question: Named after producer Radcliffe's Blackwing Studios where the album was recorded, "Upstairs at Eric's" was preceded by two top three UK singles, including the ballad "Only You", a song written by what English musician? 
answer: Vince Clarke
context: Title: Upstairs at Eric's
  Passage: Upstairs at Eric's is the debut album by British synthpop duo Yazoo (known in the US and Canada as Yaz), released in the UK on Mute Records on 20 August 1982.  It was produced by the band and E.C. Radcliffe, with assistance from Mute label boss Daniel Miller on some of the tracks.  Named after producer Radcliffe's Blackwing Studios where the album was recorded, "Upstairs at Eric's" was preceded by two top three UK singles, the ballad "Only You" and the more uptempo "Don't Go".  The singles' success helped "Upstairs at Eric's" reach number 2 in the UK Albums Chart and gain platinum certification for 300,000 copies sold in the UK.
  Title: Stephen Gately
  Passage: Stephen Patrick David Gately (17 March 197610 October 2009) was an Irish pop singer-songwriter, actor, children's writer and dancer, who, with Ronan Keating, was one of two lead singers of the pop group Boyzone.  Gately and Keating originally served as co-frontmen, but Keating gradually became more synonymous with the group as time went on.  All of Boyzone's studio albums hit number one in the United Kingdom, their third being their most successful internationally.  With Boyzone, Gately had a record-breaking sixteen consecutive singles enter the top five of the UK Singles Chart.  He performed for millions of fans globally.  He released a solo album in 2000, after the group's initial break-up, which charted in the UK top ten and yielded three UK hit singles, including the top three hit "New Beginning".  Gately went on to appear variously in stage productions and on television programmes as well as contributing songs to various projects.  In 2008, he rejoined his colleagues as Boyzone reformed for a series of concerts and recordings.
  Title: Little Mix discography
  Passage: The discography of British girl group Little Mix consists of four studio albums, seventeen singles and eighteen music videos. Having become the first ever group to win the show, winners of "The X Factor" Little Mix released their debut single "Cannonball" a cover of Damien Rice's single in December 2011.  The single became the group's first number-one single when it topped the UK Singles Chart.  The lead single from their debut album "Wings" became their second number one single in the UK.  It also reached number three in Australia and number 14 in the New Zealand.  In November 2012, Little Mix released their debut album "DNA".  The album peaked inside the top 10 in ten countries, including the UK where it debuted number three.  The album has been certified Platinum in the UK where it has sold 391,447 copies there as of April 2016.  In May 2013, the group released their debut album in the United States, where it debuted at number four, becoming the highest debut from a British girl group in the US, beating a record previously held by the Spice Girls, who debuted at number six with their debut album "Spice" in 1996.  "DNA" spawned three more singles; the top three hit and title track "DNA" and the top 20 singles "Change Your Life" and "How Ya Doin'? ".
  Title: Glory Days (Little Mix album)
  Passage: Glory Days is the fourth studio album by British girl group Little Mix.  It was released on 18 November 2016, by Syco Music and Columbia Records.  The album was preceded by the UK number-one single "Shout Out to My Ex", released a month before.  The single later won the Best British Single award at 2017 BRIT Awards.  The album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart; it later became their first album to yield more than two top ten singles when the fourth single, "Power", reached number six on the UK Singles Chart.  The album has sold over 600,000 copies in the U.K and over 1 million copies worlwide.
  Title: Only You (Yazoo song)
  Passage: "Only You" is a song written by English musician Vince Clarke.  He wrote it while with Depeche Mode, but recorded it in 1982 after forming the duo Yazoo with Alison Moyet.  It was released as Yazoo's first single on 15 March 1982 in the United Kingdom.  Upon its UK release, the single became an instant success, hitting number two on the UK Singles Chart.  In the US, the song was released as their second single in November 1982 and charted at number sixty-seven on "Billboard" Hot 100.  "Only You" also made the US Adult Contemporary chart at number thirty-eight.
  Title: Leave in Silence
  Passage: "Leave in Silence" is the sixth single by the English electronic band Depeche Mode, released on 16 August 1982.  Recorded at Blackwing Studios, the single became the band's fifth UK Top 20 hit, peaking at #18.  It was the first Depeche Mode single in the UK to use the "Bong" catalogue number system, which they used until "Heaven" in 2013.  Three versions of the track were released on the 7" and 12" singles, while a fourth cut (running at 4:51 mins) was released on the band's 1982 album "A Broken Frame".
  Title: Just Can't Get Enough (Depeche Mode song)
  Passage: "Just Can't Get Enough" is a song by the English electronic music band Depeche Mode.  It was released in September 1981 as the second single from their debut album, "Speak and Spell" (1981).  It was recorded during the summer of that year at Blackwing Studios, and was the band's first single to be released in the United States, on 18 February 1982.  A riff-driven synthpop song, "Just Can't Get Enough" was the final single to be written by founding member Vince Clarke, who left the band in November 1981.
  Title: Yazoo (band)
  Passage: Yazoo (known as Yaz in North America for legal reasons involving Yazoo Records) were a British synthpop duo from Basildon, Essex, England, consisting of former Depeche Mode member Vince Clarke (keyboards) and Alison Moyet (vocals).  Formed in late 1981 after Clarke responded to an advertisement Moyet placed in a UK music magazine, over the next 18 months the duo made two critically acclaimed albums, "Upstairs at Eric's" and "You and Me Both", blending Clarke's synthesizer melodies with Moyet's blues- and soul-influenced vocals.  Yazoo enjoyed worldwide success, particularly in their home country where three of their four singles reached the top three of the UK Singles Chart and both their albums made the top two of the albums chart.  In North America they are best known for the song "Situation", originally only a B-side in the UK but which was a club and airplay hit in the US and Canada before being released as the band's debut single in North America.
  Title: Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing
  Passage: Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing is a collaboration album between Boyd Rice and Frank Tovey, recorded in 1981, but released in 1984 on Mute Records, and is composed on 12 tracks labeled "extractions" 1-12.  Each extraction is a minimalist noise song, none of which use any conventional musical instruments.  Instead the two use various everyday objects, a gas fire, water pipes and any furniture that happened to be lying around Blackwing Studios as instruments.
  Title: See You (song)
  Passage: "See You" is the fourth UK single by Depeche Mode recorded at Blackwing Studios, and the first Depeche Mode single written by Martin Gore.  The single was released on 29 January 1982 and was later included on the band's second album "A Broken Frame".  The single launched a small world tour, with extra band member Alan Wilder, although he did not contribute to the song or the album.  There are three versions of "See You"—the 7" single version (3:55), the album version (4:34), and an extended 12" version with a longer intro (4:50).  The "Extended Version" and the "Album Version" are almost the same.  The "Album Version" fades out about 20 second before the 12" remix does.
citations: Only You (Yazoo song) Upstairs at Eric's