Today the Australian singer Natalie Imbruglia released her sixth studio album 'Firebird.' In other news, Ednaswap disbanded 22 years ago.
What does one have to do with the other? Well, Scott Cutler, Anne Preven and record producer Phil Thornalley wrote the song 'Torn'. Scott and Anne then formed the group Ednaswap along with Paul McCartney's ex-lead guitarist Rusty Anderson and a couple of others.
Their song 'Torn' was covered by many artists and was first recorded in 1993 by Lis Sørensen under the title "Braendt (Burned)" with Danish lyrics. Ednaswap did the first English version on their 1995 album but it got no traction. In 1996 it was again released, this time in English by Norwegian Trine Rein.
By 1994, after TV commercials and a role in the Australian soap 'Neighbours', Natalie Imbruglia had moved to London and in '97 the abovementioned Phil Thornalley got her to record a demo of 'Torn'. Partly based on that demo she got a record contract and started on her first album, with Phil as one of the producers. The single of 'Torn' was released before the album and unlike the previous versions, this one took off. Charting pretty much everywhere it was one of the most played songs of '97 putting Imbruglia firmly on the map. Unfortunately, it did diddly-squat for Ednaswap.
After releasing it on their first album, then on this EP 'Chicken' Ednaswap also included 'Torn' for a third time on their 1997 album 'Wacko Magneto' but once again it failed to make any impact. Three studio albums and an EP later, by 1999 Ednaswap decided to call it a day.
Scott Cutler and Anne Previn went on to write and produce, separately and together. Previn has worked and written for many artists including Sinéad O'Connor, Miley Cyrus, Pixie Lott, Katy Perry .. the list goes on.
A very odd bit of trivia - in 2010 the newly formed group One Direction sang 'Torn' as their first song on the UK version of The X Factor.
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