Alison Moyet smashes her gold discs
Alison Moyet has smashed up her gold discs and dumped her old stage costumes in a bid to purge her past.
The former Yazoo star recently moved from her longtime home just north of London to a property in the English south coast resort of Brighton.
She was determined to leave her past behind for good, so she
wrecked hundreds of awards handed to her throughout her singing
career, threw out her closet full of stage outfits, and burned her
old diaries.
The Only You hitmaker is adamant her dramatic clearout was to spare
her son and two daughters from having to hoard boxes of her
belongings when she dies.
Alison Moyet tells British newspaper The Guardian, "I dumped
everything. Even my gold discs. I smashed the lot. I took a hammer
to them. And I'm not being lairy (boastful), but there were
hundreds. It was f**king brilliant. All my stage clothes - gone. I
love it. And I burned all my diaries.
"I really don't want to own things. It just drags you down... I
don't care. What is the point (of keeping possessions)? I've done
(my children) a real service. You die and they're left with boxes
and boxes of s**t that they are then forced to chuck away."