From there Chrissy and Mark contributed their bits, but it was mostly Tom and I doing what we do best. I put the lyric in front of Tom and he started singing, ‘I love myself, I want you to love me,’ which is one of my favorite first lines in any song I’ve written. “But Tom and I by that time had our own method for writing a song and we knew we could read each other’s minds. Two people can write a song together, three people can write a song together but four is kind of awkward,” he said. Together, the latter two wrote Madonna’s “Like a Virgin,” Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors” and “I Drove All Night,” the Bangles’ “Eternal Flame,” the Pretenders’ “I’ll Stand by You,” and Whitney Houston’s “So Emotional.” As Steinberg recalled in an interview with Songfacts, the four-way colab shouldn’t have succeeded but did. “I Touch Myself” resulted from an unusual collaboration among Amphlett, Divinyls guitarist Mark McEntee, and the American songwriting power partners of Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg, whose names you may not know but whose work helped created the soundtrack of the late ’80s and early ’90s. In honor of the 25th anniversary of “I Touch Myself” being heard around the world, we’ve collected five tidbits that fans might want to know. But her association with the song lives on today, in ways that some fans might not realize. Divinyls singer Chrissy Amphlett, known for the Australian band’s 1991 hit I Touch Myself, died yesterday at home in New York after battling breast cancer and multiple sclerosis, Reuters. Amphlett died in 2013 at only 53 years old, following a long battle with breast cancer and multiple sclerosis. It’s her face in the video, and it’s her voice repeatedly claiming “I honestly do” at the end of the song, just in case there was any question about whether or not she touched herself. And while it was a song by band and not a single person, it’s hard to extricate the song itself from Divinyls’ lead singer, Chrissy Amphlett. breaking news, video recording, website 289 views, 3 likes, 2 loves, 5 comments, 1 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Winder First United Methodist. Prudishness about well, you know, that notwithstanding, the song received major radio play around the world and still does today on any station that celebrates that intra-decade overlap between the awesome ’80s and the rocking ’90s. – and quite an unlikely one, when you consider the subject matter. in December 1990, whereupon it slowly climbed the charts to become the band’s biggest hit in the U.S. Yes, the Divinyls’ biggest hit, “I Touch Myself,” was first released in the U.S.
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