Scott Cutler, Anne Preven & Phil Thornalley · wrote it 1991
Scott Cutler and Anne Preven wrote ‘Torn’ in 1991 with English producer Phil Thornalley, initially as a solo song for Preven. Cutler and Preven later recorded it with their band Ednaswap; Thornalley went on to produce the Imbruglia hit. They are the figures the song’s fame obscures — the authors whose credit survives every version, even as the public hands their song to a singer who joined it last.