Savage Garden: To The Moon And Back

House hubby Darren Hayes and producer-musician extraordinaire Daniel Jones came together thanks to a classified in a Brissy newspaper. After a short time with Red Edge, they broke away to form the duo we know as Savage Garden.

Their first offering came in the form of ‘I Want You’. Their follow-up, ‘To The Moon And Back’ is another take on an age old recipe: take a lonely, outcast girl who keeps her cards close to her chest, throw in inspirational lyrics and simmer for 70 minutes. The taste? Try 11 major music awards in ’97 alone, including Single of the Year and Album of the Year.

Here’s an obscure fact: The name Savage Garden refers to the Anne Rice Vampire doctrine “The mind of each man is a savage garden…” It also pays to note that Darren's departure from our shores (and therefore our tax coffers) may be due to our conservative stance on gay marriage. My suggestion: legalize gay marriage for the obscenely wealthy.