‘If you release that, I’m leaving’: how Cutting Crew made (I Just) Died in Your Arms | Culture
Nick Van Eede, singer, songwriterMy band the Drivers had a couple of hits in Canada before the record company got caught up in a scandal. Our manager said: “You’ve got 10 minutes to pack your suitcases!” I went back to living with my mum and dad in Sussex.“I just died in your arms tonight” was a line among lots of titles and ideas I had written on a sheet of wallpaper. I put it to some chords, sang phonetically and then used other lines I’d written on the wallpaper to write the song. I wrote for three or four hours before…