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- INXS 's first song “ Learn to Smile ” released in 1980.
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Nov 25, 2017 · The first set of recording sessions started on 9 March 1987 at Sydney's Rhinoceros Studios; resulting in the songs Mystify, New Sensation, Never Tear Us Apart and Devil Inside, amongst others.
Oct 19, 2017 · Farriss says that when it came time to write and record Kick, INXS’ members — who included two of his brothers, drummer Jon Farriss and lead guitarist Tim Farriss — set out to make a ...
- For The Record…
- Started as The Farris Brothers
- Sparked Interest in Australia
- Reached Out to Global Audience
- Inxs Goes Global
- Kicked Into High Gear
- Subjected to Post-Peak Gravity
- Selected Discography
- Sources
Members include Garry Gary Beers, bass; Andrew Farris, keyboards; Jon Farris, drums; Tim Farris, guitar; Michael Hutchence (died November 22, 1997) vocals; and Kirk Pengilly,guitar/saxophone. Band formed in Sydney, Australia, 1977; signed with Australian label Deluxe Records, 1979; released self-titled debut in Australia, 1980; signed with WEA Reco...
By 1977 Tim Farris and Kirk Pengilly’s band had broken up. They decided to form a band with Andrew and Jon, Beers, and Hutchence called The Farris Brothers. According to INXS legend, the band formed on the night Elvis Presley died. “The day I left school was the day I left home was the day I joined the band,” Hutchence recalled to Nina Malkin in Ma...
On September 1, 1979, INXS made its performing debut at the Oceanview Hotel in Toukley, Australia. The following May, the group released its first single, “Simple Simon/We Are the Vegetables” on Deluxe Records. In October of 1980, they released their self-titled debut album in Australia, which included the single “Just Keep Walking.” The band embar...
They debuted in the United States with the single “The One Thing,” which quickly climbed to the Top 30 on the Billboard charts. The video went into high rotation on MTV, and INXS had begun to make their mark in America. Atlantic re-released Shabooh Shoobah in the United States to wide acclaim. David Fricke wrote in Rolling Stone, “Most of Shabooh S...
The band’s success also began to spread to the rest of the world. They performed their debut show in London, England at The Astoria. In the meantime, Atlantic re-released their earlier albums, INXS and Underneath the Colors in the United States. In September of 1984, INXS became the first international rock band to play in Guam. In July of 1985, th...
They went on to headline the “Australian Made” tour of their home country with eight other Australian bands. Three days before the release of Kick, INXS returned to the States for the “Calling All Nations” tour. In January of 1988, Kickwas certified gold and platinum at the same time. Eventually, it sold ten million copies worldwide. The single “Ne...
INXS’s following release Welcome to Wherever You Are began to mark the group’s downward slope from the success of Kick. Its sales fell just short of the platinum mark—a huge success for some bands, but nowhere near the popularity previously achieved by the band. Yet the group was not discouraged. They released Full Moon, Dirty Hearts in 1993, which...
INXS,Deluxe Records, 1980; reissued, Atlantic Records, 1984. Underneath the Colors,Deluxe Records, 1981; reissued, Atlantic Records, 1984. Shabooh Shoobah,WEA Records, 1982; reissued, Atlantic Records, 1983. Dekadance,Atlantic Records, 1983. The Swing,Atlantic Records, 1984. Listen Like Thieves,Atlantic Records, 1985. Kick,Atlantic Records, 1987. X...
Periodicals
Billboard,November 26, 1988; October 13, 1990; May 9, 1992; November 13, 1993. Entertainment Weekly,July 24, 1992; November 5, 1993; April 18, 1997. Guitar Player,March 1991. Los Angeles Times,August 11, 1997. Mademoiselle,April 1990. People,February 1, 1988; July 11, 1988; October 22, 1990; August 17, 1992; May 12, 1997. Rolling Stone,April 28, 1983; January 14, 1988; June 16, 1988; April 4, 1991; December 9, 1993; February 24, 1994; May 1, 1997. Seventeen,August 1986. Time,December 17, 1990.
Online
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/9224/inxs-bio http://www.nytimes.eom/aponline/l/AP-Obit-Hutchence.html http://www.umdnj.edu/~kotharne/inxs/inxsology —Sonya Shelton
- Their label hated the album. After the success of Listen Like Thieves, the band teamed back up with legendary producer Chris Thomas to take their collective efforts a step further.
- A renegade move from their manager saved the LP. After the initial bouts of rejection, Murphy, in an intrepid move, arranged a somewhat-clandestine meeting with Atlantic’s radio promotions executives to play them some of the songs.
- Hutchence and Andrew Farriss wrote all 11 of the original songs. Buoyed by the success of “What You Need,” Hutchence and Andrew Farriss – the primary lyricist and songwriter, respectively – producer Thomas and manager Murphy wanted to bank everything on the Hutchence-Farriss partnership: Those two would write every song on the Listen Like Thievesfollow-up.
- “Need You Tonight” came about at the last minute. During the first phase of recording, with a European tour on the horizon, the band laid down a number of tracks for the album.
Genius Q&A. When did INXS start making music? Community Answer. INXS 's first song “ Learn to Smile ” released in 1980. View Artist. INXS (pronounced “in excess”) was originally formed in...
Dec 12, 2022 · Like INXS and Midnight Oil, Icehouse made headway from the start, first performing in 1977 as Flowers in the same Sydney pub circuit as Midnight Oil and INXS. Their new wave/pub rock sound on their 1980 debut racked up over 250,000 album sales, and they took on more synth-pop influences by their second album Primitive Man.
I'm Only Looking – The Best of INXS: Release date: 13 July 2004; Label: Mercury; Format: DVD; AUS: 2× Platinum; Rock Star: INXS: Release date: 11 July 2005; Label: CBS Records; Format: DVD; CAN: Platinum; US: Gold; Live Baby Live Wembley Stadium: Release date: 26 June 2020 (worldwide) Label: Eagle Rock Entertainment; Format: DVD, Blu-ray ...
