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+Please note that much of the information appearing here previously is unfactual, but upon repeated efforts to make corrections and updates by official Artist representation, Wikipedia members continue to delete our original and factual herstographies-in-progress. This matter is now being investigated by legal counsel, as the information continues to be distributed to web-space other than that at Wikipedia.
-''The below article is about '''Yazoo''' the music band. For alternate meanings, see [[Yazoo (disambiguation)]].''
+Should the previously published article be re-posted to this webspace without measures having been taken for the cease and desist of distribution court action will follow.
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-'''Yazoo''' (known as '''Yaz''' in the [[U.S.]]) were an [[England|English]] [[Electropop|electropop]] duo from [[Basildon]], [[Essex, England|Essex]], who had a number of top ten hits in the [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[United States|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 (U.S. state)|Georgia]] which later became Mississippi and [[Alabama]].
-Yazoo consisted of:
-*[[Alison Moyet]] - singer
-*[[Vince Clarke]] - synthesizers
-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 [[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.
-After the band split in [[1983]], Alison Moyet went on to a successful solo career. Vince, who had previously been a member of the group [[Depeche Mode]], went on to become the joint founder of the pop group [[Erasure]] after a brief project with singer [[Feargal Sharkey]] as [[The Assembly]].
-== 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
-== 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.
-[[Category:British musical groups]]