Yazoo began with a wanted ad in the music press, with bluesy Basildon singer Alison Moyet on the lookout for a gigging R&B band. In an unexpected twist of fate, her best response came from Vince Clarke, an old school acquaintance trying to figure out the next leap forwards after writing Depeche Mode’s debut Speak & Spell and suddenly pressing eject. A classic case of chalk and cheese – an expressive soul singer and an introverted computer boffin – the contrast worked famously on both sides of their first single. Opening with a snatch of Moyet’s laughter over Clarke’s tinkling futuristic synths, ‘Situation’ was an ahead of its time dance banger, much less melancholic than the stunted devotion of ‘Only You’. Where it was easy to imagine that arriving couched in Dave Gahan’s twitchy baritone, Moyet made ‘Situation’ her own, her power-packed turn helping it resonate across the pond, where Sire chose to issue it their first A-side, apparently against Yazoo’s wishes. Its resonance is still felt there, after François Kevorkian’s 12-inch remix topped Billboard’s Hot Dance Club chart for four weeks.