Your Alibis

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"Your Alibis"
Your Alibis by Lisa Stansfield.jpg
Single by Lisa Stansfield
Released1981 (1981)
Recorded1981
Studio Pennine Studios, Oldham
Genre
Length4:07
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • David Pickerill
  • Paul O'Donoughue
Producer(s)
  • David Pickerill
  • Paul O'Donoughue
Lisa Stansfield singles chronology
"Your Alibis"
(1981)
"The Only Way"
(1982)

"Your Alibis" is the debut single by the then fifteen-year-old Lisa Stansfield. [1] The song was written and produced by David Pickerill and Paul O'Donoughue. [2] It was released by Devil Records in the United Kingdom in 1981. It was also issued by Dureco Benelux in the Netherlands in 1982. The single and its B-side, "The Thought Police", were both included on the 1996 compilation In Session . [3] "The Thought Police" was also recorded by the Editors, who released it as a single on Devil Records in 1981.[ citation needed ]

Track listing

  1. "Your Alibis" – 4:07
  2. "The Thought Police" – 3:15

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