Finished it was decided that Don’t Go was too strong for a B-side, so we’d have to get another song for that purpose.ĭon’t Go was the first time Yazoo made a video, my first time being in one.
Daniel Miller came in to listen and suggested adding an instrumental bar between the verse and the chorus.
The original melody was much straighter, like a Speak and Spell song, so I shaped it round with my Canvey Delta styling. When we had recorded Only You and had decided to release it, we needed a B – Side so Vince wrote Don’t Go very quickly. There were no leftovers and I was still getting pocket money. All the songs we recorded that didn’t make the album were wiped and recorded over. We made Upstairs at Eric’s (Upstairs at Turkan’s/Eric Radcliffe – owner of Blackwing and then-progressive studio engineer) in the studio downtime. We each did what we did in our turn and then observed the other. We didn’t ask what the other listened to and neither what we wanted or hoped to make together. We didn’t play each other our favourite albums. I wrote it in the grime of the window screen, my feet up on the dash. It was a label imprint in my record collection. I don’t do cars. “We need a name” he said. And we were away up the A127 in his yellow Ford Carola. A week later he called me and said we had the green light to go into Blackwing Studios to lay it down. In a fortnight, it was suggested we make an album together. He sang me the song and I sang it by return into his 4 Track porta studio. I put an ad in The Melody Maker and there Vince found my number. They weren’t so keen on the Janis so I was eventually let go in favour of our mate who played blues harp very well indeed. Influenced by Billy Boy Arnold, Sonny Boy Williamson, Willie B Huff and Janis. I sang very loudly as a consequence.īy then I had migrated to the Canvey scene and had been playing in a blues band called The Screaming Abdabs. We were all volume and distortion and monitors were for wussies. Vince asked Rob if I could sing, Rob later told me. Upstairs at Turkans. Robert Marlow (Allen), the Vandals’ guitarist, was Vince’s best mate so he had come along at some point. We had some local notoriety playing car parks, youth clubs and an underused club we found called Turkans. First being me in late ’77 with my punk group ‘The Vandals’. We all ended up on the local music scene. I was at Nicholas Comprehensive with Fletcher and Martin Gore and our friendship groups merged, mostly up the escalators in our local ‘The Highway’. Vince was the bloke at impromptu house parties playing guitar and singing Simon and Garfunkel from an armchair.
I’d known Vince by sight since I was 10 from the council lead Saturday morning music school held at his school – Laindon High Road Comprehensive school and later around town. Daniel Miller – Mute personified, he that had discovered Depeche, wasn’t convinced but said Vince should record it if he wanted to. Vince had left Depeche and he had this one song begging and so he needed a singer.
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