The song Only You came into being with Vince Clarke’s less-than-amicable departure from Essex synthpop band, Depeche Mode.
Worried he would no longer have a record deal with Mute Records, he was keen to play the label something on his own. He wrote the song but needed a vocalist to record the demo. As luck would have it, fellow Basildon resident, Alison Moyet, had just put an ad in Melody Maker looking for a band to sing with.
A week after recording the demo, Mute wanted to release Only You as a single. Released in March, it was the embodiment of a slow-burner as it slowly made its way week after week up the charts until finally in May, it reached #2 in the UK singles chart.
The NME rated Only You as number 8 in their Greatest Pop Songs in History list in 2012. Classic Pop Magazine rated the song as twelfth in their Top 100 Singles of the 80s.
Memorably, the track was used in the closing scenes of the final episode of the classic British sitcom, The Office, when Dawn and Tim finally kiss.