Euphoria was founded in Sydney in 1991 by producer Andrew Klippel (son of sculptor, Robert Klippel) on keyboards and backing vocals with lead vocals and dancing by both Holly Garnett and Keren Minshull. Klippel and Minshull were bandmates from Electric Soul. Klippel had been in a number of local bands and formed a song writing and production duo, ESP, with Melbourne-based DJ, Ean Sugarman, in the early 1990s. Minshull had previously worked as a session vocalist for Swanee, Noni Hazlehurst, and Jade Hurley. Minshull provided co-lead vocals with Rick Price on "Celebration of a Nation" (1988).
One of the tracks co-written by Klippel and Sugarman, "Love You Right", was recorded as a demo. Sugarman provided the band's name after riding with a trucker and playing him the demo, who described it as euphoria. "Love You Right" was issued as a single in October 1991, via ESP/EMI Music Australia. The song and music video were featured on an Australian TV soap opera, E Street. Widespread radio airplay followed, and it reached #1 on the ARIA Singles Chart in February 1992, becoming the 24th highest selling single of that year.
The music video includes two E Street cast members, Kelley Abbey (who played JoJo Adams) and Simon Baker (Sam Farrell), as backup dancers. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1992 "Love You Right" had the group nominated for Best New Talent. It peaked at #19 on the Recorded Music NZ Singles Chart in March 1992 and the top 80 in the UK Singles Chart in September.
The group's second single, "One in a Million", was issued in April 1992 and also reached #1. On the end of the year singles chart, it appeared at #51. A third single followed, "Do for You" (August), which peaked at #7, and the less-successful fourth single, "I Will Never Leave You" (November), at #41. All four singles appear on their only album, 'Total Euphoria' (October 1992), which reached #14 on the related ARIA Albums Chart. It was co-produced, and all tracks were co-written, by Klippel and Sugarman.
Klippel later claimed that the group had formed after "Love You Right" had achieved success. The song had been written and recorded with little expectation of success, and when it became a hit, he assembled a group to promote it. Their success was tarnished when it was revealed that Garnett lip-synced to Minshull's vocals in the music video – although Minshull does appear briefly (the reason was that Minshull was 42 at the time, and Garnett was dating Klippel, as well as promotional reasons from the record label who felt Garnett would be the face of the group). A second video for "Love You Right" was filmed, with Minshull in a more-prominent role, to promote the single's release in Europe (Minshull later said in an interview on Seven Network's Morning Show in 2018 that this was the first time she had seen the video). For "One in a Million" both Garnett and Minshull shared vocals and screen-time in the video.
According to Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, by that time, "all was not harmonious within the group... It had been decided that the blonde Garnett was a more appropriate face with which to launch and market Euphoria than the dark-haired Minshull. The whole thing backfired, various tensions and bitterness arose within the group." Garnett departed in mid-1992, after recording the album, and was replaced by Jodhi Meares on co-lead vocals. Meares appears in the music video for "I Will Never Leave You", although she had not recorded the track. A further single, "Elated", was released in July 1993 (#66) but the group disbanded soon after. "Love You Right" was remixed in 1997, it included a remix by 2 Unlimited. However, the 1997 remix did not chart. McFarlane described the group as, "one of the first local outfits of the 1990s to embrace a lightweight, techno dance-pop ethic as espoused in the USA by the likes of C + C Music Factory, Black Box and 2 Unlimited." Holly Garnett committed suicide in October 1998 at the age of 29, due to the plight of her brother Martin Garnett who was imprisoned in a Thai prison for drug trafficking.
Love You Right
| 17 NOV '91 | #1 |
One in a Million
| 3 MAY '92 | #1 |
Do for You
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Euphoria feat. Young MC
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23 AUG '92
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#7
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I Will Never Leave You
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13 DEC '92
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#42
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Elated | 18 JUL '93 | #66 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphoria_%28Australian_band%29
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