The multi-platinum selling chart-topping band T’Pau return with a new album and UK tour for 2015 which will see them back in Chester at The Live Rooms on February 26.

Original song-writers Carol Decker and Ron Rogers team up for the first time in nearly 25 years to re-ignite the spark that brought us massive chart toppers Heart and Soul and the seminal 80s power ballad China In Your Hand.

Five weeks on the UK No1 spot, six months on the US Billboard chart, and a million-plus selling debut album started a journey that initially spawned a further two Top 10 albums and a raft of hit singles that ended abruptly after four years amid ill health, bitterness and marriage disintegration.

Although remaining friends, Carol and Ron’s own personal relationship had run its course and each had to go their own way.

In 1997 Carol built a new T’Pau around her and released the critically-acclaimed album Red, but it wasn’t until the band’s 25th anniversary in 2013 that co-writer Ron re-joined the band for a special celebratory tour.

It was here that the pair began completing the songs they had started to write some quarter of a decade earlier and that faint chance of a new T’Pau album suddenly became a reality.

In a bitter twist of fate, during the final stages of recording, Carol’s beloved mum, her inspiration and No 1 fan and supporter was taken ill and sadly passed away.

In her last few conscious days Carol was able to play her Demolition Man, a track that had always been a favourite of her mother’s but one that they had not recorded until this new album.

As a thank you for their loyal and continued support, the new album is initially going to be exclusively available to fans at the upcoming gigs, before being given a wider release next year. The tour will feature all the bands biggest hits, some of the great album tracks and a selection of the new material.

Carol said: “We’re no different to anyone else. Our story and our lives reflect what happens to everyone, everyday. We’ve reached the stage where there’s nothing in the way anymore. We can go out and be ourselves, and that’s what these songs and this tour are about. We’re immensely proud of what we’ve achieved both in the past, and particularly with this new album.”

T’Pau hold the exclusive title of holding three No 1 slots at once. China in Your Hand No 1 in the singles charts, Bridge of Spies No 1 in the album charts and the China Remix at No 1 in the dance charts.

They were nominated for five BPIs (Brit Awards of the time), an Ivor Novello Award for China In Your Hand, and an ASCAP Award from the USA for Heart and Soul.

T’Pau were signed to Siren Records, a subsidiary of Virgin Records in 1986. On the very same day that the deal was finalised, they received a belated rejection letter from Virgin through the post! A year later, when the band were among the biggest selling acts for the company, Richard Branson treated them all to a fortnight away on his island resort by way of an apology.

Carol comes from a hugely talented musical family. Her mother was a singer with the Littlewoods Songsters, toured the country and appeared at the Royal Variety show. Her father was an accomplished pianist who had studied at Liverpool’s College of Music.

Carol was born in Liverpool, but the band was formed in Shropshire where she lived as a young girl. After several years in London’s Kentish Town, Carol now resides with her husband and two children in Oxfordshire.