Savage Garden was an Australian pop duo consisting of Darren Hayes as vocalist and Daniel Jones as instrumentalist. Formed in Logan City, Queensland in 1994, the duo achieved international success in the late 1990s and early 2000s with the number-one hit singles “I Want You”, “To the Moon and Back”, “Truly Madly Deeply”, “The Animal Song” and “I Knew I Loved You”. Their two studio albums, Savage Garden and Affirmation reached number-one in Australia and peaked in the top ten in both the United Kingdom and United States.
The group won a record number of ten ARIA Music Awards in 1997 for their debut album and its related singles. They disbanded in 2001 and Hayes continued as a solo artist.
Darren Stanley Hayes (born 8 May 1972) is an Australian singer-songwriter. Hayes was the frontman and singer of the pop duo Savage Garden, whose 1997 album Savage Garden peaked at No. 1 in Australia, No. 2 in United Kingdom and No. 3 in United States. It spawned the singles “I Want You”, “To the Moon and Back”, and Australian and US No. 1 “Truly Madly Deeply”. The duo followed the success of their debut album with Affirmation (1999), which provided additional hits such as US No. 1 “I Knew I Loved You”, and Australian No. 3 “The Animal Song”. Savage Garden sold more than 23 million albums worldwide before parting ways in 2001.
Hayes released his first solo album Spin in 2002. The album sold two million copies worldwide, debuted at No. 2 in the UK and No. 3 in Australia. It delivered the hit single “Insatiable”. Hayes’s second solo album The Tension and the Spark marked a change of direction for the singer-songwriter, showing experimentation with electronica and darker lyrics. NME wrote about its first single, “Pop!ular” saying it was “A twistered masterclass in career reintervention…This guy is a genius.” While The Observer said “This album is no folly and succeeds, often to the point of all out triumph, on its own terms.” Hayes parted way with his record label Columbia Records in 2006 and started his own independent record label Powdered Sugar, from which he would release his third solo album This Delicate Thing We’ve Made (2007).
In mid-2010, Hayes announced the completion of recording his fourth solo album, Secret Codes and Battleships, features 3 songs co-written and produced by Brian West and was mixed by Robert Orton, who is best known for working with Lady Gaga. On 17 April 2011, Hayes signed with Mercury Records’ Australian division and in August 2011 with EMI Records in the UK. The album was released in Australia on 21 October 2011, 24 October in the UK and 25 October in the US, with singles “Talk Talk Talk”, “Bloodstained Heart” and “Black Out the Sun” released before the album. – Wikipedia
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Truly Madly Deeply |
Savage Garden |
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I Knew I Loved You |
Savage Garden |
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To the Moon and Back |
Savage Garden |
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The Animal Song |
Savage Garden |
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I Want You |
Savage Garden |
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Crash and Burn |
Savage Garden |
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Affirmation |
Savage Garden |
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Insatiable |
Darren Hayes |
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Hold Me |
Savage Garden |
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Break Me Shake Me |
Savage Garden |
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Pop!ular |
Darren Hayes |
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Strange Relationship |
Darren Hayes |
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I Miss You |
Darren Hayes |
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So Beautiful |
Darren Hayes |
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Crush (1980 Me) |
Darren Hayes |
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On the Verge of Something Wonderful |
Darren Hayes |
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Universe |
Savage Garden |
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Step into the Light |
Darren Hayes |
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Chained to You |
Savage Garden |
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Tears of Pearls |
Savage Garden |
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The Best Thing |
Savage Garden |
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Darkness |
Darren Hayes |
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Me, Myself and (I) |
Darren Hayes |
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Bloodstained Heart |
Darren Hayes |
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Talk Talk Talk |
Darren Hayes |
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Black Out the Sun |
Darren Hayes |
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Stupid Mistake |
Darren Hayes |
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Strange Magic |
Darren Hayes |
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When You Say You Love Me |
Human Nature featuring Darren Hayes |
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Santa Monica |
Savage Garden |
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