You never really know why one song does it. Decker still performs under the name T'Pau at solo shows and 1980s nostalgia concerts. T'Pau: 04:15 : Amazon: 2 : I Will Be With You. T'Pau: 04:13 : Amazon: 2 : Valentine. 4 after being featured on a Pepe Jeans advertisement; it repeated the feat in the UK Singles Chart some months later. Now we both feel in perfect health. When we offered a critique they really had their noses out of joint. In 1982 Carol attended a Katz gig where Ronnie threw his guitar into the audience, which hit Carol and cut her finger. Learn all about Ronnie Rogers on AllMusic. You must be logged in to comment. T'Pau is a late 1980s pop group led by singer Carol Decker. Ronnies mother gave us a china tea-set and if you lifted the cups up to the light you can see a womans face in the bottom. One song wasnt working, so we had to stop polishing! In 2015, freshly reunited professionally with Ronnie, TPau released Pleasure And Pain, which received a strong critical response and solid sales, sparking a ferocious touring schedule that the band maintains to this day. In 1997 she assembled a new TPau and the following year performed China in Your Hand with the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Princess Diana Tribute Concert at Althorp House. But when we were making The Promise, we didnt realize how much had changed, says Carol. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1987. He said I had just walked away from debts of 800,000. It included one Top 20 hit, "Whenever You Need Me", but the band's commercial peak had now passed and they split up after its release. Decker still made guest appearances on TV shows throughout the 2000s, including Hit Me, Baby, One More Time, Just the Two of Us and The Weakest Link. "Greatest Hits: Heart and Soul - T'Pau - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic", "T'Pau - Heart And Soul - The Very Best Of T'Pau at Discogs", "T'Pau | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heart_and_Soul:_The_Very_Best_of_T%27Pau&oldid=1136242761, Stephen W. Tayler mixing (tracks 5, 79), This page was last edited on 29 January 2023, at 12:03. China only really came into its own when we gave it to Roy. Ronnie Rogers Real Name: Randall Jay Rogers Profile: American country singer and songwriter, born in Nashville, Tennessee. We have 18 shows in Germany with orchestra, choir and full band, mded by the singer and musician John Miles. We were marketed as a pop band and so their approach was simply to milk everything until it all dried up. They have had a string of Top 40 hits in the UK, and several hits in the United States and Europe. https://www.jonkutner.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/China.mp3. I was watching a documentary on the whole Mary Shelley and Byron and Keats gang and was enthralled by how, at 19, she outsold both noted poets, revealed Carol. It was my song, its all Ive got left. I knew it would just cause a massive row. Though she and Ronnie were the songwriters, and the compositions for the first two albums were completed before the band had been signed, the pair admits that a lot of time was spent managing the situation. T'Pau also recorded rock versions of The Monkees' "I'm a Believer", Petula Clark's "Downtown" and The Left Banke's "Walk Away Rene", all with lead vocals by rhythm guitarist Ron Rogers. T'Pau: Sex Talk: Directed by Brian Grant. Our management was clear that we had to keep the ball rolling, says Carol. Decker re-formed the band with a new line-up in 1998, and T'Pau have in recent years continued to work live regularly. [4], In a 2011 interview with Old School - Back to the 80s, Decker spoke of the album, "I would've loved to have gotten the same level of success again [with Red]. Ronnies mum died of cancer while we were away followed by my dad, who died of a heart attack in 1990 so the band split in 1991 with Ron returning to production. She and Rogers toured the U.K. in 2013, the 25th anniversary of the group's formation, and continued to perform during 2014. Credit: Tim Roney/Getty Images/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images, English pop-oriented rock band, led by Carol Decker, that scored a global hit in 1987 with "Heart and Soul. The short set was a make-or-break moment. 4 in September.[7]. T'Pau: Only a Heartbeat: With Carol Decker, Ronnie Rogers, T'Pau. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic. But we did some tricks, gave it a false ending in the middle to get people clapping, and finished the chorus with the title again, as Id heard in a Howard Jones song, No One Is to Blame. In 1982 Carol attended a Katz gig where Ronnie threw his guitar into the audience, which hit Carol and cut her finger. TPaus new single will be released on May 8 and the band are hoping to contact people who run 1980s websites and blogs so that they can promote it. They had a string of Top 40 hits in the UK during the late 1980s and early 1990s, most notably "China in Your Hand", "Heart and Soul" and "Valentine",[4] and several hits in the rest of Europe, before disbanding in 1992. I did a few last year. 98, their first chart action for more than two decades. I tweeted him asking, Whats your problem? And within minutes my phone was ringing. No one really notices or minds as I cover the essential dynamics of the song. So I started it: It was a theme she had / On a scheme he had / Told in a foreign land. The message, basically, is be careful what you wish for. It didn't happen although I did sell a lot of albums on the road. Tim Burgess / Carol Decker . . The band T'Pau formed in 1986 in Shropshire, taking their name from a Vulcan priestess by the same name in the Star Trek films. After touring with Bryan Adams and Nik Kershaw, the band added another guitarist, Dean Howard, and recorded their second album, Rage. Scarlett was seven and Dylan was three and I just didnt fancy city life anymore, but how I missed the bars and all the parties, she admitted. She used it as an opportunity to get backstage and meet Ronnie, whom she fancied. In the years after T'Pau's split in 1992, Decker continued to occasionally perform as a solo artist. She and fellow founding member Ronnie Rogers had worked with other members of T'Pau to write a few new songs just before lockdown. As the only original member, Decker originally considered touring under her own name, but was advised that using the T'Pau name would generate more recognition. "I have a dark sense of humour, quite gallows, and people might think some of the things I post are inappropriate. "[4], Upon its initial release in the UK in February 1987, the song was not well received, entering the bottom of the chart and falling out immediately after. Instead, Decker often performs what she calls a "basic" version,[4] explaining to Songfacts: "I rap the first two verses then cut to the melody for the verse before the chorus. The breakdown of the band also coincided with the breakdown of her relationship with Rogers. T'Pau is a late 1980s pop group led by singer Carol Decker. We had all of the symptoms except for the high temperature. Although it wasnt noticeable enough to mar the enjoyment of the track, the tempo fluctuated so much that we could not edit the album version successfully for the single, besides which, the record company thought it was too long. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic. 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Boorer, Jez Ashurst electric guitar, acoustic guitar, Spencer Cozens keyboards (tracks 2, 4-7, 10), Dave Hattee drums, programming on "Love Song", Rafe McKenna - producer (tracks 1, 3, 8-9), mixing, engineer, Marco Sabiu - producer (track 1), programming (track 1), Simon Dawson, Feddy de Faye, Alan Jenkins, Roberto Pieroni engineers, Jeremy Gill, Simon Morris, Peter Sberi assistant engineers, This page was last edited on 4 June 2022, at 08:47. Carol Decker / Ronnie Rogers. After a farewell tour, T'Pau broke up, and Decker began a solo career soon after. Scarlett is a big fan of the American make-up artist Jeffree Star and she bought me some of his cosmetics. But she and Ronnie had also split by then and the collection was essentially a solo project. We appeared in the serious music press at first, but then they started to get increasingly snooty about TPau.. Carol Decker / Ronnie Rogers. As the first T'Pau album since 1991's The Promise, Red features singer Carol Decker as the only member from the original line-up. Following its inclusion in a Pepe Jeans advert, the single reached No. I still love playing it. Eight years ago they left the bright lights of London Carol moved to Henley with her husband Richard who is an executive chef for the restaurant chain Bodeans, and their children Scarlett, 15, and Dylan, 11. T'Pau: 04:00 . T'Pau: 04:27 . She sang a version of China In Your Hands rewording it Wash Your Hands and has kept fans updated about forthcoming concerts. With Carol Decker, Ronnie Rogers, T'Pau. In 2007, marking the 20th anniversary of T'Pau's first success, Ron Rogers and Carol Decker released a new single, "Just Dream", exclusively as an Internet download. Ronnie Rogers was a guitarist with a band called The Katz. 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