| "Sex Talk" | ||||
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| Single by T'Pau | ||||
| from the album Bridge of Spies | ||||
| B-side | "Monkey House" | |||
| Released | 8 June 1987[1] 21 March 1988 (live single)[2] | |||
| Length | 4:43 | |||
| Label | Siren Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Carol Decker Ron Rogers | |||
| Producer(s) | Roy Thomas Baker | |||
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"Sex Talk" is a song by British band T'Pau, written by Carol Decker and Ron Rogers, and produced by Roy Thomas Baker. It was originally released as a single in 1987 under the title "Intimate Strangers", but failed to chart.[3] It was re-titled "Sex Talk" and included on the band's debut studio album Bridge of Spies (1987).[4] In 1988, a live version of the song, recorded at the SEC Centre on 29 October 1987, was released as a single and reached No. 23 on the UK Singles Chart.[5] This live version of "Sex Talk" was only released in the UK and Ireland. Elsewhere, a 7" remix of the track, "Bridge of Spies", was released instead.
Speaking to eonmusic in 2018, Decker recalled of the song: "I wrote that on my first trip to New York. There were all [these] ads; "Dial Me!" on television, and I just thought; "Wow, that's weird, phone people up and talk dirty"... so I did it, of course!"[6]
- ^ "New Singles". Music Week. 6 June 1987. p. 43.
- ^ Smith, Robin (19 March 1988). "News: Talk Dirty to Me". Record Mirror. p. 4. ISSN 0144-5804.
- ^ "TPau / The Story Behind The Tracks". superdeluxeedition. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
- ^ "Rock over London". Music & Media. 2 April 1988.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
officialchartswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Carol Decker T'Pau eonmusic Interview August 2018". Eonmusic.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-11-17.