Alison Moyet - BBC In Concert, Dominion Theatre, London, Britain, 11-25-1984

I have to admit that I have yet to fully investigate Alison Moyet's career. I'm basically just familiar with the hits. But I know that she's a very talented British singer who also has written many of her own songs. Even about half of the songs she did with her first band, Yaz (or Yazoo, as it's known in Britain) were written by her.

Probably the reason I'm not more familiar with her songs is that I'm an American, and while she's sold many millions of records in Britain, her career hasn't made much of a dent in the US. People do tend to know a few of her songs with Yaz, since they're everywhere, like "Only You" and "Don't Go," showing up in tons of TV shows and movies. But I suppose most people don't know that she's the singer of them. But her debut solo album "Alf" was arguably an even higher commercial peak for her. That album hit Number One on the British charts, and went on to sell at least three million copies worldwide.

This BBC concert took place a couple of weeks after "Alf" was released. Not surprisingly, it contains the best songs from that album, as well as a few of her biggest hits from Yaz, which broke up the year before. She also did a couple of Motown covers that she's never put on album, "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted" and "That's the Way Love Is." She also did a Billie Holliday song from the 1940s, "That Ole Devil Called Love." At the time of this concert, it was unreleased too. But she would release it as a single in 1985 and it would go all the way to Number Two on the British charts.

I just read the Wikipedia page for her "Alf" album. One thing you'll see mentioned a lot there is that although critics generally considered it a strong album, they had issues with the production. (There's so much bad production in the 1980s!) With this concert, you get all of her best songs up until that point, without most of the production problems, with some fun covers thrown in to boot.

This album is 57 minutes long.

01 Love Resurrection (Alison Moyet)
02 Honey for the Bees (Alison Moyet)
03 Invisible (Alison Moyet)
04 What Becomes of the Broken Hearted (Alison Moyet)
05 Twisting the Knife (Alison Moyet)
06 talk (Alison Moyet)
07 That Ole Devil Called Love (Alison Moyet)
08 talk (Alison Moyet)
09 Winter Kills (Alison Moyet)
10 That's the Way Love Is (Alison Moyet)
11 All Cried Out (Alison Moyet)
12 talk (Alison Moyet)
13 Situation (Alison Moyet)
14 talk (Alison Moyet)
15 Only You (Alison Moyet)
16 talk (Alison Moyet)
17 Don't Go (Alison Moyet)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15832397/AlisonMyt_1984_BBInConcrtDminionTheatre__11-25-1984_atse.zip.html

The good news is the cover photo comes from this same venue. However, it was from earlier in the month. I didn't tint a black and white photo. This photo really looks exactly like that. It looks like she was bathed in yellow lighting when the photo was taken.