You just dont mess those sorts of people about, says Carol. TPaus lead singer, Liverpool-born Carol Decker began as a member of a ska band, The Lazers at Shrewsbury Art College. T'Pau: 04:15 : Amazon: 2 : I Will Be With You. T'Pau's lead singer, Liverpool-born Carol Decker began as a member of a ska band, The Lazers at Shrewsbury Art College. I did a few last year. To mark the 25th anniversary of the formation of the band, Decker and Rogers embarked on a 28-date UK tour during the spring of 2013 without the original band members. Scarlett is doing animation production at university in Bournemouth so she created a shooting schedule before we started. 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. I was in bits. Your email address will not be published. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic. But when we were making The Promise, we didnt realize how much had changed, says Carol. Then one day I saw this documentary about Mary Shelley. I hadn't been a mum before. They have had a string of Top 40 hits in the UK, and several hits in the United States and Europe. Further promotional activities included a live session for Virgin Radio and an appearance on VH1, which Decker also filmed material for in New York. That one has really, really hurt.. Ronnie Rogers - producer (tracks 3, 9) Simon Dawson, Feddy de Faye, Alan Jenkins, Roberto Pieroni . Anybody can make a film in their bedroom. She sang a version of China In Your Hands rewording it Wash Your Hands and has kept fans updated about forthcoming concerts. But, for some reason, the public didnt take to subsequent songs as much, even though we felt as strongly about them.. T'Pau: 04:06 . Hearing China In Your Hands with real strings was emotional. Heart And Soul did sound different to a lot of our material and its famous bass riff came from us playing about on this sequencer keyboard, which we had bought with a loan from my dad.. With Carol Decker, Ronnie Rogers, T'Pau. In fact, the classic 80s power ballad was to mark a commercial peak, and the groups US career was already starting to unravel. 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. This makes the song, in its initial studio form, impossible to perform live without additional backup singers. "Fortunately, we got it wrapped up just in time. Ive had every single gig wiped out of my diary through to almost Christmas. The short set was a make-or-break moment. | Ronnie Rogers was a guitarist with a band called The Katz. [6] Due to the exposure, the song was re-released in the UK that same month; this time it became a hit, equaling the US peak of No. Our producer, Roy Thomas Baker, went: Well, what else have you got? Id brought my cassette of China and played it to him very unsurely, and that was that. [3] To promote the album, a radio promo single, "With a Little Luck", was released. 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.. Carol said her band was able to operate in the digital world by sending files to each other via email. 3: The Biggest Club Anthems of All Time, Entertainment Weekly: The Greatest Hits 1985-1989, Entertainment Weekly: The Greatest Hits 1987, Renaissance Records, Inc.: Spring Sampler, 1997, Heart and Soul: The Very Best of T'Pau [Renaissance], In the Air Tonight: Virgin's Greatest Hits, Living in Oblivion: The 80's Greatest Hits, Vol. They get really sniffy when we suggested something. Following its inclusion in a Pepe Jeans advert, the single reached No. 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. Ronnie Rogers (I) Actor Composer Soundtrack IMDbPro Starmeter See rank Ronnie Rogers is known for Laura Bell Bundy: Drop on By (2010), Brooks & Dunn: Only in America (2009) and T'Pau: Bridge of Spies (1987). Now you can create a record in your own bedroom, but it just wasnt like that back then., The investment paid off with the 10-song set, which was given a deluxe edition reissue in 2015, proving to be a multi-platinum smash and containing the song Carol is most proud of: Heart And Soul, which was picked as TPaus first single. | Our management was clear that we had to keep the ball rolling, says Carol. Their debut single and first hit was the 1987 release "Heart and Soul". Copyright 2023 Jon Kutner. 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. 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. Its part of the fabric of the 80s and you have to respect that.. 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". They storyboarded the video before filming. In 1982 Carol attended a Katz gig where Ronnie threw his guitar into the audience, which hit Carol and cut her finger. I just looked at him and asked if we had been dropped He replied: Well, thats one way of looking at it. ". So we had a lot of fun but we had our never-work-with-your-family moments.. 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. Doing those shows with an orchestra are amazing. March 13, 1959), keyboard player Michael Chetwood (b. August 26, 1954), bassist Paul Jackson (b. August 8, 1961), and drummer Tim Burgess (b. October 6, 1961). The band formed in 1986, taking their name from a Vulcan elder of the same name in the sci-fi series Star Trek. Discover Heart and Soul: The Very Best of T'Pau [Renaissance] by T'Pau released in 1996. Im not an ber-cool person and was always up for that stuff, she says. We couldnt smell, we had no sense of taste and we had sore throats. So what do you do when it seems things cant get any worse? Another greatest hits release appeared in 1997, and Decker reformed the band with a new line-up in 1998, for the release of a new studio album, Red. Required fields are marked *. You know the expression polishing the turd? Dean Howard, Carol Decker and Ronnie Rogers on stage at the Montreux rock festival, 1988. Its in a lovely spot, in the middle of a quarry, so we could record until God knows when, and use the social club for gigs. 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. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic. 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. Discover Bridge of Spies by T'Pau released in 1987. [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. The kids think me and Ronnie are a pair of old boomers who dont know what were talking about. They played me China in Your Hand and thats what brought me out of it. The 30th anniversary edition of Bridge of Spies is out now. We also had a bit of a comedy element to it because people are going stir crazy. We had this great producer, Roy Thomas Baker, who had worked with Queen and The Cars, and was used to working on a huge scale. Tim Burgess / Carol Decker . After being spotted by former Curiosity Killed The Cat manager, Chris Cooke, he offered to oversee Carols career. After the split, Carol admits she lost her way and it would be almost a decade before she released a new TPau album, Red. She successfully poached him for her own band, but just three weeks later, the band split. 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. [10], "T'Pau! Carol Decker / Ronnie Rogers. I think its a much better album than Rage, but the bubble had burst, adds Ronnie. We lived and wrote music together above the Pengwern boat club in Shrewsbury for seven years. When it was good it was brilliant, but there was a lot going on, admitted Carol. The next release, China in Your Hand, failed to chart in the US but became the 600th UK number one and was top of the chart on the week of the Kings Cross fire. Their first hit was the 1987 release "Heart and Soul". I didnt think more about it until we were in America recording our debut album, Bridge of Spies. Ronnie Rogers [T'Pau] Top Songs as Writer #1: "Heart and Soul" by T'Pau #2: "China in Your Hand" by T'Pau #3: "Valentine" by T'Pau #4: "I Will Be with You" by T'Pau #5: "Whenever You Need Me" by T'Pau #6: "Secret Garden" by T'Pau #7: "Sex Talk" by T'Pau #8: "Only the Lonely" by T'Pau #9: "Road to Our Dream" by T'Pau #10: "Valentine" by T'Pau. I missed him so much, but then I morphed the story into a fictitious one of not being loved back (which I was). Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic. 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]. Discover Sex Talk by T'Pau released in 2007. 4 in both the US and UK charts. [7][8] It was given a release in the United States on 9 November 1999 by Renaissance Records as a two-disc set, with the additional disc containing three tracks: the re-recorded "Heart and Soul '97", a live, unplugged version of the band's 1987 UK number one hit "China in Your Hand", and the demo version of the album track "Do the Right Dance". I sulked my way across Germany it was just awful. Red was not a commercial success, nor was a re-recorded version of "Giving Up the Ghost", which was released in 1999. 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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. They have had a string of Top 40 hits in the UK, and several hits in the United States and Europe. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic. 1988 saw the release of their second album Rage which produced the hit single "Secret Garden". In Groups: T'Pau. Ronnie Rogers Real Name: Randall Jay Rogers Profile: American country singer and songwriter, born in Nashville, Tennessee. 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. They have two children, Scarlett (born 1998) and Dylan (born 2002), and married in 2006. Then we got dropped by the record company and everything just ground to a halt. I was beside myself with joy when we flew out, recalls Carol. 8 August 1961, Telford) Bassist, Taj Wyzgowski (b. T'Pau: 03:26 : Amazon: 5 : Road to Our Dream. Carol Decker / Ronnie Rogers. . 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. . 10 in the UK, earning a silver disc. Carol Decker / Ronnie Rogers. 98, their first chart action for more than two decades. But her success caused much dissent and jealousy in her marriage and friendships, so created her own monster. As the The Virgin Anthology attests, however, Decker and Rogers assurance was well-founded. Because of lockdown, we had to film at home using whatever props we could. Almost all of them have been postponed, not cancelled, so hopefully Ill get to see my fans and I can earn a living again when it all comes back to me. Now former Midlands rock band TPau are going it alone by releasing music without the help of a record company. Valentine, the bands third hit single, finally lived up to its potential by making the UK No.9. The band was earning a strong reputation as a live act and was soon on tour with Nik Kershaw. Discover Rage by T'Pau released in 1988. "You dont earn any money from the records, you have to go on the road to earn a living. 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. Dean Howard. We appeared in the serious music press at first, but then they started to get increasingly snooty about TPau.. Then, towards the end, it got even worse when we would get feedback with a multiple-choice table, and the responses ranged from Not quite what we are looking for, to Dont give up your day job. I imagine those punky little A&R guys thought it was funny, but it really wasnt., The band found a mentor in David Massey, who managed Wang Chung a group that scored big hits with Dance Hall Days and Everybody Have Fun Tonight. He picked up on the hit potential of one of TPaus songs, Valentine, and urged them to write more like that, but still declined to take them on himself. T'Pau member Ronnie Rogers was her boyfriend at the time, and they co-wrote the majority of the band's songs. I love that side of it but I miss having record company money for promotion. But pressure to keep the momentum building forced the band back into the studio to complete the work for their second album, Rage. "Those have been pulled and the arenas are hard to book in advance so we dont know if theyll go ahead. Ronnie and I had got the vocals finished in February and we thought wed start putting the music out as download-only singles. Ron and I had been together for five years writing by then, says Carol. 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. They needed to stop for sandwiches every hour. [7] [8] Decker began a relationship with restaurateur Richard Coates in 1996. I did London Coliseum last autumn and Leeds Millennium Square with a 75-piece orchestra. The record was not a commercial success, but T'Pau have continued to perform live on a semi-regular basis. "Some of the things that I was particularly upset about was the 80s classical concert. "We're Part Of The 80s Fabric": Carol Decker And Ronnie Rogers Talk T'Pau Carol Decker and Ronnie Rogers of T'Pau talk about career highs, overlooked songs, and the eclecticism at the. Tim Burgess / Michael Chetwood / Carol Decker / Dean Howard / Paul Jackson / Ronnie Rogers. [2021]. They enjoyed their biggest hit 33 years ago when China In Your Hand became an international smash. T'Pau: Bridge of Spies: Directed by Jay Brown. 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. Decker still performs under the name T'Pau at solo shows and 1980s nostalgia concerts. In the years after T'Pau's split in 1992, Decker continued to occasionally perform as a solo artist. I got home one day and Carol had this quiet sketch shed written on the piano. 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. As Carol admits, if being an eclectic songwriter is a sin, then she and Ronnie are guilty as charged. We didnt think about it too much, says Ronnie. 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