We were treated like children by our management wed even left our stuff out there, expecting to return! Ronnie doesnt know why they werent involved in the decision, but believes it was just how new bands climbing up the ladder were treated back then. "The money comes in with the big campaign and that I find frustrating. It started OK, but tensions started to build with the others as time went on., Siren Records sent the newly formed six-piece stateside to a studio near Chicago to record their first album, Bridge Of Spies. Carol Decker / Ronnie Rogers. 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). We burst out laughing. I didnt even present the idea to the band, says Carol. 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. | "I have a dark sense of humour, quite gallows, and people might think some of the things I post are inappropriate. In February 2015, T'Pau released their fifth studio album, Pleasure & Pain, and embarked on a tour. Written by MD Brown/AJ Sansone/RJCalilliVocals Ronnie RogersFrom the T'Pau CD Single I Will Be With You 4 in September.[7]. Then we got dropped by the record company and everything just ground to a halt. In the years after T'Pau's split in 1992, Decker continued to occasionally perform as a solo artist. Discover The Virgin Anthology by T'Pau released in 2017. But when we were making The Promise, we didnt realize how much had changed, says Carol. How I handled it was difficult because it can look like youre trying to latch on to something to get attention., I sloped off to LA for a while to stay with friends and wrote some songs for other people, Carol said in an interview with the Sunday Express. Impressum Required fields are marked *. You must be logged in to comment. The album produced a total of five hit singles including "Valentine", "Sex Talk" (a live recording of an early flop single, "Intimate Strangers"), and "I Will Be with You". I sulked my way across Germany it was just awful. 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. T'Pau: 03:34 : Spotify Amazon: 2 : Only the Lonely. I got home one day and Carol had this quiet sketch she'd written on the piano. Tim Burgess. I was filled with abject horror at that idea, so was starting to panic., A band was swiftly pulled together for the set, which ended with Carol and Ronnie being signed on the spot. This article uses material from the article T'Pau (band) from the free encyclopedia Wikipedia and it is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. T'Pau member Ronnie Rogers was her boyfriend at the time, and they co-wrote the majority of the band's songs. Carol has kept in touch with her 50,000 Twitter followers most days, offering plenty of laughter along the way. In the years after T'Pau's split in 1992, Decker continued to occasionally perform as a solo artist. [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". Their debut single and first hit was the 1987 release "Heart and Soul". ". [3] To promote the album, a radio promo single, "With a Little Luck", was released. 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). In 1997, after finding new management, she formed a new line-up of T'Pau in order to begin touring again. Decker still makes appearances on TV shows, including Hit Me, Baby, One More Time; Just the Two of Us; Never Mind the Buzzcocks and The Weakest Link. [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]. Our manager came backstage and told me I was a very lucky girl, recalls Carol. 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. The technology we had access to was incredible. I was in bits. Quickly signed to Virgin's Siren subsidiary, the group released their debut single, "Heart and Soul," in early 1987 with little fanfare. 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. T'Pau: 03:58 . "Then Richard and I felt really unwell for about a week. They would just listen to the cassettes and send them back with a standard letter. In Groups: T'Pau Variations: Viewing All | Ron Rogers (2) R. Rodgers, R. Rogers, R.P. With Carol Decker, Ronnie Rogers, T'Pau. The single artwork was designed by graphic designer Adrian Fry. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic. Dean Howard, Carol Decker and Ronnie Rogers on stage at the Montreux rock festival, 1988. 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. We found out while we were on tour with Bryan Adams in Germany. 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. This was in part why the bands third set, The Promise, was recorded with each member playing a greater part, and a new producer was hired. 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. These cover versions originally formed part of the band's live set to enable Decker to leave the stage to change her costume, and were subsequently released as CD single bonus tracks. We had to watch telly in sleeping bags. https://www.jonkutner.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/China.mp3. Background. But she and Ronnie had also split by then and the collection was essentially a solo project. It was re-recorded for the single version and Carol explained to me why: We recorded the song in one passionate take and we were happy with it for the album. 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). When we offered a critique they really had their noses out of joint. Bryan Adams bought us champagne TPau in 1988. We flew back to London to appear on it and were never told we werent going back to the States, she says. We also had a bit of a comedy element to it because people are going stir crazy. Learn all about Ronnie Rogers on AllMusic. | The audience reaction is irreplaceable but putting it bluntly, thats how I earn my money. Background [ edit] Singer Carol Decker said of the authorship and composition of the selection: Learn how your comment data is processed. "[5] Speaking to Super Deluxe Edition in 2013, she added, "I recorded Red when I was pregnant with my daughter. In 1988 they released their second album Rage, which peaked at No. 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. 4 after being featured on a Pepe Jeans advertisement; it repeated the feat in the UK Singles Chart some months later. This makes the song, in its initial studio form, impossible to perform live without additional backup singers. I remember holding this cup up to the light, and seeing this Japanese ladys face in the bottom. He was right about Valentine. Guitarist Dean Howard has toured and recorded with Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan. 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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. Named after a Vulcan character from the Star Trek TV series, the pop-anthem band T'Pau formed in 1986 around vocalist Carol Decker (b. September 10, 1957), guitarist Ronnie Rogers (b. 1988 saw the release of their second album Rage which produced the hit single "Secret Garden". Data-Privacy 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. Carol Decker / Ronnie Rogers. 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. It works well. 98, their first chart action for more than two decades. 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