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Article: The comeback kid; natalie imbruglia.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 22, 2005
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Byline: JOHN AIZLEWOOD
POP Shepherds Bush Empire
AT FIRST glance, tiny Natalie Imbruglia, the former star of Neighbours and the current face of L'Oreal, is more Kylie Minogue's flyby-night niece than rock minx.
Yet when her third album, Counting Down The Days, stealthily snuck to Number One in April, it served notice that Imbruglia, wife of Silverchair's Daniel Johns, is here, if not to stay forever, then for a wee while longer.
Moreover, the Australian co-writes the bulk of her material and is patently in thrall to the more rocky side of Alanis Morissette (albeit without the kooky twaddle). Tellingly, when she covered a song last ...