"Nobody's Diary" | ||||||||
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Single by Yazoo | ||||||||
from the album You and Me Both | ||||||||
B-side | "State Farm" | |||||||
Released | 9 May 1983 | |||||||
Format | 7", 12" | |||||||
Recorded | 1983 | |||||||
Genre | Synthpop | |||||||
Length | 4:31 | |||||||
Label |
Mute (UK) Sire (U.S.) |
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Writer(s) | Alison Moyet | |||||||
Producer(s) |
Daniel Miller Yazoo |
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Nobody's Diary | ||||
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EP by Yazoo | ||||
Released | 12 May 2008 | |||
Recorded | 1983 | |||
Genre | Synthpop | |||
Label | Mute | |||
Producer |
Eric Radcliffe Yazoo |
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"Nobody's Diary" is a song recorded by British synthpop band Yazoo. It was released in May 1983 as the first and only single from their second and last album, You and Me Both. The song was written by Yazoo vocalist Alison Moyet and produced by the band and Eric Radcliffe.
The 12-inch single was released with different B-sides in the UK and U.S. Mute Records released the song in the UK with "Situation" on the flip side. "Situation" appears on the U.S. version of the band's previous album Upstairs at Eric's (although it was added to the UK track list in later pressings). The single peaked at number three in the UK Singles Chart.
Sire Records released "Nobody's Diary" in the United States with You and Me Both album track "State Farm" as a double A-side. "State Farm" was not included on the UK version of You and Me Both. The double A-side hit number one on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart in July 1983.
The song was written by Alison Moyet, and produced by Daniel Miller and the group at Eric Radcliffe's Blackwing Studios. The song was mastered at Townhouse Studios.
The song has a tempo of 129 beats per minute.
The single's cover—designed by Steven Appleby with the sleeve produced by Acrobat Design—depicts a "rather hip young man in a bathtub [who] seems to have forgotten to turn off the water, so intent is he on his private thoughts."