Gotta Get Thru This

Album: Gotta Get Thru This (2001)
Charted: 1 10
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Songfacts®:

  • Bedingfield was inspired to write this while walking across Tower Bridge in London frustrated at being separated from a girl he was in love with from Leeds, in the north of England. The girl was a red haired American dancer named Gina, and he was upset that the distance between them was preventing him from pursuing her. Bedingfield went home and recorded this in his bedroom with a microphone plugged to his home computer using a Making Waves computer audio program.
  • The total cost of the recording was 1,500 pounds, and after pressing some of his own copies of the song, Bedingfield sent them to various DJs, and DJ EZ included it on a compilation. After hearing it, Polydor signed him the song became a big hit. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England, for above 2

Comments: 4

  • Daniel from AustraliaHe has another sister, named Nikola, who is also a musician. The three of them had a band called the DNA Algorithm.
  • Malcolm from Tauranga, New ZealandBedingfield was badly injured in a car crash near Whangarei, NZ a couple of years ago when he skidded on a gravel road and rolled the car he was driving. He had been visiting a Christian camp at the time.
  • Ariel from Woodbridge, CtNatasha is Daniel's sister
  • Annabelle from Eugene, OrDoes Daniel Bedingfield have any relation to Natasha Bedingfield? If so, how are the two related to each other?
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