Sex Talk
"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. It was re-titled "Sex Talk" and included on the band's debut studio album "Bridge of Spies" (1987). 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. 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!" Reception. Upon release of the 1988 single, "Music & Media" wrote: "Another dramatic, pumping, rock track, that has all the chances to hit the charts again." Betty Page of "Record Mirror" wrote: "T'Pau show their true colours and get down to a full-blooded slice of raunch 'n' roll recorded live, with plenty of guitar drama and Carol Decker giving  it her all. It's brave of them to release a live 45, but it does capture the T'Pau live vibe well." In a review of "T'Pau" ("Bridge of Spies"), Pete Bishop of "The Pittsburgh Press" commented: "There's "Sex Talk", which has fake horns and real guitar and would do credit to the Eurythmics, although Miss Decker, a less adenoidal Cyndi Lauper with little body to her strident voice, is no Annie Lennox." Personnel. T'Pau Production Other