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T’Pau’s Carol Decker looks back: ‘We went ballistic when we got to No 1. Our screaming annoyed Bryan Adams’


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She was fronting Shropshire band the Lazers when she met BT engineer and musician Ronnie Rogers, with whom she would go on to form T’Pau. I remember the first time we did Top of the Pops I stared down the barrel of the camera thinking, “Well, you’re all watching me now!” I grinned so much my cheeks hurt that day. When I was in the Lazers, we’d play covers in Shropshire and the surrounding areas – mainly doing the working men’s clubs or being the unwelcome interruption in the bingo.

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