{"id":40928,"date":"2014-03-17T09:56:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T17:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=40928"},"modified":"2024-06-12T09:30:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T16:30:38","slug":"tpau-who-was-that-sax-player-on-their-1-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2014\/tpau-who-was-that-sax-player-on-their-1-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"T’Pau: Who Was That Sax Player On Their # 1 Hit?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Source: T’Pau\/Carol Decker Facebook page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The other night I watched an episode of Video Killed the Radio Star<\/em>, on the Sundance Channel<\/a>. The series features interviews with the musicians and producers of the early music videos, who discuss the sometimes haphazard way in which they were slapped together.<\/p>\n

While haphazard can describe many of the earliest music videos, it certainly doesn’t describe those of the UK band T’Pau,<\/a> that yes, got its name from the original Star Trek<\/em> Vulcan matriarch<\/a> of the same name.<\/p>\n

While T’Pau\u2014the band, not the Star Trek character   \ud83d\ude09 \u2014had a slew of hits in the late 80s and early 90s, they used a saxophone player in only one of their Top 40 hits. That song was China In Your Hands<\/em>.<\/p>\n

T’Pau’s power ballad cleverly uses a saxophone to back the vocalist<\/h2>\n

Besides being a powerful ballad that held the #1 position on the UK charts for 5 weeks, China In Your Hands<\/em> was also a mini movie that was very much a cinematic masterpiece. Its timeless quality makes it as relevant today, as it was when it was first released in October 1987. The alto sax solo comes in around 2:25, and continues weaving throughout the vocals for the remainder of the song.<\/p>\n