A compilation album, Heart and Soul The Very Best of T'Pau, was released in 1993 and reached the UK Top 40. You have to roll with the punches, and the big budgets are gone, but I mix those large retro shows with smaller sets and acoustic tours. We came from bands and embraced that culture, but we were signed as a duo to the label. Then we got dropped by the record company and everything just ground to a halt. "We had to do a download video and my two kids have both done creative media courses at college so we asked them to make it.. To me, it was just another song it didnt sound like it had a chorus either. In 1988 they released their second album Rage, which peaked at No. We had nothing left to give each other, Carol said. "The band has been going for more than 30. You have to rely on your social media. 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Bridge of Spies produced a number of smaller hits which made it to at least the UK Top 40, including the singles "Valentine" (UK #9), "Sex Talk" (a new recording of early flop single, "Intimate Strangers") (UK #23), and "I Will Be With You" (UK #14).[3]. We burst out laughing. Learn all about Ronnie Rogers on AllMusic. "The funniest moment came when Dylan told me that he and Scarlett had six years experience between them at college. The kids think me and Ronnie are a pair of old boomers who dont know what were talking about. Traversing the groups career on Virgin Records, from their quadruple-platinum 1987 debut album, Bridge Of Spies, to 1991s Top 10 outing, The Promise, it reveals a group working at the peak of their powers. Quickly signed to Virgin's Siren subsidiary, the group released their debut single, "Heart and Soul," in early 1987 with little fanfare. Ronnie and I had got the vocals finished in February and we thought wed start putting the music out as download-only singles. T'Pau is a late 1980s pop group led by singer Carol Decker. Dean Howard. T'Pau /tpa/ are an English pop group formed in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, led by singer Carol Decker. Singer Carol Decker said of the authorship and composition of the selection: Ron had just bought a new keyboard with a built in sequencer, so he was just trying to get used to the gizmos in it and while messing around with the sequencer he started the bum bum buh buh bum bum bum of the bass riff. All the press was slanted towards a Smash Hits audience and, with hindsight, that didnt help. I remember holding this cup up to the light, and seeing this Japanese ladys face in the bottom. Despite this, the 11-song collection went platinum, and features in its entirety on Disc Three of The Virgin Anthology. There were, however, a few unexpected challenges when they made the video for Be Wonderful. I knew following up Bridge Of Spies was going to be hard, but I am proud of Rage and, certainly initially, wasnt particularly worried by it not doing as well. But Ronnie remained optimistic. We had all of the symptoms except for the high temperature. They recorded some demos and got a contract with Siren Records and were offered a support slot on Nik Kershaws UK tour. Im very conscious of the fact that his career is massive and mine isnt any more. Table 19: Oberhofer's Ultimate Wedding Mixtape, Put Your Hands Up, Vol. The song would peak at No.4 and, on the back of being picked for a jeans commercial, finally made the same position back home in September 1987. I find it funny that nowadays everyone takes big crashing songs and makes them quiet. It was a quiet piano song and he turned it into something else, with that big crashing chorus. It flopped on its first release in the UK, but in the US it started to receive radio play and began a hesitant ascent of the Billboard Hot 100. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic. In 2011 she felt insulted when Gary Barlow, then a judge on X-Factor, made a derogatory comment about China In Your Hand and Carol took to Twitter to vent her spleen. Discover Sex Talk by T'Pau released in 2007. Dean Howard, Carol Decker and Ronnie Rogers on stage at the Montreux rock festival, 1988. I was beside myself with joy when we flew out, recalls Carol. They enjoyed their biggest hit 33 years ago when China In Your Hand became an international smash. The record was not a commercial success, but T'Pau have continued to perform live on a semi-regular basis. [2021]. It was a bit out on a limb from everything else too, but, picking a song on its merit, it was the obvious one to choose. Radio stations in the States now struggled to categorize the group, who refused to slot neatly into segregated playlist policies. Billboard Hot 100 chart, reaching #4 after being featured on a Pepe Jeans advertisement; it repeated the feat in the UK Singles Chart some months later. If youre not Beyonce with millions of followers it is hard. 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. TPaus lead singer, Liverpool-born Carol Decker began as a member of a ska band, The Lazers at Shrewsbury Art College. I would actually pick Only A Heartbeat from The Promise as my favourite TPau song ever.. Now former Midlands rock band TPau are going it alone by releasing music without the help of a record company. Tim Burgess / Carol Decker . It didn't happen although I did sell a lot of albums on the road. After the split, Carol admits she lost her way and it would be almost a decade before she released a new TPau album, Red. Ronnie Rogers Past members Tim Burgess Michael Chetwood Paul Jackson Taj Wyzgowski Dean Howard Jez Ashurst Dave Hattee Dan McKinna Website http://www.tpau.co.uk/ T'Pau/tpa/are an English popgroup formed in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, led by singer Carol Decker. Thered be ice on the inside of the windows. Four subsequent singles from the album entered at least the Top 20, though none broke in the U.S. charts. Discover Red by T'Pau released in 1998. Carol Decker / Ronnie Rogers. Their debut album, Bridge of Spies (simply called T'Pau in the US), also reached number 1 and went quadruple platinum in the UK. We didnt know any better then and were very in awe of everything, so we just agreed. . I got interested in her, this 19-year-old girl writing a pulp fiction hit that blew the essays and poetry of her contemporaries, and her husband Percy, out of the water. Carol said her band was able to operate in the digital world by sending files to each other via email. The technology we had access to was incredible. T'Pau: 03:58 . Their 1987 album, Bridge of Spies (the album was called T'Pau in the U.S.)[T'Pau (band) at All Music Guide] was a best seller and won several British music industry awards. Decker still performs under the name T'Pau at solo shows and 1980s nostalgia concerts, and in 2013 she reunited with original band member and co-songwriter Ronnie Rogers for a 25th-anniversary UK tour.[5]. So we went to the Workhouse Studio in London and re-recorded it as faithful to the production as possible in a three-minute format. Well, four minutes and five seconds actually, Roy Thomas Baker wasnt available so as Ronnie and Tim worked into the wee small hours to get it right, we agreed they should get the production credit. During the series, Amelia Lily took to the stage to perform the song and at the end of it Gary came out and said, It was nice to hear that song sung in tune. which prompted Carol to comment, He implied that Id sung it out of tune. I guess subconsciously thats how I got the title.. "Fortunately, we got it wrapped up just in time. | A bloke came up to us and said: I was in a coma that song brought me out of it. [3] The following year, the band had their biggest hit with the ballad, "China in Your Hand", which spent five weeks at Number 1 in the UK chart,[3] and also claimed the top slot in several European countries, but made little impact in the United States. Decker still performs under the name T'Pau at solo shows and 1980s nostalgia concerts. Tim Burgess / Carol Decker / Dean Howard / Paul Jackson / Ronnie Rogers. Other Top 20 hits followed: Valentine, I Will Be with You, Secret Garden and Whenever You Need Me but then it all went wrong. I sometimes get frustrated that people focus so much on China In Your Hand but its great to be remembered in such a fickle business. . The band was earning a strong reputation as a live act and was soon on tour with Nik Kershaw. In 1982 Carol attended a Katz gig where Ronnie threw his guitar into the audience, which hit Carol and cut her finger. Carol, who met Prince Charles and Princess Diana during the late 1980s when her band became the biggest in Britain, said she was proud of her two children. We were marketed as a pop band and so their approach was simply to milk everything until it all dried up. Carol Decker / Ronnie Rogers. I still love playing it. Your email address will not be published. I didnt think more about it until we were in America recording our debut album, Bridge of Spies. Following its inclusion in a Pepe Jeans advert, the single reached No. After meeting guitarist Ronnie on the gigging circuit, the early 80s would see the pair battle to capitalize on a series of promising leads that withered into nothing. I hadn't been a mum before. Subscribe to one or all notification sources from this one place. The strain of being in a successful band, and the inevitable clashes with the other band members who wanted an ever-increasing slice of the pie took their toll. They absolutely had to stop for lunch. Complemented by a disc of remixes, rarities and demos, its a body of work thats hard to characterize, but proves that legacies are harder to shatter than fragile chart careers. You never really know why one song does it. I did a few last year. Taj Wyzgowski. This makes the song, in its initial studio form, impossible to perform live without additional backup singers. As the The Virgin Anthology attests, however, Decker and Rogers assurance was well-founded. ". Red was not a commercial success, nor was a re-recorded version of "Giving Up the Ghost", which was released in 1999. When it was good it was brilliant, but there was a lot going on, admitted Carol. It was so beautiful and fragile, so it gave me the idea for that line about what dreams are like: Dont push too far / Your dreams are china in your hand.. It was a bad call. We did a reunion tour in 2013 and it was always the highlight. 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. Once wed filmed it, wed ping it back and forth to Ronnie, who lives in Wales.. In 2007, marking the 20th anniversary of T'Pau's initial success, Ron Rogers and Carol Decker released the new single, "Just Dream", exclusively as an internet download. Heart and Soul: The Very Best of T'Pau is a compilation album by British pop group T'Pau, which was released by Virgin Records in 1993. "The money comes in with the big campaign and that I find frustrating. [7] [8] Decker began a relationship with restaurateur Richard Coates in 1996. 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. But she and Ronnie had also split by then and the collection was essentially a solo project. I got home one day and Carol had this quiet sketch she'd written on the piano. That looks like it will be next year. Ronnie and I are no longer together were both happily married to other people, with kids but I still perform, and when I get back into that past, its like Im another Carol. In an interview, she stated, "It's a little harder to get on the radio because all the '80s stations play the '80s stuff and they won't play your new stuff. Red is the fourth studio album by British pop-rock group T'Pau, which was released by Gnatfish in 1998. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. He is a composer, known for Table 19 (2017), Sisters (2015) and Black Mirror (2011). 7 May 1961, Greenwich, London) Lead Guitarist, Ronnie Rogers (b. We built it around ourselves, with the right intentions, but wed do it very differently today.. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic. Speaking to uDiscover, Carol admits she was starting to get rattled by the relentless round of rejection. But it was also bloody freezing. They needed to stop for sandwiches every hour. Ronnie. Id only seen the clonky Hammer horror Frankenstein film all that bolt-in-the neck business but Id always been fascinated by how prophetic Shelleys story was, that idea of man playing God. The absence of a record company means Carol and her bandmates have creative control over their output but they dont have the budget to spend on a big campaign. Listen to The Virgin Anthology right now. Learn how your comment data is processed. We had to watch telly in sleeping bags. Anybody can make a film in their bedroom. I didnt start singing professionally until I was 22. We could tell there was something about it too, even as a four-track demo., In 1986, the pair was invited to perform a three-song showcase at Nomis Rehearsal Studios, in front of Siren Records bosses, after the duos new manager, Chris Cook, had secured a hearing. 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. Explore Ronnie Rogers's discography including top tracks, albums, and reviews. https://www.jonkutner.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/China.mp3. Ronnie Rogers was a guitarist with a band called The Katz. Carols daughter Scarlett had directed TPaus 2018 single Run and was happy to take on her latest project with help from her younger brother Dylan. 4 in both the US and UK charts. With Carol Decker, Ronnie Rogers, T'Pau. Sorry, we are not accepting comments on this article. I was very taken with Carols voice, so we struck a kind of agreement and the first thing I did was fire most of the band, revealed Chris in an interview with Q magazine. We found out while we were on tour with Bryan Adams in Germany. September 10, 1957), guitarist Ronnie Rogers (b. Carol said the closure of concert venues had wrecked her bands schedule for 2020 and they were unlikely to perform now until the end of the year at the very earliest. Fans would come up after, saying: We played this at our wedding. Another bloke, who couldnt stop shaking my hand, said: I was in a coma. Guitarist Dean Howard has toured and recorded with Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan. T'Pau: 04:00 . They have had a string of Top 40 hits in the UK, and several hits in the United States and Europe. Initially a flop in the UK, it first became a hit in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, reaching No. Rogers moved to their recording studios in Monmouth where he now lives and in 2012 the pair gigged intermittently and then embarked on a hugely successful 25th anniversary tour. I toured it up and down the UK, and then I went across Europe with Status Quo and I left her behind when she was six months old. Carol has kept in touch with her 50,000 Twitter followers most days, offering plenty of laughter along the way. It was a similar story elsewhere too, but the strength of the bands songs cut through in Europe, where programmers had less influence on the charts. In February 2015, T'Pau released their fifth studio album, Pleasure & Pain, and embarked on a tour. After the song was used in a Ppe jeans commercial, however, it became a Top Five hit on both sides of the Atlantic. Later in November and December 1998, T'Pau supported Status Quo on the German and UK leg of their Tour "It's Good to Tour". We also had a bit of a comedy element to it because people are going stir crazy. "[11] Heather Phares of AllMusic stated, "The group's smooth pop sounds remain intact on songs like 'With a Little Luck,' 'Now That You're Gone,' 'Giving Up the Ghost,' and 'Let It All Fall.'[10]. The resulting album, Bridge of Spies (self-titled T'Pau for its American release), shot straight to number one in England. 10 in the UK, earning a silver disc. 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. In the years after T'Pau's split in 1992, Decker continued to occasionally perform as a solo artist. After a farewell tour, T'Pau broke up, and Decker began a solo career soon after. While lead single (and fan favorite) Whenever You Need Me performed solidly and secured the act a final Top Of The Pops appearance in May 1991, sales of The Promise, which the band wanted to title A New Decade, were modest, and TPau was dumped by Siren during a UK tour. Just two months after The Firm had immortalised the Star Trek characters in their chart topping hit, Star Trekkin, along came TPau, who took their name from the stateswoman who appeared in the episode Amok Time and was from the planet Vulcan, also home to Second Officer Mr Spock. Background. She used it as an opportunity to get backstage and meet Ronnie, whom she fancied. Flame-haired singer Carol Decker has created a lockdown video to accompany their latest single Be Wonderful, which was filmed by her two children, Scarlett and Dylan, who are media students. Lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic debut album, Heart and Soul the very of! 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