“Don't Go” by Yaz

"Don't Go" came off Upstairs at Eric's, the 1982 debut from the British synth-pop band known at home as Yazoo and in America as Yaz, and it's a collision of opposites: Vince Clarke's chattering, clockwork synthesizers against the huge, bluesy roar of Alison Moyet. Clarke wrote it alone and produced it with Daniel Miller, with John Fryer and Eric Radcliffe at the desk.

It went to number three in Britain and spent two weeks on top of the American dance chart in October 1982, the band's second trip to the summit there after "Situation". The video parks the pair in a spooky old mansion with Clarke cast as Victor Frankenstein. It even came back to haunt the UK Dance Chart in 2009.

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