Savage Garden were an Australian pop duo. It were formed after Daniel Jones held auditions for a newly singer for his band Red Edge, & Darren Hayes (who was antecedently the kindergarten teacher) attended. It broke remove from either Red Edge shortly fallowing, & under Roadshow Music, it freed their self-titled debut album within 1997. Their title is taken from either The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, of which Darren Hayes is a large fan.

Hayes & Jones wrote & produced everthing their music. It enjoyed commercial profits in their personal united states using "I Want You", but their profits went spherical on the back of "Truly Madly Deeply". It so went in to enjoy other profits sustaining their 2nd album, Affirmation, which included their large hit within America, "I Knew I Loved You". A album was just about non freed due to Daniel Jones world health organization wanted to leave a b& and away from a spotlight, however he was persuaded in the prevent by owning Darren Hayes doing all the promotional act.

Savage Garden's career highlights include existence a share of Pavarotti And Friends 2000, a charity advantage for youngsters inside Cambodia & Tibet, in which it performed alongside Luciano Pavarotti, Eurythmics, Aqua, George Michael, and several others. It besides performed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Their songs were featured on the soundtracks to Music From Another Room and The Other Sister.

Savage Garden announced their split around 2001 after a globe tour. When of 2004 Savage Garden have sold inside excess of 20 million albums & 15 million singles.

Inside 2002 lead singer Hayes, released his 1st solo lone "Insatiable", a love ballad. His number 1 solo album Spin gained major success in the United Kingdom and Asia, though did not sell super easily compared to to his last efforts around America.

Hayes has freed his 2nd solo album The Tension And The Spark, in late 2004. A number one individual, "Pop!ular", was released in July 12 2004.

Darren Hayes has recorded the fresh track "So Beautiful", to become involved around an forthcoming Savage Garden Greatest Hits album (to exist as freed in late 2005), when well as his third solo album (to exist as freed inside 2006).

Discography
Albums
Savage Garden (1997) #3 US [7x Platinum], #2 UK, #1 Australia Affirmation (1999) #6 US [3x Platinum], #7 UK, #1 Australia Truly Madly Completely: The Best Of Savage Garden (to be freed inside late 2005)

Singles
"I Want You" (1996) # US, #11 UK, #4 Australia "To the Moon and Back" (1996) # US, #3 UK, #1 Australia "Truly Madly Deeply" (1997) #1 (2 weeks) Usa, #4 UK, #1 Australia "Break Me Shake Me" (1997) #7 Australia "Universe" (1997) #26 Australia "Tears Of Pearls" (1998) # US "Santa Monica" (1998) # US "I Want You '98" (1998) #12 UK "The Animal Song" (1999) #19 US, #16 UK, #3 Australia "I Knew I Loved You" (1999) #1 (4 weeks) United states of america, #10 UK, #4 Australia "Affirmation" (2000) #6 US, #8 UK, #16 Australia "Crash & Burn" (2000) #24 US, #14 UK, #16 Australia "Chained To You" (2000) #21 Australia "Hold Me" (2000) #16 UK "The Best Thing" (2001) #35 UK