She grew up in the nearby town of Basildon, where she attended Janet Duke Junior School and then Nicholas Comprehensive at secondary level. According to her official web site: "Each album will feature plenty of bonus material – including some rare and previously unreleased material. The success of Alf would soon make Moyet resentful as she felt the album's mass market appeal had defined her before she had the chance and experience to properly decide the direction she wanted to take her solo career in. In February 2013, Moyet said of the remastered albums: "The project was Sony's – some initial work was done and then the project was suspended.

The album sold respectably in the UK, and Moyet was nominated for a Grammy [12] for the single " It Won't Be Long". Love Resurrection' and 'Invisible' were the singles and they did quite well here in the states at the time. However, after signing the contract, Yazoo's American record company Warner Bros then put an injunction on her. However, the release of Hoodoo marked the beginning of an eight-year fight for Moyet to secure complete control of her artistic direction.

Terrible sound, loud and really annoying - actually it's one of the worst remastered albums i've ever heard! In 1985, the success of the album led to Moyet receiving her first Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist.

Each double-disc set comes in a casebound book with the original album remastered from the original tapes along with 12-inch remixes, b-sides and previously unreleased songs. At the age of 20, Moyet's mainstream pop career began in 1982 with the formation of the synthpop duo Yazoo with former Depeche Mode member Vince Clarke. Moyet announced on BBC Radio 6 Music that her new album with Guy Sigsworth would be released in 2012, but in February that year she stated: "I appear to have forfeited my recording deal because I won't do reality TV. She was involved in a number of punk rock, pub rock and blues bands in the South East Essex area during the late 1970s and early 1980s, including the Vandals, [4] the Screamin' Ab Dabs, the Vicars and the Little Roosters [4] (the latter featuring Garrie Lammin, formerly of Cock Sparrer).

In 2006, she appeared in the play Smaller, which undertook a regional tour before a stint at London's Lyric Theatre. co-written by Eurythmics' Dave Stewart, under the pseudonym Jean Guiot), [11] followed in 1987 by her second LP, Raindancing. For You Only,’ was released the following year but surprisingly failed to chart here, though they loved it in Germany, where it reached number 7, Her highest entry there. Scored and produced by Moyet's neighbour (and Academy Award winner) Anne Dudley, the album was later re-issued with a bonus track, "Alfie". Chart Watch Britain: Alison Moyet Debuts at Number 5; Joe Satriani and Bonnie Tyler Score Multi-Decade Bests".