i am 52 now,experienced 80s,best time of my live,met my girl,married her,lost her ,deceased,still best time of my live,they know how 2 make music,no comps ,pure,gone forever
This came out when I met my husband in 1986. Lovely song, lovely times. We were together for 34 yrs until I lost him in2020 to cancer at 58 yrs old. This song takes me back.....love you Gareth miss you love.... ❤️❤️
Best decade for music, movies, fashion, everything.... Although I was only a kid and grew up in the 90's, I look back at the 80's and think how beautiful it was. It was a much simpler time, everything was bright and shiny and everything was possible. We were innocent, we had respect for everyone and we lived every day to its fullest. Imo best decade ever.
@@paulmac131 Sorry to say this, but you are looking back at the decade with rose coloured glasses. It's the decade that was formed by the mantra of the yuppies, "Greed is Good". Speed and Coke got spread from big metropoles to rural areas and became very cheap. Large corps became conglomerates and bought up smaller and medium size businesses, then drove small family driven businesses bankrupt (a trend that still exists). It´s the first decade where the children of workers and lower middle class didn't get a better living than their parents! A trend that have continued to this day in all western countries. For this reason we talk about "the poor 80'ies". I'm having lots of fun discussions with friends, weather 60'ies, 70'ies, 80'ies or 90'ies was the best decade for music. Our age seem to influence it a lot. Recently I saw a react video where rock from my youth in the 80'ies was called "classic rock" and that made me feel old (am born in '68), a few days later I saw another react video where she called "Enjoy the Silence" with Depeche Mode for Classic synthpop. Convinced me that I might be old 😀 Oh well, been to a two day metal festival and a four band metal concert evening this month, and both half of the performers and audience were just as grey haired as I am. Made me feel normal again. 😀 However I need to get in shape again, gained 30 kg after I stopped smoking, so jumping and dancing to so many concerts make me sore for five days. 🤣
My Mum went to school with Carole Decker in Wellington. She used to come over for sleepovers and my grandma would always ask Carole to sing a song in the morning hahah. Years later, Carole is doing Tracks of My Years on BBC Radio 2, and says a particular song reminds her of a crush she had on someone at school, and (by name) mentioned my Mum's first husband. LOL
@@richardichard4237 How insensitive can you be??! You probably have never lost anyone to feel like a part of your heart has died and a particular song will always remind you of that person,wherever or whenever you hear it, who was once a huge part of your life!! By the sounds of it you have not a shred of empathy in your soul!
Music has a divine power, it's like a universal language, it speaks to us in a way that nothing else can and it brings us closer to those we love. K Rigby, God bless you and your mum, and NEVER let those who spread negativity with unkind words bring you down.
She reminds me of a red haired girl I use to know around Limerick Ireland. I have not seen this girl in over 10 years. T paus best song along with heart and soul.😅😊
@Gunter Von hagen l love the lines don't try so hard with my heart is In your hand. I use to make love to my lady friends to this song, and it was slow and l could feel their heart beat 💓 ☺️
went to see her in concert aged 18 in 1986 in Dublin Ireland. she was celebrating her husbands birthday on stage. magical memories and fun times. now im aged 56.
Carol began a relationship with restaurateur Richard Coates in 1996. They have two children, Scarlett (born 1998) and Dylan (born 2002), and married in 2006 You're an idiot
I was a hostage in Iraq in 1990. The day we were being released the guard gave us a bottle of Johnnie Walker and an old cassette player with a compilation tape. This was the first music I heard after 4 months waiting to be bombed or executed. It's still a bit emotional. Peace.
The Montpellier Town House - luxury accommodation in Cheltenham., Glad you made it I was in Riyadh around then,which was an experience for a naive young lad like me,but happy days with music like this.
+Bouche1985 Not to mention heart and soul, and a important quality... Talent. It was a time where looks and commercial was not important, but talent, and creativity.
This was my very first music cassette I bought in the 80s. I so loved this song. I played this song over and over. My mum was still here when I bought this song. Very special memories, 😪❤️
Another brilliant song from 87,Carol Decker and the band,i'm sure she said once she come from a family that didn't have great money,so as she was on the skint side, decide to be came a singer to get a few quid out of it,I can't say I blame her.
I was born hottest summer on record in may 1976 and I remember this song from my childhood as it was just my mum and myself and we had to escape from my fathers clutches all the way from Liverpool to Inverness where my mum was from before met my dad worked as a nanny in London Town at aged 17 she left home to go to london through a family friend she got the job and top floor of the family’s house too, so few years later we ended up say 80 miles south of Inverness and my mum worked as barmaid in the pub right across the street from our little old cottage from council it’s windows were rotten no heating only coal fire in the living room but we had family and friends in this tight knit community so I would often just play with my best friend who’s father owned the bar and my friend died at aged 12 then another at 14 and so on it kept going year after year but I actually just heard this Old Great Song at the end of a film and waited for the titles to find out who the name was of band.! Took almost 15 minutes I knew the 80s and I remember I would go to shop for mum and get full 20 off cigarettes for £ 1 I don’t know how much they are now ? I know theyr certainly not £ 1 Great song and so is the heaven 1 it was on the film not china 1 So military service at 16 and im stopped there im 46 years old now and still Soldiering On wards
Carol Decker a stunning woman, when this was at its peak i like thousands of other young british men was walking the walk in the bandit countries of south armagh , we were just oversized kids sent to do an impossable job but we did it well and this song always reminds me of brave young men i had the honour to serve with and stand shoulder to shoulder with in very trying times
"Don't push too far your dreams are China in your hand..." I couldn't understand these lyrics when I was younger. But now I realized this in a hard way. We push our dreams too hard... and in the end, we hurt ourselves and people that we love. I always remember this song every time that I have big and crazy dreams! Sometimes we should be careful what we wish, it may come true.
As a non native speaker, it was years after I heard the song that I finally learned what china (with a small c) actually meant. And when I noticed it in the video it became clear. Until then I always thought it was about the country :D
1987?! Where did the years go? Seems like another life now, looking back to those days but in a way it was. I remember this at school discos and most of the guys were in love with Carol Decker! Good times though, even if we didn't appreciate them at the time.
This song brings fond memories of my lovely childhood growing up with my late big sister who sadly passed 3 years ago from covid at the age of 45. Really wish she was here listening to this song right now.
@@scottnever8732 it meant a lot to me only because, when I was really young my sister (2 years older than me), myself and my single mum would dance around singing to it all the time. So it’s a lovely memory x
This song tied with one other song in number of weeks spent at number one in the UK charts in 1987. Yet that other song has over 186 times more views than this one does...
Wow, the 80s - what a time to be alive. The music of that era may offer a small glimpse into that age but no one who wasn't alive back then will ever be able to fully understand what it was like.
I reckon. Remember crowds in those days at sport and concerts. People living in the moment and getting into it. No phones and just enjoying the atmosphere. I miss that.
Was 11ish when this came over the radio, nearin 50 now n all alone in the late, dark night listenin to this again, the decades of memories, all the souls u've met, the lingering past n places n people! Only the vibes of 80s music can pull this magical moment off, not 70s, 90s nor the noughties, thank heavens i lived thru it
There is just something about 80s songs especially this one that when you hear it touches your soul in certain places that I just can't pinpoint, but its very magical.
Another song to remind us that the 80s rocked the planet,.. with loads of REAL singers and musicians,. Not manufactured like today.. dámn we don't even get great Christmas songs anymore because of certain TV shows!?
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Me, of course. It's awesome........
Me - excellent timeless song
Me. Can't beat decent music from this era
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Lucky are those who grew up in the 80's the best decade to be a teenager
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YESSSS!! Still an amazing song. Still hits the emotions hard ❤ enjoy listening 😉
@@joefergie7204 well said same as TCL Waterfalls
Diamond of a song
Hell yeah!! 🎉🎉
Yes. Greetings from Finland.
Yes ❤
Dave W in UK, March 23rd 2024. Just had to listen to this brilliant performance again. Sweet!
Discovering this great song only today!
23/03/24
Omgod I totally love Tpau. ❤️ ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤💗💗💗✌️🍏💓💖❤️🤍💙 tuned in from 🇬🇧 UK
i am 52 now,experienced 80s,best time of my live,met my girl,married her,lost her ,deceased,still best time of my live,they know how 2 make music,no comps ,pure,gone forever
die schönen 80iger, wo jeder der künstler noch singen konnte, schade das mit ihr nach den 80igern schluß war, die stimme ist so gut...
This came out when I met my husband in 1986. Lovely song, lovely times. We were together for 34 yrs until I lost him in2020 to cancer at 58 yrs old. This song takes me back.....love you Gareth miss you love.... ❤️❤️
Hope your ok ❤️🧡👊
mein aufrichtiges beileid 😞
So sad iv just lost my partner 16 years covid my thoughts all with you 😢
Far too young ... you are in my thoughts and hope you are getting over the other side
Take care ❤
I wish I had a time machine... I miss the 80s..
Take me your time your machine
Me Too
That would be Great 😢
Yo también
I Saw them live in86 in Würzburg Carl Diehm Halle,before Bryan Adams. Her voice was incredible.i will never forget
The lyrics are just so beautiful and timeless. Bonafide classic ❤
I'm surprised the kids haven't rejigged it in an anime thing yet. 😂
This song is a symbol of the greatness of 80s music
I agree! The music was so much better then! Reminds me of my youth! Was born in 1964.
Best decade for music, movies, fashion, everything.... Although I was only a kid and grew up in the 90's, I look back at the 80's and think how beautiful it was. It was a much simpler time, everything was bright and shiny and everything was possible. We were innocent, we had respect for everyone and we lived every day to its fullest. Imo best decade ever.
@@paulmac131 Sorry to say this, but you are looking back at the decade with rose coloured glasses.
It's the decade that was formed by the mantra of the yuppies, "Greed is Good". Speed and Coke got spread from big metropoles to rural areas and became very cheap. Large corps became conglomerates and bought up smaller and medium size businesses, then drove small family driven businesses bankrupt (a trend that still exists).
It´s the first decade where the children of workers and lower middle class didn't get a better living than their parents! A trend that have continued to this day in all western countries. For this reason we talk about "the poor 80'ies".
I'm having lots of fun discussions with friends, weather 60'ies, 70'ies, 80'ies or 90'ies was the best decade for music. Our age seem to influence it a lot. Recently I saw a react video where rock from my youth in the 80'ies was called "classic rock" and that made me feel old (am born in '68), a few days later I saw another react video where she called "Enjoy the Silence" with Depeche Mode for Classic synthpop. Convinced me that I might be old 😀
Oh well, been to a two day metal festival and a four band metal concert evening this month, and both half of the performers and audience were just as grey haired as I am. Made me feel normal again. 😀
However I need to get in shape again, gained 30 kg after I stopped smoking, so jumping and dancing to so many concerts make me sore for five days. 🤣
Still one of the greatest 😀😀😀🇩🇪🎉
@@paulmac131I am 70 and still love it 😀😀🇩🇪🎉
My Mum went to school with Carole Decker in Wellington. She used to come over for sleepovers and my grandma would always ask Carole to sing a song in the morning hahah. Years later, Carole is doing Tracks of My Years on BBC Radio 2, and says a particular song reminds her of a crush she had on someone at school, and (by name) mentioned my Mum's first husband. LOL
I wish Carole decker slept over my house. 😂
That sounds like a Jerry Springer main story.
Send her over to my place please 😉
Beautiful story if true..omfg🤙
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Underated UK band back in the 80s 🇬🇧
This song is Eternal
Only just close to 8 million views damn I thought this would have had way more views. This is an iconic 80s hit.
1978 I was born
My mum died of cancer in 2004
She always played this
You will forever live on
Much love ❤
@@richardichard4237 she was expressing her feelings, which is something you don't seem to possess.
@@richardichard4237 How insensitive can you be??! You probably have never lost anyone to feel like a part of your heart has died and a particular song will always remind you of that person,wherever or whenever you hear it, who was once a huge part of your life!! By the sounds of it you have not a shred of empathy in your soul!
Stop looking for likes no-one caares
Music has a divine power, it's like a universal language, it speaks to us in a way that nothing else can and it brings us closer to those we love. K Rigby, God bless you and your mum, and NEVER let those who spread negativity with unkind words bring you down.
not familiar with these lyrics
Loved this song when it was out . Didn't realise the wonderful potency of it until now
It means everything to me this song being British and reminds me of growing up there back in simpler times back then during the 80's. Timeless.
She reminds me of a red haired girl I use to know around Limerick Ireland. I have not seen this girl in over 10 years. T paus best song along with heart and soul.😅😊
32 years later and still a phenomenal song.
Raitt, Bunni.
@@Blueluise eh da Buddah? Rars clart
Totally!!!!
ich habe es heute im autoradio gehört ,es kommen emmotionen hoch , großartier song .💖💖
@Gunter Von hagen l love the lines don't try so hard with my heart is In your hand. I use to make love to my lady friends to this song, and it was slow and l could feel their heart beat 💓 ☺️
went to see her in concert aged 18 in 1986 in Dublin Ireland. she was celebrating her husbands birthday on stage. magical memories and fun times. now im aged 56.
Carol began a relationship with restaurateur Richard Coates in 1996. They have two children, Scarlett (born 1998) and Dylan (born 2002), and married in 2006
You're an idiot
R. I. P duane eddy. You were 1 of the best guitarists i ever heard play music.
Old is Gold ☺
Still the best 35 yrs later!
I'm that old now that this song is a flashback of my youth - that I really enjoid! 😎
Underrated song for real.
I was a hostage in Iraq in 1990. The day we were being released the guard gave us a bottle of Johnnie Walker and an old cassette player with a compilation tape. This was the first music I heard after 4 months waiting to be bombed or executed. It's still a bit emotional. Peace.
Respect to you I served in Cyprus with the RAF in 1990.
Wow I'm moved by your story. I got nothing on that except to say that is one of the bravest things I've heard. despite how you felt. Mucho respect!
Much respect to you and thanks for sharing your story :)
God Bless You.xx
The Montpellier Town House - luxury accommodation in Cheltenham., Glad you made it I was in Riyadh around then,which was an experience for a naive young lad like me,but happy days with music like this.
Love this song. It's like sending a message to your 16yr old self 40yrs later
My wife watched them at Wall Hall teaching campus back before they got famous.
Now a housing estate.
Apparently the song references Frankenstein...
Honestly, Victor coulda done with that same warning 😅
UK Hits Chart. 5 weeks @ #1 from 14/11/1987 to 18/12/1987
bin 1973 geboren ,und sage euch es wird nie mehr so ein fantastisches Jahrzehnt für Musik geben wie die 80er !!!
Du hast Recht!
What's all this geboren business then? Geboren initially came out as headset so I had to put it in letterwise.
@@williamfoy599 i was born in 1973
Saw T'Pau live at the Hammersmith Odeon back in 1991 when i was living in London , they were great live and a great venue .
I'll tell you what today's music is missing; Saxophone solos.
and guitar solos and maybe piano solos thanks
and real instruments
ah baker street
+Bouche1985
Not to mention heart and soul, and a important quality... Talent. It was a time where looks and commercial was not important, but talent, and creativity.
Bouche1985 check out animal now by the ruts dc. plenty of good sax in it...
Remember it in 87 music reminds me of the year. And a Scouser to boot (Decker)
This was my very first music cassette I bought in the 80s.
I so loved this song.
I played this song over and over.
My mum was still here when I bought this song.
Very special memories, 😪❤️
Bring back the 80s 2023 sucks
Another brilliant song from 87,Carol Decker and the band,i'm sure she said once she come from a family that didn't have great money,so as she was on the skint side, decide to be came a singer to get a few quid out of it,I can't say I blame her.
1987. We had China in our hand. 2022: We are in Chinas hand...
Round of applause to my team
Missing Quanta
Eating plaice I meant
Busy tim time
Carol decker really did have a great voice, and I simply love this song, always the same wish time stood still, thanks 👍👍👍 carol decker
I’m 35 and wish songs today were still as good as this and these times
AMEN a fellow 35 year old wishing the same
I'm 19 but i wish 80s music would make a comeback. my generation just listens to drill music and i hate it.
I was born hottest summer on record in may 1976 and I remember this song from my childhood as it was just my mum and myself and we had to escape from my fathers clutches all the way from Liverpool to Inverness where my mum was from before met my dad worked as a nanny in London Town at aged 17 she left home to go to london through a family friend she got the job and top floor of the family’s house too, so few years later we ended up say 80 miles south of Inverness and my mum worked as barmaid in the pub right across the street from our little old cottage from council it’s windows were rotten no heating only coal fire in the living room but we had family and friends in this tight knit community so I would often just play with my best friend who’s father owned the bar and my friend died at aged 12 then another at 14 and so on it kept going year after year but I actually just heard this Old Great Song at the end of a film and waited for the titles to find out who the name was of band.! Took almost 15 minutes
I knew the 80s and I remember I would go to shop for mum and get full 20 off cigarettes for £ 1
I don’t know how much they are now ? I know theyr certainly not £ 1
Great song and so is the heaven 1 it was on the film not china 1
So military service at 16 and im stopped there im 46 years old now and still Soldiering On wards
Carol Decker a stunning woman, when this was at its peak i like thousands of other young british men was walking the walk in the bandit countries of south armagh , we were just oversized kids sent to do an impossable job but we did it well and this song always reminds me of brave young men i had the honour to serve with and stand shoulder to shoulder with in very trying times
Still loving the 80's in 2020. What a tune.
They had actual lyrics some of which were timeless
This is a masterpiece!
Me too!
Yessire
Absolutely 💯 xxx
34 years later ... excellent
I want to go back to this era - before smartphone and bull shit. What a time!
There's Biblical quality to the lyrics of the chorus to this song
Let's just sit back and appreciate we where fortunate to be around in the fabulous 80s, when such gems as this where released one great era.
"Don't push too far your dreams are China in your hand..."
I couldn't understand these lyrics when I was younger. But now I realized this in a hard way.
We push our dreams too hard... and in the end, we hurt ourselves and people that we love.
I always remember this song every time that I have big and crazy dreams!
Sometimes we should be careful what we wish, it may come true.
As a non native speaker, it was years after I heard the song that I finally learned what china (with a small c) actually meant. And when I noticed it in the video it became clear. Until then I always thought it was about the country :D
1987?! Where did the years go? Seems like another life now, looking back to those days but in a way it was. I remember this at school discos and most of the guys were in love with Carol Decker! Good times though, even if we didn't appreciate them at the time.
we certainly had CHINA IN OUR HANDS this year. T Pau alright !
I was waiting for this comment
We? Don't drag others into your shit
Anthem at stokie weddings.
This great song is one of the best ballads of the 80’s it’s like wine it gets greater as the years go on
This song brings fond memories of my lovely childhood growing up with my late big sister who sadly passed 3 years ago from covid at the age of 45. Really wish she was here listening to this song right now.
Brilliant singer/ song from 87,Carol Decker.
Wish they still made em like this. Classic :D
'China in your lungs' should be a new song :)
Smooth radio classic
March 2022 ….. 80’s music never dies ….
I’m 39 now. Was raised on this song. Means so much to me ❤❤❤
Im 50 odd and was told it was ' our song' never figured that out plz explain?
@@scottnever8732 it meant a lot to me only because, when I was really young my sister (2 years older than me), myself and my single mum would dance around singing to it all the time. So it’s a lovely memory x
The most beautiful female singing voice ever. Plus being a very beautiful lady. Love T"Pau/Carol still in 2023
Nie so mooi nie. Kyk na russiese vrouens😂
@@tollapretorius7765 Look? I was talking about voice!
Love the violins.
Take me back please 80s brilliant music......
shivers through the spine !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This song deserves way more views! This was like one of the best songs of the 80s!!
I gave the 3500th like :-) it´s a great song!
tienes razon...muy buena cancion.
Great track .i bought this on vinyl disc as soon as it came out .carol dekker .lovely 😊.im now 59 .still sounds good .x
I agree wholeheartedly. This song has so much great memories for me.
Yes it was, i bought it immediately 😊
Sax solo with a montage, followed by belting out the final chorus?
AW HELL YES!!!!
China in your Hand immer wieder tolles Lied
Best decade in history, IMO.
I hope all the members of this band live long and prosperous lives.
so many sad stories my heart goes out to you all. wish we were still in the 80's xx
This song tied with one other song in number of weeks spent at number one in the UK charts in 1987. Yet that other song has over 186 times more views than this one does...
Outstanding vocals, 80s gold.
Wow, the 80s - what a time to be alive. The music of that era may offer a small glimpse into that age but no one who wasn't alive back then will ever be able to fully understand what it was like.
I reckon. Remember crowds in those days at sport and concerts. People living in the moment and getting into it. No phones and just enjoying the atmosphere. I miss that.
I'm still nostalgic about the eighties fab music memories
I'm just so glad I had the privilege to live through them.
in irland the 80s was a great time we were free and the rock scene was amazing
No mobile phones or Internet people actually talked to each other .
Not even among the best 80s songs but still very, very good and an like this they dont make em anymore....
Wow la voz de esta mujer era impresionante
Lovely song ... Always reminds me of my good pal Shane who's sadly no longer with us .... Great momorys , we all still miss you boy ❤️
80's kids are the most fortunate generation. They have had the privilage to know a lot of genres of music.
I was 17 when this song was the 600th number 1 in the UK charts in 1987.
Was 11ish when this came over the radio, nearin 50 now n all alone in the late, dark night listenin to this again, the decades of memories, all the souls u've met, the lingering past n places n people! Only the vibes of 80s music can pull this magical moment off, not 70s, 90s nor the noughties, thank heavens i lived thru it
So beautiful song!
80s music will always be the best
+Caroline Williamson NO! 90'S
+Wayne Alexander yes and the 90s
have to agree bring back the 80s
90s killed them :-(
One of my dad's favorite songs from Carol
Never forgot!!
Hello 👋 from Romania to everyone listening to this song
Female heavy metal at that time. Man, how times changed. Love it.
Reading all these comments is making me super emotional😥
The best British female singer!
Was 13 when this came out and felt every verse..
I wish I could bring up my children in the 80's.
This Lucky guy got some what adult in the 80:s. Jeez what a time of my life!!
❤brilliiant song by a great singer
2:26 the 80's was the decade of the saxophone.
Wow bet you were buzzing cause it’s a classic but still sounds new ❤
Gdy się słucha tej piosenki to od razu ma się ochotę puścić głośnik na maxa. Tyle lat od premiery a nadal słucha się jej z przyjemnością:)
One of the most UNDERRATED songs of the late 80's.
There is just something about 80s songs especially this one that when you hear it touches your soul in certain places that I just can't pinpoint, but its very magical.
Live long and prosper.
Shrewsbury legends, aye!
Yes, Dreams Are like China in your hands, easily broken, Pamz! Another amazing song by Carol, the lyrics are unbelievably true!!
Sex education season 4 got me here.. although ive known this track for a long while...
A Shrewsbury band at no 1when Shrewsbury town nearly got promoted to premier league / division 1 probably the best this town ever got
Another song to remind us that the 80s rocked the planet,.. with loads of REAL singers and musicians,. Not manufactured like today.. dámn we don't even get great Christmas songs anymore because of certain TV shows!?
Beautiful song takes me bk to 1988 🎶💕
Her powerful voice magically penetrates and fills my whole body with a deep yearning and awe.