Listen to our full interview with Andy Bell here:

You could say Andy Bell is a serial monogamist. He was in a committed relationship with his late manager, Paul M. Hickey, for 25 years, and he’s been happily married to American nightclub owner Stephen Moss since 2013. And of course, in his professional life, Bell has been musical partners with Erasure bandmate Vince Clarke for 40 years — which is decades longer than Clarke lasted with his previous projects, Depeche Mode and Yazoo. And even when Bell makes music outside of Erasure, he’s a loyal guy: He first released music with his other regular collaborator, Dave Aude, in 2014 (the No. 1 dance hit “Aftermath”), and the two actually worked on Bell’s new solo album, Ten Crowns, for more than 12 years.

“I think that's a Taurean trait: You find someone, and if you trust them, they learn to trust you,” Bell muses, adding with a chuckle,...