“Nobody's Diary” by Yazoo

"Nobody's Diary" arrived in May 1983 as the one and only single from You and Me Both, Yazoo's second album and their last, and it belongs to Alison Moyet from the ground up: she wrote it at around 16, back when she was playing in bands around South East Essex. It was one of the final songs the band got down for the album, recorded at Eric Radcliffe's Blackwing Studios with Radcliffe, Daniel Miller and Yazoo sharing production, and Vince Clarke recalled in 2008 that it leapt out at once as the obvious single.

It moves at a brisk 129 beats per minute. Steven Appleby designed the sleeve, a young man so lost in thought in the bath that he's forgotten to turn off the tap, and Mute added a limited 12-inch with "Situation" on the flip.

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