“Truly Madly Deeply” by Savage Garden

"Truly Madly Deeply" was the third single from Savage Garden's self-titled debut, released in March 1997, and it began as another song: Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones had written something called "Magical Kisses" together while making the album, then reworked it. Hayes wrote the words, Charles Fisher produced and Mike Pela mixed.

The Australian pop duo took it to number one at home, in Canada and in the US, where Billboard ranked it the biggest song in the history of its Adult Contemporary chart. At the 1997 ARIA Music Awards it won Highest Selling Single and Single of the Year and was up for Song of the Year. It got two videos, one for Australia and one for everywhere else, shot in Paris, and in November 2019 the National Film and Sound Archive added it to its selection of recordings that sum up Australian life.

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