced and the equipment that they, YazooThe below article is about Yazoo the music band. For alternate meanings, see Yazoo (disambiguation). Yazoo (known as Yaz in the U. were an English electropop duo from Basildon, Essex, who had a number of top ten hits in the British and American charts in expanded upon the synthpop formula by juxtaposing Moyet's bluesy emotional vocals with Clarke's clinical electronic hooks. Their art pop sound referenced discoDisco is an up-tempo style of dance music that originated in the early 1970s, mainly from funk and soul music, popular originally with gay and black audiences in large U. cities, and derives its name from the French word discotheque (meaning nightclub), c but added a more new wave disaffected attitude that disco lacked.
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1 Discography
- 1982 "Upstairs at Eric's" #2 UK, #92 US
- 1983 "You and Me Both" #1 UK, #69 US
- 1999 "Only Yazoo - The Best of Yazoo" #22 UK
2 UK hit singles
- 1982 "Only You" #2
- 1982 "Don't Go" #3
- 1982 "The Other Side of Love" #13
- 1983 "Nobody's Diary" #3
- 1990 "Situation" #14
- 1999 "Only You" (re-issue) #38
The highest charting single in the US was the original release of "Only You" at #67.
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