China in Your Hand

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"China in Your Hand" is a song by British band T'Pau from their album Bridge of Spies. A re-recorded version was released as a single which spent five weeks at number one on the UK singles chart in 1987 and is arguably the song for which the group is best known in their native Britain, though their debut single Heart and Soul was a much bigger hit worldwide. Incidently this was the 600th number 1 uk single.

The song's lyric refers to the novel Frankenstein and the writing of it by Mary Shelley. This is more readily heard on the longer album version of the song, as the re-recorded version omits most of the more obvious references to the book.

Preceded by "You Win Again" by Bee Gees

UK number-one single November 8, 1987

Succeeded by "Always on My Mind" by Pet Shop Boys