‘It was a really lonely time’: Alison Moyet and Dave Stewart on making Is This Love?

‘I now sing it with a more Twin Peaks vibe’ … Alison Moyet at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in 1986. Photograph: Today/Shutterstock

Alison Moyet, singer, songwriter

I’d left school at 16 and kept getting sacked from jobs in shops because I was so easily distracted. I was singing in punk bands and my only ambition was to headline at the Hope & Anchor in London. Then Vince Clarke answered my advert in Melody Maker and suddenly I was a pop star with Yazoo.