Steve Norman is the founding member of Spandau Ballet, a saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, singer, producer and songwriter.
SPANDAU BALLET have had 23 hit singles ‘To Cut A Long Story, ‘True’ ‘Gold’ and ‘Through The Barricades’. They sold over 25 million records worldwide.
The band performed at the Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium and appeared on Band Aid's Christmas classic ‘Do They Know It's Christmas’.
In his life-spanning career Steve has also performed with Iggy Pop, Kim Wilde, Steve Harley, The Alarm, Marc Almond, Paul Young, Nick Heyward & many more.
More recently, Steve has been touring the UK, Europe & Canada with his band “The Sleevz” including a run of dates performing Spandau Ballet’s debut album “Journeys to Glory” in full.
Carol Decker burst onto the music scene in 1987 with the hit ‘Heart & Soul’ reaching No. 4 in both the UK & US charts. Taken from the debut album ‘Bridge Of Spies’. It’s innovative use of a rap verse over a melodic vocal introduced the world to the distinctive lead vocals of Carol Decker and the song writing talents of Carol and Ronnie Rogers. ‘Heart & Soul’ led to a meteoric rise in T'Pau's fortunes at home and in the USA where the track stayed on the US Billboard Chart for 6 months.
Other hits followed including, ‘China In Your Hand’ (No 1 in 1987), ‘Valentine’ (No 9 in 1987), ‘I will Be With You’ (No 14 in 1988), ‘Whenever You Need Me’ (No 16 in 1991), and ‘Valentine’ in 1993.
Greatest hits album ‘Heart & Soul: The Very Best Of T'Pau’ was released in 1993.
In 1997, Carol built a new T'Pau embarking on a 25-date UK tour plus festivals, recording several shows and releasing ‘T’Pau Live’.
In 1998 Carol recorded ‘Red’ the first new T'Pau studio album for 6 years.
She performed an orchestrated version of ‘China’ with the BBC Concert Orchestra at the poignant ‘Princess Diana Tribute Concert’ at Althorp in June 1998, also broadcast live around the world.
