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When hot shot rookie Terrence Trent Darby arrived on the scene, he was hailed a rival to the biggest names in music history. but there’s a catch, he was the one who started the rumor. With his eyes firmly fixed on rock immortality not only did he declare himself a musical genius, but he claimed his debut was better than the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper. However, the self-hype started to get so big that people started to wonder if he was his own biggest fan. But to his credit, his record the Hardline According to Terrence Trent Darby topped the album charts and two of his singles Wishing Well and Sign Your Name were massive on the Hot 100. Could he sustain the success or would he falter… the story of both songs and his career are next...
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I”m pumped up because It’s time for another edition of our series Bottled Lightening where we celebrate a song or album that was king for a day. here we celebrate and honor artists and bands and that rocketed up the charts… but for reasons unknown weren’t able to sustain that success. Called by some ‘one hit wonders’, we celebrate them instead as lightening in a bottle. On previous episodes we have covered What’s On Your Mind (Pure Energy) by Information Society and She Drives Me Crazy by Fine Young Cannibals
today we’re going back to the 80s to cover an artist that I for one though was going to be HUGE. He had an amazing debut record and we’ll be covering both huge hits from it… I’m talking about Terence Trent D’Arby and his catchy ditty’s Wishing Well’ and ‘Sign Your Name’.
In 1987, Terence Trent D'Arby emerged onto the pop culture scene amid a storm of publicity, widely hailed as the most exciting newcomer of the decade. To some D’Arby appeared to be pop’s brightest new star since Prince, Michael Jackson, Springsteen, or Madonna. To others, he was the latest in a long line of hyped-up musicians. Thinking about it now The truth was probably somewhere in-between.
Born in Manhattan in 1962, D’Arby was raised in a strict Pentecostal church family. The son of a preacher and a gospel singing mother, as a boy he was forbidden to listen to pop music. However, at the age of seven, D’Arby heard ‘I Want You Back’ by the Jackson Five playing at a neighbor’s house. And from then on everything changed. “You can’t believe what those Jackson Five records meant to me,” said D’Arby. “I had been singing in church and there was something about singing that made me know it was what I was meant to do… then I heard the Jackson Five and it was like a whole new world opening up for me.”
In high school Terence was an amateur boxer and a Golden Gloves champion. He later received an offer to study boxing at an Army school, and after a year of studying journalism at the University of Central Florida, he signed up for the Army. D’Arby served in West Germany, and while there, he started singing for a funk band called The Touch.