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‘It was a really lonely time’: Alison Moyet and Dave Stewart on making Is This Love?


‘The lyrics reflect the fact that I was in quite a dark place – but subverting it all, in a GCSE English kind of way’

Eventually, I got back to working and made the Alf album but I felt so disconnected I gave up trying to take control and was happy to be led. For my second album, Raindancing, my new manager suggested I record in Los Angeles with Jimmy Iovine, who’d produced U2, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen’s The River and so on. In the hospital, coming round from a very painful operation, I had an epiphany, and embraced the idea of a vortex of chaos as a way of life and a means of songwriting.

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