AFTER a quarter of a century away, the multi-platinum selling T’Pau are back with a brand new album and UK tour for 2015.

Original songwriters Carol Decker and Ron Rogers are teaming up for the first time in nearly 25 years to reignite the spark that brought us massive chart toppers Heart & Soul and the seminal 80s power ballad China In Your Hand.

They tour in the new year with dates scheduled for Andover, Salisbury and Wimborne.

Five weeks on the UK No.1 spot, six months on the US Billboard chart, and a million-plus selling debut album started a journey that initially spawned a further two top 10 albums and a raft of hit singles that ended abruptly after four years amid ill health, bitterness and marriage disintegration.

Although remaining friends, Carol and Ron’s own personal relationship had run its course and each had to go their own way.

In 1997 Carol built a new T’Pau around her and released the criticallyacclaimed album Red, but it wasn’t until the band’s 25th anniversary in 2013 that cowriter Ron rejoined the band for a special celebratory tour.

It was here that the pair began completing the songs they had started to write some quarter of a decade earlier, as well as working up brand new material, and the faint chance of another classic T’Pau album suddenly became a reality.

As a thank you for their loyal and continued support, the brand new album is initially going to be exclusively available to fans at the upcoming gigs, before being given a wider release next year.

The tour will feature all the band’s biggest hits, some of the great album tracks and a selection of new material.

As Carol bravely says: “We’re no different to anyone else. Our story and our lives reflect what happens to everyone, every day. We’ve reached the stage where there’s nothing in the way anymore.

“We can go out and be ourselves, and that's what these songs and this tour are about. We’re immensely proud of what we've achieved both in the past, and particularly with this new album.”

The T’Pau Pleasure and Pain tour visits: Wimborne Tivoli Theatre on January 30, The Lights, Andover on February 7 and Salisbury City Hall on March 7.