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Cutting Crew tonight at 7, Adventure Island, Tampa; tickets $10.95.
An '80s fairy tale:
A journeyman British rocker closing in on the big Three-O forms a band with a journeyman rocker from Canada. The group signs a contract with a new record label, cuts an album and puts out a single - the first ever released by the company. The song promptly goes to No. 1 on the English chart and begins to skyrocket up the surveys in other countries, culminating with the coveted top spot in the almighty U.S.A.
Nick Van Eede, 28, lead singer and songwriter for Cutting Crew, can hardly believe such a Cinderella story, either. But his desperately romantic rock song, (I Just) Died in Your Arms from the album Broadcast, did all of the above and has turned his band into an international overnight sensation.
``Looking back, it was the perfect marriage, really: You had a great song and a brand-new record company going gung-ho for it,`` Van Eede said in a phone interview, referring to his label, the aptly named Virgin America. ``We put the album together, released it in Britain, September of last year. I thought, `This will open a few doors for Cutting Crew.'
``I suspected we might have had a couple of minor hits and then come out with the second album, which would have been more tested. And then...