An interview to T’Pau! Dear friends, this time I had the chance to exchange some words with Carol Decker, lead singer of T’Pau.. but I’m sure you don’t really need me to introduce Carol!!! 🙂
Carol was so kind to answer to some questions and curiosity, and she gifted us with the chance to live some more moments in the eighties through her eyes and memories! Let’s enjoy our small conversation:
Carol, let’s start with our classic question: if you had a magic wand or a time machine, and could go back to a specific moment in time (during the 80s of course), which day or moment in your career would you choose, and why?
Well, there are many highs to choose from, I am happy to say, but of course it would have to be …learning that we had gone to number 1 in the UK. We were on tour with Bryan Adams in Germany at the time, we were just about to go on stage and our tour manager got the news! We did the most excitable set ever, as you can imagine!!!
The 80s are generally considered a decade of optimism and creativity, a sort of fearless decade. What do you think, what do you remember now of those years, if compared to this period?
I would have to agree, the 80’s were so exciting, we saw lots of firsts: synth music, MTV and music videos, diverse and looking unique stars, mobile phones, computers. Ground breaking Tv like The Tube. We would pile in from the pub from the midnight world premier of a Michael Jackson or Madonna video: it was a big deal!!! And I was young, and I look back on my youth as the best of times: no responsibilities, only focused on my own little life. I was living in Shrewsbury, a lovely & lively town. I was not at political and blissfully unaware of the horrors the world can hold.
“Heart and soul” is definitely a fantastic song, and it’s peculiar for the overdub parts, like the initial rap over the first verses of the song. It’s like music and lyrics following parallel but different tracks – it’s fantastic. Can you tell us how this alchemy was born, and how did you feel with it?
Ronnie Rogers and I were working with a producer called Andy Piercy and we had the song written, with the singing vocal melody all worked out, and it was a good song already. The bass line was already really key to its attraction, we had done that on a sequencer; Andy heard the song and said it needed something percussive, so we tried percussion, then he said “Maybe it’s words”, so I wrote the rap part… and it went from good to special!
An enormous THANK YOU to Carol and the Whole T’Pau team for this little interview to T’Pau!
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