Don't push too far

[Are you sure? - Ed.]

Among another assemblage of "names" including Karl Lagerfeld, Siobhan Fahey, Colin Firth, Guy Ritchie, Ryan Phillippe, "Diddy" David Hamilton, José Feliciano, Arnold Palmer, Beryl Cook, footballer Jack Grealish, Sir Thomas Allen, Don Powell from Slade, Judy Geeson, Margaret Trudeau and (ahem) Johnnie Fingers, it's the birthday today of Miss Carol Decker [not pictured above]!

With her band T'Pau, she ruled the airwaves in the 1980s, with "karaoke classics" such as these:

T'Pau - Heart and Soul

T'Pau - China in Your Hand

Don't push too far, your dreams are china in your hand
Don't wish too hard because they may come true
And you can't help them
You don't know what you might have set upon yourself
China in your hand

Memories, indeed.

There's probably not a single person from my generation who couldn't sing along to that..!

It was a theme she had on a scheme he had, told in a foreign land

Got up rather late today, and so switched on the radio in the middle of (the real) Pick of the Pops on Radio 2.

Can it really be twenty-three years since Miss Carol Decker and T'Pau were at Number one?! It seems like only yesterday that every girl had hair like this...

T'Pau - China in Your Hand

It was a theme she had
On a scheme he had
Told in a foreign land
To take life on earth
To the second birth
And the man was in command
It was a flight on the wings
Of a young girl's dreams
That flew too far away

Don't push too far, your dreams are china in your hand
Don't wish too hard because they may come true
And you can't help them
You don't know what you might have set upon yourself
China in your hand

Come from greed
Never born of the seed
Took a life from a barren hand
Oh eyes wide
Like a child in the form of man
A prophecy for a fantasy
The curse of a vivid mind

Don't push too far, your dreams are china in your hand
Don't wish too hard because they may come true
And you can't help them
You don't know what you might have set upon yourself
China in your hand
Whoa your hand
Your hand

Don't push too far, your dreams are china in your hand
Don't wish too hard because they may come true
And you can't help them
You don't know what you might have set upon yourself
But you shouldn't push too hard no no

Don't push too far, your dreams are china in your hand
Don't wish too hard because they may come true
And you can't help them
You don't know what you might have set upon yourself
Because they're only dreams
And you shouldn't push too hard no no