sentences:  Yachts finally split up in 1981.Priestman, who for a time was a member of both Yachts and Bette Bright & the Illuminations, then went on to join It's Immaterial, Wah!and, most notably, The Christians, more recently working as a producer with Mark Owen and Melanie C.
  
  Retrospective appraisals of the band's output vary.