That’s what the Australian duo Savage Garden did in the late ’90s. Nobody knew much of anything about Savage Garden. They were two faintly anonymous-looking white guys who would occasionally pop up on VH1, and there was nothing especially outwardly interesting about them. For a while, though, Savage Garden had radio programmers under their spell. The duo made lighter-than-air earworms that would simply become a part of your environment. You’d hear these songs out in the world, and you might enjoy them without becoming the slightest bit curious about the people who made them. Savage Garden weren’t part of a cultural wave, and they didn’t belong to any particular genre or scene. They never had buzz, or at least they didn’t have the type of buzz that was legible to my teenage self. The two members of Savage Garden found each other by happenstance.Īt the top of 1998, one of those songs went all the way to #1, ending the long reign of Elton John’s “ Candle In The Wind 1997.” But they had songs, and those songs crept into your brain and stayed there. Multi-instrumentalist Daniel Jones was born in England, and his family moved to Brisbane when he was still a baby. As a teenager, Jones started a band with his brother and some friends. They were called Red Edge, and they mostly played covers. Red Edge needed a singer, so they put an ad in Time Off, a local music newspaper. Only one person responded to the ad, and that person was Darren Hayes.ĭarren Hayes, a Brisbane native, had been a nervous and fragile kid, obsessed with pop music and Star Wars. (When Hayes was born, the #1 song in America was Roberta Flack’s “ The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.”) Hayes was in college when he auditioned for Red Edge, but all he wanted to do was make pop music. During his audition, Hayes’ voice broke, but he still got the spot in Red Edge musicians, it seems, will forgive certain flaws if literally nobody else shows up to audition.įor about a year, Red Edge played the pub circuit around Australia’s Gold Coast. In 1994, Hayes and Jones both realized that they wanted to write original music, so they left the band and formed their own duo. First, they called themselves Crush, before learning that a British group already had that name. Eventually, they renamed themselves Savage Garden after a line from Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles books, a pretty clear sign that these guys were dorks. Savage Garden sent demo tapes to labels all around the world, and they caught the attention of John Woodruff, a manager of a few fairly prominent Australian rock bands. Woodruff helped Savage Garden get signed to Roadshow Music, a Warner Bros. In 1996, the duo released their debut single “I Want You,” a strange and addictive piece of dream-world bubblegum. #FAITH EVANS YOU CANT KEEP PROFESSIONAL#.
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