#Phil Thornalley

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The Cure, shot in Paris in 1983

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The Cure - The Caterpillar (1984) dir. Tim Pope

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The Cure. 1983 Andy Anderson, Phil Thornalley, Lol Tolhurst and Robert Smith

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Your name like ice into my heart.

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i love you robert smith i love you simon gallup i love you lol tolhurst i love you porl thompson i love you boris williams i love you michael dempsey i love you matthieu hartley i love you andy anderson i love you phil thornalley i love you roger o’donnell i love you perry bamonte i love you jason cooper i love you reeves gabrels

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The Cure: Concert

Fiction/Metronome 823 682-1 ME, 19??

Originally released: October 16, 1984

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Happy birthday Phil Thornalley

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Strawberry Switchblade- Strawberry Switchblade (Synthpop) Released: April 5, 1985 [Korova Records] Producer(s): David Motion, Phil Thornalley

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The Cure Japanese Whispers 1983 Fiction ————————————————— Tracks: 1. Let’s Go to Bed 2. The Dream 3. Just One Kiss 4. The Upstairs Room 5. The Walk 6. Speak My Language 7. La Ment 8. The Lovecats —————————————————

* Long Live Rock Archive

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A-T-4 107 Prefab Sprout

'Songs Written out of Necessity' or Swoon is the debut album by Prefab Sprout. Like many debut albums some of the songs had been written years before they were recorded in 1983. Swoon was produced by David Brewis of the Kane Gang, the album caught the attention of Thomas Dolby who quickly started working with them on the songs that would become Prefab Sprout's second album Steve McQueen. Swoon and its singles Don't Sing and Couldn't Bear To Be Special are released in the first half of 1984 but before the year is out When Love Breaks Down, the lead single from Steve McQueen is also released, it's the only track on Steve McQueen not produced with Thomas Dolby

Swoon is Prefab Sprout's least consistent album, Paddy McAloon says it's too wordy. I find it difficult to pick a few songs from the album they are all good, so to start I'm going to pick a song that didn't make it onto Swoon and I'll finish with When Love Breaks Down which is post-Swoon

Donna Summer an early song, part of Prefabs Sprout's live set by 1980 that was put on both the b-side of the 12" single versions of Couldn't Bear To Be Special and When Love Breaks Down. Session drummer Graham Lant plays on Swoon but he doesn't stay, they use several drummers around this time, it's David Ruffy of The Ruts who plays on this track

Cue Fanfare one of the standout tracks from Swoon

When Love Breaks Down produced by Phil Thornalley who was playing bass for The Cure at the time and would go on to join Johnny Hates Jazz. I can't find the 1984 single mix so here's the album version that was remixed by Thomas Dolby

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Lis Sørensen - Brændt (Official Music Video)

Torn » a été écrit par Scott Cutler, Anne Preven et Phil Thornalley, enregistré pour la première fois en 1993 en danois par la chanteuse danoise Lis Sørensen

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Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now (Phil Thornalley Extended Mix) (Official Vi...

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3 "Torn" - Natalie Imbruglia

writers Scott Cutler, Anne Preven, Phil Thornalley

"Every 90s kid comes of age three times: Eighteenth birthday. Twenty-first birthday. The day they find out Natalie Imbruglia's version of Torn is a cover."

ELF POINTS (11 points)

Part of the UncoolTwo50 project, marking the best singles from 1977-99.

If a song is recorded, and nobody ever hears it, can it be covered?

Written for Anne Preven and her band Ednaswap, and recorded by local stars Trine Rein and Lis Sørensen, "Torn" is indelibly associated with Natalie Imbruglia.

The song was co-written with Cutler and Thornalley, who'd already contributed most of the songs for Johnny Hates Jazz's first (and last) album. Thornalley had previously produced the Thompson Twins, XTC, The Cure, and Duran Duran. Anne Preven wrote the lyric, which might explain why it has faint echoes of Poplish, the international language of hit music.

Scott Cutler is to blame for the tense, fretful sound. Thornalley explained, "I feel Scott would have scientifically manipulated the entry to the chorus so it resolves on the major note of the scale – teasing the notes in the bars before to draw out the tension. The ear wants the melody to land on the pleasing A of F major, but is held back by singing the B flat till the last beat." One semi-tone down, till the very end.

Ednaswap were active in 1992, and performed "Torn" live with a grunge sound. It takes a leap to imagine the familiar words to a scuzzy background, and at a much slower tempo, but I reckon it works. Poul Bruun, an A&R man, absolutely loved the tune, and was responsible for the Scandinavian covers. And then Natalie Imbruglia got hold of the song.

Thornalley again. "We worked hard, recording and re-recording her vocal for days, trying to find the best expression from her voice. If she sings out too much, pushes too hard, then her beautiful breathy tone is lost. We would try out phrases with added blue notes to try to capture the lyrical mood. So not a one-take wonder, a studied and contrived performance. I guess her skills as an actor helped with the patience needed to put up with my demands."

Unlike Trine and Lis, Natalie captures the bittersweet heartbreak at the centre of "Torn"; it's a vocal to compare with Lisa Loeb (qv). This relationship is gone, finished, kaput, over. And it hurts like anything, and Natalie absolutely conveys this emotion with every little quiver of the voice.

She's helped by the arrangement, trimming the instrumental break from 20 bars to 8. With of-the-time backing beats from Zero 7, and background singing from Katrina Leskevich of The Waves, "Torn" was very much the cool thing. And it fell into the paths paved by Alanis Morissette (qv), Sheryl Crow, and many more.

Championed by Richard "Dogsby" Park, "Torn" went straight into high rotation at BLOB in Birmingham, Crapital FM, Crackly Atlantic 252, Virgin Quarter Past Twelve, Soft Rock 100.7 Heart FM - and eventually, grudgingly, to One! Efff! Emm! Sold a million copies by the end of the year, another quarter-mill in '98. Radio loved it, and continues to love it - "Torn" was the most played record on radio in 1998, and around number 150 for 1999, in the top 30 for the 2000s decade, number 42 for the entire 2010s, and still gets 1250 spins a week - of my top 50, only Rick Astley gets more.

What's the enduring appeal? Mostly, that Natalie conveys the emotion like the high-quality actor she is. It's an awesome song, which works in many styles. Natalie absolutely nails the vocal mood she wants, helped by those little changes to the orchestration. And the video, with Jeremy Sheffield and a fixed camera, an apartment being furnished and dismantled, that hoodie, and Natalie's angry dance in the final guitar-wah.

Natalie Imbruglia continued to make music - "Big mistake" from Left of the Middle would probably be in my 50 if I didn't limit it to one single per album. Although 2001's White Lilies Island was a bit undercooked, "Shiver" from Counting Down the Days is another top-drawer performance. More albums have followed in the last few years, and I wouldn't be too surprised to hear Natalie got the big New Year's Gig on BBC1 some year.

If I'd written this list in 1999, "Torn" would be on it, a great song that spoke to a lot of people. A quarter-century later, "Torn" is still on my list, still one of the first names down. Deserves the Eleven Points! and third place.

Also… "The reflex" from Duran Duran made number 55; "You take me up" from Thompson Twins, "Lullaby" from The Cure were longlisted; XTC and Johnny Hates Jazz were passed. Katrina and the Waves had "Walking on sunshine" and "That's the way" in the longlist, where we find Sheryl Crow for "Run baby run".

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Torn Provided to YouTube by SONY BMG Catalog Torn · Natalie Imbruglia Beautiful Love Songs ℗ 1997 Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited Released on: 2006-01-28 Producer: Phil Thornalley Composer, Lyricist: Thornalley Mixing Engineer: Nigel Godrich Composer, Lyricist: Scott Cutler Composer, Lyricist: Anne Previn Auto-generated by YouTube. via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsaEqn1Czfc

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Happy birthday Phil Thornalley

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Orange Juice- The Orange Juice (Jangle Pop, Indie Pop, Post-Punk) Released: November 1984 [Polydor Records] Producer(s): Dennis Bovell, Will Gosling, Phil Thornalley