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Full INXS Biography
INXS (pronounced "In Excess") are an Australian rock and new wave group. The band was formed on 16 August 1977, in Sydney, Australia.
In 1982, Shabooh Shoobah was released successfully worldwide. The single "The One Thing" brought them their first Top-30 hit in America, while "Don't Change" became a staple in the set list of college rock bands who played the frat circuit. The album itself entered the U.S. Top-50. INXS played alongside many of their contemporaries on New Wave Day at the 1983 US Festival. Many songs from this album were featured prominently in the film Reckless. The film, starring Darryl Hannah and Aidan Quinn, followed the classic 80's teen angst formula.
However, the band had a lot of pressure on its shoulders due to fans and critics alike having high expectations about the follow-up album to Kick. In 1990, INXS released X. It followed in the same vein as Kick, and added harmonica to some songs, but critics and fans considered it a weak follow-up. Nevertheless, X did score two hits in Suicide Blonde and "Disappear" (both Top-10 in the US), and was a Top-5 hit album internationally.
INXS performed at Wembley Stadium on July 13, 1991, during their "Summer XS" tour stop in London to a sold out audience of 72,000 fans. During this show, INXS organized a film crew to shoot their show onto video to come out simultaneously as their live album Live Baby Live (the video was also called Live Baby Live).
1992's Welcome to Wherever You Are was an experimental album using sitars and a 60-piece orchestra while adding a much more "raw" sound to their music. It received critical reviews and went number one in the UK & Sweden and number two in Switzerland, but had difficulty finding an audience in the U.S.
1993's Full Moon, Dirty Hearts received mixed reviews and included a track called "Please (You Got That)" which featured the legendary Ray Charles and title track with The Pretenders Chrissie Hynde. The band made a full video album for the record using unknown Australian students to direct with help by Richard Lowenstein. Full Moon, Dirty Hearts was the last record under INXS' contract with Atlantic.
Since Hutchence's death, INXS continued, using Terence Trent D'Arby, Russell Hitchcock and Jimmy Barnes as temporary lead singers. New Zealander, Celebrity Treasure Island host and former lead singer of Australian band Noiseworks, Jon Stevens began singing with INXS in 2000. INXS played as one of the headline acts at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Stevens was officially named a member of the band in 2002. However, he left INXS in 2003 to pursue a solo career, only recording a contractual obligation song called "I Get Up", released as a single (which charted in the Top-100 on the Australian ARIAnet Singles Chart) in the same year. The song was also used in the Rugby Union World Cup 2003 and the EA Sports Rugby 2004 video game.
In 2001, INXS was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association Hall of Fame. In total, the band has received three Grammy nominations over their 30 year career.
INXS returned to the news in 2004 when it was announced that a new reality television program titled Rock Star: INXS would feature a contest to find a new lead vocalist for the band. The show, which had its debut on the CBS network 11 July 2005, (on VH1 in the UK and on FOX 8 in Australia), featured 15 contestants vying for the position of lead singer. The show was executive produced by Survivor's Mark Burnett and hosted by Brooke Burke and former Jane's Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Dave Navarro.Cover art for INXS's Switch album
On 20 September 2005, J.D. Fortune (born Jason Dean Bennison, but uses his mother's maiden name of Fortune) of Oakville, Ontario, Canada won the eleven-week competition, which culminated in his singing the Rolling Stones's "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and INXS' "What You Need" in the finale of the show to become the new lead singer of INXS. He has recorded the new album with producer Guy Chambers and went on a world tour with INXS in 2006. Runner-up Marty Casey was the opening act during leg one of the world tour, along with his band, The Lovehammers.
On 29 November 2005, the band's first album in eight years was released, entitled Switch. It was released in the United States via Epic Records. In September of 2006, INXS would part ways with Epic Records.
In 2007, the Farriss Brothers were inducted into the West Australian Music Industry Awards Hall of Fame.
INXS toured Australia and New Zealand in March 2007, with Simple Minds and support band Arrested Development.
Although several rumours have spread about of the possibility of the band changing its name back to "The Farriss Brothers," due to many fans believing that the band is not truly INXS without Michael Hutchence, JD Fortune and Kirk Pengilly of INXS have reportedly stated that this is simply a rumour and the band's name will remain the same.
Compilations: INXSIVE · The Greatest Hits · Shine Like It Does: The Anthology (1979-1997) · Definitive INXS/The Best of INXS · The Years 1979-1997 · Stay Young 1979-1982 · INXS²: The Remixes · Original Sin - The Collection · Taste It : The Collection |
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