"Walk on Air" | ||||
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Single by T'Pau | ||||
from the album The Promise | ||||
B-side | "Hold on to Love" | |||
Released | 8 July 1991 [1] | |||
Genre | Pop rock | |||
Length | 4:34 | |||
Label | Siren, Virgin | |||
Songwriter(s) | Carol Decker, Ron Rogers | |||
Producer(s) | Andy Richards | |||
T'Pau singles chronology | ||||
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"Walk on Air" is a song by British band T'Pau, which was released in 1991 as the second single from their third studio album The Promise. [2] It was written by Carol Decker and Ron Rogers, and produced by Andy Richards. [3] "Walk on Air" reached No. 62 on the UK Singles Chart and remained in the charts for two weeks. [4]
A music video was filmed to promote the single. [5] The 7" single's B-side, a live version of "Hold on to Love", was exclusive to the single and described as a previously unreleased alternate "unplugged"-style recording of the track from The Promise. [6] The 12" and CD formats featured the additional track "Dirty Town", a non-LP song that would re-appear as B-side to the band's next single " Soul Destruction". [7]
Decker was inspired to write the lyrics of "Walk on Air" after a friend's boyfriend was killed in a motorcycle accident. She revealed of the song's message in 2019, "You never know what is going to happen to you. You just never know. Life can turn on a sixpence." [8]
On its release, Terry Staunton of New Musical Express commented, "'Walk on Air' sounds not unlike John Waite's ' Missing You', which is fine by me." He added that T'Pau are "no-nonsense pomp rockers who know what they want to do and do it very well". [9] Andrew Hirst of the Huddersfield Daily Examiner picked the song as the newspaper's "single of the week" and praised it as a "fine bout of chartbound chugging melodic rock". [10] Jan Rowe of the Hull Daily Mail awarded the single a two star rating and called it an "undemanding yet catchy single [which] is a typical example of T'Pau's music". She continued, "Lilting and atmospheric, it chunters away in the background with its standard love lyrics and smoochy sound. Pleasant but not worth buying a new stylus for." [11]
7-inch single
12-inch and CD single
T'Pau
Production
Other
Chart (1991) | Peak position |
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UK Singles Chart [4] | 62 |
"Walk on Air" | ||||
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Single by T'Pau | ||||
from the album The Promise | ||||
B-side | "Hold on to Love" | |||
Released | 8 July 1991 [1] | |||
Genre | Pop rock | |||
Length | 4:34 | |||
Label | Siren, Virgin | |||
Songwriter(s) | Carol Decker, Ron Rogers | |||
Producer(s) | Andy Richards | |||
T'Pau singles chronology | ||||
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"Walk on Air" is a song by British band T'Pau, which was released in 1991 as the second single from their third studio album The Promise. [2] It was written by Carol Decker and Ron Rogers, and produced by Andy Richards. [3] "Walk on Air" reached No. 62 on the UK Singles Chart and remained in the charts for two weeks. [4]
A music video was filmed to promote the single. [5] The 7" single's B-side, a live version of "Hold on to Love", was exclusive to the single and described as a previously unreleased alternate "unplugged"-style recording of the track from The Promise. [6] The 12" and CD formats featured the additional track "Dirty Town", a non-LP song that would re-appear as B-side to the band's next single " Soul Destruction". [7]
Decker was inspired to write the lyrics of "Walk on Air" after a friend's boyfriend was killed in a motorcycle accident. She revealed of the song's message in 2019, "You never know what is going to happen to you. You just never know. Life can turn on a sixpence." [8]
On its release, Terry Staunton of New Musical Express commented, "'Walk on Air' sounds not unlike John Waite's ' Missing You', which is fine by me." He added that T'Pau are "no-nonsense pomp rockers who know what they want to do and do it very well". [9] Andrew Hirst of the Huddersfield Daily Examiner picked the song as the newspaper's "single of the week" and praised it as a "fine bout of chartbound chugging melodic rock". [10] Jan Rowe of the Hull Daily Mail awarded the single a two star rating and called it an "undemanding yet catchy single [which] is a typical example of T'Pau's music". She continued, "Lilting and atmospheric, it chunters away in the background with its standard love lyrics and smoochy sound. Pleasant but not worth buying a new stylus for." [11]
7-inch single
12-inch and CD single
T'Pau
Production
Other
Chart (1991) | Peak position |
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UK Singles Chart [4] | 62 |