I touch myself song5/15/2023 ![]() In 2013, Chrissy Amphlett died of breast cancer at the age of 53, in NYC. In other words, their arena-rock-star caliber in Australia never quite developed outside of Australia …Ĭhristina Amphlett as the frontwoman for Divinyls had far more depth and gravitas than this one-hit might invoke, both within the song itself and throughout Amphlett’s entire musical career. But arguably, the bigger “wonder” was an unfair fluke, given (again arguably, of course) more commercially appealing songs in their 80’s repertoire which failed to catapult Divinyls into arena-rock stardom in the U.S. The single relegated Divinyls to “one hit wonder” status in the U.S. In the U.S., despite controversy over the “touchy” sexual insinuation (or probably because of it, including the provocative MTV-award-nominated video, filmed in a Pasadena nunnery), peaked at #4 on Billboard’s Hot 100, and fueled the success of their fourth album eponymously titled Divinyls or “diVINYLS”. The recording effort yielded more experimentation, from intense editing to songwriting changes (such as a new bridge added after, rather than before, the chorus). Within 24 hours the two duos (Amphlett/McEntee and Steinberg/Kelly) got together and finalized the writing, or so they thought: But Divinyls were embraced with more enthusiasm by Virgin Records and the collaboration for “I Touch Myself” became a game-changing touchdown for Divinyls, being a smash-hit in at least five countries.īilly Steinberg began writing the song, and Amphlett became immediately inspired by his first verse and chorus lyric. ![]() This was the case in 1990, despite strong support from their former label, Chrysalis. It was unusual for both songwriting duos to collaborate, especially for Kelly/Steinberg to do so with a relatively obscure “alternative” act (more by default than design) with no previous U.S.-Top 40 single bragging rights. Christina Amphlett and Mark McEntee, the core duo of the band Divinyls, wrote the song in collaboration with the songwriting duo Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg, who had penned big hits such as “ I’ll Stand By You” and “ Like a Virgin ”. ![]()
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