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T'Pau - China In Your Hand (1987)
  

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The British rock/pop band  achieved success with a string of hit singles during the late eighties and into the early nineties, and also had three successful solo albums and a Greatest Hits album.

China In Your Hand was a re-recorded version of the track on the band's debut album Bridge Of Spies, and after being released in October 1987, it spent five weeks at the top of the UK singles chart. The song was also #1 in several countries across Europe.

T'Pau's debut album Bridge Of Spies was also a best-seller. The follow-up album Rage made #4 in 1988 and a third album entitled The Promise reached #10 in 1991.

The last commercial success for the band was in 1993 with the album Heart And Soul - The Very Best Of T'Pau which peaked at #35 in the UK album charts during 1993. After this, the hits dried up, although Carol Decker continues to perform at 80's concerts as a solo act using the name T'Pau.


Heart And Soul (1987)

This was T'Pau's very first single release and the lead single from Bridge Of Spies. After featuring in a Pepe Jeans advert, the song became a big hit, reaching No.4 in both the USA and UK. It features rapping in a kind of Pet Shop Boys style, which then overlaps the actual main lyrics. Having not listened to this track for a very long time, it now sounds kind of strange. I guess the producer, Roy Thomas Baker, was trying to be clever!

Valentine (1988)
This eighties power ballad was my favourite track from the Bridge Of Spies album, and the last top ten single in the UK for T'Pau, peaking at #9. The song was written by the band's guitarist Ronnie Rogers and lead singer Carol Decker. The B-side was entitled Giving My Love Away.

A reissue was released in 1993 to help promote the compilation album Heart And Soul - The Very Best Of T'Pau, although it failed to make a dent in the Top 40, stalling at #53.
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Lyrics for China In Your Hand 


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