Yazoo - known in North America as Yaz - are still acclaimed as one of the UK’s greatest pop duos. During their short time together, Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet made two classic albums and released four memorable hit singles. Yazoo's debut album, 1982’s Upstairs At Eric’s, propelled the duo to commercial and critical success, peaking at number two in the UK album charts. Their follow-up, You And Me Both, was released subsequent to a successful UK/USA tour before they disbanded later in 1983. Following their breakup, Moyet went on to find further success as a solo artist, whilst Clarke continued his prolific music career with Erasure. Following the ‘In Your Room’ collection, released in 2008, the pair embarked on a reunion tour with recordings from the tour later released as ‘Reconnected: Live’ in 2010. In 2018, Yazoo released ‘Four Pieces’, a comprehensive boxset comprised of their two studio albums fully remastered as well as a selection of remixes & BBC Sessions.
Those strings tip the song from cute to cloying. Even though their addition is subtle, the song's beautiful but naive charm evaporates the instant they appear.
In Germany the UK Top 20 shows were always shown on BFBS. I was 18 and sometimes I recorded it on a tape recorder (and always hoped that the reception was good, without interference) Nobody`s Diary was a new entry and when I heard the song, I kept rewinding the tape and playing this song heard again - and again... Alison's voice is so unique and harmonized absolutely perfectly with Vince Clarke's synth sound. But who do I tell this to? By the way, I still have the TDK cassette today and the music quality is still very good after over 40 years.
I had a similar experience. I lived in Emsland and only listened to BFBS, Hilversum 3 on FM and BBC Radio One and "Great 208" on AM German radio (NDR and WDR) was crap in those days. There were no decent radio DJs in Germany back then
